Word: doctor
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...hated man in the world. To be wanted for prosecution by the governments of the U.S., Israel and West Germany. To be a hunted fugitive for 40 years. To have a price on one's head of $3.4 million. That was the harsh destiny of Josef Mengele, the camp doctor at Auschwitz. And then to be found dead, as Mengele was reported found on June 6, dead and buried in a small hillside cemetery in Brazil. To be dug up, bone by moldering bone, and carted away for scientific examination. And argued about. Was this really Mengele...
...pile of bones, six teeth, some clumps of hair and a pair of rotting trousers. Such are the meager contents of the grave at Embu. Somewhere in this grisly heap, forensic scientists last week sought to find a series of identifying fragments of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The task, experts say, is a tough one, even with some of the best forensic minds in the world applying their talents. There is no doubt that certain facts about the skeleton will be established. The question is, will a complete identity emerge? Even in the most difficult cases, says Clyde Snow...
...television crewmen assembled for a regular briefing. Without delay, Tuma came to the point. The evidence, he said firmly, was steadily mounting that the body, which had been exhumed from a graveyard in the little town of Embu a few days earlier, was that of Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who sent some 400,000 concentration-camp prisoners to their deaths during World War II and cruelly experimented on thousands of others in his genetics research. What, cried a reporter, about the news just in from West Germany that Mengele's son Rolf was certain the body was his father...
Gerald Posner, an American lawyer who has assembled 25,000 pages of documents and interviewed 200 witnesses in South America during a four-year search for the doctor of death, explained that when he first heard of the find at Embu, he thought the story a hoax. After flying from New York City to Sao Paulo, however, Posner said, "We have to await the forensic investigation, but I'm starting to think he may be dead...
...Justice Department followed up one report that placed the doctor on a hacienda in Texas, another that had him arriving on a Miami-bound plane. He was said to have taken vacations in Egypt, Italy and Greece, and by one account, to have spent time in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Often he was said to be living in a heavily fortified villa in the Paraguayan hinterland, complete with a Mercedes-Benz 280SL and four armed guards. According to Simon Wiesenthal, the doctor was most recently spotted last summer in a Mennonite village in Paraguay called Valendam. One year earlier, in fact...