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This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 August 1985 and sent to Washington. It forwards news clippings and magazine articles on Josef Mengele, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The attachments include an Argentine magazine report on claims that Mengele lived in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, as Adolfo Gualterio Ascher, along with an interview with the judge investigating those claims. They also include a newspaper article on Mengele's protection in Paraguay and on past efforts to extradite him. The file has no UFO content.
“Los Angeles Times”3 pages
• THE VICTIMS OF
• . HIS MURDEROUS
• RACIAL EXPERIMENTS
WERE OFTEN
CHILDREN AND TWINS
AND ON THE EVE
OF A HISTORIC REUNION OF
HOL•CAUST SURVIVORS,
•HE STILL RUNS FREE
led his macabre experiments on twins at Auschwitz (right).
timated that Mengele ordered 380,000 people to their deaths . Out
he was more than an enthusiastic collaborator in Hitler's "fma l so-
lution." A "racial biologist," the doctor developed and carried out
a scheme that transcended mass extermination. He hoped to dis-
cover the genetic secrets that would help him breed an all-Aryan
superrace. To this end, he experimented on 200 sets of twins in his
one-of-a-kind hygiene lab at Auschwitz. By studying the twins,
Mengele believed he could discover how
Gerrnan mothers might
produce children faster through multiple births . He also used twins,
as well as 2,000 children, in tests attempting to turn their eyes
blue and their hair blond. He and his technicians injected dye into
their eyes, chloroform into their hearts, and took knives and nee-
dles to their skulls and spines. He castrated some, sterilized oth-
ers. When he was through experimenting with them,
his "guinea
pigs," as he called them, were killed.
Today, only about 20 of Mengele's twins are still alive; several
will be Joining the June pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Some
are shown
on the following pages in photographs take n both today and at
the time of their liberation. All the twins—indeed., nearly all
the survivors of Auschwitz—realize that Josef Mengele is in some
ways the most astonishing survivo r of all. Now 70 and hiding from
Nazi-hunters in South America, he has been running from justice
ever since the Holocaust ended, 36 years ago.
e /9 9 i ) lzwitcriting: David M. Friend
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Suruiuors recall the hauntin g stare of Josef Mert9ele (above) who perforn
This June, in what promises to be one of history's most extraor-
dinary reunions, some 10,000 survivors of Nazi concentration
camps and their familie s are gathering in Jerusalem. The pilgrims
will march at dusk with lit candles to the shrine of the Wailing
Wall. Each will bring a stone etched with the names of immediate
family members killed by the Nazis. Together, the stones will serve
as a monument to the six million European Jews who perished be-
tween 1939 and 1945 at the hands of the Third Reich. "We hope to
speak with one voice as a testament to the survival power of our
people," say organizers of the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors, "and to serve notice that this must never happen again."
Theirs will be not only a symbolic homecoming but also a final op-
portunity for many of the aging former inmates to meet friends
they have not seen in more than a generation.
The horrors of the past, of course, will flood the memories of
those reuniting in Jerusalem. And foremost in the recollection of
many will be the name and visage of Dr. Josef Mengele, the in-
famous "angel of death" of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
As SS physician of this huge camp in Poland, Mengele would per-
sonally greet incoming trainloads of Jews each day and, with a
whimsic al flick of his cane ("to the left, to the right"), would in-
dicate who was to be sent immediately to the crematoriums and
who was to live to die another day. Between 1943 and 1945 it is es- Not linked to a story yet.
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