After joining the Nazi party in the summer of 1937 and the Schutzstaffel (SS), which was Hitler's elite corps of race guardians, in May of 1938, Mengele was involved in active trench duty until he got injured in battle and was unfit to fight thereafter.# He would then be assigned as a physician at Auschwitz in May of 1943.# With all the medical, philosophical, political and militia training, Josef Mengele was evidently deeply influenced by these National Socialist ideologies that would eventually set the stage for the medical atrocities that he would order and
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