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Title
Mengele--Unmasking the “Angel of Death” with David Marwell
Contributor
Marwell, David
Gottschalk, Judi
Date Created and/or Issued
June 2, 2021
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Holocaust Living History Workshop
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Who was Josef Mengele? After the end of the Holocaust, the German physician has been increasingly viewed as the personification of supreme evil both in the minds of survivors and the public at large. In this lecture based on his highly acclaimed book "Mengele," David Marwell untangles history and myth surrounding the man known variously as the Angel of Death and the good uncle, suggesting that Mengele was not so much a uniquely monstrous perpetrator, but more a willing part of a monstrous machine of destruction. Marwell has had a distinguished career as chief of investigative research at the US Department of Justice, associate museum director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and director and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
Sponsored by Judi Gottschalk
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Type
moving image
Language
English
Subject
Nazis
Fugitives from justice
World War, 1939-1945
History
Atrocities
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jews
War criminals
Human experimentation in medicine
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Europe
Latin America
Mengele, Josef
Place
Europe
Latin America

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