JOSEF MENGELE.pptx angel of death in Nazi

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1. “ANGEL OF DEATH” JOSEF MENGELE “The Angel of Death”

2. German physician in the early 20 th century. (during WW2) Most prominent of a group of Nazi doctors who conducted medical experiments on the prisoners in Concentration camps. Studied medicine and physical anthropology. (PHD in physical anthropology) Chief Camp Physician of Auschwitz 11. EARLY LIFE OF JOSEF MENGELE

3. Many of the people he conducted experiments on died. Selecting prisoners to be murdered- they would select the able-bodied individuals to perform heavy labour activities and the others were murdered in gas chambers including children and all adults. He was a leading geneticist known for his research on twins. Human Experimentation – experiments on twins, children, mass sterilization, infliction of wounds, and dissecting prisoners for anthropological research. Crimes HE COMMITTED…

4. C SOCIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM Examining the environment in which Mengele was living in, an age where “German supremacy” and racial science theories were widely conformed with. Robert Agnew (1992) – General Strain Theory [GST] There exists a strain between cultural goals and means to achieve those goals… Strain in Society - - Racial Science and Nazism as a widely accepted biological theory and ideology. Cultural Goal -To achieve high status within the Nazi Party, become a war veteran ( respect and masculine status ) - To excel in the field of science // A secondary goal may have been to achieve economic success. The presence of noxious or negatively valued stimuli

5. One of his major areas of study was “ racial science ”… the false theory of biological racism. He believed that Germans were biologically different from and superior to all other races. He used racial science as a justification for their crimes on those in the concentration camps. Their crimes and experiments itself reflect a possible condoning of the biological positivism theory. C HOW JOSEF MENGELE RATIONALISED HIS CRIME… BIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM

6. NAZIS A BIG NO NO THANK YOU!!!