Word: embu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went virtually every day last week. As a team of Brazilian forensic experts examined the Embu bones at Sao Paulo's Instituto Medico Legal to determine whether they were Mengele's or not, Tuma -- and others -- provided bits and pieces of fresh evidence in what could be the final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death...
...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 to the Mengele story. Late last week, moreover, U.S. handwriting analysts confirmed that the script on documents found in Brazil corresponded with that on other Mengele papers...
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...
...death," suggested West German Mengele-Hunter Katz, "this is the way he would do it. I can imagine him, a lone wolf sitting in his den and laughing at how the whole world believes it." However fanciful, the point was well taken. Even a positive identification of the Embu bones and a categorical verification of Mengele's presence in Brazil would not resolve all the uncertainties. Nor would the laying to rest of the body bury memories of the deaths Mengele had caused or the evil he embodied...
...Bosserts said that they had first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 by an Austrian, Wolfgang Gerhard; that the doctor of Auschwitz eventually took the name and identity papers of Gerhard; and that after Mengele drowned at the beach resort of Bertioga in 1979, they buried him at Embu, 20 miles south of Sao Paulo. After the body was exhumed, Superintendent Tuma declared that his men had almost certainly located the world's most wanted...