I have a biography of Mengele,but in other language which is not english,so i will translate the texts to english, that talk about some aspects in Mengele's private life.
Biography.
I have a biography of Mengele,but in other language which is not english,so i will translate the texts to english, that talk about some aspects in Mengele's private life.
Inside,the texts
JOSEF MENGELE SAID ABOUT IRENNA:
"She was a well educated lady and pretty.She was the love of my life". Irene,said about Josef " I loved him very much.He was my first great love.He always was lovely,funny,sociable,and vain.He said feeling bothered because from his point of view,he was not too tall. In Auschwitz I knew he felt depressed and sad,altough he would never confess it.."
Irene was the unique and real love of Mengele.Irene was 19 years old and she spent her time between the handsome and young Mengele,who was studying in University and her studies concerned in Art History,in Florencia.IRene was the daughter of Mengele's teacher.It was in Leipzig,in 1936,when he met her while he was working in a hospital for 4 months to get his diploma as doctor. Mengele was so in love with her,that he broke up with a girl named Almuth,with whom had been going out.Mengele would confess his son Rolf, "Irene was so faithful,that the simple fact of,his boyfriend having had an earlier girlfriend,would maker her feel angry.But she had stolen my heart ".
In july 1939,Josef married to Irenna,who almost was 22 years old,in Oberstdorf.There was a problem before the wedding.Apparently,it was suspected a familiar who came from Irene's family,owned jewish blood.This was disastrous for Mengele,the nazis would never approve a relationship between an aryan man and a jewish woman.So,Mengele wrote documents to proove she owned aryan blood,and that the familiar was not jewish. In any case,the problem was not too far,and Josef could marry to Irene without problems. 5 weeks later,the war arrived.But due to an infection,he had to wait a couple of years to go there and be doctor in the land where the war was killing millions of german soldiers.Mengele needed to be there to feel himself powerful,and show honor.
In 1943 Irenne decided to visit Mengele,who was working as doctor in the concentrain camp ,Auschwitz.Irenne traveled from Friburgo,in Germany,where she had decided to stay to spend the war.When she arrived,Irene asked her husband "what is that awful smell?" because the smoke that went off from the chimneys of the camp,chimneys who came directly from the crematories,where jewish people were burnt. He,distracted,answered "Don´t ask me that...".According to Rolf,his son "My mother had suspected of my father since that moment.It was there when the marriage of my parents seemed to die slowly.They never had a real and normal marriage because the war.My mother was a happy person,very emotional and alive". In the last months of 1944,Mengele felt sad,depressed and irritated.Irene said " his letters in that period were really melancholycal". Worried,Irenne decided to vist Josef again. In march of that year,Irenne had given to birth to Rolf,the only son that they would have.In one of her visits to Auschwitz,Rolf had been conceived. Rolf was 5 months old and still,being young and fragile,Irenne took her son to live with his grandparents,Mengele's parents. She came back to Auschwitz to see her busy husband. She got a room there.She described the place as " a desolated and sad area,with primitive rooms".
Regardless of that,she confessed her first three weeks with Josef were pure heaven.They had servants wearing stripe clothes who served Irenne and Josef all they needed.Josef and Irenne spent the says swimming in Sola River and catching mulberries to make jam.Irenne could smell the awful air coming from chimneys again,and she could see the trains with tons of people,but she never suspected,she always tought they were workers who went to Auschwitz to work,and it is amazing she never forced Josef to tell her something else.Irenne said "I enjoyed my time in Auschwitz with him,but Josef seemed very depressed to me.When I tried to talk to him about his job,he didn´t want to". According to Irenne,once,Mengele was reading papers,in a table,and he said with a sweet and worried voice " Sometimes i wonder who is the responsible of this..." Irenne tought her husband was worried because the orders he received and because he didn´t feel satisfied with his job.She adds " It was his fate,he was too conscious of his job,too obedant" The fear of Mengele,according Dr Hans Munch,was because the war was over and germans were destinated to lose,so Mengele was scared with the idea of,what would happen to him.Which,would not be something good.
