Hiding Mengele

A Brazilian journalist's investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for  hiding "The Angel of Death," the infamous Nazi doctor who fled to South America and escaped  justice for over thirty years.

After the end of World War II, Josef Mengele, known worldwide for unimaginably cruel human experiments and for sending thousands of people to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. He was a fugitive for  thirty-four years, more than half of them in Brazil, sought by the Israeli secret service and Nazi hunters  until his death in Bertioga in 1979. Hidden in Brazil, Mengele created his own paradise, a life where he  could speak German, maintain his beliefs, his friends, and his connection with the homeland. It was only  possible thanks to a small circle of expatriate Europeans willing to help him until the end. 

One such person was Austrian ex-pat Liselotte Bossert, who buried Mengele with false documents to  keep his true identity hidden even after his death. When the world finally discovered where the remains of  Josef Mengele were in 1985, Liselotte was a kindergarten teacher at a German school in S£o Paulo. She  was escorted from the premises without further explanation to the students. One six-year-old student,  Betina Anton, could not let this mystery go. Decades later as an experienced journalist, Betina decided to  investigate, but when she found Liselotte, she could not imagine how deep this case would take her.

Translated from the Portuguese and based on extensive research, including interviews, unpublished documents, and news coverage from that  era, Hiding Mengele is a suspenseful narrative not only haunted by the doctor's horrific experiments, but  also by the motivations driving a community to protect one of the most evil people known to mankind.