Dr. Josef Mengele, 67
Dr. Josef Mengele, 67, of Guenzburg, Germany passed away on February 7, 1979. Dr. Mengele died of a stroke while swimming in the ocean near Bertioga, Brazil. Mengele earned a PhD in anthropology from the University of Munich. Notorious for his work in Auschwitz, The Angel of Death was a man devoted to science, medicine, and experimentation. He gained the nick name The Angel of Death by deciding weather prisoners died, worked, or were to be experimented on. Dr. Mengele was obsessed with creating the perfect German. Known for the murder of many people Dr. Mengele fled to South America to avoid capture after the war. While in South America Mengele divorced his wife, bought fifty percent of a pharmaceutical company, and practiced medicine again. Although his specialization was in illegal abortions and he was taken in by the police on an occasion when a patient died during the operation. Beginning to get paranoid of capture Mengele moved Paraguay because the dictator was German. Mengele lived a life of fear and worry after the war, but he will always be remembered for what he did.