Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if the possibility of Mengele's death assumed greater plausibility, the great mystery remained unsolved. In Sao Paulo, new witnesses came forward, telling the police or the press that they had known the man alleged to be Mengele, fleshing out earlier claims that he had lived reclusively in Brazil between 1961 and 1979. In West Germany, Rolf Mengele broke the family's long silence not only to announce that he had "no doubt" that the Embu bones were the remains of his father but to turn over to a West German magazine photographs, letters and documents purportedly relevant...
...personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...
...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 week of John Loftus, 35, a Nazi hunter who used to work for the Justice Department's office of special investigations. "That's a lot of funerals...
Whatever the details of Mengele's life on the run, much of the time he has clearly been hiding in the clannish fold of South America's German immigrant communities. Brazil is home to more than 3.6 million ethnic Germans; in many areas, the German language is still more prevalent than Portuguese, and towns bear names such as Blumenau, Frederico Westphalen and Novo Hamburgo. Near the Chilean city of Parral, 300 Germans have set up a closed community called Colonia Dignidad. Protected by a high fence, the colony observes its own laws and has been reported to shelter at least...
...living under their own names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps. Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later...