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Holocaust-Josef Mengele. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning
"sacrifice by fire." In 1933, The Nazis came to power and ...
... The most famous of the doctors to do these experiments was Josef Mengele, also known
as ... States with the help of many allies put a stop to the Holocaust in 1945 ...
... From that, they produced as much as 5 to 10 kilos a day. (Encyclopedia of the Holocaust)
Dr. Josef Mengele preformed sadistic experiments on the prisoners. ...
... the Holocaust from one of its most famous death camps; Auschwitz. As a prisoner,
she was allowed to work as a doctor who was forced to aid Dr. Josef Mengele. ...
... 15 November 2002 Brank, Renee and Lauren Mondelli. “Josef Mengele” A Holocaust
History, Father Ryan High School, 15 November 2002.
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"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." In 1933, The Nazis came to power and attempted to meet their goal of creating a utopian world full of Aryan’s (blond hair, blue eyed humans) and free of any others that interfered, such as the Jewish community. To meet this goal, the Nazi’s believed that sending all that interfered to concentration camps, more commonly known as death camps. Many people believe that Adolph Hitler and his supporters were behind this inhumane massacre. One such supporter is the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele who was a doctor at Auschwitz-Birkneau concentration camp. In 1986, songwriter and guitarist Jeff Hanneman was reading a book about the holocaust and wrote the song “Angel of Death” performed by the band Slayer. “Angel of Death” has become a very famous song in World History and contains very graphic lyrics that paint a picture in ones mind of how horrible the holocaust really was.
Although the holocaust went on for quite some time before American liberated the camps, it deeply impacted our country. Between the Russian and American troops, all of the camps were liberated by 1945. All of the soldiers that actually went to the camps to free the inmates will forever have that terrible memory. In the book, Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado, inmates and liberators were both interviewed. Both mentioned that the terrible smell, the grotesque living conditions, and the skeletons that had managed to survive, is an image that will never go away.
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman wrote "Angel of Death" after reading books about Nazi physician Josef Mengele while on tour with the band. Hanneman said "I remember stopping someplace where I bought two books on Mengele. I thought, 'This has gotta be some sick stuff.' So when it came time to do the record, that stuff was still in my head—that’s where the lyrics...
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