Mengele Monsters are supposed to be fictitious. They are supposed to be something that only appear in nightmares and fairy tails. Unfortunately, sometimes these monsters take on a very real human face. This was the case with Dr. Josef Mengle, also known as the "Angel of Death." In the essay "What Made This Man? Mengele," by Robert Jay Lifton and in an excerpt from Bruno Bettelheim's essay "The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank," we get …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…his account, on Mengele's psyche. Mengele was not a product of his surroundings in order to cope. I agree with Lifton's analysis, that Mengele had these monstrous traits all along and his position let them out. He was not coping with his surroundings, he was invigorated and thrived by them. In a different time, Mengele might have exhibited his sadistic nature in a less monstrous way, but he would have exhibited it non the less.