Center Will Monitor Any Mengele Windfall
The Simon Wiesenthal Center will try to determine who will benefit from the potential fortune for rights to the life story of Josef Mengele, now that it is satisfied the Nazi death camp doctor is dead, Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the center, said Friday.
“It’s straight blood money,” he said. “We’ll be trying to see who sold what and who’s getting the money.”
Hier said center officials are concerned that money for movie or book rights may end up in the pockets of Mengele’s son and others who sheltered Mengele while the world searched for the Nazi doctor.
“They participated in a cover-up, hiding the world’s greatest murderer . . . and I don’t think they should be awarded for it,” Hier said.
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