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...doubters initially focused their attention on the circumstances under which the latest trail opened up on May 31. Following a tip from an unidentified informant, West German police raided the house in Gunzburg, West Germany, of Hans Sedlmeier, a former employee of the Mengele family firm who was said to have been in touch with Josef in South America. Inside, the agents discovered photographs and 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...
...body of Mengele," said Simon Wiesenthal, the world's foremost Nazi hunter, during a visit to New York City. After learning more about the evidence, however, Wiesenthal professed to be less skeptical. Doubters asked why, if Mengele had really died six years ago, his relatives in Gunzburg, West Germany, had not said so and thus avoided the publicity that has accompanied the recent intense worldwide hunt for the Nazi fugitive. The U.S., German and Israeli governments last month agreed to pool their resources in the hunt for Mengele. This week a five-man Brazilian team will begin comparing the bones...
...latest curious twist in the search for Mengele began two weeks ago, when West German authorities descended upon the idyllic town of Gunzburg, whose biggest employer is the firm of Karl Mengele & Sons, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. There, acting on a tip from an unidentified university professor, for reasons still not clear, they raided a house that is believed to belong to Hans Sedlmeier, a onetime legal clerk for the Mengele firm. Sedlmeier was widely reported to have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home...
...question, and a few months later the Paraguayan government, which had granted Mengele citizenship in 1959, inexplicably canceled it. Also, the exhumed body did not have its arms crossed, as is usual in Brazil, but was placed with the arms extended by the side. In the letters found in Gunzburg, Mengele had stipulated that he be buried in such a position. And last month an elderly farmer in eastern Paraguay told a film crew from the CBS program Sixty Minutes that he had been told that Mengele had died in a swimming accident in Brazil some years earlier...
Certainly, Mengele had long displayed a gift for evasion. By the time Allied forces liberated Auschwitz in 1945, he had disappeared. In 1947 he was reportedly arrested by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna, only to slip through their hands. Two years later, apparently after living quietly in Gunzburg, he made his way to Buenos Aires and thence to Paraguay. In 1960 he narrowly eluded Israeli agents. Since then, a number of sightings of him have been reported...