Posted on 11/30/2025 9:09:23 AM PST by DFG
Documents revealing how infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” led an open post-war life in Argentina were found among a massive trove of evidence released and declassified earlier this year by President Javier Milei.
Mengele was notorious for his role as a commander in Auschwitz, where he conducted brutal medical experiments on prisoners, especially twins, under the guise of scientific research. Eyewitnesses — including some contained in the declassified Argentine files — describe his extremely cold-blooded and macabre, sadistic nature, including torturing and testing on twins in front of one another after sending their parents to the gas chambers.
An entire binder is dedicated exclusively to following the footsteps of infamous Auschwitz doctor and SS commander Mengele.
The declassified archives show Argentina clearly understood by the mid- to late 1950s who Mengele was and that he was actually present in the country. Authorities knew he had entered the country in 1949 using an Italian passport issued under the name Helmut Gregor, which he used as the basis for obtaining an official immigrant ID card in 1950.
Argentina’s archival material sheds light on the networks that sheltered Mengele. Though heavily fragmented and multilingual — featuring Spanish, German, Portuguese and English documents — the archive provides a snapshot of how authorities tracked, archived, mishandled and often took no action regarding the information they had about one of the world’s most wanted war criminals.
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I find this type of information very interesting, I’ve wondered how many Nazis escaped Europe and ended up in Argentina and other South American countries.
There was this feller named Otto Skorzenky. He was a commando for the Nazis. At the end of the war he traded the Allied powers the names of many of the scientists that were scooped up by our side in Operation Paperclip for his freedom and he was able to smuggle a bunch of nazis to argentina after the war where he had served out the rest of his life as the security detail to Evita Peron.
Not so much. Otto Skorzeny (not Skorzenky) entry excerpt:
“While awaiting a West German denazification trial in 1949, he escaped from Darmstadt prison and spent his remaining years in Spain.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Skorzeny
(1908-1975)
Eva Perón (born May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, Argentina—died July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eva-Peron
People might be surprised that many Nazi leaders have children in the US.
I know his body was found many years later in Berlin, but I’ve always wondered what happened to Martin Borman after leaving the Fuher Bunker.
From Google Gemini:
“William Patrick Hitler was the son of Adolf Hitler’s older half-brother and his Irish wife, Bridget Dowling, and was born in Liverpool, England, in 1911. In the 1930s, he moved to Germany, hoping to benefit from his uncle’s power, but was dissatisfied with his treatment and low pay. Fearing for his safety, William emigrated to the U.S. in 1939 and gave talks titled “Why I Hate My Uncle”.
After the U.S. entered World War II, William sought to join the armed forces. After appealing to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and passing an FBI background check, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater and received a Purple Heart after being wounded. After the war, he changed his name to Stuart-Houston to live anonymously, settled in Patchogue, New York, and started a successful business. He passed away in 1987.”
https://navylog.navymemorial.org/hitler-william
https://lyonairmuseum.org/blog/corpsman-hitler-us-navy/
Fascinating-—evil.
Skorzeny also worked for the Mossad.
Many former Waffen SS joined The French Foreign Legion after the war.
He was one of those folks that should have gotten down on his knees every night and pray there is no Hell.
The internet was young in the days when I took early retirement and got into screenplay writing. One of my deepest regrets was that I was still addicted to phone calls rather than emails with a permanent record, and hadn’t gotten into recording phone calls. But there was Brian, a literary agent I turned down who became my best friend. And we spent uncountable hours on the phone talking about EVERYTHING. But that was over 40 years ago and my memory fades. One of my “if only’s”.
One of his enthusiasms was history and Brian had spent time in South America trying to get leads to Mengele for a book he wanted to write and sell. I have only the vaguest recollection of his making an appointment in some country for a lunch with a man whom he believed to be Mengele. It was a short meeting because Brian could bring nothing of use but apparently wasn’t seen as a major threat either, because he did leave safely. But what Brian remembered were the eyes. Cold and frightening.
Coulda - shoulda - found a way to write down so much that was just so vivid at the time.
Now I keep a file called stories.
Too late.
It was interesting. We had no idea that it was about Mengele as the whole film was set after the war, but...as we watched, without them saying so, it began to dawn on me.
How did he survive from 1945 to 1950?
I had an employee whose great uncle was Adolf Eichman. I recognized my employee’s last name so I asked him and told me. I pulled up Adolf’s photo on the internet and he looked just like my employee.
His family dropped the last “N” in thier name to seperate from their infamous relative.
And I should have checked the internet myself this time. Brian DID publish the biography of Mengela.
And he made a brief mention of his trip in an email that I put on my Lost Friends page, and missed while reading my other Brian pages.
“Maybe I am from another planet, but when with a woman I care about, that relationship is the most important thought in my mind. Hell, I flew down to Argentina to meet Mengele and the Nazis, with my mind totally preoccupied with the woman I was in love with who, it had become increasingly clear during the week we spent together in New York, was getting edgy and wanting to return to normal.”
https://books.google.com/books/about/Final_Trace.html?id=9sx_9LWkb_wC&hl=en
Final Trace
Brian Richard Boylan
Bantam Books, 1983 - 298 pages
https://www.abebooks.com/signed/FINAL-TRACE-Boylan-Brian-Richard-Bantam/1309147479/bd
Was he a CIA asset like Klaus Barbie and other Nazi war criminals? Eichmann met Mengele a few times in S.A. Claimed he didn’t like him.
Argentinian Archbishop Antonio Caggiano established the Argentine Catholic Action to help anti-Communists, Fascists, Nazis and their collaborators who were on the run. Thousands of Nazi collaborators from the Catholic and clerical regimes in Vichy France, Slovakia, and Croatia received help to escape to Argentina. In due course, his group extended its assistance to Austrians and Germans.
In August 1948, Austrian Bishop Alois Hudal took delivery of 5,000 visas for distribution by his branch of Argentine Catholic Action to help "anti-communist fighters" from the ranks of Austrian and German soldiers. All they had to do was take their new identity papers to the Red Cross, and they'd receive travel papers. That's how Eichmann and Mengele got to South America.
Adolf Eichmann's name was changed to Roberto Klement. His Red Cross passport number 100940 was issued in Genoa on June 1, 1950. Thanks to his landing permit, he qualified for a travel document, but still needed a reference to prove his bonafides in order to get the passport. A Franciscan priest, Father Eduardo Domiter was linked with a former Captain of German Intelligence, called Reinhard Kops who had fled from Austria to Rome at the end of the war. Bishop Hudal appointed Kops to process applications for immigration to Argentina and installed him in the DAIE (Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas: Central Organization of Argentinian Jews) office in Genoa.
Once Eichmann got his landing permit, and his refugee passport, he went to the Argentinian Consulate in Genoa, where a visa was stamped on his travel papers. He was issued an identity certificate that he would need for his ID card in Argentina. Once he had his medical exam at the DAIE, he was ready to leave Europe. Once Eichmann was settled in Argentina, his wife had him declared dead. She took back her maiden name, but their two sons remained Eichmanns. She got travel papers for the three of them, and moved to Argentina to be with her husband, where she remained until he was apprehended.
Hitler died in the 70s, had two kids so they say. That’s actually far more believable than some dental records.
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