Word: bertioga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rolf returned to Brazil in 1979, soon after Mengele drowned off a beach at Bertioga during an outing with the Bosserts. At that point, the younger Mengele reported, he collected from the Bosserts most of his father's effects; the rest, he thought, the couple had destroyed. Last week, however, Stern announced that it had bought from the Bosserts several hundred photographs of Mengele, along with three tapes of conversations, about a dozen notebooks and assorted letters...
...discovered other documents apparently belonging to Mengele. The Bosserts said that they had first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 by an Austrian, Wolfgang Gerhard; that the doctor of Auschwitz eventually took the name and identity papers of Gerhard; and that after Mengele drowned at the beach resort of Bertioga in 1979, they buried him at Embu, 20 miles south of Sao Paulo. After the body was exhumed, Superintendent Tuma declared that his men had almost certainly located the world's most wanted...
...rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning. At the same time, the coroner in the port city of Santos claimed that the dead man he examined in 1979 after the drowning at Bertioga was in his early 50s and could not therefore have been Mengele, who would have been 67 at the time...
...February 1979, according to the statements, the couple invited their friend for a holiday at Bertioga, a coastal resort 70 miles east of Sao Paulo. While swimming in the sea, the depositions assert, Mengele, who by then was 67, drowned after suffering a stroke. The Bosserts said that they decided to bury him at the Embu cemetery in a family plot owned by the real Gerhard, who had buried his mother there in 1961. That same year, Wolfram Bossert told the police, "Rolf Mengele came to talk to me, and I handed over (his father's) diaries, documents and personal...
...stray pieces of evidence seemed to support the Bosserts' story. Brazilian police did indeed record a drowning at Bertioga on the day in question, and a few months later the Paraguayan government, which had granted Mengele citizenship in 1959, inexplicably canceled it. Also, the exhumed body did not have its arms crossed, as is usual in Brazil, but was placed with the arms extended by the side. In the letters found in Gunzburg, Mengele had stipulated that he be buried in such a position. And last month an elderly farmer in eastern Paraguay told a film crew from...
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