FALLEN ANGEL
Aug 04, 2020
3 minutes
MENGELE Unmasking the “Angel of Death”
By David G. Marwell. 432 pp. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. $30.
IN LATE 1940, just three years before assuming the role of Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele was a young German medical officer on his first combat assignment with the 5th Waffen SS “Viking” Division. Mengele received the Iron Cross for helping wounded soldiers while under fire; one of his superiors recommended promotion, describing the young man as a
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