Word: sedlmeier
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...doubters initially focused their attention on the circumstances under which the latest trail opened up on May 31. Following a tip from an unidentified informant, West German police raided the house in Gunzburg, 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...
...Bossert story raised almost as many questions as it answered. "Why would anyone keep such incriminating letters or identity papers?" asked French Nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld, referring to the documents found in the home of the Bosserts as well as in Sedlmeier's. Why had the Mengele family not announced Josef's death six years ago, and so freed itself of all the negative publicity thrown up by the case? What about the many sightings over the years of Mengele in Paraguay, even as recently as last summer? And why had the Bosserts taken up with an infamous mass murderer...
Those who had run across the man in his final years in Sao Paulo described him as lonely; he received visits only occasionally, from a son whom he introduced as a nephew and from a family emissary, apparently Hans Sedlmeier, the Mengele firm clerk. Pedro got no mail, kept no telephone and maintained no bank accounts. He slept with a Mauser pistol by his bedside, according to some reports; often he had difficulty getting to sleep and read or wrote deep into the night...
...German authorities descended upon the idyllic town of Gunzburg, whose biggest employer is the firm of Karl Mengele & Sons, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. There, acting on a tip from an unidentified university professor, for reasons still not clear, they raided a house that is believed to belong to Hans Sedlmeier, a onetime legal clerk for the Mengele firm. Sedlmeier was widely reported to have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home, the investigators found seven or eight letters apparently mailed by Mengele from Brazil between...
...Hans Sedlmeier, a former manager for the family firm, was sent by Mengele's brother to Asuncion, Paraguay. Sedlmeier brought back a statement in which Mengele claimed that he had never "personally killed, injured or physically harmed" anyone or "selected any Jew for the gas chambers...
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