Josef Mengele (16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mengele was a notorious member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners. Arrivals deemed able to work were admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were immediately killed in the gas chambers. Mengele left Auschwitz on 17 January 1945, shortly before the arrival of the liberating Red Army troops. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life. (Intro from Wikipedia)
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March 16, 1911 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Josef Mengele is born
January(?) 1(?), 1930 - Munich - Mengele enters the Medicine University of Munich
January(?) 1(?), 1931 - Munich - Joins the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a paramilitary organisation that in 1934 would be absorbed into the Nazi Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment; SA)
January(?) 1(?), 1935 - Munich - Mengele earns a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Munich
January(?) 1(?), 1938 - Munich(?) - "Cum Laude" Doctorate in Medicine. Joins the Schutzstaffel (SS) =(START)
April 1, 1938 - ? - Mengele enters the NSDAP - Nazi Party
June 1, 1938 - Frankfurt-am-Main - At the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene, Mengele becomes assistant to Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a scientist conducting genetics research, with a particular interest in twins
October 24, 1938 - Saalfelden - Mengele starts a 3-month military training in Mountain Infantry Regiment 137
January 21, 1939 - Saalfelden - Mengele finishes his military training
July 28, 1939 - Leipzig(?) - Mengele marries Irene Schönbein
September 1, 1939 - Frankfurt-am-Main - At the start of WW2, Mengele is in Frankfurt
June 15, 1940 - Kassel - Assigned to Wehrmacht's Sanitation department 9
August 1, 1940 - Kassel - Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
April 1(?), 1941 - Heuberg - Mengele is transfered to SS-Wiking Division, which is ready for action
June 1(?), 1941 - North of Breslau (Wroclaw) - SS-Wiking Division takes positions in preparation of Operation Barbarossa
June 18, 1941 - Southeast of Lublin, Poland - SS-Wiking Division takes positions in preparation of Operation Barbarossa
July 9, 1941 - Lviv - SS-Wiking Division is responsible for a massacre of jews, in revenge for the death of Hilmar Wäckerle, commander of SS-Infanterie-Regiment Westland, shot by a sniper
July 16, 1941 - Zloczów (Zolochiv), Lviv Oblast - SS-Wiking Division is responsible for a massacre of jews
July 29, 1941 - Tarnopol - SS-Wiking Division enters in combat for the first time
August 23, 1941 - West of Kiev - The Battle of Kiev starts
October 17, 1941 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - Taganrog is taken
November 21, 1941 - Rostov-on-Don - Rostov-on-Don is taken
November 27, 1941 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - SS-Wiking Division moves back to the Mius River to spend the Winter
January 30, 1942 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - Promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
June 1(?), 1942 - near Rostov-on-Don - Mengele is seriously wounded in action
August 1(?), 1942 - Freiburg - Leave in Freiburg. Declared unfit for further service
September 1(?), 1942 - Berlin - Transfer to the Race and Resettlement Office in Berlin
February 14, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Transfered to SS-Ersatzbataillon "Ost"
April 20, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Promoted to SS-Haptsturmführer (Captain)
May 24, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Assigned to service in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
May 30, 1943 - Auschwitz (Oświęcim, Poland), 50km SW of Kraków - Dr.Josef Mengele is assigned to "Auschwitz II-Birkenau" at first in the gypsy family camp
June 27, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele kills four pairs of twins by injecting chloroform or phenol in them. The interest was apparently on an anomaly in their eye colour
July 28, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele starts medical experiments in twins
September 3, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele's notebook: "The Czech section of Auschwitz concentration camp was liquidated this date due to a prevalence of typhus among the prisoners"
October 3, 1944 - Auschwitz - End of the experiments with twins
November 1(?), 1944 - Günzburg, Bavaria - On leave
December 1(?), 1944 - Auschwitz - Back in Auschwitz
January 17, 1945 - Auschwitz - Mengele leaves Auschwitz shortly before the arrival of the Red Army and heads to Gross-Rosen Concentration camp, leaving his notebook behind
February 8, 1945 - Gross-Rosen, Lower Silesia - Mengele flees Gross-Rosen concentration camp and travels in disguise to Saaz (Zatec)
February 13(?), 1945 - Central Czechoslovakia - Fleeing westward, Mengele joins a retreating unit of Wehrmacht soldiers, exchanging his uniform
