If we associate medicine with the Holocaust at all, the name Mengele will probably come to mind. Josef Mengele, an MD and PhD, was known as the "angel of death of Auschwitz," the Nazi's main extermination camp where more than 2 million Jews were gassed and cremated. Many assume that Mengele's participation in the Holocaust was a medical aberration and that he was an isolated medical madman. This assumption is a mistake, however, because the medical profession played a central role in planning and implementing the genocidal murder of more than 6 million Jews.
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