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He greeted the death trains arriving at Auschwitz on the look out for 'good subjects' for his unspeakable 'medical experiments'.
Thousands would die truly terrible deaths as human guinea pigs for the doctor Anne Frank called the 'Angel of Extermination'.
Josef Mengele enjoyed inspecting the shattered Holocaust victims in his search for suitable material for the pseudo-scientific experiments he was engaged in.
For Mengele, these victims of Nazi racial hatred were nothing more than human guinea pigs. Twins had a particularly bad time.
They were evaluated and subjected to experiments, and then they were dissected and recorded. The way they suffered and died is a disgrace to humanity.
The only thing the concentration camp doctor was thinking behind the unscrupulous foreground of a perverted ruler race domineering and reproductive policy was his own career.
After the war, Mengele managed to hide in South America until his death in 1979. The autopsy of his remains puts an end to a number of strange speculations about where he is and how long he managed to survive.
The film goes through carefully the crimes Mengele committed, and what purpose was behind it.
Survivors of his horrific experiments give their eyewitness accounts. In addition, his secret "second life" after the war is revealed.
He greeted the death trains arriving at Auschwitz on the look out for 'good subjects' for his unspeakable 'medical experiments'.
Thousands would die truly terrible deaths as human guinea pigs for the doctor Anne Frank called the 'Angel of Extermination'.
Josef Mengele enjoyed inspecting the shattered Holocaust victims in his search for suitable material for the pseudo-scientific experiments he was engaged in.
For Mengele, these victims of Nazi racial hatred were nothing more than human guinea pigs. Twins had a particularly bad time.
They were evaluated and subjected to experiments, and then they were dissected and recorded. The way they suffered and died is a disgrace to humanity.
The only thing the concentration camp doctor was thinking behind the unscrupulous foreground of a perverted ruler race domineering and reproductive policy was his own career.
After the war, Mengele managed to hide in South America until his death in 1979. The autopsy of his remains puts an end to a number of strange speculations about where he is and how long he managed to survive.
The film goes through carefully the crimes Mengele committed, and what purpose was behind it.
Survivors of his horrific experiments give their eyewitness accounts. In addition, his secret "second life" after the war is revealed.
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00:00Suddenly, there was a burst of light.
00:29And there was noise.
00:33Of course, it was chaos.
00:44Selection started and there was a left, right, left, right.
00:56The
01:22children of Auschwitz.
01:25My guinea pigs, said Dr. Mengele, just objects for experiment.
01:35January, 1945, fleeing the scene of the crime, Dr. Josef Mengele was never caught.
02:05But the memory of his crimes tormented him.
02:16The fear of being discovered.
02:27Is this the doctor of death from Auschwitz?
03:13He was born in Gunzburg on the Danube in 1911.
03:18A well-behaved child.
03:21His father was rich, a manufacturer of farm machinery.
03:29His son was conscious of his class, a bon vivant.
03:34In the Café Marder, the meeting place in Gunzburg, he held court, caring more for socializing
03:42than politics.
03:49This man changed all that.
03:54Hitler was the idol of the Mengele family.
04:01Also of course, because he promised to support the German farmers, upon whom Mr. Mengele depended
04:07for his livelihood.
04:15But Josef did not want to inherit the business.
04:17He wanted to make his own way.
04:24At Munich University, Josef Mengele dreamt of fame as a doctor and researcher.
04:32Hitler's racist mania was new to him, but acceptable in scientific garb.
04:42He studied anthropology.
04:45It was intended to furnish the official proof that all non-Aryan races are inferior, a basic
04:51doctrine of Nazi ideology.
05:11And their own immorality.
05:17It was to end here.
05:19His hopes would be fulfilled here.
05:23One day people will know my name.
05:31In Frankfurt, the young doctor helped to develop the medical concept of the Aryan, as an assistant
05:37to the passionately committed geneticist, Professor Otmar von Verschur, as the willing
05:45instrument of a man who wanted the super race.
05:55Racial purity was determined by the authorities.
05:58Are you Aryan or Jewish?
06:08The young doctor Mengele wrote expert medical reports.
06:17An early selection.
06:21As yet, without the final solution.
06:23Incapable of living as a member of the community, you are unwelcome.
06:32Those who were capable of living as members of the community marched to the beat of the
06:36times.
06:40The doctors were represented.
06:41They were to breed the master race.
06:44Mengele wanted to get somewhere fast.
07:14In those days, that was only possible in the SS.
