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  • Mengele

  • Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
  • By: David G. Marwell
  • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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Mengele

By: David G. Marwell
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
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Summary

Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice.

As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources, Marwell examines Mengele's life and career. He chronicles Mengele's university studies; his wartime service both in frontline combat and at Auschwitz, where his "selections" sent innumerable innocents to their deaths and his "scientific" pursuits traumatized or killed countless more; and his postwar flight from Europe and refuge in South America.

Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died - but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.

©2020 David G. Marwell (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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An interesting glimpse into evil

This provides some solid history behind who Mengele was and how he escaped, and survived punishment.
As appalling as he was it's interesting to see what makes a man do the awful things he did, and it seems that a relative lack of empathy and an overusing interest and elevation to almost absolute power will tend to bring out these types.
This should be a lesson to us all about Fascism and how power corrupts.

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Minimal info on his background during the war

I bought this to learn a little about Mengele’s performance and conduct during the Second World War. It is a little bit about his academic career very minimal about his misconduct during the war and then several hours of people chasing around over Paraguay looking for him. He then dies and then it has several paragraphs about people picking up bones and then trying to work out if it’s him or not. Very slow quite boring and very much not what I was after.

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