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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums17 January 1945 Mengele liquidated his lab at Auschwitz. Russians arrived 10 days later
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no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)their irises from brown to Aryan Blue.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)The Japanese did similarexperiments on Chinese prisoners. One was subjecting people to freezing water till death to see how long pilots could last in cold water... uff...
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irisblue
(32,980 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)irisblue
(32,980 posts)Nice article-https://www.history.com/news/how-south-america-became-a-nazi-haven
snip-"Eichmann was hardly alone among Nazis in finding refuge in South America after the fall of the Third Reich. According to a 2012 article in the Daily Mail, German prosecutors who examined secret files from Brazil and Chile discovered that as many as 9,000 Nazi officers and collaborators from other countries escaped from Europe to find sanctuary in South American countries. Brazil took in between 1,500 and 2,000 Nazi war criminals, while between 500 and 1,000 settled in Chile. However, by far the largest numberas many as 5,000relocated to Argentina.
Due to the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who lived in the country, Argentina maintained close ties with Germany and remained neutral for much of World War II. In the years after the end of the war, Argentine President Juan Peron secretly ordered diplomats and intelligence officers to establish escape routes, so-called ratlines, through ports in Spain and Italy to smuggle thousands of former SS officers and Nazi party members out of Europe. As with numerous other fascist-leaning South American leaders, Peron had been drawn to the ideologies of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler while serving as a military attaché in Italy during the early years of World War II. The Argentine president also sought to recruit those Nazis with particular military and technical expertise that he believed could help his country, much like the United States and the Soviet Union who both poached scientists from the Third Reich to assist them in the Cold War."
much more at source
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Plot: Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film)
As a side note I followed this Dutch persons Youtube vid's about riding around the world on a small motorbike. When she was in Chili and Brazil she was amazed how many towns looked much like towns in Germany.. I wonder why.... Hummmm
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appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)Mengele Co. Farm Machinery in Bavaria, south Germany. He was also in the elite SS which oversaw concentration camps like Auschwitz.
Many Nazi SS officers like Mengele received support from the SS at the end of the war and afterwards. With the financial help of the SS and his family, Mengele departed Europe in 1949 from Genoa, Italy to Argentina which had a fairly large German population well before the 2nd World War. He was helped by his family while living and working in So. America where he used an alias. He also wore a large, bushy mustache to help disguise his distinctive gap- toothed smile.
..Wiki. After the war, Mengele fled to South America. He sailed to Argentina in July 1949, assisted by a network of former SS members. He initially lived in and around Buenos Aires, then fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960, all the while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal, who wanted to bring him to trial.
Mengele eluded capture in spite of extradition requests by the West German government and clandestine operations by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. He drowned in 1979 after suffering a stroke while swimming off the coast of Bertioga, and was buried under the false name of Wolfgang Gerhard. His remains were disinterred and positively identified by forensic examination in 1985...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele