U.S. DOJ's Exhaustive Report on Josef Mengele

For more than two decades, former SS Hauptsturmfuehrer [Captain] Josef Mengele was the most notorius Nazi criminal thought to be alive. Mengele served during World War II as a "doctor" at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where more than one million prisoners, the overwhelming majority of them Jews, were systematically executed. When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, Mengele and "doctor" colleagues "selected" for slave labor those who appeared medically "fit" (thus consigning them to toil under inhumane and often deadly conditions) or who could used by the Third Reich in some other way. All other prisoners, the vast majority, were immediately murdered by gassing in specially designed asphyxiation chambers.