Josef Mengele was the eldest of three sons he was born in Bavarian village of Gunsburg. He was a good student and his mother forced him to be catholic no one thought he would become an (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was Know for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing often deadly human experiments on prisoners. After the war, he went to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.