During the years of the Holocaust, and shortly after, there was a man who frightened the people imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp- Birkenau – “Angel of Death”. He was a man who showed up for the selections with a demeanor that made you think he was handsome and good-natured, but you couldn't think of the monstrosities he had committed during the Second World War. Even more worrying is that “wherever he appeared, death extended its shadow”. (Wiesel xix)In 1911, Karl and Walburga gave birth to a baby boy, Josef Mengele, in Gunzburg, Germany. During his studies in medicine and anthropology, he developed an interest in genetics. His experimental ideas grew out of these interests. Mengele made his presence known in the camps he inhabited with experiments consisting of sterilization, attempted eye color change, gangrene, and "obsessive efforts to explore the mysteries of twins." (Friedrich 56) In addition to twins, Mengele used test subjects such as dwarves, gypsies, and disabled people. The Angel of Death had absolutely no problem blaming the victim for dying or getting sick and killed for science without a second thought since he was simply trying to make a name for himself in the world of medicine. Clearly, Mengele received his wishes as he continued. experiment on twins, which would have been revolutionary if he had succeeded. He tried to turn boys into girls and injected twins with different diseases so he could watch them side by side on the autopsy table as they died within hours of each other; if the patient died, he would kill the otherwise healthy twin to perform his autopsies. "At that time, we did not know what the experiments were for or what we...... middle of paper .... .... uh in their graves before the world, forgetting them and recognizing the pain they have suffered. Works Cited Cefrey, Holly. Doctor Josef Mengele The Angel of Death (Holocaust Biographies). New York: Rosen Group, 2001. Print. Friedrich, Otto. Kingdom of Auschwitz. 1994. Print. Kor, Eva. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin at Auschwitz. 2009. Print. Lifton, Robert Jay. Nazi doctors: medical assassinations and the psychology of genocide. 1988. Print. Nimoy, Leonard. “The Angel of Death/Josef Mengele.” In search of... February 1, 1979. Television. Steinbacher, Sybille. Auschwitz A History. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Print. Wiesel, Elie. Foreword. Doctors from Hell: The Horrible Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans. 2005. Print.Wistrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust (Modern Library Chronicles). New York: Modern Library, 2003. Print.