Swiss police reportedly did nothing to arrest Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele when he surfaced in Switzerland in 1961. Zurich police observed Mengele’s movements, but failed to follow through on an Interpol request for his arrest, according to the Jewish Weekly of Switzerland. “We are shocked that a mass murderer” was able to freely enter and leave Switzerland, the secretary- general of the Swiss Jewish community, Martin Rosenfeld, said in a television interview. Rosenfeld called for a government investigation of the report.
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