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Part Two: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Social Justice

Mengele's first few years in school were characterized by a growing obsession with genetics and evolution. The men who tutored him believed modern society and social justice movements had corrupted the purity of Darwinian evolution. Mengele would go on to author the first Nazi compulsory sterilization laws, which were instituted in July of 1933.

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