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Argentinian Files
On Josef Mengele
Los Angeles (JTA) — The
trail of German war
criminal Josef Mengele, the
sadistic Auschwitz death
camp doctor, was familiar to
government officials and
police in South America and
former West Germany dur-
ing the decades after World
War II, when his
whereabouts seemed a dark
mystery and many doubted
he was alive.
That is clear from docu-
ments the Argentine
government has handed over
to the Los Angeles-based
Simon Wiesenthal Center
for study and analysis.
They are part of Argen-
tina's war-criminal files per-
sonally unsealed by Presi-
dent Saul Menem at a
ceremony in Buenos Aires
on Feb. 3.
Mr. Mengele entered
Argentina as an "Italian" on
a Red Cross passport in 1949
and apparently felt secure
enough in 1956 to go to
the German embassy in
Buenos Aires and identify
himself by his correct name.
At this point, both the
German and Argentine au-
thorities knew beyond doubt
where Mr. Mengele lived
and could be found.
His sense of security lasted
until 1959 when Mr.
Mengele left his second wife,
Martha, in Buenos Aires and
made tracks for Paraguay.
On Nov. 18, 1959, the
Argentine police asked their
Paraguayan counterparts
for the identification
number issued to Mr.
Mengele. The Paraguayan
police furnished the infor-
mation.
It appears that by Nov. 18,
if not before, Mr. Mengele
changed his residence from
Argentina to Paraguay, said
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of
the Wiesenthal Center, who
is studying the files of
suspected Nazi war
criminals released by
Menem.
The date, which precedes
the first publication of Mr.
Mengele's whereabouts by
only a few days, is of some
importance in the
acrimonious debate between
former Mossad chief Isser
Harel and Nazi-hunter
Simon Wiesenthal.
Mr. Harel, who led the 10-
member Israeli team that
captured Adolf Eichmann in
Buenos Aires in May 1960,
angrily contested Mr.
Wiesenthal's long-standing
claim that he had furnished
the leads that led to the
success of Mr. Harel's mis-
sion.
Not only was Mr. Wiesen-
thal's information wor-
thless, Mr. Harel insisted,
but the Vienna-based Nazi
hunter had in effect signaled
Mr. Mengele that his
whereabouts were known.
As a result, Mr. Mengele
left Argentina for Paraguay
two weeks before the capture
of Eichmann and thereby
eluded the Israeli team.
But if the information in
the Argentine documents is
correct, Mr. Mengele ap-
parently fled to Paraguay at
least six months before the
Israelis went into action in
Buenos Aires.
Who tipped him off?
There is no certain answer,
but Rabbi Hier speculates
that clues can be found in
,
Someone
tipped off Mr.
Mengele that the
hunters were on
his trail.
two books on Mengele: The
Last Nazi by Gerald Astor
and Mengele: the Complete
Story by Gerald Posner and
John Ware.
In the 1950s, Mr. Mengele
divorced his first wife, Irene.
She returned to Germany
and, in a legal deposition,
stated that her ex-husband's
domicile was in Argentina.
The information was ob-
tained by Hermann Lang-
bein either independently or
with Mr. Wiesenthal's help.
Mr. Langbein was an
Auschwitz inmate, original-
ly from Vienna, who worked
as a clerk in Mr. Mengele's
office and compiled a dossier
on his boss' activities.
Mr. Langbein spent mon-
ths pressing German au-
thorities to indict Mr.
Mengele. On June 7, 1959,
the Lower Court of Freiburg
issued an order for his arrest
and the information was
sent on to the German em-
bassy in Argentina.
It is Rabbi Hier's educated
guess that someone at the
German Embassy tipped off
Mr. Mengele that the
hunters were on his trail.
In the late 1960s, Mr.
Mengele moved to Brazil
and lodged with an elderly
German couple near Sao
Paulo.
An international team of
forensic experts concluded
some years ago that the re-
mains of a man drowned in a
swimming accident in 1979
belonged to Mr. Mengele.