Mengele: Making a Monster
CJ Foote

When Mengele met Theodor Mollison in 1933, he was a medical student. He left his classroom as a eugenics-obsessed “race scientist”. A decade later, he was an SS officer carrying out unethical experiments on twins under the supervision of the geneticist Otmar von Verschuer.

Mollison and Verschuer were Mengele’s mentors and accomplices –– but today, they are nearly forgotten. This book changes that, following their journey from colonial Africa to the trenches of the Somme, through far-right occult societies, to the corridors of power in the Third Reich.

Making a Monster reveals how Verschuer became a top Nazi scientist while struggling with his faith as a member of an anti-Nazi church, and exposes a shocking secret about Mollison that casts his persecution of “non-Aryans” in a new light. It presents an original theory about the purpose of Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz –– and explains why he was so obsessed with twins.