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...final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would the searchers discover that they had been duped in a giant hoax, lured into an ingeniously woven web of disinformation, implying that Mengele, a man with a $3.4 million reward on his head, might still be at large...
Among all the rumors, inevitably, there were some that insisted that the Angel of Death had all along been dead. In 1948 Telford Taylor, who had served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, announced that "Dr. Mengele is dead as of October 1946." In 1970, according to another story, Mengele was buried in Asuncion under the name Flores. Three years later, Brazilian newspapers reported that the doctor had been killed by Israeli agents in a hideout along the Brazil-Paraguay border. "This is the fourth reported incidence of Mengele's death," was the verdict last...
...were ready to close the lid on the case of the Angel of Death forever. "When you imagine how Mengele himself would organize his own death," suggested West German Mengele-Hunter Katz, "this is the way he would do it. I can imagine him, a lone wolf sitting in his den and laughing at how the whole world believes it." However fanciful, the point was well taken. Even a positive identification of the Embu bones and a categorical verification of Mengele's presence in Brazil would not resolve all the uncertainties. Nor would the laying to rest of the body...
...Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits, this conventional plot line is infused with a flair for fantasy and magic pecliar to the gfreat I am American author of the last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre...