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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Digging Up Josef Mengele
Description: Notorious Nazi doctor, âAngel of Deathâ Josef Mengele, spent the last twenty years of his life on the run. His remains were recovered in SĂŁo Paulo on 6th June, 1985, when Brazilian Police dug up the grave of a man named âWolfgang Gerhardâ - later proven to be Mengele, whoâd drowned at a beach resort at the age of 68.Mengele, responsible for sending up to 400,000 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz, was able to escape to Argentina via Italy after the War, even living freely under his real name for a period, before Mossad and âNazi Hunterâ...