Word: paraguayans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed thousands more in mad genetic experiments. Wiesenthal has long suspected-as have others-that Mengele was hiding in Paraguay. Despite firm denials from the Asunción government, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele is now living in the village of San Antonio, in a remote area southeast of the Paraguayan capital. But the evil physician of Auschwitz, frustratingly, remains beyond his reach...
...Although Paraguayan authorities deny it, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele entered Paraguay in May 1959. Thanks to German settlers there, Mengele was promptly granted citizenship and given naturalization card...
...ugliest speculation about Mengele is that once again he may be involved in the destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...
Last month, for example, 40 heavily armed men, clad in a variety of makeshift uniforms, staged a commando-style raid on two hotels run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires. They herded 26 captives -24 Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within...
...diary, was not arrested after the war. He lived openly in Bavaria until 1951, when pressure to bring him to justice forced his retreat to the havens of Argentina and Paraguay. Only when Israeli agents came hunting did he flee to the cover of a German settlement in the Paraguayan jungle. Presumably he is still there, drinking Chilean Riesling and reminiscing about the Third Reich...