07:20The SS, the regime's black order.
07:24The executors of his deluded racial elitism.
07:33The SS had to give its consent when Mengele married in the summer of 1939.
07:39A honeymoon on the island of Sylt.
07:44Holiday greetings from Josef and Irena Mengele, and many thanks for the pretty bowl.
07:52It could have been so different if it hadn't been for the war.
07:59His wife would later say with conviction, he was always such a nice man.
08:03There was no understanding for these people.
08:34The disabled in Hitler's Germany.
08:38The first victims of a mania which tolerated only the strong and the healthy.
08:46In 1939, a film set the mood for what was to follow.
09:03Examples from the animal kingdom were meant to prove why the weak had to be killed.
09:24In contrast to the heroic, racially pure human type.
09:42In Germany, there unfolded an unprecedented internal war in which more and more doctors
09:47became executioners.
09:52It began with sterilization and abortion and ended in murder.
09:56They called it the destruction of all who are unworthy of life.
10:02So-called euthanasia.
10:06Murder a hundred thousand fold.
10:11Medicine in step with the dictatorship.
10:13Now white coats were a uniform too.
10:20No longer was the oath to Hippocrates, but to the absolute ruler.
10:30Unscrupulousness.
10:36Lack of all conscience.
10:46In the cover of war, all barriers came down.
10:53From then on, they were available.
10:56The propaganda called them Untermenschen, subhumans.
11:05Which medicine would help against typhus?
11:09The answer, human guinea pigs.
11:15Concentration camp prisoners were injected with agents of infection.
11:18Hardly any survived.
11:24How does the human body react to extreme altitudes?
11:29The answer, human guinea pigs.
11:33Concentration camp prisoners were subjected to agonizing reductions of atmospheric pressure.
11:39They perished wretchedly.
11:50Some of them, still twitching, were dissected.
11:56The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, where the elite of Nazi eugenics was forged.
12:05When the genocide was carried out, the murderers in white were on hand too.
12:13The headquarters for the exploitation of the human body was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
12:20Professor Otmar von Verschuer.
12:23He wanted to use twins to decipher the code of life and applied for extensive research
12:28funding.
12:31Professor Sauerbruch gave his approval.
12:33To a crime?
12:34Verschuer's project was ambitious.
13:03To collect a genetic pool for breeding the Ãœbermensch.
13:12For that, people had to be killed and collected.
13:18Children, above all.
13:39Dr. Mengele returned here in the summer of 1942.
13:45He had this behind him.
13:49As an SS medical officer in the East, he had performed daily selections.
13:54He had decided which of the wounded were able to survive and which were not.
14:03In this, Hauptsturmfuhrer Mengele had not participated.
14:11But then Mengele let his mentor talk him into giving his career a crucial nudge.
14:17Verschuer provided Mengele with a unique research paradise, a gigantic pool of material, thousands
14:30of test objects every day.
14:38The world of Auschwitz knew nothing of the right to life or pity.
14:46Life in the factory of death.
14:51May 43, an order to travel to Poland.
14:55Did Dr. Mengele suspect what kind of world was awaiting him?
15:17On the way to the end of the line.
15:21On May the 30th, 1943, Dr. Josef Mengele reported here for duty.
15:30From all over Europe, thousands of people were being sent to Auschwitz every day.
15:35We were there together with the whole family, all children, big and small, we were all together.
15:49But we didn't know where to go, somewhere to work, maybe to work, maybe the child would
15:56have a kindergarten, that's how we imagined it, that someone had left Auschwitz.
16:05And so we drove day and night, very difficult conditions, there was no food and no toilet,
16:24there was nothing.
16:29After three days of driving, we arrived in Auschwitz, at night.
16:45Suddenly there was a burst of light and there was noise.
16:53Of course, it was chaos.
16:59It was two o'clock at night.
17:09When we got out of the car, we heard, but it was divided so quickly, the men, the parents
17:19and the children, everything was divided in one minute.
17:26And I heard, and my brother also heard, that they were calling, twins, twins.
17:32Twins, get out!
17:34Quick, the Jewish fruit!
17:36Get out, get out!
17:40We all tried to get out, men on one side, women and children on the other side, and
17:46to arrange in lines, in rows, in rows.
17:49We all stood up, and Mengele received us all, and in such a Napoleonic pose, he stood
17:56and separated people.
17:59Whoever could be Arbeitskraft, that is, the force of labor, he would go to this side,
18:04the young man, and whoever went to this side would be sentenced to death.
