I thought he would not find me.". He was an elegant figure on the ramp - handsome, well-groomed, extremely upright in posture. In the end we decided that we would focus on one more target, Mengele, but Begin, who was a very emotional man, was disappointed, Hofi said. Soon after, a Mossad surveillance team saw a man matching Mengeles description enter a pharmacy owned by a person who was known to be in touch with him. Norbert Sakowski, the deputy chief editor, said Bunte has asked experts of the highest reputation to examine the material Rolf Mengele has provided. Until Rolf broke silence about his father's death, no member of the family had ever said anything in public about the notorious relative. . Successive prime ministers of Israel, acting on the recommendations of successive Mossad directors, had the wise judgment to have the agency focus its efforts on more urgent matters and allot limited if any resources to the manhunt. The modern Mengele family does not want to have anything to do with the past not even with projects that commemorate his uncle's victims. A management consultant was hired to save the firm from insolvency, and several banks waived their demands on the firm, Jaumann said. DW sends out a selection of the day's news and features. For the next 10 years, backed by Eshkol and his successors as prime minister, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, almost nothing was done about Mengele. Lithuania brings back military conscription. But he exchanged letters with his ''uncle'' in Argentina, an uncle who wrote about the Argentine gauchos and once sent a photograph that showed him in an expensive auto. There were also 20 letters from Gerhard to Mengele, written after he returned to Austria in 1971. In retracing his relationship with his father, Rolf notes that he was 9 months old when his father left Auschwitz in January, 1945, before the advancing Russian army. She wanted a family, she wanted to lead a more traditional life. In 1962, the agency recruited Wilhelm Sassen, a former Nazi and an acquaintance of Mengeles, who provided information indicating that Mengele had found refuge among a group of Nazis and their sympathizers near So Paulo. Then he injected the evipan into her right arm intravenously. He earned a degree in anthropology as well as medicine. Mengele had the same frenzied attitude in carrying out his research. Mengele and his colleagues . The German ambassador in Buenos Aires is quoted in the Mossad file on Mengele as saying he received orders to treat Mengele as an ordinary citizen since there was no arrest warrant for him. He was describing Mengele's Auschwitz self, the new self that can take shape in virtually anyone in adapting to an extreme environment. The twin children frequently called him ''Uncle Pepi.'' Over the last eight years, while conducting research for a book on Nazi doctors, I have sought answers to these questions. '', The mayor added that the publicity has created a ''monstrous shadow'', over the town. Sakowski appears confident that the material is genuine. She is surely correct in her claim that an ordinary person is capable of extreme evil. He went into hiding, first in Paraguay and then in Brazil. After the war, business was even better. Mengele formally relinquished his inheritance in the family business, which today has annual sales of $80 million. Karl Mengele was elected city councilor and mayor, and, in 1952, with his son on the run to escape charges of committing atrocities on behalf of the Nazis, Karl Mengele was made a gold-medal citizen of the city. Being a twin gave one a much better chance to survive. The marriage was dissolved in 1954. ", From the "Guilt without atonement" series, a project of DW's Polish department, the Interia portal and the Wirtualna Polska media group. One of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, because of the experiments he conducted on children and other inmates, Mengele apparently lived his last years suffering intense abdominal pains. '', Yet most of the twins were safe, under the protection of Mengele, and much of the time he treated them lovingly. He haunted my nightmares. The Los Angeles Times Syndicate has purchased the North American rights to the Bunte articles for an undisclosed amount; Bunte was reported to have asked between $200,000 and $350,000. Mengele fled Germany to Argentina in 1948, using false documents given to him by the Red Cross. The letters also show that, although he now lived in a country where interracial marriage was the rule, rather than the exception, Mengele had not changed his racist views. But things did not work out the way Mengele had planned, and his notes show a man constantly worried about money. Martha Mengele, now living in Merano, Italy, refused earlier this year to be interviewed by another German news organization. However, it has since suffered losses because of the effects of some European Community farm-policy decisions and the April 26 Soviet nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Jaumann told the newspaper. With some of these inmates, Mengele took the bizarre step of attempting to change eye color in an Aryan direction by injecting methylene blue into the brown eyes of blond inmate children. After countless injections, she was more dead than alive. Because he was of the same mind on political matters as Mengele, Bossert assured the family he was a trustworthy caretaker. NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) -- Emilia Clarke does not regret turning down the lead role in the movie adaptation