The Boys from Brazil
From the Boston Globe:Â The Mossad agents who went to Buenos Aires in 1960Â to capture Adolf Eichmann found Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death”, but decided not to risk their original mission by going after Mengele. After Eichmann’s capture Mengele moved to Brazil. He was never caught. He drowned in 1979, and the body was identified six years later.
“Mengele was one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on twins and dwarves at the Auschwitz concentration camp and killed children with lethal injections. He selected prisoners who would be subjected to his experiments and sent others straight to their death in gas chambers. . .Mengele was infamous for his sadistic experiments in the death camps. He injected dye into the eyes of twins to change their color and sewed them together to try to create artificially conjoined twins. He ordered twins killed simultaneously and then dissected for examination of their organs. His horrors earned him the title ‘Angel of Death’.
“After the war, Mengele fled Germany under an assumed name and ended up in Argentina, a popular refuge for many senior Nazi officials.”