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327 - Josef Mengele: Nazi Angel of Death (Happy Holidays)

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The Christmas Story of Mengele Mengele

In May of 1943, a 32-year-old Mengele is assigned to go to Auschwitz. As a camp physician, he carried out selections upon the arrival of new inmates. Even after these inmates had been selected for internment at Auschwitz, Mengele was in charge of routinely deciding which admitted inmates would be killed anyway. In 1982, a Slovak Jewish biochemist who miraculously escaped Auschwitz with another man described how the arrival of a train and its unloading proceeded. Until the spring of 1944, the ramp was a rail-siding located outside the Bruckenau camp at the side of the Auschwitz Freight Station. When a transport was announced, a unit from

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