Who were Karl Brandt and Josef Mengele?

Karl Brandt:

• ·         Was a doctor.
• ·         Joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in 1928.
• ·         In summer of 1934 he became Hitler’s personal physician.
• ·         By January 1943, Karl Brandt was a major general.
• ·         In 1944 he became Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health and he was authorized to issue instructions to the medical organizations of the government, to the party, and the armed forces, in the field of health.
• ·         He participated in the euthanasia program that began in 1939.
• ·         On April 16 of 1945 he was arrested by the Gestapo and he was executed on June 2, 1948.

Josef Mengele:

• ·         Known as “Angel of Death”.
• ·         His most famous role was played out as the selector on the platform at Auschwitz whose whims sent one either to the gas chambers or to the camp.
• ·         Joined the SA in 1923 and Stahlhelm in 1931.
• ·         He was a very active commandant of the Auschwitz camp after he arrived there in 1943.
• ·         He worked with twins and it was well known that when twins went to the infirmary, they never returned.
• ·         Mengele made psychological examinations and laboratory experiments with twins.
• ·         He died in 1979.