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Reports in The Times (“Secret Files Yield Data on Nazi Mengele,” Feb. 11) tell of West German and Argentina knowingly assisting Dr. Josef Mengele in the 1950s. The supply of passports and other documentation to one of the worst war criminals of Nazi Germany illustrates the complicity of top bureaucrats in the decades-long cover-up of the whereabouts of this war criminal.
The current upswings of neo-fascist groups in eastern Germany and Austria again indicate a willingness or lack of resolve of German leaders to attack fascism head-on. Should not the victors over Nazism evoke a loud voice condemning the cover-ups of the 1950s German government, as well as the lack of leadership from German officials today versus neo-fascist groups in eastern Germany?
MARK SILVERMAN, Marina del Rey
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