The Frankfurt authorities that handle the search for the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele said today that the hunt for the war criminal will continue despite assertions by his son yesterday and other family members that Mengele died in Brazil in 1979.
Rolf Mengele, the son of the Nazi doctor, issued a statement yesterday that said his father had died in Brazil in 1979 and that he had “no doubts whatsoever” that the body exhumed at a cemetery near Sao Paulo last week was the remains of Josef Mengele.
The Frankfurt authorities issued a statement saying that the declaration by Rolf Mengele did not offer conclusive evidence that the Nazi doctor was dead. The authorities added that three West German experts were still in Brazil in an effort to determine whether the body exhumed was that of the Nazi doctor.
The Mengele family in West Germany said that it will provide pertinent information that Mengele lived in Brazil and finally died near Sao Paulo in 1979. But the family apparently failed to convince authorities here that there was enough evidence to accept this version and give up the efforts to find Mengele alive.
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