In 1949 the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele fled to South America. Three decades later, Gerald Posner set out to track him down. Here the former lawyer tells us about his mission to catch the ‘Angel of Death’.
Her father Ernst Albrecht, President of the German state of Lower Saxony from 1978 to 1990, brought unrehabilitated Nazis into his administration and carried out a black-flag terrorist operation designed to discredit the left-wing Red Army.
While readers may be tempted to search for a shred of remorse in Mengele’s last years, the more Guez discloses the doctor’s final thoughts and emotions, the more we are struck with horror.