Useful Notes on controversial figures

I need help expanding the body, since I do not know what to write.

I definitely have more than 3 fictional portrayals written down.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Nov 16th 2020 at 6:14:52 AM

Useful Notes pages do not collect "examples", so that guideline is kind of pointless to apply here, unless you mean at least three references in fiction.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I worded it badly.

~Lord Gro, ~Septimus Heap, ~War Jay 77: Would one of you mind helping me with a draft for Mengele's bio? I have enough references to Mengele as a Historical Domain Character to warrant a page, all that is needed is information about what he actually did.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Nov 19th 2020 at 11:01:52 AM

Sorry mate, I don't know enough about the guy.

Same. Also, I am wary of all these minor Useful Notes pages.

I wouldn't be trying to create a page for Mengele if he was not a recurring Historical Domain Character. Same with Himmler, who will be my next project, since I plan on working my way up to him. And I feel like while Nitti doesn't occur as an HDC to the same extent, he is a common enough recurring character in Gangster stories set in prohibition, if I am not mistaken.

Sorry if that sounds cynical, but you're missing the main part of the page.

There's not much point in starting a Useful Notes page if you don't have good knowledge of the subject. If you don't have that knowledge, you will have to research it.

I imagine a good Useful Notes page is a lot of work. There's really no way around it.

I mean, I have an idea of what Mengele did, I just want to write the specifics in such a way that is not ripping off other wikis.

I say take it to TLP, write what you can, and see if anyone can help.

Thanks for the advice. I will do it at my earliest convenience.

Body: Mengele Useful Notes

Dr. Josef Mengele, also known as the "Angel of Death", was a Nazi doctor known for his inhumane experiments at Auschwitz. The trope Mad Doctor was originally named The Mengele.

Of course, Mengele wasn't born a doctor who performed unethical experiments. As a child, he was an avid skier, an art enthusiast, and a musical connoisseur.

The oldest son of a farming machine manufacturer, born in Günzberg, with a 1930 High School diploma, Mengele was a philosophy student in 1931 at the University of Munich when he first encountered a militia called Der Stalhelm, or "the Steel Helmet", which would eventually be absorbed into the Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment) or SA in 1934.

After graduating with a PhD in Anthropology in 1935, in 1937, Mengele worked at the Frankfurt "Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene" under Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, where like Verschuer, he developed an interest in twins as they relate to biology. During that time, Mengele joined the National Socialist German Workers Party, (NSDAP) or the "Nazis".

Mengele earned a cum laude in medicine at the University of Frankfurt because of a thesis on chin, palate and lip clefts in 1938, and the same year, joined the Schutzestaffel or "Protection Squadron" (SS).

Mengele and Irene Schönbein married in 1939.

In 1940, Mengele served as a Combat Medic in the SS, earning the Iron Cross for saving soldiers from a burning Tank in 1942 before eventually being retired from active service due to battle wounds.

Subsequently, in 1943, after applying for Concentration Camp service, Mengele embarked on a career in human experimentation at Auschwitz, a Concentration Camp 75 Kilometers west of Krakow, Poland.

Mengele's duties included: having any inmate who hadn't recovered after two weeks taken to the gas chambers; selecting prisoners for death, labour or experimentation; administering Zyklon B in the Gas Chambers; and liquidating portions of the camp which succumbed to epidemics.

Mengele also took the opportunity to perform experiments on inmates, including unnecessary amputation, infection with viruses, superfluous or dangerous blood transfusions, anaesthetic free vivisections, and cloroform injections, in one case attempting to artificially create conjoined twins. Mengele was particularly fascinated by identical twins, people with bicolored eyes, and otherwise physically atypical people.

Mengele transferred to Gross-Rosen in 1945, carrying two boxes of specimens alongside medical records. After being captured and released by the American army, Mengele eventually fled to Argentina, where he met up with and married his brother's widow, and according to Argentinian government documents, allegedly worked illegaly as an abortionist and a practitioner in addition to a farm equipment salesman.

Between 1960-1962, Mengele evaded capture by the Mossad.

When his son Rolf confronted him over his Nazi past, according to Rolf, Mengele claimed he had fulfilled his duty as an officer, and never personally harmed anyone, showing no remorse for his past deeds.

In 1979, Mengele died of a stroke while swimming.

As of 2020, Mengele's name remains shorthand for unethical medical and scientific experimentation.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Nov 22nd 2020 at 12:40:35 PM