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...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...
...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...
...head, according to Brazilian police, not of Wolfgang Gerhard but almost certainly of Mengele, the Nazi physician who sent some 400,000 victims to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and used thousands of others as guinea pigs for his gruesome genetics research. After the exhumation, Brazilian police seemed convinced that they had at last tracked down the mad doctor who carried a $3.4 million bounty on his head. "There is a 90% chance it is Mengele," said Sao Paulo Federal Police Superintendent Romeu Tuma. "On the basis of documents and photographs, I'm 100% convinced...
...performed gruesome medical experiments on Nazi victims at the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II--and then he is said to have returned to his hometown of Gunzburg in Bavaria. He is said to have been arrested and released by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna in 1947--and then to have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today...
...horrific stories kept pouring out, each more grisly than the last. One survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland described how he had had one of his testicles removed on order of Nazi Medical Researcher Josef Mengele. Another recalled that the doctor had taken two toddler twins and sewed them together as Siamese twins. In one Auschwitz lab, said Vera Kriegel, a wall was covered with human eyes, extracted by Mengele and "pinned up like butterflies." Said Kriegel: "I thought I was dead and was already living in hell...