of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. WebProfessional Standards. . That professor, she said, stressed ''the biological foundation of [the] social environment'' and the delineation of ''racial types.'' . Mengele saw himself as a biological revolutionary, part of a vanguard devoted to the bold scientific task of remaking his people and ultimately the people of the world. When they arrived at Auschwitz, packed by the hundreds into freight and cattle cars, they were unloaded and herded down a ramp. The need was to capture him and put him on trial, hear his confession, put him at our mercy. There was a concert, then a roll-call, then an enormous selection for the gas chamber. TEL AVIV For decades, Israels espionage agency, the Mossad, kept a file on Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor responsible for, among other atrocities, selecting One Gunzburg defender of Dr. Mengele is Josef Baumeister, a former schoolteacher who knew Dr. Mengele and has caused heated debate in the local Still raging, he ordered that all the people from that transport whom he had previously selected as workers be sent to the gas chamber. "One hundred and sixty children aged 2 to 16 years, were left in the barracks," she said. Mengele never saw justice. Survivors repeatedly commented on his confusing duality of affection and violence, an extreme manifestation of the process I call ''doubling. That evil, generally speaking, is neither inherent in any self nor foreign to it. The Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said Bavarian Economic Minister Anton Jaumann confirmed the bailout but refused to say how much public money went to rescue the 110-year-old firm, which was founded by Mengeles father, Karl. In November 1932, Mengele's father offered the Karl Mengele & Shne (Mengele & Sons) farm machine factory space for one of Adolf Hitler's election campaign events. I have conducted psychological interviews with 28 former Nazi doctors; a number of Nazi lawyers, economists and other nonmedical professionals, and also with more than 80 former Auschwitz inmates who were engaged in medical work in the camp. Then he would examine ''these chambers where they are killed'' and he would inquire about the dog population: ''How many are you? One twin survivor, for example, told how he and his 12-year-old twin sister would be examined and subjected to such procedures as the injection of material into their spines or the clamping of some part of the body ''to see how long you could stand the pressure.''. The two were born on the same day, and the Israelis hoped they would call each other to say happy birthday. All people are capable of psychic numbing, a diminished tendency or inclination to feel. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Anyone can read what you share. The inmate anthropologist used quality Swiss instruments and wore a white coat ''like a physician. . In one instance, a mother refused to be separated from her teen-age daughter and scratched the face of the SS trooper who tried to enforce Mengele's decision. they fascinated him considerably.'' Most were children, but the twins ranged up to the age of 70. The reason, according to Bunte, was that had he In his record of this period, Josef Mengele wrote: ''At war`s end, my unit (a medical unit) was in Czechoslovakia. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/sunday-review/israel-mengele-auschwitz-holocaust.html. His father was pathologically jealous, and during their visits, there were scenes, arguments, demands that she stop seeing friends and stay at home. "We denounce all doctors who carry out criminal human experiments," said Siegfried Steiger, a high school teacher and the founder of the ensemble. '', One inmate doctor, in his own excruciating struggles to come to terms with Mengele, thought of him as ''the double man'' who had ''all the human feelings, pity and so on,'' but also had in his psyche an ''impenetrable, indestructible cell, which is obedience to the received order.''. West German law provides immunity for a fugitive`s family. . Rolf Mengele, a 41-year-old lawyer in the city of Freiburg, on Tuesday released a statement saying that a body exhumed June 6 near Sao Paulo, Brazil, is that of his father. Photographs and an identity card found in the house in Brazil where Josef Mengele lived. Without Auschwitz, he would probably have kept his destructive potential under control. Lidia Maksymowicz was 3 years old when she and her family arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in December 1943, deported by Nazi Germany from the Minsk area in Belarus. Like other SS doctors there, Mengele had the task of ''selecting'' prisoners for the gas chamber - the vast majority - and for the slave labor force. As one of them described: ''It was like a laboratory. Harel mobilized the entire agency to deal with it. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, "My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. In describing the swimming accident that took Mengele`s life, Bossert praised Mengele for ''heroically fighting to his last breath as he did throughout his troubled life.'' Mengele, the notorious 'angel of death' doctor at Auschwitz camp whose body was believed found last year in Brazil, received payments from the family of between Reporters from all over the world flocked to Gnzburg, which was nicknamed "Mengele Town." They were never beaten, as one surviving twin explained - even if they were caught in such a normally ''ultimate sin'' as stealing food - because the word was out ''not to ruin us physically.''