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

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Carl Mengele's Life Story

In 1930, Carl Mengele left home to study at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. By that time, Munich was already the center of the Nazi Party. The city was a hotbed of right-wing nationalist opposition to the Weimar Republic. He thought it might become a dentist; there was not even one dentist in his hometown. Shortly after arriving at the university, he had a conversation with another student who argued that dentistry was too narrow a field and too specialized. It soon became his passion.

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