The newspaper France Soir named 19 wanted Nazi war criminals who it says are living safely in South America and in Egypt. According to France Soir. Gen. Heinrich Mueller, former Gestapo commander, was last seen in Port Said wearing an Egyptian uniform, and there are 16 other wanted Nazis in Egypt, many of them employed by the police or the propaganda ministry. The top Nazis still at large in South America are Martin Bormann. Hitler’s deputy, who lives in the Paraguay-Brazilian border region and Dr. Joseph Mengele. the Auschwitz physician who selected inmates for the gas chambers, France Soir said.
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