18:08We were children, we were not considered Arbeitskraft, we went to this side.
18:19And you have to know, in the milieu of Auschwitz, where every doctor was confronted with the
18:27fact that in a certain rhythm he had to determine so and so many thousands of people, right or
18:34left, that was everyday life.
18:40He didn't say a word.
18:45Any aria, opera aria, so quiet whistling, and as if he were conducting, conducting an
19:00orchestra, right and left and right and right and left and left.
19:09He was a true Nazi, but with a difference, because the nature of the Nazis was to say
19:29that the Jews are degenerated, they are also physically inferior, and so on.
19:38And Mengele was of the opinion that there are only two talented peoples in the world,
19:43that are the Germans and the Jews.
19:46And one of these two peoples must rule the world, and he wanted the Germans to rule the
19:52world and not the Jews.
19:56And he thought to himself, what is my duty, really?
20:00Is it my duty to do what I am committed to, that is, to destroy the Jews, or
20:08are there any other aspects that need to be taken into account?
20:19Mengele's favourite tune, which he often whistled absentmindedly, in front of the twins of Auschwitz.
20:26The daily programme began with the Zeapel.
20:31We were staying before the barrack many hours, and if someone is not here, they are making
20:42more and more time to find the people, and also the dead people were put in the front
20:51from the barrack.
20:54And after the Zeapel, they are taking the children, the twins, to the laboratory.
21:08The first experiments were by comparing, comparing all parts of body, like eyes and
21:15sides and noses, and everything external was just compared.
21:21And this took many, many hours and many days.
21:26Afterwards, it passed over into blood transfusions, from one to another one.
21:45And I can't tell you how many times the twins appear in my dreams, that blood was taken
21:52from them.
21:53And really, it was between five and ten pairs.
21:56Blood was taken from them, and they fell to the ground.
21:59They were exhausted.
22:00And they fell to the ground like nylon bags, or popcorn, beer that was exhausted.
22:05And they fell to the ground because of that, and afterwards they fainted because they
22:11couldn't take it anymore.
22:14This is one of the memories that I will never forget.
22:20In this world behind barbed wire lived hundreds of twins.
22:25On call.
22:27Mengele's human zoo.
22:31But their fate was not sealed from the start.
22:34They were the chosen, because they belonged to Mengele.
22:39He was always the master of life and death.
22:42We knew that.
22:43We were afraid of him.
22:44We were afraid of him.
22:45When he appeared, we were all there.
22:48We didn't know what would happen to us.
22:51Where would we go?
22:52We already knew what was going to happen, that he was in a crematorium, burning people.
22:57So we lived in eternal fear.
23:03He, however, was the real ruler in the kingdom of the dead.
23:08They all used to laugh, these Jews.
23:11They thought it was a joke.
23:14They don't laugh anymore today.
23:17They know it has become bloody serious.
23:20And they also know that there is no Bordeaux here.
23:28The instigator of all this never saw the scene of the crime.
23:38Hitler had never heard of Mengele,
23:41but the doctor of death was nonetheless his henchman.
23:46Mengele, we still know him today.
23:49A few days later, we found out who Dr. Mengele was.
23:53He was a tall, handsome man.
23:56He would spend the whole morning at the hospital.
24:00He was a doctor.
24:03He was a doctor.
24:06He was a doctor.
24:09He was a doctor.
24:12He was a doctor.
24:15He was a doctor.
24:20Mengele was a handsome man.
24:23He was young, around 30 or so.
24:26He lived on the first floor.
24:29He always said,
24:32I have a phone call in Zulingen.
24:35And if they ask for something, he would say,
24:38come, come.
24:41He took a pen, wrote down all the details.
24:44There was no need to take the rabbit, but the people.
24:51We certainly were not more expensive.
24:55And we did not have the accusation that we were on a animal test,
25:01but that we were really, very concretely.
25:05So that is justified that before we went to the scientific community,
25:10to use scientific experiments,
25:14that is absolutely normal in the environment of Auschwitz.
25:20Only the strong man gets through.
25:23And everything that is weak must be exhausted,
25:27so that the strong man can really survive.
25:41He hoped that his research on twins would earn him a professorship,
25:45and this saved a few lives.
25:48If not for Dr. Joseph Mengele,
25:51whether I'm healthy or whether I'm sick,
25:54or whether I'm normal or whether I'm insane,
25:57I would not be sitting here.
26:00I would not be sitting here.
