Being able to stay hidden for the rest of one's life is not an easy task, however, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele managed to do it. Mengele was an SS officer and medic for the Nazis during World War II. He conducted very disturbing experiments on concentration camp prisoners during World War II. Mengele carried out all of his experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. Mengele was particularly interested in twins and the majority, if not all, of his experiments were carried out on pairs of twins. After the war, Mengele fled Germany to South America and lived the rest of his life there. Dr. Josef Mengele was an intelligent man who became a Nazi party doctor, conducting heinous experiments; he eventually escaped his persecution and lived the rest of his life in secret under a plethora of nicknames that were not his own. Josef Rudolf Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 as the second son of a prosperous Bavarian family. His father, Karl, was the founder of the agricultural machinery company Karl Mengele & Sons. Mengele lived with his mother, Walburga, and his brothers Karl Jr. and Alois (Astor). Early in his life, Mengele developed an interest in music, art, and skiing, and was known as a serious student with pronounced intelligence and aspirations ("Josef Mengele"). His high school career ended in April 1930 and he continued his studies of medicine and philosophy at the University of Munich. In 1935, Mengele received a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Munich (Astor). In 1937, at the Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, he was appointed assistant to Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a scientist who conducted research in genetics, with an interest...... middle of paper ...... help his seriously ill wife and son in 1971, when he left, he left his identity card with Mengele (Levy). The Stammers and Mengele had a small argument in late 1974, so the Stammers bought a house in Sao Paulo, without Mengele joining them. So that Mengele would not be left behind on the streets, the Stammers bought and rented Mengele a house in Sao Paulo (Levy). Mengele's health had been in steady decline since 1972 and he had a stroke in 1976 (Levy). . He had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and an ear infection which was beginning to affect his balance. While visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in Bertioga on February 7, 1979, Mengele had another stroke while swimming and drowned (Levy). Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identity card he had used since 1971 (Blumenthal).