. Hollmann`s first task was sorting potatoes, separating those suitable for cooking from those to be used as feed for the livestock. Their father built the largest farm-machinery manufacturing company in Germany, Karl Mengele & Sons of Guenzburg, Bavaria. ''After all, I could not report my father to the police,'' he said. As one recalled, they never forgot they were in Auschwitz where, starting in the summer of 1944, they could clearly see ''flames really coming up every day, every night'' from the open pits in which bodies were burned, and they could ''hear every evening a cacophony of screams'' and breathe in ''the unbearable smell. "Gnzburg was not a Nazi stronghold," former Mayor Rudolf Kppler said, calling it a place neither worse nor better than other German towns. At the same time he was depressed and resentful about his lonely, hard-up life in exile. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who notoriously conducted human experiments on prisoners including children at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, is now himself the subject of medical study. Twins had unique status. The firms business amounted to $110 million in 1984. His mother, Rolf said, had told him that his father attached great importance to his appearance, wore only hand-tailored suits and spent hours in front of a mirror admiring himself. She did deny, however, that Mengele conducted experiments on hundreds of Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. In January 1976 an entry reveals that Mengele was reading the memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister. . The file is thousands of pages long and documents the Mossads efforts to capture or assassinate the war criminal: countless hours of labor, huge sums of money, scores of agents and sources, wiretaps, break-ins, secret photographs and just about every other ploy in the espionage tool kit, including recruiting Nazis and journalists. "When I heard his footsteps, I crawled under the pallet, ducked and closed my eyes. The man and the place were dramatically summed up by a survivor who did art work for him and spoke of herself as Mengele's ''pet,'' someone who was pleasant to have around. Well, it's too crowded - you better put in two more [gas chambers] today. Inmates said Mengele ''conveyed the impression of a gentle and cultured man'' and spoke of the ''cheerful expression on his face . He has been seen as the embodiment of absolute evil, a doctor pledged to heal who kills instead. In 2009, Alois Mengele's son, Dieter, created the Familie Dieter Mengele Sozialstiftung, a foundation that reports having donated over a quarter of a million euros to charitable causes. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz concentration camp, spent his last years in his Brazilian hideaway lonely, depressed and short of money, according to 86 letters, notes and diaries discovered filed away in a Sao Paulo police archive. COVID origins? The reward money offered by various governments, foundations and individuals for his capture totaled over $3 million. On July 23, 1962, the Mossad operative Zvi Aharoni (who had identified Eichmann two years earlier) was on a dirt road by the farm where Mengele was believed to be hiding when he encountered a group of men including one who looked exactly like the fugitive. Mengele came from a well-to-do family, and during his first years in exile, in Argentina, he lived well. ( The Jewish Chronicle ) When Rolf Mengele, the son of Josef Mengele, finally got to meet his notorious father hiding out in Brazil in 1977, his father flatly denied The relative number of identical twins, as opposed to nonidentical twins, is also uncertain. Anyone can read what you share. It was an ironic contrast to the life-and-death choices he once made at the railhead at Auschwitz, where he would meet the trains filled with men, women, children and infants and select the subjects for his gruesome, usually fatal experiments. ORENBURG, Russia, April 16 (UPI) -- A teenage dance group in Russia is under investigation by officials after a twerking performance video went viral this week. . I was certain that in a little while we would be able to bring Mengele to Israel to be tried.. Josef Mengeles second wife, Martha, lives in the northeastern Italian city of Merano. Blog, website, books etc.? The inspector, she recalled, would often admonish the keepers to ''wash up the excrement'' in the pound, ''to keep it clean, to keep the dogs healthy.'' He was active in the selection process at the ramp and particularly interested in children, especially twins and dwarfs. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz concentration camp, spent his last years in his Brazilian hideaway lonely, depressed and short of money, according . ''On the other hand, there were those accusations, those horrible pictures of Auschwitz. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Rolf Mengele is a lawyer in the southern German city of Freiburg. Their diet was rich by Auschwitz standards, often including white bread and milk. Mengele said he felt a special moral obligation to speak ''simply because I am always being brought in connection with these ghastly, incomprehensible events on account of my ancestry.''