Mengele was born to Karl and Walburga Mengele on March 16, 1911 (“Josef Mengele”) in Gunzburg, Germany. Karl and Walburga also had two other sons named Karl and Alois. (“Karl”) After Mengele finished his medical degree, he married Irene Schoenbein and had a son named Rolf. After only one year of being a Nazi, Mengele joined the SS and fought in the Russian campaign. Wounded severely, he volunteered to work at the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp. This is where Mengele started his infamous career for his “medical studies” Although he was well kempt and intelligent, Mengele chose to work in the death camps, decide people’s fates and torture thousands of people.