Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal said that the notorious death camp doctor, Josef Mengele, is closer to capture than at any time in the past 35 years, despite his narrow escape in Bolivia a short time ago.
Wiesenthal, who heads the Nazi war crimes documentation center here, said, according to the weekly Allgemeine Juedische Wochenshau, that Mengele evaded being apprehended recently because the Bolivian police did not take the necessary measure. However, aides of the Nazi hunter photographed Mengele’s house, his car and his yacht and they know his present hiding place. Mengele, who was the doctor at Auschwitz, was responsible for selecting inmates for the gas chambers and performed inhuman medical experiments on Jews and other inmates resulting in their deaths or mutilation.
“Chances to catch him are now better than ever before,” Wiesenthal said. He has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the war criminal.
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