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Mengele: The Complete Story Paperback – August 8, 2000

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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.
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Well researched and wonderfully free of all the customary fantasy and exaggeration.... Fascinating. ― New York Review of Books

It's a pity that the official search for him did not match the vigor with which Posner and Ware stalk their subject in print. ― The San Francisco Chronicle

The fullest account yet published.... Posner and Ware examine the efforts to bring the doctor to trial, separate fact from legend, account for the false trails that enticed Israeli agents and self-appointed Nazi hunters, and explain why he was never caught. ... Mengele is filled with startling touches. The book is an exciting chronicle of escape, evasion, and close calls. ― Publishers Weekly

[A] welcome addition to the study of the Holocaust.... Mengele offers us insight into one of the most infamous perpetrators of the holocaust. -- Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University

Students of the Holocaust are fortunate to have this book in print once again. Posner and Ware have aptly titled their book; this is the complete story. The authors bring flair to the telling. It is a riveting tale. ― The Historian

About the Author

Gerald L. Posner is the bestselling author of Hitler's Children, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He lives in New York City. Producer and author John Ware lives in London.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cooper Square Press; First Edition (August 8, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0815410069
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0815410065
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.8 x 0.88 x 8.88 inches
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John Martin of ABC News says "Gerald Posner is one of the most resourceful investigators I have encountered in thirty years of journalism." Garry Wills calls Posner "a superb investigative reporter," while the Los Angeles Times dubs him "a classic-style investigative journalist." "His work is painstakingly honest journalism" concluded The Washington Post. The New York Times lauded his "exhaustive research techniques" and The Boston Globe determined Posner is "an investigative journalist whose work is marked by his thorough and meticulous research." "A resourceful investigator and skillful writer," says The Dallas Morning News.

Posner was one of the youngest attorneys (23) ever hired by the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (1975), he was an Honors Graduate of Hastings Law School (1978), where he served as the Associate Executive Editor for the Law Review. Of counsel to the law firm he founded, Posner and Ferrara, he is now a full time journalist and author.

In the past, he was a freelance writer on investigative issues for several news magazines, and a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, CBS, and MSNBC. A former member of the National Advisory Board of the National Writers Union, Posner is also a member of the Authors Guild, PEN, The Committee to Protect Journalists, and Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, author, Trisha Posner, who works on all his projects (www.trishaposner.com).

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Customers find the book full of informative and well-researched information. They describe it as a compelling read and highly readable. Readers also appreciate the historical accuracy. However, some find the story boring, disappointing, and depressing. Opinions differ on the writing quality, with some finding it well-written and easy to read, while others say it's tedious and tiresome.

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Customers find the book full of informative and well-researched information. They say it's a comprehensive account of Mengele's education, career, life as a fugitive, and strange death. Readers also mention the historical research done by the author appears thorough.

"...Highly recommend this book as one of most intriguing I have researched on the Holocaust...." Read more

"...That said, this is an important book that brings the history of Mengele as up to date as any can right now...." Read more

"A comprehensive account of the education, career, life as a fugitive, and strange death of one of the most notorious of the Nazi war criminals...." Read more

"...Mengele was a monster of the worst kind.The book is well researched, well written and a true chronicle of man's inhumanity to fellow humans...." Read more

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Customers find the book interesting, compelling, and highly readable. They say the first half is interesting and well-researched.

"...It is essential reading, I think, for those who are trying to stay on top of the Nazi legacy....geminiwalker" Read more

"...Posner presents the case for the prosecution. It's a piece of highly readable "true crime" writing, but history or biography it's not...." Read more

"...the most comprehensive manhunt (probably in history), makes for interesting reading...." Read more

"...Mengele is an important read if you have the stomach for it. Mengele was a monster of the worst kind...." Read more

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Customers find the story interesting, contemporary, and informative about life after Auschwitz. They also say the author did a great job researching and telling the sad story in a hauntingly and frank style. Readers mention the book really lets them inside the life of the Holocaust survivor.

"...A truly interesting story, well worth the moderate time investment to read. ..." Read more

"...The author did a great job in researching this sad story - so 5 Stars to Posner...." Read more

"...facts and figures, but is meticulously researched and told in hauntingly and frank style." Read more

"Excellent historical coverage of a very evil person...." Read more

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Customers have mixed opinions about the writing quality of the book. Some mention it's well-researched, easy to read, and hard to put down, while others say it's tedious with too much non-meaningful detail. They also mention the writing is tired and loses the reader along the way.

