Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police Superintendent Rolf Fredriksson said police had taken three men into custody for questioning by Sunday morning, but had released all three as having nothing to do with the shooting...
During his 14-day stay, said Rolf, he found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the doctor seemed to regret nothing. "There are no judges," Rolf recalled his father saying of his pursuers, "only avengers...
Throughout the years of exile, Rolf said, the Mengele family sent the doc- tor between $100 and $175 a month. The old man's diaries suggested that he might have supplemented those funds by arranging modest real estate deals. Yet his father's poverty, Rolf told Bunte, ironically may have provided his protection; after all, Mengele hunters "looked for him in a white villa on the sea, in the back of a Mercedes, behind bodyguards and guarded by German shepherds." They did not guess, ventured Rolf, that the runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking...
...Rolf returned to Brazil in 1979, soon after Mengele drowned off a beach at Bertioga during an outing with the Bosserts. At that point, the younger Mengele reported, he collected from the Bosserts most of his father's effects; the rest, he thought, the couple had destroyed. Last week, however, Stern announced that it had bought from the Bosserts several hundred photographs of Mengele, along with three tapes of conversations, about a dozen notebooks and assorted letters...
Bunte was equally circumspect. In an introduction to Rolf's story, it recommended skepticism by readers "because this is an account of a man who for more than three decades knew how to escape or deceive his pursuers." The magazine promised four more installments describing how Mengele, immediately after the war, had worked for four years as a groom for a farmer near Munich; how he had been mistakenly arrested by Italian authorities in 1949 in Genoa, then released three weeks later with friendly apologies; and how he was assisted in South America by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe...