Book Review: Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death

Book Review: Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death

Mengele

Unmasking the “Angel of Death”

by David G. Marwell

W. W. Norton & Company

Biographies & Memoirs , History

Pub Date 28 Jan 2020

I am reviewing a copy of Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death through W.W. Norton and Company and Netgalley:

Disclaimer: This book contains extremely sensitive subject matters, and tells of grotesque experiments, this book is not meant for children.

Honestly I struggled through the details of this book as well, but I feel this is an important book in order to better understand the brutality of the Holocaust, and in particular one Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Josef Mengele was born on March.16, 1911 and died on February 1979.

Mengele was possibly the most Notorious war criminal ever. Josef Mengele became was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. He was aided by the Role he thought was at work in popular culture. The grotesque work of Mengele during the Holocaust has made him a twisted symbol of a twisted time. He came to symbolize too the horrific failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and…