''For us,'' one said, he was ''like a papa, like a mama. If this explanation rings hollow to the survivors of the concentration camp where Mengele performed his cruel, grotesque medical experiments and to the memory of all the victims of the Holocaust, Rolf Mengele found his interpretation of his legal duty equally debatable. The doctor insisted in the statement that he had selected Jews not for death in the Auschwitz gas chambers but for work in the German armament industry. We have seen that his death has partly dispelled this demonology. Another inmate doctor spoke of Mengele's role as ''very important, more than that of the others.''. A number of survivors reported seeing him on the transport ramp, shouting ''Zwillinge heraus! '', This image, with its blending of omnipotence and sadism, was relevant to much of Mengele's relationship to twins. Successive prime ministers of Israel, acting on the recommendations of successive Mossad directors, had the wise judgment to have the agency focus its efforts on more urgent matters and allot limited if any resources to the manhunt. Harel mobilized the entire agency to deal with it. They dealt with physical characteristics and abnormalities and, in each case, emphasized the role of heredity -an emphasis in keeping with trends in German and international scholarship at the time. (In the end, Rudel died before the Mossad decided whether to go through with the operation.). Your email address will not be published. The man and the place were dramatically summed up by a survivor who did art work for him and spoke of herself as Mengele's ''pet,'' someone who was pleasant to have around. He said about 500 other local businesses depend on the firm. Most of the letters were addressed to Wolfgang Gerhard, an Austrian Nazi Mengele befriended in Brazil. Mengele the eldest son of Karl and Walburga Mengele, who ran a farm machinery company in the town of Gnzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria According to an Auschwitz friend and fellow-SS physician, Mengele espoused the visionary SS ideology that the Nordic race was the only truly creative race, that it had been weakened by Christian morality of Jewish origin, and that Germany needed to revert to ancient German myths in creating an SS ''order'' to purify the Nordic race. Sometimes Mengele himself presided over the murder of his twins. His powerful commitment to Nazi ideology served as a bridge, a necessary connection between the two. But they have denied periodic reports that the business, Karl Mengele & Sons, which is run by a nephew of Mengele, funneled money to the doctor living in South America. Last week, on West German television, Rolf Mengele, a 41-year-old lawyer, spoke publicly for the first time about his decision, portraying himself as torn between the law and family loyalty in refusing to tell authorities where his father, Dr. Josef Mengele, could be found. The family has owned a farm machinery manufacturing company in Guenzburg, a town near The reason, according to Bunte, was that had he been caught and convicted, his victims could have claimed damages from the company. That kind of sadism was manifest in his smiling enthusiasm at selections. Mengele sought to identify specific physical and biochemical markers that could definitively identify the members of specific races. ORENBURG, Russia, April 16 (UPI) -- A teenage dance group in Russia is under investigation by officials after a twerking performance video went viral this week. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. One Gunzburg defender of Dr. Mengele is Josef Baumeister, a former schoolteacher who knew Dr. Mengele and has caused heated debate in the local Mengele said he met his father only twice, during a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when he was 12 years old, and 21 years later during a two-week visit to Sao Paulo. In the summer of 1940, the 29-year-old Mengele joined the Waffen-SS, the Nazi party's military branch. A street was named after him. The marriage was dissolved in 1954. The firms business amounted to $110 million in 1984. Every intelligence operation carries risks. His continuing ''metamorphosis'' into an ordinary mortal can be enhanced by probing his motivations and behavior. Mengele's sadism was of a piece with these other traits. One described him as ''a monster, period,'' and another as ''no more doctor than anything else.''. He tested vaccines on the girl. As early as 1935, Verschuer had written of the absolute necessity of research on twins to achieve ''complete and reliable determination of what is hereditary in man.''