Who was that doctor that worked with Hitler and how was he executed when they caught him?

Question

I think his name was something like Doctor Menleve. (Im propably wrong)

Answer 1

Dr Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, and for performing human experiments of dubious scientific value on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death.

After the war he first hid in Germany under an assumed name, then escaped and lived in South America until accidentally drowning in Brazil. This was confirmed using DNA testing on his remains.

Mengele was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, eldest of three sons of Karl Mengele (1881–1959), a well-to-do industrialist, and his wife Walburga Hupfauer (d. 1946). He had two younger brothers, Karl (1912–1949) and Alois (1914–1974).

In 1930 Mengele left Günzburg gymnasium (high school). He studied veterinary medicine and anthropology at the University of Munich, earning a doctorate in Anthropology (Ph.D.), supervised by Prof. Theodor Mollison, in 1935 with a dissertation on racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw. He worked as an assistant to Otmar von Verschuer at the Frankfurt University Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. In 1938 he obtained a doctorate in medicine (M.D.) with a dissertation called "Familial Research on Cleft Lip, Palate and Jaw". His belief in the Nazi racial ideology was already evident in his academic research. The Universities of Munich and Frankfurt revoked his degrees in 1964.

In 1931, at the age of 20, Mengele joined the Stahlhelm, a paramilitary organization, which was incorporated into the SA in 1933. He resigned shortly thereafter, alluding to health problems. He applied for Nazi party membership in 1937 and in 1938 joined the SS. In 1939, Mengele married his first wife, Irene Schönbein, with whom he had one child, a son named Rolf.

In 1940 he was placed in the reserve medical corps, following which he served with a Waffen-SS unit. In 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and was pronounced medically unfit for combat, and promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain). During his service on the Eastern Front during 1941-1942, Mengele received the Iron Cross, both first class and second class.


In 1943 Mengele's application for an assignment to the Nazi extermination camp Birkenau was accepted: he replaced another doctor who had fallen ill. On May 24, 1943, he became medical officer of Auschwitz-Birkenau's "Gypsy camp". In August 1944, this camp was liquidated and all its inmates were gassed. Subsequently Mengele became Chief Medical Officer of the main infirmary camp at Birkenau. He was not, though, the Chief Medical Officer of Auschwitz — superior to him was SS-Standortarzt (garrison physician) Eduard Wirths.

It was during his 21-month stay at Auschwitz that Mengele achieved infamy, and it is for this period that he is referred to as the Angel of Death. Mengele took turns with the other SS physicians at Auschwitz in meeting incoming prisoners at the ramp, determining who would be retained for work and who would be sent to the gas chambers immediately.

Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his research on heredity, using inmates for human experimentation. He was particularly interested in twins, who were selected and placed in special barracks. He also studied a disease called Noma, which particularly affected children from the Gypsy camp. While the cause of Noma remains not entirely known, it is a disease that affects chiefly children suffering from malnutrition and a weak immune system, and many develop the disease shortly after having suffered another illness like measles or tuberculosis. Mengele tried to prove that Noma was caused by "racial inferiority".

Mengele took an interest in physical abnormalities discovered among the arrivals at the concentration camp. This included dwarves, notably the Ovitz family, a Jewish Romanian artist's family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves. Prior to their deportation they toured in Eastern Europe as the Lilliput Troupe. He often called them "my dwarf family". To him they seemed to be the perfect expression of 'the abnorm'.

Mengele's experiments were of dubious scientific value, including attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations of limbs and other brutal surgeries.

Rena Gelissen's account of her time in Auschwitz details certain experiments performed on female prisoners around October 1943. During roll calls Mengele would show up to perform a "special work detail" selection, which fooled some into thinking that this would be a relief from the otherwise hard labour they were performing. In actuality Mengele would experiment on the chosen girls, performing sterilization and shock treatments. Most of the victims died, either due to the experiments or later infections.

