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...autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...head, according to Brazilian police, not of Wolfgang Gerhard but almost certainly of Mengele, the Nazi physician who sent some 400,000 victims to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and used thousands of others as guinea pigs for his gruesome genetics research. After the exhumation, Brazilian police seemed convinced that they had at last tracked down the mad doctor who carried a $3.4 million bounty on his head. "There is a 90% chance it is Mengele," said Sao Paulo Federal Police Superintendent Romeu Tuma. "On the basis of documents and photographs, I'm 100% convinced...
Until then, there is certain to be widespread skepticism over the discovery. The sudden uncovering of the bones struck many as either wishful thinking or ingenious misinformation by Mengele's Nazi sympathizers. Especially suspicious were those who had been on the Mengele trail for 40 years. "It's 99% certain that this is not the 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...
Although the Bosserts had known of Mengele's true identity since 1972, they accepted the man they say was the aging Nazi almost as a member of their family. In 1977 he moved into a dilapidated, two-bedroom house owned by the couple in the Sao Paulo district of Eldorado Paulista. Wolfram Bossert described Mengele as living a lonely life, supported by his family in West Germany...
...launching a high-visibility crusade for tax reform, Reagan hopes to regain his political momentum and divert attention from a series of setbacks that began with his trip to the grave sites of Nazi soldiers at Bitburg. Congress is proving increasingly contrary: the House last week roundly rejected his compromise budget plan, restoring Social Security increases and cutting defense. Says one top aide: "If we didn't have a tax-reform project, we'd need to create one, just to get the President out on the offensive...