![]() ![]() “Don’t tell me that you, my only son, believe what they write about me?” he shouted. Sensing his son’s incredulity, Mengele became angry. Mengele even claimed that “twins in the camp owed their lives to him” and that he “personally had never harmed anyone in his life”. “ People were arriving infected with disease, half dead,” his father said, claiming to have done his best to save people by selecting “as many able to work as possible”. Mengele explained to his son that the “Selektions” were analogous to a wartime field hospital where doctors had to make near instantaneous decision on who to save and who to let die. If his father felt so certain of his ground, why had he not turned himself in? “There are no judges, only avengers,” replied his father… But he learned nothing at all about what his father actually did at Auschwitz, beyond his claim that he “had to do his duty, to carry out orders” and that he had “not invent(ed) Auschwitz”. …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 was mentally alert - and also about his dark side - his mood swings, his talk of suicide, his depression and his temper. ( The Jewish Chronicle) 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 allegations that his false accusers had heaped on him and was astonished that his son believed such slander: ![]()
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