Der Weiss Angel

Meet the Notorious Dr. Joseph Mengele
Dr Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death, was a Nazi German SS officer and a physician in Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, and for performing human experiments of dubious scientific value on camp inmates including attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations of limbs, and shock treatments. Most of those Mengele experimented on died, either due to the experiments or later infections. On several occasions, he killed subjects simply to be able to dissect them afterwards.

At the end of the war, Mengele was captured but paradoxically released from a U.S. detention center and fled abroad. He remained in hiding in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil until his death of an apparent drowning in 1979.