Mengele after auschwitz
On the 27th of January 1945 the SS had abandoned the Auschwitz concentration camp because they were in fear of the soviets. The SS felt the need to cover the horrific experience that happened in the concentration camp. After the Auschwitz had been shut down, this is where Mengele had stopped conducting his experiments and it came to an end. Although Mengele had still had a job as he was transferred to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp but that’s where his experiments on the innocent Jewish people had finally come to an end. At the time Germany had been in war with the soviets, (Russians). The SS feared them; they also were scared of them catching their concentration camp. During late February 1945 the Red army (Soviets) were close to exterminating the Gross-Rosen concentration camp and that’s when Gross-Rosen came to an end. Mengele had worked at a medical unit in Wehrmacht, a German defense force. Mengele was captured and had been taken as a “Prisoner of war” by the Americans for 4 months until he was released; he’d then spent the next four years working has a farmhand in a small village, keeping in touch with his family.