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

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Story of Karl Mengele

As a fetus, Joseph Mengele ripped out his own umbilical tube. His childhood home would be what biographer David Marwell called an unlikely incubator for the future angel of death. In 1924, around the time when Joseph was 13, he'd be the leader of a chapter of the Greater German Youth League. He later wrote: "We were proud of our big solstice celebration which blazed into the heavens on the opposite ridge"

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