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THE WEEK, Page 36HEALTH & SCIENCEFarewell to the Angel Of Death
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's remains are finally identified for
sure
The coroners in Brazil who examined the exhumed body of a
drowning victim in 1985 were almost certain that they were
looking at Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who is said to
have whistled opera while selecting which Jews would perish in
the gas chambers of Auschwitz_and who performed horrifying
medical experiments on many of the concentration camp's inmates.
But almost was not good enough for the Israeli government, or
for survivors of the camps who were still haunted by the man who
escaped Allied custody and fled to South America in 1949.
Though German authorities matched the remains to Mengele's
medical and dental records in 1985, they were not 100% convinced
until last week. British scientist Alec Jeffreys compared DNA
from the exhumed bones with DNA from Mengele's living son Rolf
Jenckel and pronounced them a match. The Israelis said they were
satisfied. The genetic testing might have happened sooner, but
Jenckel refused to cooperate until a German prosecutor
threatened to dig up other deceased Mengeles for tissue samples.