26:05The doctor of death aborted the foetuses of pregnant women
26:08and sent them to Berlin for research.
26:15The children of Auschwitz, they called him uncle.
26:39He drove around in the camp with the girls,
26:43went for a walk in the car,
26:46and tried to make them happy.
26:49A few days later he knew,
26:52I need them on the section table.
26:59This is something that you can not understand at all,
27:03but it has become a matter of course for him.
27:08My understanding of Mengele stopped when I could not follow him anymore.
27:25One day he took the twins,
27:29Tito and Nina, with him.
27:33One of the children had a lump.
27:36He took them with him
27:39and brought them back the next day or after two days.
27:47That was terrible.
27:50That he sewed the children together, back to back.
27:57Hands, veins, wounds were full of scabies.
28:03The children did not cry anymore,
28:06but cried.
28:13He turned them into animals,
28:16to see how it works.
28:19One body, two lungs, two muscles, all this.
28:22He took the organs out,
28:25and put them on the floor,
28:28to know what would happen to them.
28:31They stayed there for a day, two days, three days.
28:34Their parents, who were not Jews,
28:37they were Zionists, they were called Yigris and Tigris.
28:41They simply embraced them, to save them from terrible hardships.
29:02It was September 1944.
29:05I met him by chance on Lagerstrasse.
29:08He said,
29:11I have already shown you the results of my scientific work.
29:15I said, no, you have not.
29:18Come with me, I will show you.
29:21There were such sheets with very clean drawings,
29:24and very beautiful drawings.
29:27A very thick file.
29:30I thought all the time,
29:33why do I have to look at this now?
29:36Isn't that beautiful?
29:39He said in some pictures,
29:42isn't that beautiful?
29:45Then I was finished.
29:48When I was finished,
29:51he folded it up and said,
29:54isn't it a shame
29:57that all this will fall into the Bolsheviks' hands?
30:14Then I thought,
30:17of course, he is showing me this,
30:20so that when I survive,
30:23there will be normal, scientific,
30:26anthropological examinations.
30:29I didn't get to see anything else.
30:32He had already prepared,
30:35he knew that he would lose the war.
30:53He wanted to kill
30:56in the gas chamber
30:59all the twins,
31:02because one day they took the children
31:05to the crematorium
31:08and took off their clothes.
31:11After 10 minutes,
31:14they said, you can go.
31:17What happened?
31:20The war is finished.
31:23They have no more cyclone B,
31:26so they cannot kill the children.
31:29In the documentation from Auschwitz,
31:32in the museum,
31:35is a list from people
31:38writing Mengele
31:41that these people died.
31:44And everybody is in this list.
31:47So you know that it is a miracle
31:50that you are alive.
32:18After liberation,
32:21of Mengele's 3,000 twins,
32:24180 survived.
32:27But the memories have tormented them
32:30for the rest of their lives.
32:47None of our relatives survived.
33:17The nightmare was over.
33:20SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele
33:23took cover among millions of prisoners
33:26as a common Wehrmacht soldier.
33:32He had changed his uniform.
33:38He was wearing a white shirt
33:41and a black jacket.
33:44He was a Nazi war criminal.
33:50The Americans were out of their depth.
33:53How do you identify a Nazi war criminal?
33:58The Allies, the Americans specifically,
34:01used a kind of litmus test
34:04to determine who was a member of the SS and who wasn't.
34:07And they took advantage of the fact
34:10that the SS men had tattooed under their left arm
34:14so that there was a very straightforward method
34:17for identifying those who were in the SS and those who weren't.
34:20People took off their shirts and raised their hands.
34:23Mengele did not have a blood-type tattoo
34:26and therefore was spared identification
34:29through this rather simple but in most cases effective means.
34:32Mongolding.
34:35A small village near Rosenheim in upper Bavaria.
34:38Mengele went to ground at Fischer's farm.
34:41He called himself Fritz Hollmann.
35:00The doctor became a farmhand,
35:03mucking out the stables and making selections of potatoes.
35:06He slept here.
35:12From a safe distance,
35:15the doctor of death followed the Nuremberg trial.
35:18He knew it was only a matter of time
35:21before his murderous deeds were revealed.
35:24What would have been his sentence?
35:27No doubt.
35:30He would have received the ultimate sentence.
35:34Summer, 1946.
35:37American headquarters in Augsburg
35:40received orders from the very top.
35:43Find Mengele and arrest him.
35:46The search concentrated on his old hometown of Gunzburg,
35:49on the wife of the doctor of death.
