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...world. To be wanted for prosecution by the governments of the U.S., Israel and West Germany. To be a hunted fugitive for 40 years. To have a price on one's head of $3.4 million. That was the harsh destiny of Josef Mengele, the camp doctor at Auschwitz. And then to be found dead, as Mengele was reported found on June 6, dead and buried in a small hillside cemetery in Brazil. To be dug up, bone by moldering bone, and carted away for scientific examination. And argued about. Was this really Mengele? Or was the whole discovery an elaborate...
...Ruhollah Khomeini, who has led Iran back into the darkness. Or the director of the Soviet KGB, who has to be a leading candidate, ex officio, no matter who he is. But none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were slaughtered, was probably the most concentrated expression of human evil in all of history, and Mengele was the emblem and embodiment of Auschwitz...
...emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music, just...
...necessarily related to each other -- or to the elusive doctor. The body might be Mengele's, but that would not prove that he had died six years ago or in Brazil. The letters might be his, but that did not prove that Pedro was Mengele, or that the Auschwitz doctor had ever lived among the Bosserts and the Stammers...
...bring an end to an era -- even though the troubling ghosts of World War II still arouse violent feelings, as evidenced most recently by the controversy over President Reagan's visit to the German war cemetery at Bitburg. For many Germans, Mengele, a top physician at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, embodies a dark past they are hoping at last to exorcise and bury. By the same token, the Mengele hunters and the survivors of the Holocaust, in which some 10 million people were killed, have mixed feelings about the possibility that Mengele has been finally laid...