Tag: Josef Mengele

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over a new bank bill with the image of a brilliant doctor with Nazi connections

  

  Argentina's Jewish community has expressed outrage at the decision to print a banknote bearing the likeness of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and even backed Josef Mengele's experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Nazi submarine wreck off Denmark torpedoes theory that Hitler fled to Argentina

  

  A missing World War Two U-boat—which has long been rumored to have carried Nazi leaders to South America as the Third Reich collapsed—has been found off the coast of Denmark. The U-3523 submarine, a cutting-edge vessel developed at the very end of the war, was discovered at a depth of around 400 feet, 10 nautical miles north of the Danish Coast, by researchers at Sea War Museum Jutland.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 08:19 UTC

  Did Argentina Trade Visas for Holocaust Loot?

  

  A new book about the darker side of Latin-American politics alleges some disturbing dealings between Argentina and Hitler’s cronies.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 22:23 UTC

  Auschwitz “angel of death” writings and records on auction

  

  More than 4,000 pages of journal entries and other material written by Dr. Josef Mengele, the “angel of death” are to go under the hammer Thursday at a United States auction house.