35:56In the early hours of the morning,
35:59Mengele was questioned by the military police several times.
36:02But time and again,
36:05the grieving wife, dressed in black,
36:08insisted,
36:11my husband is dead.
36:14The alleged widow played her role consistently
36:17and convincingly.
36:23Nearly every day,
36:26Irena went to church and prayed fervently
36:29for the soul of her dead husband.
36:42The Americans watched Mrs. Mengele,
36:45but obviously not closely enough.
36:50Irena and Josef met regularly
36:54at various secluded places near the farm where he worked.
37:01Irena urged her husband to flee,
37:04but the doctor of death hesitated.
37:07Still.
37:10His colleagues in court at the end of 1946,
37:13murderers in white coats.
37:17Would Mengele have tried to talk his way out, too?
37:24But there was no doctor who was tried then,
37:27who was tried for the kind of science,
37:30the so-called science, that Mengele practiced.
37:33So Mengele would have been a great symbol
37:36to have put into the doctor's trunk.
37:39He wasn't.
37:42The explanation that we came up with
37:45was that he was trying to talk his way out
37:48of the war.
37:51The explanation that we came up for this
37:54is because the people involved in the investigation
37:57and prosecution of the doctor's trial
38:00believed that Mengele was dead.
38:06Farmhand Mengele did not know of his good fortune.
38:09He was driven by fear.
38:12Hope was the sign of the times, but he ignored it.
38:21He was driven by fear.
38:24He was driven by fear.
38:27He was driven by fear.
38:30He was driven by fear.
38:33He was driven by fear.
38:36He was driven by fear.
38:39He was driven by fear.
38:42He was driven by fear.
38:45He was driven by fear.
38:49Rich people now feeble
38:52where the townie's tambourine
38:53played truant for the road.
38:55Now money is everyhting again.
39:01For Mengele too.
39:03Money for his escape from fear.
39:06On Easter Saturday 1949,
39:09the SS doctor left his country Idol.
39:12His first stop, Innsbruck.
39:15A well paid gang of smugglers had organized everything,
39:17Easter Sunday, April the 17th, 1949, shortly before 6pm.
39:24The local train from Innsbruck to the top of the Brenner Pass took just under an hour for the climb.
39:33At the last station before Italy, the mass murderer got out.
39:37A smuggler showed him an unguarded stretch of border.
39:39At a safe distance from the official border crossing, Mengele entered Italy on an old smuggler's path.
39:56In the picturesque Alpine village, contact man Nino was waiting at the inn of the Golden Cross.
40:04A forged South Tyrolean passport gave Mengele a new identity.
40:10Under the name Helmut Gregor, the child murderer continued his journey.
40:17To Genoa.
40:21Here he exchanged his South Tyrolean passport for an ID card from the International Red Cross.
40:28As a refugee, Mengele could now go wherever he wanted.
40:33This man hatched the escape plan.
40:36Hans Sedlmayr, company secretary in the Mengele family firm.
40:43July the 18th, 1949, off to Argentina, four and a half years since Auschwitz.
40:53Buenos Aires.
40:56Safe harbour for the doctor of death.
40:59From now on, he was on his own.
41:05Helmut Gregor hired a taxi,
41:10which dropped him off at the Palermo hotel.
41:16A simple lodging for new migrants,
41:20who were attempting to give their lives a new meaning.
41:24The dictator Juan Peron admired Nazi efficiency.
41:30Colonel Rudel, a famous pilot, was the eminence grease in the extensive Nazi network in Buenos Aires,
41:36and a close friend of Peron's.
41:53You can buy independence, but not peace of mind.
41:58A flight into pleasure.
42:02His new life was a dream.
42:06He was a man of his word.
42:10He was a man of his word.
42:14He was a man of his word.
42:18He was a man of his word.
42:23His new life was meant to numb the fear.
42:31But he couldn't get the old images out of his mind.
42:35His eighth year since Auschwitz.
42:40Thanks to generous family donations, Mengele became a partner in the pharmaceutical company,
42:45Fadrofarn.
42:47Free from financial worries, he lived in constant fear of being caught.
42:53I was once at his house in the evening,
42:55and he was, of course, totally nervous,
43:01and every little noise, he would look at what was going on.
43:05And that's something that he noticed, of course.
43:09Never talking about what he did.
43:13That he was tired in the morning,
43:16that's certain, I don't forget that.
43:18He sat across from me and sometimes fell asleep on the desk.
