Word: wolfram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 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...
...Bosserts' part in their alleged protection of the former Nazi remained equally mysterious, particularly given Wolfram Bossert's vigorous denial of any Nazi affiliation. After raiding the Bossert home, Tuma noted that ! everything to do with the doctor was arranged lovingly and with great care. Apparently, said Tuma, "the couple had veneration for Mengele as a great leader...
...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 1972 and 1978. They also discovered two more recent letters from Wolfram and Lieselotte Bossert, an Austrian couple who had moved to Brazil in 1952. These letters implied that Mengele was dead...
...Bosserts had known of Mengele's true identity since 1972, they accepted the man they say was the aging Nazi almost as a member of their family. In 1977 he moved into a dilapidated, two-bedroom house owned by the couple in the Sao Paulo district of Eldorado Paulista. Wolfram Bossert described Mengele as living a lonely life, supported by his family in West Germany...
...depositions assert, 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...