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Letters show life changes for fugitive Nazi doctor
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Associated Press
January 29, 2005
JERUSALEM -- In previously unseen post-World War II letters, notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele describes a banal existence as a fugitive in South America, complaining about his lazy Brazilian housekeeper and documenting his weekly trips to town to eat strudel at a German bakery -- one of "the small pleasures I very much enjoy."
Mengele -- who met newly arrived prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, chose who went to the gas chambers and carried out horrific experiments on children, twins and dwarfs -- also writes of his longing and love for Germany.
"How is the Fatherland, is it still the Fatherland?" Mengele wrote to a friend in a letter dated November 1972 -- according to an excerpt from some of the letters
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published Friday by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, as the wo
rld marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp Nazi-occupied Poland.
The letters show that Mengele, who eluded capture after the war ended and lived secretly in South America, most of the time in Brazil, until his death in 1979, died convinced of the superiority of what Nazis called the Aryan race. He also never expressed regret in the letters and praised the apartheid regime that governed South Africa until 1994.
Mengele, who was responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at Auschwitz, writes with self-pity and complains about his lazy Brazilian housekeeper whom he sarcastically calls his "pearl."
The Mengele letters, some handwritten and some typed, came from files of Brazil's federal police which investigated Mengele after his death in 1979.
The Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo obtained the documents in November, but published only some of the documents. Yediot publ
ish
ed additional material.
About 6 million J*ws were killed by Nazi Germany. About 1.5 mil
lion people, most of them J*ws, died at Auschwitz from gassing, starvation, exhaustion, beatings and disease. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and political opponents of the Nazis.
Skerryvore,
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IndyStar.com
Letters show life changes for fugitive Nazi doctor
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Associated Press
January 29, 2005
JERUSALEM -- In previously unseen post-World War II letters, notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele describes a banal existence as a fugitive in South America, complaining about his lazy Brazilian housekeeper and documenting his weekly trips to town to eat strudel at a German bakery -- one of "the small pleasures I very much enjoy."
Mengele -- who met newly arrived prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, chose who went to the gas chambers and carried out horrific experiments on children, twins and dwarfs -- also writes of his longing and love for Germany.
"How is the Fatherland, is it still the Fatherland?" Mengele wrote to a friend in a letter dated November 1972 -- according to an excerpt from some of the letters
r
published Friday by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, as the wo
rld marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp Nazi-occupied Poland.
The letters show that Mengele, who eluded capture after the war ended and lived secretly in South America, most of the time in Brazil, until his death in 1979, died convinced of the superiority of what Nazis called the Aryan race. He also never expressed regret in the letters and praised the apartheid regime that governed South Africa until 1994.
Mengele, who was responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at Auschwitz, writes with self-pity and complains about his lazy Brazilian housekeeper whom he sarcastically calls his "pearl."
The Mengele letters, some handwritten and some typed, came from files of Brazil's federal police which investigated Mengele after his death in 1979.
The Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo obtained the documents in November, but published only some of the documents. Yediot publ
ish
ed additional material.
About 6 million J*ws were killed by Nazi Germany. About 1.5 mil
lion people, most of them J*ws, died at Auschwitz from gassing, starvation, exhaustion, beatings and disease. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and political opponents of the Nazis.
Skerryvore,
madkins