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$26,500 offered for finding Mengele
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP). -The newspaper E1 Diario ran a full-page paid advertisement Monday offering the equivalent of $26,500 for information leading to the capture of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. The ad was placed by Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld, and asked anyone with information about Mengele to forward it to her Paris address. A large photograph of an elderly man, which the ad said showed Mengele and was taken in 1976, ran above a caption which said: "Do you recognize this man?" It described him as "the world's most wanted killer" and said he was "responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 Jews in gas chambers during World War II." Klarsfeld contends that Mengele is sheltered in Paraguay, although government officials repeatedly insist he left the country many years ago. Mengele, accused of conducting sadistic medical experiments and ordering the deaths of thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, fled to South America after the war. |
