Wednesday, June 06, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1985, authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi Todesengel, who performed horrible experiments on the people, often Jewish and Gypsy children, imprisoned at Auschwitz/Birkenau. That he escaped trial for war crimes is a crime in itself.
Labels: Post WWII history; European theater