Rolf mengele biography template

For years while the world searched, the son of the man known as the

”Angel of Death” kept silent, shielding the secret that protected one of the most infamous Nazi fugitives.

Last week, on West German television, Rolf Mengele, a 41-year-old lawyer, spoke publicly for the first time about his decision, portraying himself as torn between the law and family loyalty in refusing to tell authorities where his father, Dr.

Josef Mengele, could be found.

It was, he said, ”an insoluble conflict” that was only resolved by his father`s death, attested to by a battery of forensic experts who this month identified the skeleton of a man drowned in Brazil in 1979 as Mengele.

”On the one hand, he was my father,” Rolf Mengele said.

”On the other hand, there were those accusations, those horrible pictures of Auschwitz. I was very relieved that this solution (Mengele`s death) took place and no other, maybe through a trial–as important as this certainl