Josef Mengele: Monster

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Josef Mengele has always been recognized as a monster. He was an officer and a doctor at Auschwitz during World War II. Besides being known for being one of the men who decided who was sent to the gas chamber and who was allowed to live, Mengele is also widely known for his famous fascination with twins. Although Mengele has a reputation for being a heinous mistake for a human being, numerous accounts given by twins from Auschwitz say that he was an “angel” to them; they say that he protected and cared for them. Mengele caused the deaths of thousands of men, women, and children during the Holocaust, and although he may have protected the twins of Auschwitz, there is no mistaking him for anything but a murderous monster.
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