Word: josef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kampuchea in the 1970s. Or the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has led Iran back into the darkness. Or the director of the Soviet KGB, who has to be a leading candidate, ex officio, no matter who he is. But none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were slaughtered, was probably the most concentrated expression of human evil in all of history, and Mengele was the emblem and embodiment of Auschwitz...
...Germans were not born until after 1945, the divided nation is still stained and still haunted by the monstrosities committed by Mengele and his kind. There were no redeeming qualities in the man, no extenuating circumstances. If ever anyone deserved to be hanged -- or worse -- it was Josef 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...
...gaggle of reporters and 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...
...exhumed body might be Mengele's. Wiesenthal, who had initially said there was a 99% chance that the affair was a hoax, had lowered his estimate to 40%. "The testimony of witnesses," said the confident Tuma, "gives certainty to the fact that we are dealing with the body of Josef Mengele...