The World - News from June 26, 1985
Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele ran a business under his own name in Buenos Aires in the 1950s after enlisting the West German Embassy’s help in obtaining his birth certificate from home, the West German magazine Stern said. Mengele got the capital for his chemical company, Fadrofarm, from the prosperous Mengele family in Bavaria, Stern said. The magazine added that Mengele visited Switzerland in 1961 and was identified by police as a wanted Nazi but was not arrested.
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