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'''Josef Mengele''' was a Nazi [[SS]] [[Hauptsturmfuhrer]] and physician at [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]], involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in [[Paraguay]]. Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the [[Medical Case (NMT)|Medical Case]] at the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]. | '''Josef Mengele''' was a Nazi [[SS]] [[Hauptsturmfuhrer]] and physician at [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]], involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in [[Paraguay]]. Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the [[Medical Case (NMT)|Medical Case]] at the [[Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]. | ||
The governments of Germany, Israel, and the United States agreed, in 1992, that he was dead. <ref name=DOJ-1992-10>{{citation | |||
| title = In the Matter of Josef Mengele: A Report to the Attorney General | |||
| date = October 1992 | |||
| author = Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division; Neal M. Sher, director | |||
| url = http://www.justice.gov/criminal/hrsp/archives/1992/10-01-92mengele-rpt.pdf | |||
| publisher = Criminal Division, [[U.S. Department of Justice]]}}</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 14:56, 6 November 2010
Josef Mengele was a Nazi SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and physician at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, involved in direct killings and unethical medical experiments on humans. He escaped prosecution and died, in 1979, while swimming in Paraguay. Other Nazi physicians, charged with equivalent acts, were sentenced in the Medical Case at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
The governments of Germany, Israel, and the United States agreed, in 1992, that he was dead. [1]
References
- ↑ Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division; Neal M. Sher, director (October 1992), In the Matter of Josef Mengele: A Report to the Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice