Mengele probe

Press, 8 February 1985, Page 6

Mengele probe

NZPA-Reuter Washington The United States Government announced yesterday it would open an investigation into the whereabouts of Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal known as the “Butcher of Auschwitz,” and the “Angel of Death”. “The investigation will seek to compile all credible evidence of the current whereabouts of Mengele, as well as information concerning his movements in occupied Germany and his suspected flight to South America,” the Attorney General, Mr William French Smith, said in announcing the probe. Mengele, wanted in West Germany and Israel for war crimes, has been accused of taking part in the murder of 400,000 Jews during World War II and of performing hideous medical experiments on concentration camp inmates. The investigation by the Justice Department’s Nazihunting Office of Special Investigations would also seek to determine the credibility of reports that he had visited the United States in the past, Mr Smith said.