Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beverly Hills doctor, who is free pending appeal, would be permitted some amenities in his house arrest: a television, reading material and a private security guard. He would be able to leave his shabby room only to use one of the hallway bathrooms, which are shared by as many as a dozen tenants. Deputy City Attorney Stephanie Sautner, who prosecuted the case, told the Los Angeles Times, "If landlords fear that they would have to live in the same squalor they impose on some of their tenants, they just might think twice before allowing their apartments to deteriorate to such...
...people, mostly Jews, to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Earlier, experts had found that the handwriting on documents discovered in Brazil corresponded to Mengele's, and that photographs found in the Bossert home matched old pictures of the doctor. Most telling of all, an advanced method of matching the reconstructed skull against old photographs convinced the investigators that they had found their man. "I came here not knowing whether it was Mengele," said U.S. expert John Fitzpatrick. "I go home fully convinced that...
...papers in West Germany appeared to be authentic too. Yet questions continued to be asked about the motives of the Bosserts, who claimed to have sheltered the fugitive, and those of the Mengele family in West Germany, which apparently sent both funds and emissaries to the Nazi doctor, all the while concealing a trove of revealing photographs and documents. Because the fugitive apparently had left no recent dental records, forensic investigators admitted they could never declare with 100% certainty that the remains they had examined were those of Mengele...
...final years. Accompanied by photographs showing a distinguished-looki ng old man at once elegant and elegiac, the Bunte story presented the image of a melancholy but unrepentant old man living out his last days in near poverty. That impression was confirmed by his writings, in which the doctor grumpily denounced Communism and even went so far as to claim that the Nazi era would be regarded by history as one of the most splendid epochs since the time of Alexander the Great...
...found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the doctor seemed to regret nothing. "There are no judges," Rolf recalled his father saying of his pursuers, "only avengers...