Word: doctor
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...days later, the Mengeles divulged a few more details. Dieter, the nephew of the Auschwitz doctor and one of the partners in the Mengele company, explained that the family had kept silent on the case for so many years in order to protect Josef's friends. The same day, Rolf handed over, free of charge, photographic and written material on Mengele, after his escape from Germany, to the weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte. The magazine's current issue carries the first installment of an article in which Rolf explains that while he had ideological differences with his father, he sympathized with...
...would help an old Austrian friend. Somewhat taken aback at this request, Glawe eventually acquiesced and began paying monthly visits to the aging Pedro, bringing him biscuits and chocolate. Surprisingly, said Glawe, Pedro spoke little about his life in Europe, though he said he had served as a doctor in the German army. Glawe at last began to suspect that Pedro might be the doctor of Auschwitz when he spotted in the old man's house a copy of a Mengele firm brochure...
...Bosserts' part in their alleged protection of the former Nazi remained equally mysterious, particularly given Wolfram Bossert's vigorous denial of any Nazi affiliation. After raiding the Bossert home, Tuma noted that ! everything to do with the doctor was arranged lovingly and with great care. Apparently, said Tuma, "the couple had veneration for Mengele as a great leader...
Arguing against at least one aspect of the Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning...
From the very beginning, the Mengele story has been riddled with irony and anomaly. Born in 1911 into the affluent family that controlled Gunzburg's main industry, Josef mastered his studies with ease and by his mid-20s had earned doctor of philosophy and medical degrees. After World War II broke out, Mengele decided that he could best serve Hitler's Reich as an SS doctor. In 1943 he was assigned to Auschwitz-Birkenau...