The Nuremburg Trials

Josef Mengele

University of Phoenix

Abstract:

An overview of Josef Mengele, a man who became known as the “Angel of Death” for what he did to prisoners in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Germany during WWII in his quest to create a superior race of people for his superior; Adolf Hitler. Included is also how Mengele mistreated the Hippocratic Oath for preventing harm to people and ways in which he did mistreat his power and how he escaped imprisonment before the war ended and where he continued performing experiments even after he eluded capture and found refuge in Brazil until his death in 1975.

Josef Mengele

Although he was not part of the Nuremberg Trials, this man was responsible for everything preceding the trials. He developed the experiments that would become known as the crimes against humanity in which the Nuremberg Trials were started. This man was nicknamed the “Angel of Death” because of the cruel and bizarre experiments he did on humans in concentration camps during the reign of Hitler in Germany. The real name for this “Angel of Death” was Josef Mengele. He was responsible for performing experiments on people in the Auschwitz concentration camp and other camps in which he had access. Mengele would then report his findings back to Hitler and continue his work without remorse. It was as though Mengele enjoyed destroying life and by the time the Nuremberg trials started, Mengele had fled the country and continued his brutal experiments. He was never tried for the crimes in which he committed and died before any judgment could be placed on him for all the lives he took without a shred of emotion about what he was doing to people.

According to the Hippocratic Oath in which all doctors around the world take, it states, I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice. (Coller, 2006) This oath was completely avoided by Josef Mengele who...