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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...
...Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on, they discovered signs of an injury in the pelvic area that might correspond to a broken hip Mengele reportedly suffered in a wartime accident (though Rolf Mengele said he knew of no such injury). After preliminary tests on the 208 bones before him, Coordinator Wilmes Roberto Teixeira reported that he had found nothing to suggest that the body was not Mengele...
...doctor's homeland, meanwhile, where Federal Prosecutor Hans Eberhard Klein had nearly despaired of ever getting cooperation from the close-mouthed Mengele family, Rolf Mengele's unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened...
...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...