Chile’s leading newspaper, Mercurio, reported today that police in Aisen, in southern Chile, were seeking members of a secret Nazi organization believed responsible for the unsolved murder of a Jewish nurse, Nora Eldoc.
Miss Eldoc was found slain in April 1961 in a mountain area near Bariloche bordering the Patagonian section of Argentina not far from the Chilean border. There were reports that she had been murdered because she had discovered the whereabouts of Dr. Josef Mengele, the “selection doctor” at the Auschwitz murder camp. Dr. Mengele, who had the assignment of selecting camp inmates to be killed, has been sought since the end of World War II and is believed to be in hiding in South America.
According to the Mercurio report, Chilean police have evidence that the murder was committed by a former Nazi. The Mercurio correspondent also suggested that Walter H. Rauff, a German immigrant who was arrested here several weeks ago at the request of West German authorities, may be implicated in Miss Eldoc’s murder. Rauff, 56, has been accused of complicity in the wartime murder of 90, 000 Jews, A former Gestapo member, he has been under arrest pending a ruling on the West German extradition request. The Chilean Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the extradition bid.
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