Managing to remain hidden for the rest of your life is no easy feat, however, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele managed to do just that. Mengele was an SS officer and doctor to the Nazis during World War II, he conducted some very disturbing experiments on those in concentration camps during World War II. Mengele performed all of his experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. Mengele had a particular interest in twins and most, if not all, of his experiments were performed on pairs of twins. After the war, Mengele fled Germany, fleeing to South America, where he lived the rest of his life. Dr. Josef Mengele was an intelligent man who became a doctor for the Nazi Party, conducting heinous experiments; he eventually escaped persecution and lived the rest of his life in secret under a plethora of nicknames that were not his. 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 intellect and aspirations ("Josef Mengele"). His school career ended in April 1930 and he continued to study 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 assigned as an assistant to Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a scientist who conducted genetic research, with an interest...... middle of paper.... .. help for his seriously ill wife and son in 1971, when he left, he left his identity card with Mengele (Levy). The Stammers and Mengele had had a small falling out in late 1974, then the Stammers bought a house in São Paulo, without Mengele joining them. So that Mengele would not remain on the streets, the Stammers bought and rented a house to Mengele in São Paulo (Levy). Mengele's health had been steadily deteriorating since 1972 and in 1976 he suffered a stroke (Levy). . He had been diagnosed with hypertension and had developed an ear infection that had begun to affect his balance. While visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in Bertioga on February 7, 1979, Mengele suffered another stroke while swimming and drowned (Levy). Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identity card he had been using since 1971 (Blumenthal).