Josef Mengele
Known as the “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele worked as a physician in the Nazis’ Auschwitz concentration camp. It was there that he oversaw countless murders as well as cruel, disturbing experiments on the imprisoned.
Mengele’s most popular experiment was with twins, as he would pour chemicals into their eyes to see if they would change color, try to change their sex, and literally sew them together to see if he could create conjoined twins. He experimented on thousands of twins, and just a tiny fraction survived.
Mengele late in life. Source: The Daily Beast
The Angel of Death would sometimes force parents to kill their own kids, torture children to see how long they would survive, beat prisoners to death — or simply order them to the gas chambers by the thousands.
After the war, Mengele was able to escape to South America with his family and died in Brazil after suffering a stroke while swimming in 1979.
