The Mengele Circle : the men and women behind the crimes of the Auschwitz “Angel of Death”, Josef Mengele
CJ Foote

Mengele was a mass murderer and scientific criminal who was responsible for thousands of deaths at Auschwitz between 1943 and 1945. Exploiting his position as a camp doctor, he carried out unethical experiments on hundreds of innocent children and babies, earning his grim nickname.

For decades, the popular narrative has been that Mengele’s experiments were motivated by his own personal obsessions and morbid curiosity. This book challenges that idea, showing that he was not a rogue scientist, but a blunt instrument wielded by men and women who planned, financed, and supervised his work.

Drawing on unseen documents and unpublished memoirs, this collective biography tells the complete stories of the “Mengele Circle” for the first time and demonstrates how each member was critical to his transformation into the “Angel of Death”. They include a twin-obsessed Nazi geneticist, a university professor with a shocking secret, and an SS doctor who helped Mengele commit his worst atrocities.

It explains how science became a tool of terror during the Third Reich, explores how a generation of scientists were convinced to support Nazism, and reveals how they escaped justice after the war.