May 2, 1945 - Saaz (Zatec), Czech Republic - Mengele receives permission to join a Field hospital staff - Kriefslazarett 2/591
May 8, 1945 - Czechoslovakia-Saxony Border - Mengele crosses the border into Saxony on the night of Germany's surrender
June 1(?), 1945 - Schauenstein, Bavaria - Mengele reaches Bavaria, where he goes to a american POW camp
July 15(?), 1945 - Helmbrechts, Bavaria - Mengele is transfered to Helmbrechts POW camp, near Hof
July 30(?), 1945 - Helmbrechts, Bavaria - Still out of the list of war criminals, Mengele is released from Helmbrechts and heads to Donauwörth under the name "Fritz Hollmann"
August(?) 3(?), 1945 - Donauwörth - Mengele reaches Donauwörth on his way home
August(?) 5(?), 1945 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele reaches Günzburg and contacts his family. Initially he hides for some weeks in the forest
October 30, 1945 - Mangolding, SE Regensburg, Upper Bavaria - Mengele moves to a lonely farmstead, the Lechnerhof, where he works as a servant and avoids being seen
August 1, 1948 - Mangolding - After deciding to flee to Argentina, Mengele leaves the Lechnerhof
September 1, 1948 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele returns to Günzburg to pick up an inheritance
April 16, 1949 - Innsbruck, Austria - Mengele arrives in Innsbruck by train
April 17, 1949 - Steinach, Austria - Mengele arrives to an Inn at the foot of the Brenner Pass
April 18, 1949 - Austria-Italy border - Mengele crosses the Brenner Pass to Italy
April 19, 1949 - Vitipeno, Italy - Mengele is contacted by two men who give him a fake identity, passport, money and even a small suitcase filled with scientific specimens from his Auschwitz experiments
May 25, 1949 - Genoa, Italy - Mengele boards the ship "North King" to Argentina
June 20, 1949 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - The "North King" arrives in Buenos Aires
September 17, 1949 - Buenos Aires - Mengele receives a false identity card
March 25, 1954 - Buenos Aires - Back in Düsseldorf, divorce between Mengele and Irene is signed
April 1(?), 1955 - Buenos Aires - Mengele applies to the argentine federal police for a special passport for non-argentine citizens
September 1, 1955 - Buenos Aires - The argentine police grants Mengele a "good conduct" pass
October(?) 1(?), 1955(?) - Corumbá, Mato Grosso State, Brazil - After the fall of Perón's Government, Mengele buys his Brazilian estate outside Corumbá, installs a swimming pool and a well-equipped laboratory and hires a few former SS men as bodyguards. He also retains his Buenos Aires residence and makes frequent trips to Argentina to purchase scientific equipment which he hauls home to Corumbá on Paraguay River steamers
April 1, 1938 - ? - Mengele enters the NSDAP - Nazi Party
June 1, 1938 - Frankfurt-am-Main - At the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene, Mengele becomes assistant to Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a scientist conducting genetics research, with a particular interest in twins
October 24, 1938 - Saalfelden - Mengele starts a 3-month military training in Mountain Infantry Regiment 137
January 21, 1939 - Saalfelden - Mengele finishes his military training
July 28, 1939 - Leipzig(?) - Mengele marries Irene Schönbein
September 1, 1939 - Frankfurt-am-Main - At the start of WW2, Mengele is in Frankfurt
June 15, 1940 - Kassel - Assigned to Wehrmacht's Sanitation department 9
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| Mengele, with SS-Untersturmführer insignia |
April 1(?), 1941 - Heuberg - Mengele is transfered to SS-Wiking Division, which is ready for action
June 1(?), 1941 - North of Breslau (Wroclaw) - SS-Wiking Division takes positions in preparation of Operation Barbarossa
June 18, 1941 - Southeast of Lublin, Poland - SS-Wiking Division takes positions in preparation of Operation Barbarossa
July 9, 1941 - Lviv - SS-Wiking Division is responsible for a massacre of jews, in revenge for the death of Hilmar Wäckerle, commander of SS-Infanterie-Regiment Westland, shot by a sniper
July 16, 1941 - Zloczów (Zolochiv), Lviv Oblast - SS-Wiking Division is responsible for a massacre of jews
July 29, 1941 - Tarnopol - SS-Wiking Division enters in combat for the first time
August 23, 1941 - West of Kiev - The Battle of Kiev starts
October 17, 1941 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - Taganrog is taken
November 21, 1941 - Rostov-on-Don - Rostov-on-Don is taken
November 27, 1941 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - SS-Wiking Division moves back to the Mius River to spend the Winter
January 30, 1942 - Mius River, (Taganrog), Black Sea Coast - Promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
June 1(?), 1942 - near Rostov-on-Don - Mengele is seriously wounded in action
August 1(?), 1942 - Freiburg - Leave in Freiburg. Declared unfit for further service
