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...house in Gunzburg, West Germany, of Hans Sedlmeier, a former employee of the Mengele family firm who was said to have been in touch with Josef in South America. Inside, the agents discovered photographs and letters from Brazil that pointed to an elderly Austrian couple, Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, who lived near Sao Paulo. Searching their home, Brazilian police 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...
...messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home, the investigators found seven or eight letters apparently mailed by Mengele from Brazil between 1972 and 1978. They also discovered two more recent letters from Wolfram and Lieselotte Bossert, an Austrian couple who had moved to Brazil in 1952. These letters implied that Mengele was dead...
Alerted by the West German consulate, Sao Paulo Police Chief Tuma posted his men around the Bossert home in the middle-class suburb of Brooklin Novo. After three days of surveillance, the police raided the house and took in for questioning Bossert, 59, an unemployed paper-company technician, and his wife, 57. Inside the modest wood-and-concrete house, they reportedly found several photographs, apparently of Mengele. One picture was of his son Rolf. Also found was a book entitled Evolution of the Organism that included 15 pages of notes in what is believed to be Mengele's handwriting...
Although the Bosserts had known of Mengele's true identity since 1972, they accepted the man they say was the aging Nazi almost as a member of their family. In 1977 he moved into a dilapidated, two-bedroom house owned by the couple in the Sao Paulo district of Eldorado Paulista. Wolfram Bossert described Mengele as living a lonely life, supported by his family in West Germany...
...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...