Joseph Mengele, a Nazi doctor notorious for his cruel and inhuman experiments at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, was born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany. Mengele’s main field was medicine, and he gained infamy for his role as a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp where he conducted horrific experiments on prisoners, particularly twins. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele’s actions represented the epitome of the scientific horrors perpetrated during World War II.