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u.s. Department of Justice

Criminal Division

In the Matter of Josef Mengele

A Report to the

Attorney General

of the United States

October 1992

Prepared by:

Office of Special Investigations Criminal Division

Neal M. Sher

Director

Eli M. Rosenbaum

Principal Deputy Director

I

U. S. Department of Justice

washington, D.C. 20530

OCT -I 1992

MEMORANDUM

TO: FROM:

SUBJECT:

Robert S. Mueller, III .

Assistant Attorney

Neal M. Sher, Director

Office of Special Inves gations

criminal Division

Mengele Report

Enclosed is a copy of OSI's report "In the Matter of Josef

Mengele."

The report is the cUlmination of our investigation, commenced in 1985, into the whereabouts and postwar activities of this infamous Nazi criminal. I would like to acknowledge the outstanding contributions made to the investigation and to the preparation of this report by the following former OSI personnel: Deputy Director Michael Wolf, Trial Attorney Philip L. Sunshine, and Chief of

Investigative Research David G. Marwell.

cc: Mark M Richard

Enclosure

I - i -

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Part I: postwar Whereabouts • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Four-Part Focus • • • •

The Search for Evidence • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • •

Mengele's Autobiography as a Source ••• . . 7 7 8 13 I. The Idar-Oberstein Question: Mengele a POW? • • •• 16

A. The Idar-Oberstein Camp • • • • • • • • . • • • • • 16

1. Background • • • • • • • • • • • . . • •• 16

2. The Idar-Oberstein Revelations • • • • . • •• 18

3. Conclusion • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 20

B. Thomas Berchthold • • • • • • • • • • • •. 21

C. Josef Mengele: American POW • • • . • • • • • • •• 23

1. POW Records Reveal Little • • • • • • • • • •• 24

2. Mengele's Immediate Postwar Movements. . • •• 26

a. Mengele Joins Hospital Unit • • • 26 b. No Man's Land . • • • • • • . • • 27 c. Camp One: Schauenstein • • • •• 29 d. Camp Two: Helmbrechts. .• • • • •• 32

D. The Release of POWs • • • • • • • • • • • • 35

1. Release Procedures • • • • • • • • • • • • 38

2. Attempts to Prevent Release of War Criminals 40

a. Automatic Arrest Categories • • • • • •• 40

b. Wanted Lists • • • • • • • • • • • •• 40

c. Blood-type Tattoos • • • • • • . • • • 42 E. A Note on the witnesses • • • • • • . . • . 43

1. Dr. Kahler • • •• •• • 44 2

• Dr. U lmann • • • • ••••• • • • 44

F. Conclusion... • • • • • •• .••• • 52

II. The Guenzburg Question: Was Mengele Living

Openly Under His Own Name? • • • • • • • • • • • • • 53 A.

The Mengele Family and Guenzburg • • • • • • • • 53

1. The Military Government Detachment • • • • 56

2. U.S. Contact with the Mengeles • • • • •• 58

3. Conclusion • • • .• • • • • • • 61

B. Mengele in Rosenheim • • • • • • • . • • • • • • 62

1. Visit to Millers • • • • • • • • • • • 62

2. Visit to Soviet Zone • • • • • •• 64

3. Life on the Farm • • • • . • • • • • . •• 65

4. Whereabouts Unknown ••••••• • •• 68

C. Conclusion........... •• • • • • •• 69 III. The Gorby Question: Arrest of Mengele in 1946-1947? • • 70

A. 1946 Arrest? • • • • . 71

1. News of Mengele's Arrest: Origin and Spread 74

2. The Gorby Memo . . . • • . . • • • • . • • 81

3. Gisella Perl . . . . • • • • . • • . . • • • . 83

4. French Reaction to News of Mengele's Arrest. . 86

-ii - B. The Search for Josef Mengele • • • 90

1. War Crimes Organization • • • • • • 91

2. Irene Mengele Is Questioned. • • • • • • • • • 94

a. Automatic Arrest • • • • • • • • • • • 94 b. Allegations Against Mengele • • • • • 96

