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Title: Mengele: The Complete Story by Gerald L. Posner, John Ware, Michaael Berenbaum, Michael Berenbaum ISBN: 0-8154-1006-9 Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A dispicable Man's tale.
Comment: Posner delves deep into the life of one of the sickest, most disgusting human beings to ever walk the planet earth. The Angel of Death, as Mengele has been refered to was the chief "medical" officer at the Aushwitz death camp, during its hayday in the latter part of WWII. Posner examines his life from boyhood, through the end of his life, hiding in Peru. The chapters that involve Auswitz are the most horrific I have ever read. This book is an absolute must for anyone who is interested in the war or the Holocust. Mengele is arguably as sick as Adolf Hitler himself, and his life must be examined to ensure it never happens again. I am a huge fan of Posner. I believe this is his most important work.
Rating: 2
Summary: Flawed documentation fails to prove Mengele hid in Brazil
Comment: WHERE WAS JOSEF MENGELE IN 1962?
There is a serious gap in Posner's research which leads me to question his reasons for writing this biography. Despite having access to an enormous CIA file on Mengele, Posner fails to document the period when Mengele was supposedly hiding out with the Stammer couple in Brazil.
Gerald Posner is the much-publicized author of several other cover-up books on the Kennedy and King assassinations. His research methods and commitment to truthfulness are often questioned.
The same sloppiness is evident in his writing on Mengele. Posner uses quotes from Mengele's diary until 1962 and then skips to 1969. He quotes from some undated letters to his son which must have been written in the mid-to-late sixties because in them Mengele comments on Rolf's studies at university. Nowhere in this biography is there evidence that Mengele wrote anything from Brazil in the period 1962-69.
The sixities were a tricky period for Mengele: the period when (according to witnesses testifying before a US Congressional committee set up under President Clinton to investigate allegations that the CIA experimented on humans) Mengele (under the name "Dr. Green") is said to have participated in MKULTRA in CIA-funded projects at various universities and military bases in the US and Canada.
Posner does nothing to disprove these allegations, and does not (of course) mention them. In a footnote he briefly mentions Mengele's family in Germany kept all his letters EXCEPT for the period between 1963-1969. More likely, the CIA does not want those letters to become public, because they would show Mengele was no longer in Brazil, but doing "research" in America.
Supposedly Mengele hid out in the Brazilian countryside from the early 60s to his death in 1979, when he is said to have drowned after suffering a strike while swimming off the coast. Posner claims he worked all those years at "manual labour" -- as a farmhand and carpenter -- while Mossad and West German intelligence were looking for him in Paraguay. There is nothing in Mengele's letters or authoritarian behavior around the farm to suggest he had any tolerance for manual labour.
Posner says Mengele's hosts were Geza and Gitta Strammer, a married couple from Hungary, who put him up in Brazil after he left Paraguay. Posner documents this living arrangement with quotes from Mengele's diaries as well as witnesses who lived or visited the Stammer's, up to 1962 when Mengele and his host and hostess had a serious falling-out.
After the summer of 1962, there are no more quotes from Mengele's letters or diary entry until seven years later! Posner produces not one witness testimony or photograph to indicate that Mengele actually remained in hiding in Brazil during that period (1962-69).
Interviews with the Stammers indicate serious conflicts with their house-guest, Mengele, coming to a head in 1962. Several people say Mengele and his hostess, Gitta Stammer had an affair. His diaries and Gitta's story show that things became "tense" between the couple and their guest in 1962. It defies credibility that after having an affair with Gitta, and fighting with the entire household, Mengele would have gone on living "between four walls" and under the same roof with them until 1974, as Posner asserts. Posner invents an explanation: the Stammers swallowed their resentment because they were dependent on Mengele's money and co-ownership in property, and allowed him to stay with them for another 12 years!
One photo of Mengele shows him visiting his son in Switzerland in 1956. Posner's next photo of Mengele, undated, taken in Brazil, the doctor has aged about 15 years, put on weight, grown grey and stooped. Presumably Mengele did not want to be photographed after 1956 while he was a fugitive, but then why did he allow himself to be photographed in the late sixties and early seventies when he was still being hunted? The last photos show him as a contented-looked old man, puttering around the farm -- he is back in Brazil, and seems to be enjoying his retirement. Do these last images jive with Posner's claim that Mengele spent all those years as a fugitive, with a couple he already despised in 1962? I don't think so.
Posner is clearly constructing a careful fabrication to hide dangerous evidence that Mengele probably left Brazil in 1962 to work in the US and Canada on CIA experiments with human beings which were paid for by the US military.
In 1962, Eichmann was hanged, after being deported from Paraguay and put on trial. This would have made Mengele nervous about remaining in South America, which was the focus of the Nazi hunters. What would have made it POSSIBLE for him to get out of Brazil, is that after 1962, Mossad and the West German government scaled down their hunt for Mengele, which remained concentrated in Paraguay. The world believed Mengele was still in Paraguay, when he had fled to Brazil. Ffforts to find him in Brazil failed even though the German police raided the home of one of his supporters in Brazil in 1964. They found no trace of Mengele. Not surprising, since he had gone to America!
Posner has written a highly-publicized, CIA-supported and funded cover story to throw readers off the trail of Josef Mengele, and keep us from finding out the truth about MKULTRA and other atrocities. The truth about Mengele -- that he worked for the United States government on mind control research, and retired wealthy in Brazil in the early seventies -- would require another author, one who could get his hands on the CIA's Mengele files. The CIA gave Posner access to their extensive file on Mengele, including his 5000-page diary, so he could construct a flimsy smokescreen. Next question: Where are those documents now and who can access them?
Rating: 1
Summary: Informative but hardly objective
Comment: This book is mostly about Mengele's personal life and his life on the run. Thankfully, it only spends one chapter on his time at Auschwitz. The most valuable part of this book is where the authors discuss the media circus that started up around Mengele, which continued even after his death. Simon Wiesenthal is a businessman who seeked to profit from the hunt for Mengele. The chapter which discusses Auschwitz includes some information from the controversial and mysterious "Miklos Nyiszli" whose existence is doubtful. The book's one strong point is that it dispels the myths about Mengele the extremely dangerous comic-book character with superhuman powers of escape and evasion. It gives a more realistic portrayal of Mengele as a very capable and skilled doctor with some personality flaws, growing into a lonely, depressed old man. Mengele's evasion was the result of being highly alert, having dependable friends, and sheer luck. This book cannot be taken as historical literature because of the non-objective point of view it is written from, and it cannot be taken as a biography because of its GLARING OMISSIONS from a period of Mengele's life in the 1960's, so it can only be categorized as "Holocaust Literature," and it comes with all of the usual bias and slant.
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Title: The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Lifton ISBN: 0465049052 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel ISBN: 0140169318 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli ISBN: 1559702028 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the Ss Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger, Primo Levi ISBN: 0306806983 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 by Gerald L. Posner ISBN: 0375508791 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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