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Factfile of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele - The Angel of Death     telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-01-23
Known as Angel of Death, Josef Mengele was also called "der weisse Engel" (The White Angel). He joined Nazi party in 1937 and went to the SS (Schutzstaffel) in 1938. Mengele served and wounded at the eastern front in 1942. After declared unfit for duty, he volunteered to go to the concentration camps, where he was interested in identical twins. After the war he was taken as a POW by the Americans, but released under the name Fritz Hollmann. He fled to Argentina, becoming friends with other exiled Nazis like Hans-Ulrich Rudel and Adolf Eichmann. He died in Bertioga, Brazil on Feb. 7 1979. He was buried under the alias Wolfgang Gerhard.    

Argentine historian claims that Josef Mengele created twin town in Brazil     telegraph.co.uk :: 2009-01-22
Josef Mengele is responsible for the high number of twins in a small Brazilian town, a historian claims. Mengele's task was to discover by what method of genetic oddity twins were produced, to step-up the Aryan birthrate. Scientists have failed to discover why as many as 20% of pregnancies in a small town have resulted in twins, most blond haired and blue eyed. Residents of Candido Godoi claim that Josef Mengele made visits there in the 1960s, offering medical treatment to the women. In "Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America" Jorge Camarasa, an expert in the Nazi flight to South America, has pieced together the Nazi doctor's later years.    

Evil and medicine: Why we must remember Nazi physician Dr Josef Mengele     theage.com.au :: 2008-10-23
Auschwitz survivor Sabine Korbman had a secret that she kept from even her only son. In 1944 she was picked for for her Aryan-looks and language skills to account Nazi experiments in Josef Mengele's lab, Barrack 10. One day a newborn baby was taken and left to starve to death; the next day limbs were removed from live patients - all in the name of science. Now Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre, which Sabine's son Bernard heads, is hosting an exhibition on Nazi medicine. Once Sabine, who would get hysterical watching films with medical procedures, revealed to Bernard: "they did things to me that I don't want to talk about, but sex has been ruined for me".    

Spy Rafi Eitan admits Mossad allowed "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele to escape     telegraph.co.uk :: 2008-09-02
A former Israeli spy explains how a Mossad operation to seize Josef Mengele in Argentina in 1960 had to be canceled so they could focus on Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust. But by the time agents went back to look for him, Mengele had escaped from Argentina. He died, without ever coming to trial, in Brazil in 1979. Rafi Eitan, who ran the Eichmann operation for Mossad, has shed new light on the affair. Eitan said the publicity of the Eichmann arrest alerted Mengele allowing him to escape - but other sources suggest Mengele left Argentina weeks before the Eichmann arrest. That does not quite match with Eitan's account.    

Leslie Lukash, medical examiner in Josef Mengele ID, dies at 86     telegraph.co.uk :: 2007-08-22
Leslie Lukash, a medical examiner who helped id the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and studied the deaths of people who disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War, has died at age 86. In 1985 he was contacted by Simon Wiesenthal, who asked him to travel to Brazil and help id the remains of Josef Mengele, called the Angel of Death for his gruesome medical experiments in Auschwitz.    

Which Nazis fled to South America - and why?     ohmynews :: 2006-06-11
ODESSA (Organization of Former SS Members) choose South America because many Germans began to immigrate there since the mid-19th century and Germany had long ties with the power structures in these countries - Prussian military officers trained the Chilean army in the early 1900s. During WWII, Argentina declared its neutrality but continued to trade with the fascist regimes. Allegedly, President General Juan Peron sold 10,000 blank passports to ODESSA. Body of Joseph Mengele is said to have been identified on June 6, 1985, but some have doubted this, since posing dead was a ploy often used by fleeing Nazis, as in the case of high ranking SS officer Walter Rauff.     [How & where nazis escaped after the war]

Auschwitz photographer Wilhelm Brasse worked with Dr. Josef Mengele     digitalimagingmag.com :: 2006-03-05
Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. Because he had worked in a photo studio, he was put to work in the photography and id department. One day in 1943 his boss, an SS officer Bernhard Walter, called him into his office. An immaculately uniformed SS officer was waiting. The stranger politely addressed Brasse as "sir." It was Dr. Josef Mengele, who said that he was going to send some Jewish girls for pictures, and that I had to take pictures of them naked. For years afterward Brasse saw them in his dreams: emaciated Jewish girls, herded naked in front of his camera. Eventually, his dreams stopped. But he never took pictures again.     [Auschwitz Birkenau]

Forgiving Dr. Mengele - Eva Kor's path to forgiving her persecutors     calendarlive :: 2005-11-14
The documentary chronicles Eva Kor's path to forgiving Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist who performed experiments on Kor and her twin sister, Miriam, while they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The film itself explored the concept of forgiveness, specifically in the context of a survivor forgiving her former persecutors.     [WW2 Movies & Films]

Nazi Mengele died sad, poor and in pain     theage :: 2004-11-24
Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, spent his last years in his Brazilian hideaway lonely, depressed and short of money, according to 86 letters, notes and diaries discovered filed away in a Sao Paulo police archive. Fear of being discovered made him chew the ends of his moustache, resulting in a ball of hair blocking his intestines. Material were found when police files were being reorganised and excerpts were published by the Folha de S. Paulo. They had been seized at the home of an Austrian couple, Liselotte and Wolfram Bossert, who befriended Mengele. Most of the letters were addressed to Wolfgang Gerhard, an Austrian Nazi Mengele.     [Dr Josef Mengele - Nazi Doctor & Experiments]

Mengele letters reveal life ended in pain and poverty     guardian :: 2004-11-23
Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, spent his last years in his Brazilian hideaway lonesome, demoralised and short of money, according to 86 letters, notes and diaries found filed away in a Sao Paulo police archive. The typewritten letters and handwritten notes were found when files were being reorganised. They had been seized at the home of an Austrian couple, Liselotte and Wolfram Bossert, who befriended Mengele, and at the small house in the seaside resort of Bertioga (outskirts of Sao Paulo), where he died in 1979. Most of the letters were addressed to Wolfgang Gerhard, an Austrian Nazi Mengele befriended in Brazil.    

Mengele's diaries reveal Angel of Death unrepentant to the end     scotsman :: 2004-11-22
He was known as the Angel of Death, the Nazi doctor who conducted lethal experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz during the Second World War. Josef Mengele fled as the Third Reich collapsed, moving to South America where he evaded Nazi-hunters until his death in 1979. Now a collection of his unseen letters and diaries has emerged after they were discovered in a police store-room. The writings depict a man who remained unrepentant and continued to support Adolf Hitler's plans to create a master race. The material, found on the tenth floor of the federal building in São Paulo, were seized in 1985 from the home of a German couple who hid Mengele.    

Angel of Death Josef Mengele cheated justice for 34 years     posner :: 2000-07-13
As a doctor with Hitler's dreaded SS seeking to unlock a genetic basis for a superior race, he conducted experiments, primarily on twin inmates. He also became known as the Great Selector for his role of deciding which of the prisoners were to be killed as they were brought in by the carloads. For more than 34 years after World War II, he eluded his pursuers, and although he died in 1979, the world did not learn of his death until 1985, when the discovery of documents in Bavaria led to his grave in Brazil. Book "Mengele: The Complete Story", based on his diaries and the recollections of his friends, details how he escaped from the Allies.    

See also:
'How nazis escaped after the war'
'Nazi Hunters - Wanted Nazis'
'Nazi Uniforms'
'Aribert Heim'
'Nazi Memorabilia'.

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