Josef Mengele
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Dr. Josef Mengele (1911 - 1979) was a German physician who worked in the Auschwitz death camp. Mengele had obtained a Ph.D. based on the study of racial differences in the anatomy of the jaw. He was one of the greatest supporters of Nazi theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. He also strongly supported "survival of the fittest". He performed experiments on humans in the concentration camps attempting to prove that disease was the product of racial inferiority. He amputated healthy limbs and performed other unusual operations on prisoners. After the war he fled to Brazil where he drowned due to a stroke while swimming. He has been criticized to this day because of his unethical and cruel operations on prisoners.