Word: sao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story unfolded and the evidence grew, no final answers were available. For the moment at least, even if the possibility of Mengele's death 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...
...assembled 25,000 pages of documents and interviewed 200 witnesses in South America during a four-year search for the doctor of death, explained that when he first heard of the find at Embu, he thought the story a hoax. After flying from New York City to Sao Paulo, however, Posner said, "We have to await the forensic investigation, but I'm starting to think he may be dead...
...names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps. Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav...
...explanations appeared. "The whole matter looks like a play with a perfect script," said Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down more than 1,100 Nazis in a 38-year campaign. "Mengele lives and breathes," said Menachem Rusek, director of Israel's police unit investigating Nazi crimes, before flying to Sao Paulo last week. "He and his relatives have already managed to play every sophisticated trick in the book to conceal his identity...
...West Germany, of Hans Sedlmeier, a former employee of the Mengele family firm who was said to have been in touch with Josef in South America. Inside, the agents discovered photographs and letters from Brazil that pointed to an elderly Austrian couple, Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, who lived near Sao Paulo. Searching their home, Brazilian police discovered other documents apparently belonging to Mengele. The Bosserts said that they had first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 by an Austrian, Wolfgang Gerhard; that the doctor of Auschwitz eventually took the name and identity papers of Gerhard; and that after Mengele drowned...