Mengele: The Complete Story

by Gerald L. Posner, John Ware, Micheal Berenbaum (Introduction)

Overview

Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815410065
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/08/2000
Edition description:	1ST COOPER
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 8.88(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Gerald L. Posner is the bestselling author of Hitler's Children, Case Closed: Lee Harvey 'swald and the Assassination of JFK, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He lives in New York City. Producer and author John Ware lives in London.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Preface	xxv
1	The Formative Years	1
2	Auschwitz: May 1943--January 1945	19
3	Arrested and Freed	59
4	Flight from Europe	86
5	Argentina: Lull before the Storm	94
6	Flight to Paraguay	117
7	Operation Mengele	133
8	One Step Ahead	148
9	The Man in the Watchtower	161
10	"We Could Have Had Him"	182
11	Chasing Shadows	192
12	"I've Seen Mengele"	206
13	"He Was an Impossible Man"	220
14	Greetings from Afar	230
15	"We Don't Know Where Mengele Is"	244
16	"Pedro," the Neighbor	258
17	"Now I Can Die in Peace"	271
18	"My Life Is at an End"	284
19	"Keep Everything a Secret"	290
20	"Dust to Dust"	305
	Notes	327
	Bibliography	349
	Index	355

Editorial Reviews

It's a pity that the official search for him did not match the vigor with which Posner and Ware stalk their subject in print.

The San Francisco Chronicle

[A] welcome addition to the study of the Holocaust.... Mengele offers us insight into one of the most infamous perpetrators of the holocaust.

Michael Berenbaum

Students of the Holocaust are fortunate to have this book in print once again. Posner and Ware have aptly titled their book; this is the complete story. The authors bring flair to the telling. It is a riveting tale.

The Historian

Well researched and wonderfully free of all the customary fantasy and exaggeration.... Fascinating.

New York Review of Books

[A] welcome addition to the study of the Holocaust.... Mengele offers us insight into one of the most infamous perpetrators of the holocaust.--Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University

It's a pity that the official search for him did not match the vigor with which Posner and Ware stalk their subject in print.-- "The San Francisco Chronicle"

Students of the Holocaust are fortunate to have this book in print once again. Posner and Ware have aptly titled their book; this is the complete story. The authors bring flair to the telling. It is a riveting tale.-- "The Historian"

The fullest account yet published.... Posner and Ware examine the efforts to bring the doctor to trial, separate fact from legend, account for the false trails that enticed Israeli agents and self-appointed Nazi hunters, and explain why he was never caught. ... Mengele is filled with startling touches. The book is an exciting chronicle of escape, evasion, and close calls.-- "Publishers Weekly"

Well researched and wonderfully free of all the customary fantasy and exaggeration.... Fascinating.-- "New York Review of Books"

From the Publisher

Well researched and wonderfully free of all the customary fantasy and exaggeration.... Fascinating.

The New York Review Of Books