The prisoners called him the Angel of Death. Children called him Uncle Pepi. Who was this man, Josef Mengele? Born on March 16th, 1911 to a well-to-do family, Josef Mengele was a handsome young man with a bright future. After finishing college, he joined the Waffen-SS and was stationed at Auschwitz where he conducted his…
Why did the Aryans fear their ”inferiors”? In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution: all creatures change over time, with the strongest surviving: THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Many applied this theory to humans. The Nazis believed that they were ethnically ARYAN; superior to all other humans due to their greater…
1933 January 30 –Hitler is appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by Hindenburg January 30 — Sterilization (of inferiors) Laws enacted; implemented three weeks later February 27 — Reichstag fire February 28 — Leading communists arrested March 20 — Dachau concentration camp established April 1 — General boycott of all Jewish businesses – One day April…