More than 300 German physicians who practiced medical experiments on Jewish and other prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps are still alive and unpunished, according to a man who is devoting his life to a study of Nazi crimes and criminals.
Mr. Mark Dvoerzecki, a professor at the American-sponsored Bar-Han University here, told a press conference today that Dr. Josef Mengele, whose extradition from Argentina is being sought by the West German Government, had the power of life or death over inmates at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Mengele, as camp physician, he said, decided who was to go to the gas chamber and who was to be sent out to slave labor. Mengele was also in charge of the “sadistic” experiments carried out by the Nazis on men, women and children among the prisoners.
Mengele disappeared from his residence in Buenos Aires about the time of the capture of Adolf Eichmann. The Argentine authorities have answered recent West German extradition requests by disclaiming knowledge of the Nazi’s whereabouts.
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