Switzerland to Open Secret Files on Auschwitz 'Angel of Death' Josef Mengele

- The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele after years of historians’ requests to determine if he spent time in Zurich while an international arrest warrant existed.
- Mengele, the Auschwitz “Angel of Death,” fled to South America after World War II and is known to have visited Switzerland at least once for a 1956 ski vacation with his son.
- Historians have long suspected Mengele returned to Europe, specifically Switzerland, after a West German arrest warrant was issued in 1959.
- Research noted his wife rented an apartment in Zurich near the international airport, and local police observed an unidentified man entering the flat.
- The decision to open the files followed a historian’s public legal appeal; no date was given for when restrictions would be lifted.
- Mengele served as Auschwitz’s chief physician from 1943 to 1944, oversaw selections, and sent about 400,000 people to their deaths in gas chambers; he conducted medical experiments on prisoners.
- Like many Nazis, he fled Europe using Red Cross travel documents under a false identity at the Swiss consulate in Genoa.
- He died in Brazil in 1979 at age 67, never prosecuted despite knowledge of his true identity.
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