. Rolfs sister-in-law, Sabine Hackenjos, has been acting as a spokeswoman for the family since Rolf Mengele broke years of silence about his father. One day Lidia's mother sneaked into the children's barracks to bring her daughter food and found her lying unconscious with a high fever. Through doubling, he could call forth his evil potential. For many, that anticipated event took on the significance of confronting the Holocaust and restoring a moral universe. ''The burden we bear is not just Guenzburg`s but our entire people`s. The precise number of twins Mengele studied is not known, but during the spring and summer of 1944, the time of the influx and mass murder of enormous numbers of Hungarian Jews, he accumulated what inmates of the men's and women's camps estimated to be a total of 175 sets of twins; it was an extraordinarily large number to have available simultaneously in a single place. In the end we decided that we would focus on one more target, Mengele, but Begin, who was a very emotional man, was disappointed, Hofi said. FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) _ Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele has a son who works as a lawyer in the Black Forest region of West Germany, while other relatives run a prosperous farm machinery company in Bavaria. In retracing his relationship with his father, Rolf notes that he was 9 months old when his father left Auschwitz in January, 1945, before the advancing Russian army. In 1938-39, Mengele served six months with a specially trained mountain light-infantry regiment, followed by a year in the reserve medical corps. All people are capable of psychic numbing, a diminished tendency or inclination to feel. Scientists believe they've found untapped helium reserves, Person hired to promote new 'Scream' movie prompts 911 calls, Polish basketball player breaks slam dunk world record, Most Americans with diabetes don't get recommended new medications, Extra food support ends for millions of low-income U.S. taxpayers. In 1976 Mengele wrote in his diary, after complaining that he would not be able to make a trip to Rio because neither he nor his friends could afford the price of the petrol: "What's going to happen? He used to come always with an entourage, very-well decked out, very elegant. He could quiet his fears of death in that death-dominated environment by performing the ultimate act of power over another person: murder. The twin children frequently called him ''Uncle Pepi.'' As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The German race would have to be cured and its genes improved. He could try medications meant to prevent, treat or induce a particular illness on an individual twin, or both of a pair of twins. '', Measurements were taken of the twins' skulls and bodies and various characteristics of the nose, lips, ears, hair and eyes. Maria Fischer, 76, recalls that sometime in the fall of 1945 a man named Fritz Hollmann asked her husband for work on their farm. With the backing of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Amit focused on the Egyptian missile program until that threat was resolved (with the help of a former high-ranking Nazi), and then on gathering intelligence on the Arab states that proved critical to Israels victory in the 1967 war. As the Red Army approached Auschwitz, the Nazi "angel of death," Josef Mengele, fled. His father, Rolf relates, was delighted and eager to join the military. Thank you Paul. Then he would examine ''these chambers where they are killed'' and he would inquire about the dog population: ''How many are you? Photographs and an identity card found in the house in Brazil where Josef Mengele lived. New hurdles for rescuers at sea in the Mediterranean, Tunisia: Presidential scapegoating stokes fear and support, Canada Soccer president resigns amid equal pay dispute, Thousands of migrants have died in Southern Texas, Remembering Himmler's 'Auschwitz decree' to exterminate Roma and Sinti, Holocaust survivor celebrates 104th birthday with 400 descendants, Seventy-five years ago, the Nazis carried out the mass murder of Sinti and Roma people at Auschwitz, Remembering Primo Levi, the Holocaust writer born 100 years ago. He was enabled to feel nothing in killing a young twin, even one he had been fond of, to make a medical point. During Rolf`s visit to Sao Paulo in 1977, Josef had sworn to his son ''by the eyesight of my mother'' that he had ''never killed or personally harmed anyone.''. He would later tell his son that he hid in the forests around the town for weeks, fearing arrest. After his release from the POW camp in the summer of 1945, Mengele returned briefly to Guenzburg. The two were born on the same day, and the Israelis hoped they would call each other to say happy birthday. The twin survivor also spoke of Mengele's supervising ''a lot of research with chemicals'' and of how Mengele's assistants ''might stick a needle in various places from behind,'' including the performing of spinal taps. Moreover, as Aharoni later put it in testimony for the Mossads history department, When Isser began dealing with something, he dealt only with that. In addition, the agency had been blindsided, knowing nothing about the German scientists and the missiles they were building for Israels biggest enemy. After that, the first twin was