1979, Bertioga Beach, Sao Paulo, Brazil: A man is about to live his final day. He will die of a stroke while swimming. But this is no ordinary man. Once an SS captain, a doctor, a fugitive, he spent over 30 years on the run evading justice as one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals. Mengele Unveiled I: Angel’s Dawn & Eugenics, Sky History 2025
How did a young ambitious medical student become one of the most reviled figures in modern history? ibid.
His name is synonymous with barbaric experiments on prisoners. ibid.
‘The medical backbone to what the Nazis want to do politically.’ ibid. Guy Walters
Eugenics: ‘This idea that there are inferior human beings racially, and that there are inferior human beings in terms of their heath.’ ibid.
‘Some of the research in Germany was funded by … Rockefeller.’ ibid. comment
The Nazis secretly continued to eliminate Lives Unworthy of Living. ibid.
‘On 30th May 1943 SS Captain Josef Mengele walks through the gates of Auschwitz.’ ibid. Walters
‘The ultimate inversion of what medicine should be about.’ ibid.
We’re in Auschwitz, and this man is Josef Mengele, a criminal who will evade justice. Mengele Unveiled II: Unveiling the Angel of Death
‘It’s impossible to convey the solemnity and the horror of the place.’ ibid. Walters
He will never feel remorse for his crimes. ibid.
‘It is a huge reservoir of living human tissue.’ ibid. Walters
‘When his son accused him of being involved in these terrible things, he said everyone who arrived in Auschwitz was already dead.’ ibid.
‘When Mengele flees from Auschwitz he’s very worried about what will happen to his notes.’ ibid.
‘He became the perfect malign metaphor.’ ibid. comment
Josef Mengele would never face justice for the atrocities he committed at Auschwitz. During his long years hiding out in South America, he never felt a shred of remorse for his crimes. Mengele Unveiled III: 34 Years in a Rat’s Life
What happened to Mengele’s mentors? ibid.
On June 20th 1949 the transatlantic ship North King arrived in Buenos Aires from Europe. ibid.
‘The regime under Juan Peron was essentially fascistic and very sympathetic to Nazis.’ ibid. Walters
His name was already on the wanted lists. ibid.
Mengele’s main activity became representing the Mengele Company in South America. ibid.
Beate Klarsfeld: The ultimate awakening of Germany’s younger generation to the horrors of Nazism. ibid.
Mengele left Argentina in late summer of 1958 seeking refuge in Paraguay. ibid.
Mengele watched what was happened to Eichmann and feared it could happen to him as well. ibid.
Why did so many others manage to escape accountability? ibid.
‘And above all he lived with fear every day.’ ibid. comment