Josef Mengele Rolf Mengele

Speaking with evident anguish the son rolf mengele a 42 year old west german lawyer acknowledged having secretly visited his father in brazil two years before dr.

Josef mengele rolf mengele. When rolf mengele the son of josef mengele finally got to meet his notorious father hiding out in brazil in 1977 his father flatly denied all the false allegations that his false accusers had heaped on him and was astonished that his son believed such slander. A departure from my normal posting of vintage music i am also an historian focusing on the world wars. Birth of a monster josef mengele was born to a wealthy family and despite his later atrocities he was a handsome genial and popular person as a boy his obsessions were music the arts and skiing. 16 march 1911 7 february 1979 also known as the angel of death german.

He received ph d s in anthropology and medicine. In one letter to. Mengele s drowning there in. Ira levin s 1976 novel and later film the boys from brazil.

Rolf mengele said he learned of his father s death from a letter written by wolfram bossert an austrian who was a nazi supporter and who with his wife liselotte became close friends of mengele. In the 14 days that rolf spent with his father he learned a lot about him the fact that he spoke latin and greek that he. Rolf mengele is a lawyer in the southern german city of freiburg. Todesengel was a german schutzstaffel ss officer and physician during world war ii he is mainly remembered for his actions at the auschwitz concentration camp where he performed deadly experiments on prisoners and was a member of the team of doctors who selected.

I captured this interview in 2012 from the 1985 docu. Rolf hochhuth s 1963 play the deputy featured a mengele character with the stature of absolute evil. Up until that point he had tried to live with it even though it would forever link him with his infamous father the so called angel of death. The family has owned a farm machinery manufacturing company in guenzburg a town near munich since before world war i.

In the 1980s rolf mengele decided to change his name.