The Frankfurt Administrative court rejected today an appeal by the wife of Dr. Josef Mengele, the long-sought Auschwitz “selection doctor,” against a decision of the Frankfurt University voiding Mengele’s doctorate. Mengele has been in hiding since the collapse of the Nazi regime.
He had authorized his wife to sue the university, which acted against him in July 1961 and Mrs. Mengele appeared. The administrative court heard several former inmates of the Auschwitz murder factory where Mengele had the assignment of selecting victims for the gas chambers.
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