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...modest bungalow. Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today. Now 74, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," has become not only a symbol of evil but the world's most hunted and elusive war criminal. He also carries the largest bounty ever placed on a human being: $3.4 million...
...reward money grew to that sum last week when the government of Israel and the World Zionist Organization offered $1 million to anyone not working in an official capacity who "causes Nazi Criminal Josef Mengele to be brought to trial in Israel for the terrible crimes and atrocities he perpetrated against ( the Jewish people and humanity." Among the previous rewards offered are $320,000 by the West German government, $1 million by the conservative U.S. daily the Washington Times, owned by the Unification Church, and $1 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles...
...horrific stories kept pouring out, each more grisly than the last. One survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland described how he had had one of his testicles removed on order of Nazi Medical Researcher Josef Mengele. Another recalled that the doctor had taken two toddler twins and sewed them together as Siamese twins. In one Auschwitz lab, said Vera Kriegel, a wall was covered with human eyes, extracted by Mengele and "pinned up like butterflies." Said Kriegel: "I thought I was dead and was already living in hell...
Historically, architects have made notable contributions to domestic accessories. From 1903 to the 1930s, Vienna Visionary Josef Hoffmann and others produced jewelry, tableware and even wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art inspired mid-century classics like the Eames lounge chair. Frank Lloyd Wright not only fashioned lamps and dinnerware to complement his houses, but even lent his name to mass-produced furniture, carpets and fabrics...