Who is Josef Mengele from Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land and what is their importance? Auschwitz:_True_Tales_from_a_Grotesque_Land English & Literature Josef Mengele | Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land

Josef Mengele was born on March 16th, 1911 in Bavaria. He grew up to become one of the head doctors of Auschwitz. Before Auschwitz, Mengele ran the Gypsy camp where all of the inmates were gassed in August 1944. He was then assigned to Birkenau, where he became the Chief Medical Officer at the infirmary. Mengele spent twenty-one months at Auschwitz where he became known as the "Angel of Death". He inspected prisoners and sent tens of thousands of them to the gas chambers where they were killed and cremated en masse.

Mengele kept many "patients" alive to experiment on them, particularly twins. He engaged in a series of experiments on human heredity, which were painful and lethal. He was also interested in physical abnormalities, particularly in dwarfism. The author views Mengele as a murderous sadist.