brought in . The most notorious Nazi fugitive, unsuccessfully pursued for decades, had suddenly appeared - as bones in a Brazilian grave. Zofka believes that the doctor was motivated by a "boundless cynicism" that allowed him to see his victims not as human beings, but as "material that is already dead. . Rolf Mengele has said that he will turn over the proceeds from the Bunte articles, which promise to be substantial, to a fund for Auschwitz survivors. when we least expected him.'' ''It was an axiom,'' one of them told me, ''that Mengele is God. Anyone can read what you share. Mengele divorced his wife Irene and married Martha, the widow of his brother, Karl, in Uruguay in 1958. The reason, according to Bunte, was that had he It was late at night. It wasn't until 1985 that his death became known. . But in the past two years, the firm, which had a turnover of $110 million in 1984, suffered a downturn because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and European Community farm policy decisions. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. . As one of them described: ''It was like a laboratory. Evil Josef Mengele spent the rest of his life on the run after the Second World War but, while holed up in South America, he kept a chilling secret diary. Mengele's friend revealed something of this motivation when he told me that Mengele saw his work as having bearing on selecting national leaders ''not on a political basis but on a biological basis.'' The Mengele family firm, Soehne Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei GmbH und Co. of Guenzburg, Bavaria, specializes in agricultural machinery and is the largest of . Germany: How does its Kazakh oil deal benefit Russia? By that time, the elder Mengele had moved on to southern Bavaria, finding refuge in the home of a German pharmacist who, Rolf says, was a fellow member of the SS. Mengele was the chief doctor of Birkenau, an Auschwitz subcamp, but seemed to many inmates to have authority beyond his position. When he returned about an hour later, Mengele said calmly: ''You are right. . of chloroform. In May 1933, Karl Mengele joined the Nazi Party. It was not until West German investigators began to piece together the last years of Mengele`s life and interview others who knew and helped him that Rolf began to cooperate. Many inmates thought that Mengele alone conducted the large ''selections.'' It was not because of what her husband had done in the war, for Rolf insists she had never known. Many children died during these experiments; others were deliberately killed. He was reluctant to have his father brought to trial, Rolf Mengele said in the statement, because of the wounds it would have inflicted on him and his family. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. But when she added, ''Marilyn Monroe flashed through my mind,'' she was perhaps suggesting the strong element of mannered self-display, what is loosely called ''narcissism'' - and perhaps a certain amount of kitsch and absurdity -contained in Mengele's assumption of omnipotence. In a process I call ''doubling,'' a new self takes shape that adapts to the evil environment, and the evil acts become part of that self. It all amounted to nothing. VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 20 (UPI) -- Military conscription returns to Lithuania amid Eastern Europe's military tension. ''On the one hand, he was my father,'' Rolf Mengele said. Rolf Mengele is a lawyer in the southern German city of Freiburg. Sometimes, though, as the inmate doctor reported, Mengele would bring some gypsy twins sweets and invite them for a ride in his car, which turned out to be ''a little drive with Uncle Pepi, to the gas chamber. Josef Mengele, became known as the angel of death at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland during World War II and was blamed for the deaths of 400,000 Jews, Gypsies, Poles and others. Because he was of the same mind on political matters as Mengele, Bossert assured the family he was a trustworthy caretaker. He has been seen as the embodiment of absolute evil, a doctor pledged to heal who kills instead. Mengele came from a well-to-do family, and during his first years in exile, in Argentina, he lived well. With some of these inmates, Mengele took the bizarre step of attempting to change eye color in an Aryan direction by injecting methylene blue into the brown eyes of blond inmate children. On Sept. 1, just four weeks after the wedding, the war began when Germany invaded Poland. