By Gerald L. Posner, John Ware
According to unique and unrestricted entry to greater than 5,000 pages of non-public writings and relatives pictures, this definitive biography of German health care provider and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the character and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From may possibly 1943 via January 1945, Mengele chosen who will be gassed instantly, who will be labored to demise, and who might function involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins have been Mengele's specific obsession). With authority and perception, Mengele examines the total lifetime of the world's so much notorious health care provider.
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But photographs of Irene and her ancestors and glowing testimonials from friends of her "very Nordic ways" finally won the day, and so the marriage was allowed. Yet since Mengele was unable to provide clinching proof that Irene had "pure Aryan blood," much to his chagrin he failed to qualify for the ultimate accolade of racial purity-a place in the hallowed Sippenbnch, or Kinship Book, for those who had been able to prove, chapter and verse, that their ancestors were pure Aryan at least since 1750.
Toward the end of 1944 there was a shortage of food. There was not enough even to sustain the meager 700-calorie-a-day diet for the 40,000 women of C Camp, Birkenau. Mengele was heard to tell SS colleagues that he could no longer feed the debilitated prisoners. H e would therefore have them liquidated. "14 But it was at the railhead selections, when new arrivals stepped down from their squalid boxcars to meet their fate, that Mengele established his reputation, even among fellow SS doctors, as a ruthless cynic.
An immense square chimney built of red bricks tapering towards the summit. I was especially struck by the enormous tongues of flame rising between the lightning rods. . I tried to realize what hellish cooking would require such a tremendous fire. . A faint wind brought the smoke towards me. My nose, then my throat were filled with the nauseating odor of burning flesh and scorched hair. ' In high summer the sun scorched the earth and the stagnant, heavy, breezeless air pervaded every corner of the camp with its stench of burning flesh.
