A biography of the so-called "Angel of Death," whose grisly medical
experiments on Jewish twins at Auschwitz put him high on every
Nazi-hunter's list of most wanted men. Posner, a New York lawyer,
who is recognized as a leading authority on Mengele, researched
this book for five years, long before the discovery last year of
Mengele's remains in Broil. In researching it, he was ultimately
provided more than 5,000 pages of letters, diaries, and other
biographical writings of Mengele by Rolf, Mengele's son. This
account, then, will take the title of "definitive" over several
other books recently or soon-to-be published. Among the revelations
Posner offers is the incredible fact that for a brief time after
the war, Mengele was actually incarcerated by American soldiers
under his own name, but as a result of ignorance and the
disorganization of the Americans, he managed to escape. Mengele
seems to have led almost a charmed life in this respect. In 1962,
the Israeli Mossad came practically face-to-face with him, before
being recalled to Israel because of government priorities. Posner
also tells of a plot hatched by the Mengele family to fake Josef's
death. (The Mengele family name had been for years - and still is -
synonymous with farm machinery in Bavaria. To this day, they own
large property holdings around the world, including farmland in
America's Midwest.) Readers can be grateful that Posner does not
overdo the grisly details of Mengele's experiments. (Auschwitz
accounts only for one-eighth of the book.) What Posner does offer
is a cloak-and-dagger account of the attempts to locate Mengele in
Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and of Mengele's frantic attempts
to stay one step ahead of his would-be captors. A sound,
respectable work of research. (Kirkus Reviews)
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages
of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography
of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele
(1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's
"Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele
selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to
death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his
spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's
particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines
the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.
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