Mengele's youth

Josef Mengele was born in Gunzburg, Bavaria on March 16, 1911. Mengele had been the eldest son of Karl Mengele and his mother, Walburga Mengele. From there, Mengele studied philosophy in Munich and eventually got his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1935. Mengele studied under Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was known for his research on twins, which may have influenced Mengele's experiments during World War II.