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE man who arrived in Auschwitz in May 1943 is not especially remarkable. We offer our comprehensive marcom Residents also installed a plaque to honor Mengele's victims in the courtyard of the historic Dossenbergerhaus, which today is an elementary school. Asked if she would be willing to speak for an interview, she responded: "We are not interested in contacts with the media." And there is no lack of present-day enemies who did and apparently always will. ''But I am also aware of (my) responsibility. This moral obligation also was a motive for him, he said, to offer his cooperation so the past would not be swept under the rug but diagnosed down to its spiritual and historic origins. He might well have been unclear himself about his exact motivations, but we have reason to see in them a combination of distorted scientific claims and related ideological fantasies. The relatives` silence has frustrated some in Guenzburg who are unhappy about the reputation of their town but still feel loyalty to the family that provides jobs for 1,200 people, one-fourth of the city labor force. Karl Mengele was elected city councilor and mayor, and, in 1952, with his son on the run to escape charges of committing atrocities on behalf of the Nazis, Karl Mengele was made a gold-medal citizen of the city. . 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Yet, as far as we know, he had neither killed nor maimed prior to Auschwitz, and had in fact functioned in a more or less integrated way. In Auschwitz-Birkenau alone, 200,000 children were called. The Mossads approach to Mengele shows prudence and pragmatism on the part of the agencys leaders in contrast with Begins emotionalism. Even before his death in 1979, Dr. Josef Mengele, the brutal staff doctor of the Auschwitz death camp, had achieved legendary status. Mengele was the chief doctor of Birkenau, an Auschwitz subcamp, but seemed to many inmates to have authority beyond his position. Who is Nigerias president-elect Bola Tinubu? In this manner, all 14 twins were killed during the night.''. Until then, he had been told by his mother that his father was missing in Russia, or dead. Mothers of young female twins were sometimes allowed to stay with their children, though usually only temporarily, in order to help the twins remain in good physical and mental condition - and on occasion to contribute to information about heredity and family history. I was very relieved that this solution (Mengele`s death) took place and no other, maybe through a trial--as important as this certainly would have been from a different viewpoint.''. It was his hands. Dr. Olga Lengyel, an inmate doctor, described Mengele as ''far and away the chief provider for the gas chamber and the crematory ovens.'' zone.''. When he joined the SS in 1940, he had refused to have his blood group tattooed on his arm, as was customary for SS members. . Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Josef Mengele, a.k.a. Inmates said Mengele ''conveyed the impression of a gentle and cultured man'' and spoke of the ''cheerful expression on his face . Why are we still having these debates? Mengele had the same frenzied attitude in carrying out his research. He was active in the selection process at the ramp and particularly interested in children, especially twins and dwarfs. The prisoners called Mengele the "angel of death.". The television interview was among a series of gestures that, in an effort to erase the stigma that stains the family name, Rolf Mengele has made since the opening of the grave in a Brazilian cemetery. . He sought out inmates with a condition known as heterochromia of the iris - in which the two eyes are of different colors -and, after their death, sent their eyes to his old professor, Verschuer, at the Berlin-Dahlem Institute of Racial Biology. Mengele's marriage to a professor's daughter was in keeping with his academic aspirations. ''In many ways it was a relationship like that to a stranger, or an outside person.''. But things did not work out the way Mengele had planned, and his notes show a man constantly worried about money. At the time, Rolf said he had a strong bond to his stepfather, his mother`s second husband, whom he regarded as his father. Login. She did deny, however, that Mengele conducted experiments on hundreds of Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. When Mengele himself performed the examination, they said, he was very proper and methodical: ''He concentrated on one part of the body at one timelike [one day] he measured our eyes for about two hours.'' and 5 cc. Calvin Harris forbids Taylor Swift from writing about him. '', The mayor added that the publicity has created a ''monstrous shadow'', over the town. Mengele's capacity or inclination to maintain, in his work, the crucial distinction between these two kinds of twins is unclear. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Mengele's Auschwitz behavior reflects important pre-existing psychological tendencies that contributed greatly to that doubling process. To Alois, they were the hands of someone who had never worked before, an officer`s hands perhaps, not the hands of a soldier. A management consultant was hired to save the firm from insolvency, and several banks waived their demands on the firm, Jaumann said. WebAmericas +1 212 318 2000 EMEA +44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific +65 6212 1000 Company About Careers Diversity and Inclusion Tech At Bloomberg Philanthropy Sustainability '', The twins lived in an atmosphere that combined sanctuary with terror. What is more, he could exercise total control over them. