Mengele : the complete story / Gerald L. Posner and John Ware ; new introduction by Michael Berenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posner, Gerald L.

Contributor:

Ware, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.

Mengele, Josef.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

War criminals--Germany--Biography.

War criminals.

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945.

Atrocities.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Cooper Square Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cooper Square Press, 2000.

Summary:

Based on exclusive, unrestricted access to over 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfubrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.

Contents:

1 The Formative Years 1

2 Auschwitz: May 1943

January 1945 19

3 Arrested and Freed 59

4 Flight from Europe 86

5 Argentina: Lull before the Storm 94

6 Flight to Paraguay 117

7 Operation Mengele 133

8 One Step Ahead 148

9 The Man in the Watchtower 161

10 "We Could Have Had Him" 182

11 Chasing Shadows 192

12 "I've Seen Mengele" 206

13 "He Was an Impossible Man" 220

14 Greetings from Afar 230

15 "We Don't Know Where Mengele Is" 244

16 "Pedro," the Neighbor 258

17 "Now I Can Die in Peace" 271

18 "My Life Is at an End" 284

19 "Keep Everything a Secret" 290

20 "Dust to Dust" 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.

ISBN:

0815410069

OCLC:

44313402