43:23In 1956, a letter from Germany led Helmut Gregor to resume his true identity.
43:30His wife, Irena, wanted a divorce.
43:34The doctor of death did not feel threatened and went to the German embassy.
43:40He signed the divorce papers in his real name.
43:44He was tired of the masquerade and applied for a West German passport.
43:48It was treated as routine.
43:50There were no charges outstanding against him.
43:54His passport photo, the only official evidence of what the doctor of death looked like after the Second World War.
44:04Helmut Gregor's name was removed from the phone book.
44:07The new entry was in the name of Mengele, with his address.
44:15In his own name, the mass murderer booked a journey from Buenos Aires to Switzerland.
44:24His plan? A holiday with his son Rolf and Martha Mengele, the widow of his younger brother, Karl.
44:35By a roundabout route, Mengele arrived in Europe and finally reached Switzerland.
44:45Once again, the family's company secretary, Hans Sedlmayr, had arranged everything.
44:521957, twelve years since Auschwitz.
45:00Eight years after his escape, Mengele was almost back home.
45:07First, he went to the smart Alpine resort of Engelberg, not far from the German border.
45:13Mengele enjoyed the triumph of his return.
45:21Nobody here knew who the nice gentleman with the Mercedes really was,
45:26even though he was travelling under his real name.
45:29After the holiday in Switzerland, Mengele took a big gamble.
45:38Returned to Gunzburg with Hans Sedlmayr.
45:46In the early years of his life, Mengele was a very busy man.
45:51Returned to Gunzburg with Hans Sedlmayr.
45:59Back home. The moment of truth.
46:15Mengele in Germany, legally and unchallenged.
46:21After fifteen years, back home at last.
46:26It was only here that Josef Mengele wanted to propose to his brother's widow
46:31a particular satisfaction to the mass murderer.
46:37Thirteen years since Auschwitz.
46:43In 1958, a particularly active group of Auschwitz survivors
46:48laid charges against the child murderer.
46:58June 1959. An international warrant was issued for Mengele's arrest.
47:03The Israeli secret service Mossad started its own search.
47:07Mengele's passport application from Argentina.
47:10It revealed where the hunted man was hiding.
47:14And then Eichmann was abducted.
47:17Paraguay.
47:35The German-born dictator, Strussner, gave the doctor of death Paraguayan citizenship.
47:41While Strussner was protecting his compatriot, others were hunting him mercilessly.
47:47I searched for him for at least a year in South America,
47:53in Montevideo, Chile, Paraguay.
47:58And then, finally, through an SS man who was ready to help us,
48:06we came to his horses in Brazil.
48:10But then suddenly we were all called off to do other things.
48:15Mossad had come so close.
48:18The child murderer went unmolested in his new place of exile,
48:23Serra Negra in Brazil.
48:27Mengele was helped by the Austrian Wolfgang Gerhardt.
48:32He saw to it that his protege had somewhere decent to stay,
48:36where he tried to drown out his fear in song.
48:44Under the trees,
48:50In the green of the vines,
48:57There come the blissful dreams,
49:05It's springtime again.
49:12But unwelcome memories troubled him more and more.
49:28His diary entry for the 18th of June, 1968.
49:33My mood is very unstable.
49:37I'm frightened.
49:40In 1969, the doctor of death moved to São Paulo.
49:48His last friends, the Bossert family.
49:53Uncle Josef particularly liked to play with the children.
49:58The twins in Auschwitz had called Mengele uncle, too.
50:05One more change of address.
50:07One more change of address, the last.
50:12Now he went by the name of his benefactor Wolfgang Gerhardt,
50:17who had given his own passport to the doctor of death.
50:23Hitler's henchman had now reached retirement age.
50:27This is his lover, who was then 25.
50:31She would help him forget and sweeten the autumn of his life.
50:37You know what happens? I never had a special affection for a person.
50:42Because he wasn't just like that. He was like a friend, you know?
50:47Because if I was sad, he would say,
50:50Why are you sad? What's going on? Why are you quiet?
50:54If I was happy, he would say,
50:57Look, today you are happy. What happened?
51:00I mean, he was a person who was interested in knowing.
51:04While the world was hunting the now almost mythical Mengele,
51:08the concentration camp doctor was enjoying his weekends on the beach at Berthioga.
51:19On February 7, 1979, Mengele had a stroke while swimming and died.
51:2734 years after Auschwitz.
51:34He was hunted and never caught.
51:43His punishment was not discovery,
51:47but the fear of discovery.
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