September 1(?), 1942 - Berlin - Transfer to the Race and Resettlement Office in Berlin
February 14, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Transfered to SS-Ersatzbataillon "Ost"
April 20, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Promoted to SS-Haptsturmführer (Captain)
May 24, 1943 - Zhytomyr, Ukraine(?) - Assigned to service in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
May 30, 1943 - Auschwitz (Oświęcim, Poland), 50km SW of Kraków - Dr.Josef Mengele is assigned to "Auschwitz II-Birkenau" at first in the gypsy family camp
June 27, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele kills four pairs of twins by injecting chloroform or phenol in them. The interest was apparently on an anomaly in their eye colour
July 28, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele starts medical experiments in twins
September 3, 1944 - Auschwitz - Mengele's notebook: "The Czech section of Auschwitz concentration camp was liquidated this date due to a prevalence of typhus among the prisoners"
October 3, 1944 - Auschwitz - End of the experiments with twins
November 1(?), 1944 - Günzburg, Bavaria - On leave
December 1(?), 1944 - Auschwitz - Back in Auschwitz
January 17, 1945 - Auschwitz - Mengele leaves Auschwitz shortly before the arrival of the Red Army and heads to Gross-Rosen Concentration camp, leaving his notebook behind
February 8, 1945 - Gross-Rosen, Lower Silesia - Mengele flees Gross-Rosen concentration camp and travels in disguise to Saaz (Zatec)
February 13(?), 1945 - Central Czechoslovakia - Fleeing westward, Mengele joins a retreating unit of Wehrmacht soldiers, exchanging his uniform
May 2, 1945 - Saaz (Zatec), Czech Republic - Mengele receives permission to join a Field hospital staff - Kriefslazarett 2/591
May 8, 1945 - Czechoslovakia-Saxony Border - Mengele crosses the border into Saxony on the night of Germany's surrender
June 1(?), 1945 - Schauenstein, Bavaria - Mengele reaches Bavaria, where he goes to a american POW camp
July 15(?), 1945 - Helmbrechts, Bavaria - Mengele is transfered to Helmbrechts POW camp, near Hof
July 30(?), 1945 - Helmbrechts, Bavaria - Still out of the list of war criminals, Mengele is released from Helmbrechts and heads to Donauwörth under the name "Fritz Hollmann"
August(?) 3(?), 1945 - Donauwörth - Mengele reaches Donauwörth on his way home
August(?) 5(?), 1945 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele reaches Günzburg and contacts his family. Initially he hides for some weeks in the forest
October 30, 1945 - Mangolding, SE Regensburg, Upper Bavaria - Mengele moves to a lonely farmstead, the Lechnerhof, where he works as a servant and avoids being seen
August 1, 1948 - Mangolding - After deciding to flee to Argentina, Mengele leaves the Lechnerhof
September 1, 1948 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele returns to Günzburg to pick up an inheritance
April 16, 1949 - Innsbruck, Austria - Mengele arrives in Innsbruck by train
April 17, 1949 - Steinach, Austria - Mengele arrives to an Inn at the foot of the Brenner Pass
April 18, 1949 - Austria-Italy border - Mengele crosses the Brenner Pass to Italy
April 19, 1949 - Vitipeno, Italy - Mengele is contacted by two men who give him a fake identity, passport, money and even a small suitcase filled with scientific specimens from his Auschwitz experiments
May 25, 1949 - Genoa, Italy - Mengele boards the ship "North King" to Argentina
June 20, 1949 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - The "North King" arrives in Buenos Aires
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| Mengele in Argentina |
March 25, 1954 - Buenos Aires - Back in Düsseldorf, divorce between Mengele and Irene is signed
April 1(?), 1955 - Buenos Aires - Mengele applies to the argentine federal police for a special passport for non-argentine citizens
September 1, 1955 - Buenos Aires - The argentine police grants Mengele a "good conduct" pass
October(?) 1(?), 1955(?) - Corumbá, Mato Grosso State, Brazil - After the fall of Perón's Government, Mengele buys his Brazilian estate outside Corumbá, installs a swimming pool and a well-equipped laboratory and hires a few former SS men as bodyguards. He also retains his Buenos Aires residence and makes frequent trips to Argentina to purchase scientific equipment which he hauls home to Corumbá on Paraguay River steamers
March 1(?), 1956 - New York City - Two hours of flight stop in New York
March 2(?), 1956 - Geneva, Switzerland - Mengele arrives in Geneva
March 3(?), 1956 - Engelberg, Switzerland - Mengele, as "uncle Fritz", meets his son Rolf on a skiing trip to Engelberg
March 15(?), 1956 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele briefly visits Günzburg before returning to Argentina
April(?) 1(?), 1956 - Buenos Aires - Back in Buenos Aires - speculative date
September 11, 1956 - Buenos Aires - At the german embassy, Mengele asks for identity papers for his real name. Still, he is not detected
