Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz 'Angel of Death' Mengele
Swiss authorities will grant historians access after decades of secrecy, as the files may clarify whether the Nazi doctor passed through the country.
- The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service announced it will open long-sealed files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, though officials withheld a specific release date for documents previously restricted until 2071.
- Known as the 'Angel of Death,' Mengele sent as many as 400,000 people to their deaths at Auschwitz; despite fleeing to South America after World War Two, persistent rumors suggest he visited Switzerland in 1961.
- Historian Gérard Wettstein successfully challenged the secrecy in court, raising 18,000 Swiss francs through crowdfunding to argue that keeping files sealed fueled conspiracy theories.
- Federal Intelligence Service officials stated access remains subject to undefined 'conditions and requirements,' prompting Wettstein to warn, 'I fear we will get a file that is more black than transparent.'
- Historians, including Sacha Zala of the Swiss Society for History, suspect the files contain references to foreign intelligence agencies like Mossad rather than evidence of Mengele, suggesting the secrecy reveals Swiss sensitivity.
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The classified files about notorious Nazi criminal Josef Mengele were supposed to be locked away in the archives until 2071. Now Switzerland is turning the tables – and announcing that the documents will be released soon. Perhaps the mystery of Mengele's connection to the Alpine country will finally be solved.
Historians have long tried to determine whether SS doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele was in Switzerland after the war – and if so, when. Now the Swiss intelligence service has agreed to open its secret archive.
Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz 'Angel of Death' Mengele
The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of rejecting repeated requests by historians who sought to see if the German death camp doctor spent time in Zurich when there was an international arrest warrant against him.Mengele, who has been dubbed the 'Angel of Death' for his sadistic experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, fled to South Ame…
Switzerland to declassify files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele. Historian’s crowdfunded bid made it happen
Historians believe secrecy behind files reveals more about Switzerland than they may ever do about Mengele, who was dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ and fled Europe in 1949.
The Swiss intelligence service is going to release a large quantity of documents regarding Josef Mengele, the 'angel of death' of Auschwitz. They had been sealed for years. The question now is what they contain.
Hidden Nazi secrets? Switzerland to open Mengele files
Swiss intelligence authorities announced they will open long-sealed files connected to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, raising new questions about whether the Auschwitz “Angel of Death” secretly operated in Switzerland after World War II. Historians believe the files may reveal previously hidden details about Mengele’s possible movements in Europe after an international arrest warrant was issued against him in 1959, including suspicions he ente…
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