. Nazi doctors would weed out for the gas chamber the weakest patients, those thought unlikely to recover in two or three weeks. So, of course, I feel angry at the German governments lack of action in the early years after World War II and frustration at the Mossads failure to bring him to justice. . Mengele produced three publications before he came to Auschwitz. And they feared visits by the doctor Josef Mengele. . When he returned about an hour later, Mengele said calmly: ''You are right. The man said he was a career soldier and an East German refugee from Goerlitz. After his death in 1959, his son Alois, one of Josef's younger brothers, took over the business. He also turned over a large number of photographs, letters and other items exclusively to the West German weekly magazine Bunte. He often sent prisoners with skin blemishes - even those with small abscesses or old appendectomy scars - to the gas chamber. Looking back, some former Mossad officers expressed regrets. To help him get to South America, family members purchased, at considerable cost, a forged passport. He even had a nameplate on his door: Dr. Josef Mengele. The German daily newspaper Die Welt has reported that Rolf visited his father in Brazil in 1977 or 1978. ''I hoped he would say that he had always tried to get away from there, that he had tried to be sent to the front. The reason, according to Bunte, was that had he been caught and convicted, his victims could have claimed damages from the company. Sign up here. In this process, each part-self behaved as a functioning whole: the Auschwitz self enabling him to function in that murderous environment and to exploit its human resources with considerable efficiency; the prior self enabling him to maintain a sense of decency. The evidence is that Mengele took his turn at the ramp, like everyone else, but he also appeared there frequently to make sure that any twins in a ''transport,'' as the trains were called, would be collected and saved for his research. The Mengele family firm, Soehne Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei GmbH und Co. of Guenzburg, Bavaria, specializes in agricultural machinery and is the largest of its kind in Europe. In this manner, all 14 twins were killed during the night.''. Don't you think he has lived long enough?'' The man he met in Switzerland, however, was introduced to him as an uncle named Helmut Gregor. Mengele, his friend said, was the only doctor in Auschwitz who possessed that array of medals, and he was enormously proud of them; he frequently referred to his combat experience to bolster his arguments on a variety of matters. . It all amounted to nothing. He was enabled to feel nothing in killing a young twin, even one he had been fond of, to make a medical point. .'' Top models include DUOBULL 7000/3, ES8, Along with several other doctors, he was questioned in 1958 on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license when a teenage girl died after an abortion, but he was released without charge. M ENGELE'S TREAT-ment of twins provides important additional clues to his psychology. He talked about the "disagreeable" results of miscegenation and the advantages of countries where European immigrants did not mix, and praised the apartheid system in South Africa. He might well have been unclear himself about his exact motivations, but we have reason to see in them a combination of distorted scientific claims and related ideological fantasies. The second Bunte article, which features a cover photograph of Rolf and his father that was taken in Switzerland, covers the elder Mengele`s life in the early postwar years. He undoubtedly came to recognize increasingly that the days of the Auschwitz research bonanza were numbered. It was known to be caused by the kind of debilitation that inmates were subject to, but Mengele focused on what he deemed to be genetic and racial factors. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. They were frequently permitted to keep their own clothing. . Quite the poetic answer. Crucial to that emergence is an ideology or world view, a theory or vision that justifies or demands evil actions. Authorities once raided the house of a manager of the Mengele family business and seized letters they said had been written to Mengele on behalf of the family. Mengele PMC GmbH specializes in B-to-B marketing communications for the industrial high-tech sector. He said about 500 other local businesses depend on the firm. Read more:Remembering Primo Levi, the Holocaust writer born 100 years ago. One reason Auschwitz survivors have hungered for his capture and trial is to divest him of this status. ", As a girl, she said, she would warn the children with whom she was playing not to "shout so loud otherwise, the Germans will come. Mengele brought such flamboyance and posturing to the selections task that it was his image inmates remembered. Your email address will not be published. ''It was an axiom,'' one of them told me, ''that Mengele is God. Mengele was outraged, and he left the room, ordering the radiologist to remain. We were transferred to many camps and then released in the U.S. Because identical twins (derived from the same ovum) possess the same genetic constitution, they have traditionally been used in research on hereditary influences. Germany: How does its Kazakh oil deal benefit Russia? To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. I was very relieved that this solution (Mengele`s death) took place and no other, maybe through a trial--as important as this certainly would have been from a different viewpoint.''. He could be playful, jumping about to please them. As early as 1935, Verschuer had written of the absolute necessity of research on twins to achieve ''complete and reliable determination of what is hereditary in man.''