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. He had no need or inclination to concern himself with ethical considerations, sharing as he did the general SS doctor's view that one was doing no harm since Auschwitz inmates, especially Jews, were in any case doomed. Twins had unique status. Lidia Maksymowicz was 3 years old when she and her family arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in December 1943, deported by Nazi Germany from the Minsk area in Belarus. . His military experience loomed large in his idea of himself. . She refuses to discuss him. ( The Jewish Chronicle ) When Rolf Mengele, the son of Josef Mengele, finally got to meet his notorious father hiding out in Brazil in 1977, his father flatly denied Mengele's approach was different only in being ''terribly detailed. Accompanying Rolf and Sedlmeier to the skiing resort were his Aunt Martha, the wife of Josef`s late brother, Karl; and her son, Karl-Heinz. He always carried around him an aura of some terrifying threat, which is, I suspect, unexplainable to normal human beings who didn't see this.'' Mengele could be totally arbitrary in his killings. CPI Aero signs contract with Sikorsky Black Hawk fuel assemblies. He was describing Mengele's Auschwitz self, the new self that can take shape in virtually anyone in adapting to an extreme environment. he was very playful. Later, the radiologist said, he heard from Dr. Nyiszli that Mengele had shot the two boys in the neck and that ''while they were still warm, began to examine them: lungs first, than each organ.''. It was ''literally impossible,'' the survivor said, ''to transmit the edge of this terror.''. The business is one of the largest West German farm equipment makers, with annual sales of $83 million. and irresponsible not to utilize the possibilities that Auschwitz had for twin research,'' and that ''there would never be another chance like it.''. Some people think you can have collective guilt in a small town. An inmate radiologist told of a pair of gypsy twins, ''two splendid boys of 7 or 8, whom we were studying from all aspects - from the 16 or 18 different specialties we represented.'' Rolf Mengele, a 41-year-old lawyer in the city of Freiburg, on Tuesday released a statement saying that a body exhumed June 6 near Sao Paulo, Brazil, is that of his father. (Nonidentical twins come from different ova and are genetically similar only to the extent of ordinary siblings.) a 14-year-old girl. At the time, Mengele was using the alias Fritz Hollmann, the name that also appeared in his discharge papers. We were transferred to many camps and then released in the U.S. Under certain kinds of psychological and moral conditions it can emerge. Occasionally, though, his detachment could give way to outbreaks of rage and violence, especially when he encountered resistance to his sense of ''the rules.'' Mengele`s evasion also was aided by his vanity. Nazis no longer posed a threat. When his skeleton was exhumed in 1985 many questioned whether it was really his. There we see displayed the full range of his adaptation to the Auschwitz environment. Authorities once raided the house of a manager of the Mengele family business and seized letters they said had been written to Mengele on behalf of the family. From that point on, it would have been better if the Mossad had let the past go. From the hundreds of thousands of prisoners, he could collect twins in quantities never before available to a scientist. In another entry, apparently referring to having to buy the silence of friends, he wrote "everything in life has a price". He was also intelligent, a serious student who showed ''a very distinct ambitiousness.''. Koeppler feels Mengele`s relatives in Guenzburg--two sisters and two nephews--should ''clear the air.'' Blog, website, books etc.? About. Unlike other Israelis, who saw the Holocaust as a one-time historical catastrophe, said Shlomo Nakdimon, a prominent Israeli journalist who was close to Begin, Begin believed with all his heart that the lesson of the Holocaust is that the Jewish people must protect themselves in their own country in order to prevent a renewed threat to their existence., Begin thought settling the score with Mengele would show Palestinian leaders (and the Israeli public) that they would have to pay a price for harming Israelis. To inmates, he seemed to have an inner compulsion to get a great deal accomplished quickly in a personal race against time. At this point, the person and his behavior are anything but banal. Frankfurt prosecutor Hans-Eberhard Klein says Rolf is the son of the Nazi doctor and his first wife, Irene, who also lives in Freiburg. 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