Word: negra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When, later that year, the Stammers moved to a farm in Serra Negra, 100 miles north of Sao Paulo, their lodger went along, taking a room in their new home. One day, about two years after Pedro joined the household, a visitor left a newspaper in the house that featured a picture of Dr. Josef Mengele as he looked at Auschwitz. Despite the 20-year interval, said Stammer, she recognized in the picture the gap between Pedro's top front teeth, and the bent head with which he gave his one-sided smile. Later that day, she said, she showed...
...image of the mystery man gained further dimension as neighbors of the 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...