— The State Attorney’s office in Frankfurt has issued a new warrant for the arrest of Josef Mengele, the chief doctor at Auschwitz who is presently reported to be living in Uruguay. The warrant, which includes new evidence against the man who was called the “angel of death” by Auschwitz inmates, replaces a warrant issued in 1959.
Mengele is accused of having selected concentration camp inmates for the gas chamber and of performing brutal medical experiments upon them. Attorney General Hans-Eberhard Klein said his office felt it necessary to update the charges. The number of Jews and other prisoners sent to gas chambers by Mengele “cannot even be approximated,” Klein said.
According to a recent report by Jacobo Timer-man in the Israeli newspaper, Maariv, Mengele is now working for the government of Uruguay as an advisor on how to torture inmates, especially Jewish inmates, in the notorious “Freedom Prison,” the main detention center for political prisoners in Uruguay. (See full story in the Jan. 14 issue of the Daily News Bulletin.)
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