Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 the body was his father's? That, said Tuma evenly, would support his own theory but not affect his investigation...
...assumed greater plausibility, the great mystery remained unsolved. In Sao Paulo, new witnesses came forward, telling the police or the press that they had known the man alleged to be Mengele, fleshing out earlier claims that he had lived reclusively in Brazil between 1961 and 1979. In West Germany, Rolf Mengele broke the family's long silence not only to announce that he had "no doubt" that the Embu bones were the remains of his father but to turn over to a West German magazine photographs, letters and documents purportedly relevant to the Mengele story. Late last week, moreover...
...Brooklin Novo. After three days of surveillance, the police raided the house and took in for questioning Bossert, 59, an unemployed paper-company technician, and his wife, 57. Inside the modest wood-and-concrete house, they reportedly found several photographs, apparently of Mengele. One picture was of his son Rolf. Also found was a book entitled Evolution of the Organism that included 15 pages of notes in what is believed to be Mengele's handwriting. At the police station, the Bosserts gave two depositions in which they told the story of how they had befriended the death-camp doctor...
...Mengele, who by then was 67, drowned after suffering a stroke. The Bosserts said that they decided to bury him at the Embu cemetery in a family plot owned by the real Gerhard, who had buried his mother there in 1961. That same year, Wolfram Bossert told the police, "Rolf Mengele came to talk to me, and I handed over (his father's) diaries, documents and personal belongings...
...craft was an impediment to emotion and subtlety the last refuge of an artistic quisling. His hurtling, bullying camera captures characters in heat or dancing on the barricades taunting their Soviet godfathers. But it takes a strong subject not to be overwhelmed by Wajda's scenery-chewing style. Rolf Hochhuth's novel Eine Liebe in Deutschland offered that subject: the purging delirium of love set against the corruptive madness of Nazism...