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MENGELE - UNMASKING THE ANGEL OF DEATH - DAVID ...

Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time  Josef Mengele was the embodiment of
bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has
assumed in works of popular culture  Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well
as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape
justice. Whether as the demonic doctor who directed mass killings or the elusive fugitive who
escaped capture  Mengele has loomed so large that even with conclusive proof  many refused to
believe that he had died. As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department?s Office
of Special Investigations in the 1980s  David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case 
interviewing his victims  visiting the scenes of his crimes  and ultimately holding his bones
in his hands. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources  Marwell
examines in scrupulous detail Mengele?s life and career. He chronicles Mengele?s university
studies  which led to two PhDs and a promising career as a scientist  his wartime service both
in frontline combat and at Auschwitz  where his ?selections? sent innumerable innocents to
their deaths and his ?scientific? pursuits - including his studies of twins and eye color -
traumatized or killed countless more  and his postwar flight from Europe and refuge in South
America.Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a
cemetery in São Paulo  Brazil  and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming
evidence that Mengele had died - but failed to convince those who  arguably  most wanted him
dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits  escape without freedom  and
resolution without justice.

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