"As a History teacher I always enjoy books about history that are well written and factually accurate. This book is both...." Read more

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"Mengele,is a difficult book to read, I could not read it for long periods without the reality of the death camps horror, and mans atrocities to man,..." Read more

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"...Towards the end of the book I couldn't pick it up. It got a bit dull." Read more

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"...The book, needless to add, is not escapist entertainment...." Read more

"Tried to read this several years ago and I thought it was boring. I have since picked it back up, and I now find it hard to put down...." Read more

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StephieAnn
5.0 out of 5 stars Unfathomable
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2014
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You will be surprised that the authors of this book did not take up most of the entirety on the actual gory, horrific, unspeakable crimes that Mengele performed. They attempt, with as much detail and history they have compiled, to give a glimpse of the man before, during training, actual time at the front, details of his "duties", as he later called them, of experiments and horrors at Auschwitz to his flight before Auschwitz liberated. I find it interesting, as you will, the elaborate details of his flights to S.A., as well as the ease he found in finding help from fellow Nazi's, his family, and Nazi supporters who protected him from discovery. The most interesting details to me are the attitudes of the allies in their lackadaisical attempts to locate him until pressure finally begins to happen in late 1970's. I am curious to read his almost non-stop diary, which I understand is in the possession of the Mengele family in Gunzberg. Highly recommend this book as one of most intriguing I have researched on the Holocaust. I have now obtained such knowledge that I now understand that, while the Nazi's wanted to exterminate the unfortunate Jews, they were also annihilating the Polish, Gypsy, Romanian, dwarf and Czechoslovakian people, (I am sure I have left some out).
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Cathleen M. Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2002
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What is intriguing and important about this book is the awareness it adds to the ongoing saga of the man often called historically the "Angel of Death" of World War II. There is no need to reinvent the wheel in terms of Mengele's "work" in the concentration camps, there is plenty of literature that speaks to this quite plainly, clearly and specifically. His "work" is referred to, within its historical context, and within the framework of time.
What "Mengele: The Complete Story" attempts to explore with as much hindsight as is possible given its fairly recent copyright ((c)2000) is the nightmare of his existence as he lived out his life after the war. A nightmare, and yet, compared to the lives of the surviving Jews after the war, fairly privileged. He never did pay for his crimes, except, perhaps, for living with the fear for the rest of his life of being caught; and the disdain in which he was held by his own son.
It was interesting, and new information for me, to contemplate how this man's life and his hiding affected his family, and how they struggled with their loyalty to him as family while at the same time attempting to distance themselves from him in view of the harsh judgments of history. It could not have been easy.
Morality in war time is not the same as in peace time, which is often why war is declared...when an agenda exists that could never pass muster in peace time, war becomes the perfect manipulative tool for those in power to manipulate the masses.
The point being that Mengele was, indeed, doing what he believed to be his job, and to single him and other Nazis out as war criminals is to miss the entire point of what was going on, and is also to miss the entire point of what is going on today...and the entire point of war, itself.
If we continue to believe that it was them, that it was then, and that they are dead and it is over; we will never see what is happening under our very noses as an ongoing legacy of their work.
The Eugenics movement began in America and England, it was far bigger than Hitler and Mengele and Himmler and Hess and it was far bigger than Germany. The American Medical Association is no different in its medical experimentation now as it was then, and the AMA became particularly horrendous after the war BASED on the work the Nazis did in the concentration camps, imported via Operation Paperclip.
German medicine had a particular advantage in its scientific study because of the concentration camps that every country benefited from in terms of the slave labor and the medical experimentation that benefited NASA specifically in later years, as we clammored to learn how various conditions would affect astronauts in space. How much cold could they take, how long could they go without food and water, how long would it take them to die if, if, if...?
And how *do* we create a "Master Race" and rid ourselves of those "others" that take up so much air and space and give us so much trouble?
In war time, a certain percentage of people are going to die anyway, the thinking goes, so you might as well make the most of them while you can. Thus, the medical advances during the Civil War, World War I, and even Vietnam, where brainwashing and mind control took a particularly evil turn in terms of the tortures involved.
But if we keep looking at Hitler and Mengele and Himmler and Hess and wipe our brows with relief that "THAT is over!" we won't recognize the dangers we are in today. This book doesn't cover that -- but what it does raise is the question of how Mengele managed to survive so long without being found, right up until he died. Extremely convenient, if you ask me.
The authors have done extensive research and interviews, and pay particular attention to the mythology of Mengele and how reports of sightings were legendary, almost beyond human capability. The authors dismiss most of the sightings out of hand. I don't. The authors also don't seem to even hint that Mengele's work may have continued anywhere else, as important as it was. I question that as well. There is no doubt in my mind that his influence is felt particularly today.
That said, this is an important book that brings the history of Mengele as up to date as any can right now. It is essential reading, I think, for those who are trying to stay on top of the Nazi legacy.
...geminiwalker
