bizarre quality of social Darwinism appealed to Dr. Mengele, and throughout all his years and even at Auschwitz, the distorted ideas of social Darwinism appealed even more to him, and it was the basis on his beliefs about people. So actually, if you look back on his studies, his apprenticeship as a mass murderer did not formally start at the selection lines at Auschwitz, but slowly began to evolve in the classrooms at the University of Munich (Lagnado and Dekel 41 - 43).
             At the age of 25, after graduation from the University of Munich as a physician, Dr. Mengele took the next step in his academic career. He applied to be an assistant at Vershuers's Institute at the University of Frankfurt, and he was accepted. It was here that Dr. Mengele's absurd ideas and techniques were pounded into his head. He learned that it was acceptable, even desirable, the experiment on human being if it advanced a scientific cause. Dr. Mengele's obsession with was also a result from the teachings of Verschuer, Dr. Mengele's professor. He was convinced that the twins held the key that unlocked the mysteries of genetics. Verschuer provided the critical link that transformed Dr. Mengele from a gentle young scientist into a sadistic killer that sent millions of Jews to their deaths and performed grotesque experiments on children (Lagnado a
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