Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in the Bavarian village of Gunzburg, Germany. Josef's parents were devout Catholics, and saw to it that he and his two brothers were raised accordingly. Mengele had always dreamed of a career in science and anthropology. In 1930, he graduated from high schoo...

The Holocaust was a horrible time. Part of this tragedy was the concentration camps. During the 1930s and 1940s, German Nazi leaders established 22 concentration camps where Jews, but also along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Communists, Slav, and others who were judged undesirable were imprisoned...

In the beginning the Jews were murdered in mass shootings on the Russian front. This method of extermination was very difficult on the soldiers, and far to public to the civilians. This was then the beginning. In 1941 for the plan to carry out their mass killing of the Jews at Auschwitz. ...