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mengele: A Study in Unapologetic and Pitiless Evil
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2000
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I do not claim to be an expert in holocaust studies, but I suspect that the collaboration of Gerald Posner and John Ware on this work dealing with the diabolically evil Josef Mengele is among the very best analysis of the Nazi phenomenon ever put together. The fact that these two gentlemen were essentially outsiders who found themselves thrust into a world and a mind set alien to their everyday life may have provided them with the objectivity and clear thinking needed to truly pursue such an enigma as Mengele.
William Shirer and other foreign journalists had to control an overwhelming urge to laugh at the Nazis while covering their meetings in the late 1920's and early 30's. Nobody took these comical losers seriously. The consensus was that the Adolph Hitler and his bizarre cronies would shortly disappear into political oblivion never to be heard from again. Josef Mengele was barely a teenager during this time and lived in a solidly upper middle class family that probably would have snubbed Hitler, the former WW1 corporal, if their paths had ever crossed. The young Mengele was raised a staunch Catholic, a religious belief system he would later reject for the secular absolutist faith of Nazism. Nonetheless, it is virtually certain that the pervasive anti-Semitism of German Catholicism was Mengele's first introduction to an intense hostility towards Jews he would forevermore embrace. Mengele, an unexceptional student, had a driving ambition to succeed and make a name for himself. It appears that Mengele was indifferent about politics when he opted to study "anthropology and human genetics, so I could study the whole range of medicine." This fateful educational choice, though, would allow Mengele to offer talents to the Nazis who were more than willing to reward the young medical student with the respect and position he so desperately desired. Mengele was a quintessential result of a politically correct educational system that prohibited the academic freedom and search for truth valued as a mandatory norm in viable democratic societies. Nazi dogmas pervaded every department of the universities during Mengele's critical intellectual formative years. Dissent was not tolerated. There simply was no such thing as a give and take exchange of ideas that would have revealed the Nazi views on race and ethnicity as ludicrous ramblings of immature and hateful minds. The new introduction by Michael Berenbaum failed miserably to even deal with the threat of political correctness to the educational and political institutions of modern day America. Does Berenbaum mistakenly perceive that Liberals may occasionally goof up, but the real enemy is always to the Right? Could this also explain the peculiar infatuation of many American Jews with Evita Peron? Posner and Ware aptly prove that Juan and Evita Peron provided shelter to fugitive Nazis and were never friendly towards Jews. Do Evita's socialist economic ideas somehow make her seem more virtuous and humane? Why were there not protests and rage directed towards Andrew Lloyd Webber when his musical was released some twenty years ago? Also, the authors never once address the socialistic economic policies of the Third Reich. Hitler's Germany was never in any way, shape, or form, a paragon of conservative Libertarian economic values. Why do Liberal prefer to downplay, if not outright ignore this fact?
Mengele was sane and easily grasped the reality that people and institutions adhering to the values of Western Civilization would severely take him to task if they ever got their hands on him. Often those who primarily advocate a therapeutic way of looking at the world prefer to believe that someone who commits the horrifying crimes of a Josef Mengele are mentally unbalanced. How does someone torture and murder children and not even require copious amounts of alcohol and drugs to get through the day? The vast majority of us, thankfully, would not inflict such cruel suffering on animals much less our fellow human beings. Yet, other than Mengele's proclivity of losing his temper at any given moment, the man would have probably pass a series of tests dealing with his sanity with flying colors. Many people, especially Mengele's own family, protected him. The only thing one can say in their defense is that they perhaps deluded themselves into believing that someone so dear could not actually commit such horrifying deeds. Mengele, the convinced Nazi, evaded justice on this side of the grave. The only real price he paid during his last years was that of extreme loneliness and severely restricted finances. "Mengele: The Complete Story" reads like a fictional thriller. The book, needless to add, is not escapist entertainment. It may, however, be a moral obligation to read in order to more completely understand how such monstrous incidents occurred in the not so distant past. We might even learn how to limit such crimes against humanity in our own century.
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spiritflare
5.0 out of 5 stars good overview of Mengele's life and hunt
Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2023
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Good overview of Josef Mengele's escape from Europe after the war; his life in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil and the numerous hunts for him; culminating in his death in 1979.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very happy
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Nice interesting book recommend if like reading about the history and mengles life
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Hector Salcido
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro clásico
Reviewed in Mexico on March 17, 2021
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Buen libro histórico
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JM
5.0 out of 5 stars Great historical investigation
Reviewed in Spain on December 8, 2018
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This book is a real and great historical investigation.
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Javier
5.0 out of 5 stars Grande documento storico
Reviewed in Italy on June 18, 2018
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Sono arrivato a questo libro sulla lista di raccomandazioni fatte dall'autore alla fine del Libro "La scomparsa di Josef Mengele". Una bellissima ed interessante ricerca storica sulla vita di Mengele, se pisce l'argomento e' un libro imperdibile
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