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Ai ie Ae ?r. )1' SC 11.1C CCE iari iron lent aort hildt usct ieir • Ct Ided ho st ioney • Un lengel xv i Acknowledgment' and whose support and positive attitudes contributed to and are a part of every aspect of this book. It was they who stayed the course, especially during the hectic summer of 1985. It was they who deserve the ultimate credit for this record being written. Josef Mengele has becon version of medicine in pur ing smile and soft but dea of Death." The barbarity at issue is how he escape As a fugitive, Menge in experiments on Indiat of dictators, and to have portrayed as a ruthless p vices of armed guards a score of impenetrable fl this legend, the only cl Israeli agents and indepf up on the banks of the These apparently s' on myths about Menge than 5,000 pages of dia unique and unrestrictc unpublished photograr Mengele papers incluc within weeks of his autobiography that M omits any discussion
s contributed to and are a ley who stayed the course, 1985. It was they who debeing written. Preface Josef Mengele has become the symbol of the Third Reich's perversion of medicine in pursuit of racist scientific theories. His mocking smile and soft but deadly touch earned him the title "The Angel of Death." The barbarity of his crime is not in doubt. What is still at issue is how he escaped justice. As a fugitive, Mengele was variously rumored to be involved in experiments on Indian tribes in South America, to have the ear of dictators, and to have had numerous brushes with death. He was portrayed as a ruthless power broker who could call upon the services of armed guards and killer dogs, and who moved among a score of impenetrable fortresses deep in the jungle. According to this legend, the only clue to his whereabouts was a trail of dead Israeli agents and independent Nazi-hunters whose corpses washed up on the banks of the Parana River. These apparently superhuman powers of evasion were based on myths about Mengele's postwar life and are disproved by more than 5,000 pages of diaries and letters that he wrote. We have had unique and unrestricted access CO them as well as to previously unpublished photographs, some of which appear in this book. The Mengele papers include a diary that he kept from May 1960 to within weeks of his death. There are also many extracts from an autobiography that Mengele started during the 1960s, but which omits any discussion of both Auschwitz and a ten-year period in x vi i
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