The World - News from June 27, 1985
West German television audiences viewed a stark documentary on the life of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, culminating in an emotional confession from his son, Rolf, that he was relieved to learn that his father had died. The prime-time ZDF network report catalogued Mengele’s grisly experiments on Auschwitz death camp inmates and played tapes in which the fugitive, believed to have died in Brazil in 1979, ranted at his Brazilian friends.
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