What was the name of the German Nazi military officer and doctor who personally selected prisoners who would die in the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
The German Doctor German Doctor" applies a refreshing level of restraint to its intriguing premise, and boasts solid performances from a talented cast." The German Doctor The German Doctor () is a 2013 Argentine historical drama film directed, produced, and written by Lucía Puenzo, based on her own novel "Wakolda" (2011). The film stars Àlex Brendemühl as Nazi SS officer and physician Josef Mengele, infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It also stars Florencia Bado, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, and Guillermo Pfening. Josef Mengele is in exile in Argentina in 1960, living under a new identity. He
The Holocaust in Poland mass murder. The Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest of the German Nazi extermination centers. Located west of Kraków, Auschwitz processed an average of 1.5 Holocaust trains per day. The overwhelming majority of prisoners deported there were murdered within hours of their arrival.<ref name="auschwitz.org/jews"></ref> The camp was fitted with the first permanent gas chambers in March 1942. The extermination of Jews with Zyklon B as the killing agent began in July. At Birkenau, the four killing installations (each consisting of coatrooms, multiple gas chambers and industrial-scale crematoria) were built in the following year. By late 1943, Birkenau was a killing