3. Wanted Lists • • • • • • • • 101

C. What Might Have Been • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 103

1. Doctors' Trial ••••• • • • • • • 103

a. Mengele Dead in 1946? • • • • • • • • • • 108

2. Extradition to Poland. • • • • • • • • •• 111

a. Polish Auschwitz Trials • • • • • • • 115

D. Conclusion. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 118

IV. The Barbie Analogy: Mengele in the Service of the U.S.? ....•......•.. a.. • • • 119

A. Mengele' s Escape from Europe • • • • • • • • • • 120

B. Mengele's Residence in South America. • •••• 127

1. Argentina. • • • • • • 127

2. Paraguay • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 128

3. Brazil • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 129

C. No Contact with u.s. .. . . 134

D. Never Entered the U.S. • • • • • • • • • • ••• 134

E. Conclusion. • • • • • • • • • •• 135

Part II: Whereabouts 1985 . . . . . . . .

• • 136 I. II. The A. B. C. Is A. B. C. D. Search for Mengele • • • • • • • • • • 138

Collection of Reliable Identifying Data

obtaining All Available Information on Mengele • • • 139
• • 141

144 pursuing Leads • • • • • • • •• • • • • • •

Mengele Dead? • • • • • • • • • • • • preliminary Determination • • • •

1. Discovery of a Body • • • • • •

2. Mengele Lived in Sao Paulo Area ••

3. The Preliminary Identification

Remaining Questions • • • • • • • • • •

1. Osteomyelitis.... • • • • • • •

2. Skull-photograph comparison.

3. Other Medical Issues ••••

• 146 • 146 146
• • • • • • 149 • • 152 • • • • • • 157 • • • • • • 157 • • • 159 • • • 162 • 167

4. Circumstantial Issues ••••••

Reaching a Conclusive Finding • • • • • • • 172

1. Osteomyelitis..... • • • • •

2. The Search for Mengele's X-rays

Completing the Investigation • • • • • •

1. Examination by Dr. Roqev • • •

2. New Medical Records From Germany

3. DNA. • • • • • e, • • • • • • • • •

••••• 172 • •• 179 • • • • • • 185 • • • • 187 • 188 • • • • • • 188

Conclusion

• • 192

Postscript

• • 194

Introduction

For more than two decades, former 5S Hauptsturmfuehrer [Captain] Josef Mengele wa$ the most notorious Nazi criminal thought to be alive. Mengele served during World War II as a "doctor" at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi- occupied Poland, where more than one million prisoners, the overwhelming majority of them Jews, were systematically executed. Y When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, Mengele and his "doctor" colleagues "selected" for slave labor those who appeared medically "fit" (thus consigning them to toil under inhumane and often deadly conditions) or who could be used by the Third Reich in some other way. All other prisoners, the vast majority, were immediately murdered by gassing in specially designed asphyxiation chambers. Mengele was also notorious for performing grotesque pseudo-medical experiments on prisoners --children and adults alike --especially those who were twins. In 1981, the state Prosecutor in Frankfurt issued a warrant for Josef Mengele's arrest. Y

This document, included in the

appendix to this report, contains a lengthy recitation of Mengele's crimes. It is perhaps most accurately described as a catalog of horror. Mengele is accused of murder on a colossal The most recent estimate by the Polish government is that between 1.1 and 1.5 million persons died at Auschwitz, among them at least 960,000 Jews. These figures have been tentatively accepted by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial museum and institute. The state Prosecutor in Freiburg im Breisgau had issued an arrest warrant in June 1959. The Frankfurt state Prosecutor subsequently assumed jurisdiction over crimes committed at Auschwitz, and a new warrant based on more extensive evidence was issued in 1981; see appendix p. 1. - 2 - scale. He held in his pointing index finger the power of life and death for the hundreds of thousands of innocents whom he confronted as they stepped from the overcrowded freight trains that brought them to Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland, some from the farthest corners of Europe. In a grotesque perversion of the physician's role, Auschwitz's so-called "Angel of Death" employed his knowledge of the workings of life in order to destroy it. He determined who would die immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and who would be exploited for labor or Nazi "science" before being killed. On some, he carried out ghastly experiments without their consent, in an attempt to advance a twisted pseudo science. Beyond the scale of these crimes, what is perhaps most shocking is their range: from the "detached" direction of mass killings to the personal murder of young children for the "sheer pleasure" of it. These were crimes that prosecutors were prepared to prove before a court of law. Because of his highly visible and significant role in thequotesdbs_dbs23.pdfusesText_29

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