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Chief Medical Officer

Germany · Warfare / Military. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1943

Josef MengeleAugust 1943

Auschwitz · Warfare / Military

Appointed Chief Doctor at Birkenau by Henrich Himmler

Names involved

Josef Mengele

Provenance

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