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...working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused, in turn, bids by West Germany, Poland, Austria and Israel to extradite him. Wagner, the "Human Beast," was a free man when he committed suicide...
...Stammers from their days at Serra Negra began to speak up. Some remembered how he would climb to the top of an eight-foot observation tower on the farm and scan the horizon through binoculars. Basilio Silotto, a farm worker, reported that Pedro had told him once that Hitler was a great man. When a defective person was born, the old European confided to Silotto in tones reminiscent of the Auschwitz researcher, he would soon vanish...
...Wolfgang Gerhard, who seemed to have been Pedro's ubiquitous fixer, was, said Austrian Consul-General Otto Heller in Sao Paulo, a fanatic Nazi who brought out a fascist propaganda sheet called Der Reichsbrief (The Reich Letter). By the age of twelve, Gerhard had become a member of the Hitler Youth and later boasted of being a committed Nazi. Nonetheless, in the Austrian town of Graz last week, Gerhard's 26-year- old son Adolf firmly rejected the stories told of his father by the Bosserts and Gitta Stammer. "It's easy to put the blame on my dead father...
...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...
MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in the meantime been stepping up its pursuit of Nazis scattered across South America. In 1960, in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Israeli commandos seized Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem to be tried -- and hanged. During the same campaign the Israelis descended on a house in the Vicente Lopez area of the Argentine capital where they were sure they would catch Mengele. They arrived to find that the doctor had vanished...