MENGELE The Complete Story

Acknowledgments
Writing about a man who spent more than half his life as a fugitive,
resolved to escape recognition and retribution, was a singularly
difficult task. This book is the result of five years of research. During
that time we have gathered one of the largest documentary archives
on Josef Mengele, some 25,000 pages of published and unpublished
documents. We have spent months in South America, many days
researching in the archives of different countries, and have taped
more than ninety hours of interviews with individuals involved in
Mengele's life. We are satisfied that we have conducted a diligent
and thorough investigation, and we take full responsibility for the
accuracy of the facts and the validity of the judgments presented.
Much of our research would not have been possible without the
help of many people and organizations, in more than a dozen countries,
on four continents.
In the development of documentation we were aided by Dr.
Robert Wolfe, Dr. John Mendelsohn, and John Taylor of the National
Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.; by Daniel
Simon, director of the Berlin Document Center, West Berlin; Dr.
Y. Arad, director of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Dr. Graciella Swiderski,
director of the National Archives of Argentina, Buenos Aires;
Dr. Celina Moreira Franco, director of the National Record Center
of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; Dr. Alfredo Viloa, director of the National
Document Archives of Paraguay, Asuncion; Charles Palm, archivist
at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California; and Dr.
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