Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...
...charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem to be tried -- and hanged. During the same campaign the Israelis descended on a house in the Vicente Lopez area of the Argentine capital where they were sure they would catch Mengele. They arrived to find that the doctor had vanished...
...citizenship. The official explanation for the revocation was that he had been absent from the country for more than two years. The real reason, according to other assessments, was that Asuncion was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the unpleasant publicity generated by the Mengele association. (Not coincidentally, perhaps, the doctor had by then been the inspiration for two novels, Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and William Goldman's The Marathon Man, that had been turned into popular movies...
...decades the well-respected family in the picturesque Bavarian town of Gunzburg had kept the secret, much as Sicilian clans honor omerta, the code of silence. Stories about searches for and sightings of the Auschwitz death doctor had come and gone, but the Mengeles of Gunzburg said nothing, never offering so much as a sliver of information about Josef Mengele's possible fate to the West German investigators assigned to the case. "Not once," said - Hans-Eberhard Klein, the federal prosecutor who has handled the West German part of the probe since 1974. "Never...
Until last week no Mengele had publicly expressed an iota of remorse for the doctor's activities or cooperated with the West German inquiry. The family's aloofness and secrecy had convinced some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...