Word: gerhard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even if the Mengele puzzle is solved, other questions will surely arise. Were there more Nazi guardian angels like Gerhard? Might other expatriates in South America be sheltering Nazi fugitives? And was the Nazi network even more extensive than has generally been supposed...
...letters from Brazil that pointed to an elderly Austrian couple, Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, who lived near Sao Paulo. Searching their home, Brazilian police discovered other documents apparently belonging to Mengele. The 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...
...said, she and her engineer husband Geza were living on a coffee and fruit farm in Nova Europa, 175 miles north of Sao Paulo, when they were introduced at a social function to Wolfgang Gerhard. Gerhard, an Austrian living in Brazil, asked the Stammers if they could take in a Swiss friend of his named Peter Hochbichlet. The friend, Gerhard said, would be able to help out around the farm. Agreeing to put up Peter, or "Pedro," in a separate house on their property, the family found him to be as good as Gerhard's word: the man paid...
...that point, the Stammers asked Gerhard to find another home for his friend. He promised to do so, but nothing happened. Weeks turned into months, months into years. Pedro stayed. Why did the Stammers not report their guest to the police? Because, said Gitta, Gerhard told them their lives would be in danger if they talked. Even after Gerhard had left Brazil, and died in Austria in 1978, said Stammer, she feared retribution from his "friends" if ever she went to the authorities. Throughout, Pedro never once threatened her family; he even went so far as to chide Gerhard...
...Brazil since 1948, to support the Bosserts' account. Gitta Stammer, 65, who with her husband Geza owned a small farm in southern Sao Paulo state, claimed that Mengele had lived with the couple for 13 years. According to her statement, in 1961 the Stammers were introduced by Wolfgang Gerhard to a man who called himself Peter Hochbichlet and who said he was Swiss. They gave him a job helping to administer their farm, and the man moved in with them. A year later, the woman said, Hochbichlet confessed that he was really Mengele. Even so, he continued to live with...