The biography of the Nazi
The American series, from which the Germans learned the word "Holocaust" the false name of the deceased, who suffered a stroke, was identified as a summer citizen of Austria Wolfgang Gerhard. But six years later, the world will find that this is not a real name. In fact, it was Joseph Mengele, a German doctor who conducted cruel medical experiments on prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War, a man accused of killing thousands of Jews.
The author of the photo, Family album signature for the photo, Espedito Diaz found the body of Mengel in the year how did the "Angel of Death" ended up in Brazil? Like many other Nazi war criminals, Mengel first searched for refuge in Argentina, a country in which many people lived with German roots. In addition to Mengel, another Nazi, who fled to Argentina, was Adolf Eichmann, an employee of the Gestapo, who was responsible for the "final solution to the Jewish question." In the year, Eichmann was tracked, abducted and taken to Israel by the employees of Mossad, in the year he was executed in Israel by the court sentence.
That's why he went to Brazil, ”says Guterman. Auschwitz when defeat in the Second World War became inevitable, the Nazis faced a choice: trying to hide, go to bars or commit suicide. He was detained by the American military, but a war criminal was not recognized in him. He was released in July, for another four years Mengel worked on a potato farm in southern Germany, then he finally managed to leave for Argentina.
The Israeli authorities tracked him in the year, and the German authorities issued an arrest warrant. However, by the time the Argentine government made this decision, Mengel has already disappeared. Mengele was born in Bavarian Gunzburg in the year in the family of a wealthy industrialist. But instead of continuing the family business, he became a doctor.
In the year, he came to Auschwitz, becoming the head physician of Birkenau, one of the inner camps of Auschwitz. He played the role of God and decided the fate of the people who were brought to the camp, says American journalist Gerald Zeler, author of Mengel. Complete History. In the third group there were twins, dwarfs and people with disabilities - they became objects of Mengele's monstrous experiments.
His research, which had nothing to do with science, included "tests during the person’s stay at a very high temperature." With the support of Wolfgang Gerhard, who sympathized with Nazism and lived in Brazil since the year, he was represented by the Hungarian family, who hired him to take care of his coffee plantation, not knowing who he was actually. From the tower, he could watch those who are approaching the house fearing the capture, Mengele rarely left the house and spent time reading Goethe and listening to Strauss.
He walked through the streets only in special clothing, masking appearance, and accompanied by inspired dogs. In the end, his employers learned that they were hiding a war criminal, but Mengele paid them for silence. The reward of $ 3.4 million, the last refuge of Mengel was the city of San Paulo, the largest and most populated in Brazil. He lived with Liselott and tungsten bossers, with whom he was on the day of his death.
Every night Mengele put a Mauser under a pillow. For the capture of Mengel, alive or dead, a reward of $ 3.4 million was announced. The author of the photo, Getty images signature for the photo, all 17 years in Brazil Mengel lived under the fictional names in the year of "The Angel of Death" was found by his son Rolf Jenkel, who spent two weeks visiting his father. In a television interview shot in the year, Jenkel said that, in his opinion, Mengel did not repent: "He did not admit that he had done something bad.
He told me that he had only complied with orders." The death and disclosure of secrecy at the end of X after the return of Gerhard to Austria Mengel took his name and documents. Under this name, he was buried in the year next to San Paulo. His remains, perhaps, would be there even now if in the year the German police did not intercept the letter of the Boster four, addressed to Hans Sedmayer, former employer Mengele.
The German authorities informed about the letter of the Brazilian Federal Police, which followed this search in the Boster house helped to reveal the truth. The author of the photo, Police Handout Signature for the photo, police report on Mengel's death under the name of Wolfgan Gerhard the remains of Mengel were exhumed, and in July the Brazilian authorities confirmed his personality.
The DNA test held in England seven years later confirmed these conclusions. The son of Mengele never asked for the issuance of his father’s remains, and for three decades they were stored at the Institute of Forensic Medicine San Paulo. In the year, on the initiative of expert Daniel Romero Mugnos, who conducted the examination of the remains, they began to be used as educational material at the University Faculty of Medicine.
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