. What has been lost in the preoccupation with the corpse has been the nature of the man: What made Mengele Mengele? (I have preserved the anonymity of the people I interviewed. Check out our current live radar and weather forecasts for Weaverville, North Carolina to help plan your day It was not because of what her husband had done in the war, for Rolf insists she had never known. . Mengele was a man, not a demon, and that is our problem. Since it is known that a few ordinary siblings masqueraded as twins, upon discovering the advantages of doing so, there is reason to doubt the reliability of Mengele's research. When Mengele himself performed the examination, they said, he was very proper and methodical: ''He concentrated on one part of the body at one timelike [one day] he measured our eyes for about two hours.'' When he joined the SS in 1940, he had refused to have his blood group tattooed on his arm, as was customary for SS members. Mengele's Auschwitz behavior reflects important pre-existing psychological tendencies that contributed greatly to that doubling process. Dr. Mengele didn't say a single word to us, and prepared a 10 cc. Finally, Bossert said, ''our friend left us forever on a tropical beach. By that time, the elder Mengele had moved on to southern Bavaria, finding refuge in the home of a German pharmacist who, Rolf says, was a fellow member of the SS. When the judge commented, ''Mengele cannot have been there all the time,'' the witness answered: ''In my opinion, always. The Mossad was still a young agency, short of resources and manpower. He always carried around him an aura of some terrifying threat, which is, I suspect, unexplainable to normal human beings who didn't see this.'' Mengele's approach was different only in being ''terribly detailed. But Mengele's version of the Auschwitz self - his ease in harming and killing - carried psychic numbing to a remarkable extreme. He walked back and forth, an inmate recalled, ''a nice-looking man'' with a riding crop in his hand who ''looked at the bodies and the faces just a couple of seconds'' and said, ''Links [left] , Rechts [right] , Links, RechtsLinks, RechtsLinks, Rechts.''. Rafi Eitan, an Israel-born Mossad operative who led the team that caught Eichmann, told me: Because of the need for foreign-language speakers, many of the Mossads recruits were from Europe, and therefore had gone through the Holocaust or lost their families in it. One of them, for instance, spoke to me of his yearning to see ''this metamorphosis of turning him back into a person instead of God Almighty.'' Browse a wide selection of new and used MENGELE Farm Equipment for sale near you at TractorHouse.com. ''I felt aghast at the accusations, at the facts, and I always tried to make clear to my father that for me, the presence in Auschwitz alone, other than as a prisoner, was an intolerable thought,'' he said. I told him, Prime minister, today the Mossad has other missions that concern the national security of the people of Israel today and tomorrow, and I give preference to today and tomorrow over yesterday. Begin didnt appreciate that response. Read more:Seventy-five years ago, the Nazis carried out the mass murder of Sinti and Roma people at Auschwitz, Gnzburg made international headlines in February 1985, when a symbolic "tribunal" was held on Mengele at Israel's Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, with cameras recording survivors' stories of the atrocities committed by the doctor. Dr. Josef Mengele was born in 1911. He was an early Nazi enthusiast, enlisting with the SA (the storm troopers) in 1933, applying for party membership in 1937 and for SS membership the following year. Mengele divorced his wife Irene and married Martha, the widow of his brother, Karl, in Uruguay in 1958. But this demonization made him something of a deity, a nonhuman or even superhuman force, and served as a barrier to any explanation of his behavior. There was nothing.'' Rolf Mengele said he learned of his father`s death from a letter written by Wolfram Bossert, an Austrian who was a Nazi supporter and who, with his wife, Liselotte, became close friends of Mengele`s in Brazil. The precise number of twins Mengele studied is not known, but during the spring and summer of 1944, the time of the influx and mass murder of enormous numbers of Hungarian Jews, he accumulated what inmates of the men's and women's camps estimated to be a total of 175 sets of twins; it was an extraordinarily large number to have available simultaneously in a single place. . "Mengele," a woman said, answering the phone at the foundation. We were always sitting together - always nude. Mengele seemed well on his way toward an academic career. His father, he said, had shown no remorse, though Rolf had tried to discuss the Third Reich and World War II with him in letters they exchanged and later in nightlong conversations when he went to Brazil in 1977. SS troops were shouting. Indeed, his Auschwitz friend told me that Mengele planned to use his research with twins as the basis for his Habilitation, the presentation necessary for a formal university appointment. Mengele was the chief doctor of Birkenau, an Auschwitz subcamp, but seemed to many inmates to have authority beyond his position. When his skeleton was exhumed in 1985 many questioned whether it was really his. As a child I heard from one of my parents best friends about living through Mengeles infamous selection process at Auschwitz. The death camp, she said, was like a city dog pound, with Mengele as the inspector checking up on the keepers -the inmate doctors - and on the dogs - the inmates. 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