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Title Mengele : unmasking the "Angel of Death" / David G. Marwell
Imprint New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2021
©2020

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  940.53 engelska    CHECK SHELF  
Descript xvi, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 21 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-417) and index
"A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate. One of the most notorious war criminals of all time, Dr. Josef Mengele has come to symbolize both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice in the postwar world. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, historian David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life and career, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs and a promising career as a scientist; his wartime service, in combat and at Auschwitz, where his "selections" determined the fate of countless innocents and his "scientific" pursuits resulted in the traumatization and death of thousands more; and his postwar refuge in Germany and South America. This biography 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 a story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice."
Subject Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979(?)
Waffen-SS SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking," 5
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (koncentrationsläger)
1939-1945 (andra världskriget)
Grymheter
Läkare
Krigsförbrytare
War criminals -- Germany -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland
Physicians -- Germany -- Biography
Tyskland
Polen
Biographies.
Classmark 940.5318092
Kfa.5
Koafh-a.54
Add Title Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
ISBN/ISSN 9780393867503 paperback
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