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and meticulously noting each piece of the twins’ bodies.”
One twin who survived being in the care of the doctor
recalled how his brother came to lose his life;
“Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi.
I am not sure why, perhaps because he was the older
twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One
surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He
could not walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual
organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi
anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible
to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my
father, my mother, my two older brothers and now,
my twin.”
This is one monster whose psychological behavior and
pattern is a subject of discussion for many psychologists.
Labeled as a very normal and a sharp young
man, Dr Mengele ; wearing a SS cap and a grin while
greeting twins in Nazi camps depicts how deceiving
the appearance can be in real monsters. PN
Dr. Mengele’s Brasilian ID Card
Josef Mengele, FBI - Department of Justice - SS Files
647 pages of FBI/Department of Justice files relating to
Josef Mengele, “Dr. Mengele”, archived on CD-ROM.
Material is composed of a 202 page 1992 Department
of Justice report and 445 pages of copies of documents
and exhibits used in the Department of Justice investigation.
The report is the culmination of the DOJ investigation,
commenced in 1985, into the whereabouts and
postwar activities of this infamous Nazi criminal.
For decades before the time of this report, former SS
Hauptsturmfuehrer [Captain] Josef Mengele was the
most notorious Nazi criminal thought to be alive.
Mengele served during World War II as a “doctor” at
the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazioccupied
Poland, where more than one million prisoners,
the overwhelming majority of them Jews, were
systematically executed. When prisoners arrived at
Auschwitz, Mengele and his “doctor” colleagues selected
for slave labor those who appeared medically
“fit” (thus consigning them to toil under inhumane and
often deadly conditions) or who could be used by the
Third Reich in some other way. All other prisoners, the
vast majority, were immediately murdered by gassing
in specially designed asphyxiation chambers. Mengele
was also notorious for performing grotesque pseudomedical
experiments on prisoners, children and adults
alike, especially those who were twins.
In 1981, the State Prosecutor in Frankfurt issued a warrant
for Josef Mengele’s arrest. This document contains
a lengthy recitation of Dr. Mengele’s crimes. It is perhaps
most accurately described as a catalog of horror.
Dr. Mengele is accused of murder on a colossal scale.
He held in his pointing index finger the power of life
and death for the hundreds of thousands of innocents
whom he confronted as they stepped from the overcrowded
freight trains that brought them to Auschwitz
(Oswiecim), Poland, some from the farthest corners of
Europe.
Because of his highly visible and significant role in
the Hitler regime’s homicidal reign of terror, Doctor
Mengele effectively became a symbol of the Holocaust;
in particular, his name became synonymous with the
evil of Auschwitz, the site on which more people were
murdered than any other in recorded human history.
Understandably, the thought of his remaining a free
man was most acutely painful for all Holocaust survivors,
especially his victims. If indeed he were alive, as
conventional wisdom held at the time, justice demanded
that he be held legally accountable for his role in the
Third Reich’s genocidal policies.
In February 1985, the U.S. Department of Justice in-
vestigated allegations that Mengele had been in U.S.
custody and might have had a relationship with U.S.
government institutions or personnel during the period
immediately following the Second World War. Four
allegations emerged: (1) that Mengele was a prisoner of
war in U.S. custody in 1945 and had been knowingly released;
(2) that he had lived openly under his own name
in his own home town following the war, with tacit U.S.
approval; (3) that he was arrested by U.S. forces in Vienna
in 1946 and released; and (4) that he was used by
U.S. intelligence agencies which then assisted him in escaping
Europe for South America in 1949.
The Department of Justice’s Criminal Division’s Office
of Special Investigations (OSI ) was instructed by the
Attorney General to initiate a comprehensive investigation.
This investigation had two primary goals: 1) to
determine Josef Mengele’s whereabouts, activities and
affiliations from 1945-1949, and 2) to determine his
whereabouts in 1985, so that authorities in Germany or
Israel could put him on trial.
Among many topics the report covers are: Allegations
against Dr. Mengele, Mengele’s immediate postwar
movements, Mengele’s autobiography as a source, The
Idar-Oberstein Question: Mengele a POW?, Attempts
to prevent release of war criminals, The Mengele family
and the city of Guenzburg, U.S. contact with the family
of Mengele, The Gorby question: arrest of Mengele
in 1946-1947?, Polish Auschwitz trials, Questioning
of Mengele’s wife Irene Mengele, Comparisons to
the Klaus Barbie case, Mengele’s escape from Europe,
Mengele’s residence in South America, Medical records
From Germany, and DNA testing.
Included among the copies of documents in the compilation
of exhibits are: Warrant for the arrest of Josef
Mengele, Map of Mengele’s movements, List of German
nationals detained, List of people named Josef
Mengele, Documents related to “No Man’s Land”, Photograph
of Schauenstein, Discharge certificate, Discharge
directives, Wanted lists, Gorby memorandum,
List of Auschwitz war criminals extradited to Poland,
Muench wanted report, International Red Cross travel
document, Preliminary Forensic Report, June 21, 1985,
Translation of Josef Mengele’s SS File, Forensic report
on SS File, Letter describing Mengele’s death, Mengele’s
school records, Forensic Report, dated November 6,
1986, FBI letter concerning DNA, A chronology, DNA
Analysis Report, March 12, 1992, by Professor Alec
J.Jeffreys and Dr. Erika Hagelberg, and a 1968 report of
Brazilian Police Special Agent Erich Erdstein
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