October 1(?), 1956 - Buenos Aires - Martha Maria Will arrives in Argentina with her son Karl-Heinz
March 2(?), 1956 - Geneva, Switzerland - Mengele arrives in Geneva
March 3(?), 1956 - Engelberg, Switzerland - Mengele, as "uncle Fritz", meets his son Rolf on a skiing trip to Engelberg
March 15(?), 1956 - Günzburg, Bavaria - Mengele briefly visits Günzburg before returning to Argentina
April(?) 1(?), 1956 - Buenos Aires - Back in Buenos Aires - speculative date
September 11, 1956 - Buenos Aires - At the german embassy, Mengele asks for identity papers for his real name. Still, he is not detected
October 1(?), 1956 - Buenos Aires - Martha Maria Will arrives in Argentina with her son Karl-Heinz
January(?) 1(?), 1957 - Santiago, Chile - Mengele and Stuka ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel together travel to Chile to spend a week with Walter Rauff, the inventor of the mobile gas chamber
July 28, 1958 - Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay - Mengele marries Martha Maria Will
February 25, 1959 - Buenos Aires - Back in Freiburg im Breisgau, the Public Prosecutor issues a warrant of arrest for Mengele
March 1(?), 1959 - Buenos Aires - Mengele decides that he would be safer living in Paraguay
May 1(?), 1959 - Hohenau, South of Paraguay - Within days of his arrest warrant, Mengele moves to South Paraguay, to Alban Krug's farm
November 27, 1959 - Hohenau - Mengele's paraguayan citizenship is approved
May 11, 1960 - Buenos Aires - Mengele is in Buenos Aires while Adolf Eichmann is kidnapped by israeli agents
May 21(?), 1960 - Corumbá, Mato Grosso State, Brazil - Mengele escapes to his brazilian estate outside Corumbá
June 11(?), 1960 - Buenos Aires - As soon as Mengele hears that Eichmann was taken out of the country, he decides to get back to Buenos Aires
June 30, 1960 - Hohenau - Back in Buenos Aires, the argentine police starts looking for him
September 1(?), 1960 - Hohenau - Mengele decides that capture by the israelis is inevitable as long as he stays at the Krug Farm. He resolves to get out of Paraguay and begin a new life elsewhere. The choice is Brazil
October 24, 1960 - Ciudad del Este, Paraguay(?) - Mengele moves to Brazil with a brazilian passport under the name "Peter Hochbichler"
January(?) 1(?), 1961 - Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil - Mengele becomes administrator of a plantation for the Stammers, an hungarian couple
January 30(?), 1975 - Estrada do Alvarenga, South of São Paulo City - Mengele moves to São Paulo City
January(?) 1(?), 1977 - Estrada do Alvarenga, São Paulo City - Mengele receives a visit from his son Rolf
February 5, 1979 - Bertioga, São Paulo - Mengele takes a 2-hour bus ride to Bertioga, to stay at Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert's house
February 7, 1979 - Bertioga, São Paulo - Dr. Josef Mengele has a stroke while swimming and drowns, aged 67 =(END)
July 28, 1958 - Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay - Mengele marries Martha Maria Will
February 25, 1959 - Buenos Aires - Back in Freiburg im Breisgau, the Public Prosecutor issues a warrant of arrest for Mengele
March 1(?), 1959 - Buenos Aires - Mengele decides that he would be safer living in Paraguay
May 1(?), 1959 - Hohenau, South of Paraguay - Within days of his arrest warrant, Mengele moves to South Paraguay, to Alban Krug's farm
November 27, 1959 - Hohenau - Mengele's paraguayan citizenship is approved
May 11, 1960 - Buenos Aires - Mengele is in Buenos Aires while Adolf Eichmann is kidnapped by israeli agents
May 21(?), 1960 - Corumbá, Mato Grosso State, Brazil - Mengele escapes to his brazilian estate outside Corumbá
June 11(?), 1960 - Buenos Aires - As soon as Mengele hears that Eichmann was taken out of the country, he decides to get back to Buenos Aires
June 30, 1960 - Hohenau - Back in Buenos Aires, the argentine police starts looking for him
September 1(?), 1960 - Hohenau - Mengele decides that capture by the israelis is inevitable as long as he stays at the Krug Farm. He resolves to get out of Paraguay and begin a new life elsewhere. The choice is Brazil
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| Mengele in 1977 |
January(?) 1(?), 1961 - Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil - Mengele becomes administrator of a plantation for the Stammers, an hungarian couple
January 30(?), 1975 - Estrada do Alvarenga, South of São Paulo City - Mengele moves to São Paulo City
January(?) 1(?), 1977 - Estrada do Alvarenga, São Paulo City - Mengele receives a visit from his son Rolf
February 5, 1979 - Bertioga, São Paulo - Mengele takes a 2-hour bus ride to Bertioga, to stay at Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert's house
February 7, 1979 - Bertioga, São Paulo - Dr. Josef Mengele has a stroke while swimming and drowns, aged 67 =(END)
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