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...that, Rolf's declaration was hardly momentous. In legalistic language, the son of the doctor announced, "I have no doubt that the corpse exhumed at the cemetery in Embu is the remains of my father. I am sure that the forensic tests will confirm this shortly . . . I have remained silent until now out of consideration for the people who were in contact with my father for the last 30 years...
...days later, the Mengeles divulged a few more details. Dieter, the nephew of the Auschwitz doctor and one of the partners in the Mengele company, explained that the family had kept silent on the case for so many years in order to protect Josef's friends. The same day, Rolf handed over, free of charge, photographic and written material on Mengele, after his escape from Germany, to the weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte. The magazine's current issue carries the first installment of an article in which Rolf explains that while he had ideological differences with his father, he sympathized with...
...suburb of Eldorado Paulista and permitted the old man to stay there. By then he had grown close to the Bosserts, whom he had met through Gerhard in 1970. In Pedro's final years, said Stammer, she saw him only rarely, including one chance encounter with his son Rolf. "I don't feel I was really guilty," said Stammer. "I feel I was a donkey...
Last week, as forensic experts in Brazil worked to determine whether the bones unearthed at Embu were those of Josef Mengele, the family's dam of silence crumbled. In announcing his father's death in a 100-word statement, Rolf Mengele, 41, briefly expressed "profound sympathy" to concentration- camp victims and their families. A few days later Rolf, with the family's consent, turned over to the West German magazine Bunte a batch of photographs and documents said to depict his father's 36 years on the run. At the same time, Dieter Mengele, one of Josef's nephews, told...
...Even as Rolf and Dieter finally spoke out, attempts last week to question other Mengeles proved unsuccessful. In Gunzburg (pop. 19,000), the town where most of the clan resides, family members were "not available," either at their homes or at the headquarters of Karl Mengele & Sons, the family-run farm-machinery and hydraulic-press concern that is Gunzburg's largest employer. In Munich, 120 miles to the southeast, some Mengele relatives were so wary of newsmen that they took nameplates off their doorbells...