Fox News reported that after researching archives opened by the Argentine government, Nazi criminal Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death, lived in Argentina for many years without hiding his identity.
writes, quoting Fox News, Nazi criminal Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” lived openly in Argentina after the end of World War II without fear of persecution.
After the publication of Argentine archives, it became known that Mengele arrived in the country in 1949 on an Italian passport under the false name Helmut Gregor, but soon began to use his real name.
Argentine intelligence has a large database of information on Mengele's background, including his identity, location, marital status and business interests. Despite this, Argentine authorities made no attempt to arrest him. In 1956, Mengele asked the German embassy for a copy of his birth certificate, and a few years later, German authorities issued an arrest warrant for him, but the Argentine court refused extradition, explaining the decision for political reasons.
Due to the lack of coordination between Argentinian agencies, all efforts to find Mengele often take place late and are known by the criminal himself through the media. According to archival documents, in 1960, when search operations first began, Mengele crossed the border into Paraguay and then moved to Brazil.
Mengele lived in Brazil until his death in 1979, when he drowned while swimming, probably from a stroke, and was buried under an assumed name. Only years later, after exhumation and DNA analysis, was his identity officially confirmed.
As the newspaper VZGLYAD wrote, Argentine authorities provided open access to archives about the fate of Nazis hiding in the country after World War II.