A Hungarian Jewish prisoner doctor, Miklos Nyiszli, who was an experienced pathologist and had studied in Germany, was chosen to work as Mengele's assistant, and wrote about his experiences. The subjects of Mengele's research were better fed and housed than ordinary prisoners and were for the time being safe from the gas chambers. To Mengele they were nevertheless not fellow human beings, but rather material to conduct his experiments on. On several occasions he killed subjects simply to be able to dissect them afterwards.

and went to Gross-Rosen concentration camp. In April 1945 he fled westward, disguised as a member of the regular German infantry. He was captured and held near Nuremberg. He was released by the Allies, who had no idea of his true identity.

After hiding as a farm labourer in Upper Bavaria, Mengele departed for Argentina in 1949, where many other fleeing Nazi officials had sought refuge. Mengele divorced his wife Irene, and in 1958 married his brother Karl's widow, Martha. She and her son moved to Argentina to join Mengele. His family at home backed him financially and he prospered in the 1950s. In 1959 he fled to Altos, Paraguay, when his address was discovered by Nazi hunters. Martha never managed to adjust to her new life and returned to Europe with her son. Mengele later moved south to Hohenau and from the late 1960s he lived in Embu, a small city near São Paulo, Brazil.

Mengele had a daughter born to an Australian woman of German lineage after a liaison between the two when the woman visited the German Colony in Paraguay in mid 1960. The child was born in Melbourne, Australia on March 10, 1961. Her name was recorded as "Marion", but was changed when she was adopted privately in August of that year.

Eighty-five letters and diaries written by Mengele were discovered in late 2004. They had been seized in a 1985 raid on the home of Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, who had harbored the fugitive Mengele until his death. These personal writings have not been made public.

As reported in a PBS documentary, Mengele denied his experiments to his son, Rolf Mengele, calling them "fabrications".

Despite international efforts to track him down, he was never apprehended and lived for 35 years hiding under various aliases. In 1979, Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming at Bertioga, Brazil and drowned. He was buried in the Nossa Senhora do Rosário cemetery in Embu under his false identity, Wolfgang Gerhard.

Answer 2

I think you mean Mengele, but he was not "that doctor that worked with Hitler". He was one of the doctors who made cruel medical experiments with concentration camp prisoners. There were other doctors who did the same. Mengele fled to South America and was never punished. Many others of these doctors weren't punished neither, some of them even worked as doctors after the war.

Answer 3

I reread your question and Dr.Josef Mengele did not work with Hitler that would be Professor Theo Morell who daily injected the Führer with amphetamines. Supposedly he also treated Hitler for syphilitic paralysis. On April 22, 1945 Morell was dismissed from the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin by Hitler, who said he didn't need any more medical help.

Morell escaped Berlin on one of the last German flights out of the city but was soon captured by the Americans. One of his interrogators was reportedly "disgusted" by his obesity and complete lack of hygiene. Although he was held in an American internment camp (on the site of the former Buchenwald concentration camp) and questioned because of his proximity to Hitler, Morell was never charged with any crimes. His health declined rapidly. Grossly obese and suffering from speech impairment, he died in May 1948 after a stroke.

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Answer 4

Yes if Hitler truely repented he would go to Heaven. He would have a new name the Bible tells us. All of us will have a new name. Jesus is not God. He can not forgive sins. Only God almighty can forgive our sin. No man can die for another person's sin. God did not need a virgin in order to come to Earth. The Old Testament never mentions Jesus. Jesus did not fulfill one Old Testament Prophecy. Matter of fact the Old Testament says the Messiah's name will be Emmanuel. And he will be born of two human parents.

Answer 5

I think you refer to Dr. Josef Mengele. The guy was not executed, but was able to flee to South America - like many top Nazis -, where he died in 1979.

Answer 6

I believe you are thinking of Joseph Mengele, He did not get caught he accidentally drowned in Brazil in 1978. DNA testing proved it was him

Answer 7

Dr. Mengele, Josef Mengele, he died in 1979