Why did Josef Mengele misuse his knowledge?

The third reason why Mengele misused his medical and scientific knowledge had to do with the atmosphere in Germany at that time. Mengele completed his academic training in an extremely racialized society in which Nazi orators, politicians, and lawmakers had converted Jewish-ness from a cultural and religious identity into a racial identity. read more

– Answer by Kiel Majewski, executive director, CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, the only organization dedicated to the memory of the twin victims and survivors of medical experimentation at Auschwitz: In my analysis of Josef Mengele, which I and my colleagues performed in the course of developing an exhibit about him, I can see three main reasons why Mengele “misused his knowledge,” as the question says. read more