While,in the autumm of 1944,Irene had to leave the camp.The time she had spent with Josef (one month) was the accorded,so now she had to go back to Germany.But it happenned,Irenne took ill before she left Auschwitz.She contracted difteria,and a muscle of her heart got inflamed.She was in bed more than one moth,in the hospital of camp,and most time raving because the fever.Mengele visited her three times per day,and he read her fragments of "Le Diamant",by Balzac. While,the bombs warned germans that they were going to lose.Irenne was worried and she consumated the last days in Auschwitz with Josef,when she recovered.She said " During the time i spent with Josef in Auschwitz,i felt like a bride just married". 30 Octuber,Irenne and Josef left Auschwitz,Mengele had been given a permission to enjoy a week in company of his family.He saw his baby Rolf,who was 8 months old by then and he stayed with his parents and wife.Josef came back to Auschwitz 6 november of that year. The night of 17 january 1945 Mengele left Aischwitz to run away.Germany had lost the war and he was in danger.From this moment,his life would change to worse.
Irene spent a year without news of his husband,who now,lived with a family,Millers,hidden.She tought Josef had died or that had been captured by the alliates.Obviously,she soon could read and hear in radio,that Josef Mengele was being wanted for his crimes against humanity.Policemen arrived to Irenne's house to ask her about Josef,she told them " I think my husband is dead".But after a year,Josef,trhough Millers could contact with Irenne.But then,Mengele went to liveto a farm,with other family,The Fishcher.In the summer of 1945, Irenne and the family accorded how to visit Mengele,the thing was dangerous,because police could be keeping an eye on Irenne's steps,but she decided to travel to Rosenheim to see Josef.Once again,Rolf stayed with Josef's parents in Gunzburg. She and Josef met each other in a lake,without crowds nor people around,and they spent the day in a hotel. After,Mengele visited Autenreid to see Rolf and Irenne,this was dangerous,and Josef's friends who helped him to hide,had arguments with him. But while,Irenne would take risks,visiting her husband and sharing walks around lakes and trees.But the visits turned to be more disastrous than sweet.Mengele showed irritated and jealous,when he knew Irenne had male friends,to stand the loneliness she felt with the absence her husband had left to her. Rolf said " She was not involved with those men in flirting aspect,but she had friends.It was necessary,since we had not a man in house,and we needed protection and support". But when Mengele knew this,his rage exploded. "My father got really jeaolous.During his meetings with my mother in the wood,he discussed with her until the point he made her feel bad and upset.He wanted her to break up with her friends and stayed at home.He never noticed how dangerous was,that She went to visit him."
Irenne was coming to the conclusion,that her husband had changed to worse." When i met Josef Mengele,he was a man of honor,decent,lovely,smart,and funny,of other way,i wouldn´t have married to him.I was coming from a rich and good family,and i had many chances to get marry.I think his ambition was his perdition". Regardless the marriage was changing,Irenne visited Josef each 2 months.Josef came back to Gunzburg in august 1948 to hide in the woods.Josed told Irenne " I want you to go to Buenos Aires when i set up there.You and Rolf". But amazingly,Irenne rejected him.Rolf said " My mother didn´t want to hide with him.She loved Germany and Europe,she appreciated the culture and she kept a good relationship with her parents.Besides,in 1948,she met Alfons Hackenjos,who later would become in her second husband.However,it was hard for her,it was a difficult decision,because she loved my father,Josef.She had to get energy to forget the image and feelings that she had towards my dad" While ,Josef had gone to Argentina as he had revealed to Irenne. While he was hidden there,Irenne was ready to get marry to Alfons who owned a shop of shoes in Frizburgo.She had met Alfons in 1948 while Mengele was living in the farm of the family Fischer. Karl Mengele was Josef's father,wrote a letter to Josef to tell him the plans of Irenne.She wanted the divorce. Josef agreed and he signed up the papers..Josef Mengele didn´t feel specially hurt,since his wife had decided not to get involved with him during his escape.A tribunal approved the divorce and in 1954 Irenne and Josef were free again.Irenne said goodbye to Mengele family saying she didn´t want anything that was coming from them.Se married to Alfons. Years later,in 1958,Josef would marry Martha,his brother's widow,karl,who had died years before..But Mengele didn´t feel again with MArtha what he had felt for Irenne.Years later,Martha also would divorce in 1960 due to the wild,dangerous lifestyle of josef,due to he was a fugitive,and his life didn´t allow him to keep a woman tied to him for a long time due to his constant changings of house and place,and less when there was a kid in the middle.THat was not a good life for a respected woman and a kid. Josef would end up his days alone.
That is like the story between two smart,polite and fans of art and music said goodbye each other forever.