(DELETED) JOSEPH MENGELE, NAZI WAR CRIMINAL (W/ATTACHMENT)

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• Case Number: F-2020-00953
• Publication Date: June 10, 1974

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1. Attached herewith is a memorandum concernin_ Joseph VNGEL E,
a psi' War Criminal. who has been hidin,- in Paraguay for the pash�twenty yeers.
2. Mr. Robert TROSTL E, a strinzer for the Chicago Daily Mcws and
the New York Times, is preparing scoe news articles on Men,:ele. Embassy
Officials are 51ertiO3 their Headgl:arters in Washir._tan to possible.daLaagin;
effects of the articles towards Paraguay's image abroad.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Results of Debriefings of Robert Trostle
Concerning Josef Mengele
1. At about 1400 hours on 4 June, Mr. Peter Jacoby as4S
invited me to participate in a debriefing session with Mr.
Robert Trostle, a stringer for the Chicago Daily News. �
Trostle had been attempting to determine the whereabouts of
Joseph Mengele, the former Nazi doctor who had been in charge
of the medical set up in Auschwitz. Trostle had spoken to the
German Ambassador Von Sothen in an attempt to determine �
Mengele's present location in Paraguay. The German Ambassador
did not have any recent specific information and gave the
implication that they would just as soon not actively attempt
to find Mengele. He did say that a former German solder by
the name of Federichi had been beaten to death last year by
Israel terrorists who thought he was Mengele. Federichi's
wife lost portions of one of her ears and her stomach was
cut open as a result of the beating. She survived the attempt
and-apparently wrote a letter to the German Ambassador request-
ing a pension as the result of her husband being a former
soldier. These people were well known to the local Paraguayan
inhabitants. They came from East Prussia at the end of WW II
in an attempt to get away from political activities.
2. "Trostle, on the basis of the recommendation of
Ambassador Landau, went to the Tirol Hotel near Encarnacion
and spoke to the manager, Armando Reynerats, a former Belgium
citizen and pro-Nazi who reportedly knew Mengele very well.
Reynerates said that the last time he mw Mengele was in 1970.
Mengele had been a frequent guest and visitor and had resided
in the nearby German community called Hohenau on a farm owned
by Alvin Krugg. Reyneratc,s said that Mengele was a nice
person, that he had provided medical assistance to many people
at no charge; that Mengele most frequently played a card
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game called Scat; that he never talked politics but would
frequently visit the hotel. He stayed there overnight on four
or five different occasions. Reynerats recommended that
Trostle speak to Pastor Held, a German minister who lived in
Hohenau since 1970 and who had known Mengele well. When
Trostle spoke to Pastor Held, he initially said that he had
never heard or knew of Mengele. Pastor Held asked Trostle
who had sent him and when Trostle mentioned the name, Reynerats,
Pastor Held then confessed that Mengele had lived there He
said that he was afraid of revealing the details to a stranger.
Pastor Held recommended .that Trostle speak to Ebald Krugg and
said that he could provide more details on Mengele. When
Trostle spoke to Krugg, Krugg admitted that he was a Nazi and
was awaiting the rebirth of the Nazi Party of Latin America.
At first he refused to admit that Mengele had been at his
house, then later admitted that he could contact Mengele, if
needed. Krugg said that he had provided details to two German
magazines about two years ago, and that later a Paraguayan
identifying himself as President Stroessner's private -Secretary
came to his house and advised him he had better keep his
mouth shut on this matter and not to release any further
data. Krugg said that Mengele still comes around, but that
he has his protectors (body guards).
3. Dr. Miguel Angel Bestard, Secretary General of the
Ministry of the Interior, gave Trostle the names of two
people who might be able to help him. The first was Dr.
Guillermo Heike, the Consul for Finland and a practicing
dentist. Heike also admitted to being a Nazi. According to
Bestard, Heike was Mengele's dentist. Heike said that he
had never been Mengele's dentist, but then immediately discussed
In detail Mengele's teeth. He later admitted to having changed
Mengele's teeth. Heike said there were two people who could
provide details on Mengele. The first, Werner Jung, President
of the Paraguayan Nazi Party, an adamant Nazi who was forced
to leave Paraguay and now lives in Barcelona, Spain. He was
an intimate friend of Mengele. The second was Otto Bias, a
medical doctor who formerly served in the medical corps of
the German Army as a doctor. Trostle described Bias as an
elderly man who knew Mengele well and as the only medical
doctr in Paraguay who had extensive contact with Mengele on
a professional basis. According to Bias, he was called in
as a consultant on a medical case approximately six years
ago (circa 1968) because Martin Bormann was then living with
Mengele and was seriously 111. Biss said that he had per-
sonally treated Bormann and impled that Bormann was still in
Paraguay and still required medical treatment for his illness.
Rissmdd that Mengele is here in Paraguay and that he would
think about providing Trostle with research data. Bias said
that Mengele had undergone p1P-stic surgery, and that he looks
much younger than his age. Bias asked if Trostle had seen
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Cesar Agosto SONABRIG who was Mengele's attorney in Asuncion.
Sonabrig was the second name that Bestard had recommended to
Trostle because Sonabrig was Mengele's lawyer when Mengele
applied for citizenship. He resides at 1066 F. R. Moreno in
Asuncion (F111gencio R. Moreno #607 is reportedly a house in
which Mengele lived.) The house apparently was well secured
and guarded by what Trostle called armed heavies." When
Sonabrig spoke to Trostle, he said that he had only met
Mengele on one occasion when he had to prepare his brief for
the supreme court on his request for citizenship. He des-
cribed this as only a professional occurrence, and that they
did not speak of politics. Sonabrig did not admit to having
any recent contacts with Mengele.
4. Robert Thompson, the ABC newspaperman, has done a
lot of investigative work on tneThengele case. Somehow he
was able to come up with the police file on Mengele. In the
file he has Mengele's passport application, the passport
number, the identity card which was issued to Mengele in
1959, the papers for obtaining citizenship, and a certificate
for good conduct for the past five years (issued in 1959). The
interesting part is that Jung certified and swore on the
hhalf of Mengele and gave Mengele's address as Jung's own
residence. Mengele apparently had married a woman named Martha
Maria Will. In the passport application, Mengele gave the
wrong name for his mother (his matronym) or at least gave the
wrong one which Trostle had from the German archives.
Trostle said this might have been in an attempt to .use the
matronym in his passport for travel so that he wouldn't have
to travel under the name of Mengele. M-3nge1e has received
several Paraguayan passports, the 7.3Et recent application was
last year--1973. Trostie said that a one-year old pnoto of
Mengele is in the passport files which is located in the
police department.
5. According to Trostle, a source whom he has in the
Paraguayan government whom he declined to identify, gave him
a rather cryptic message. The source said that it would be
very interesting to find out who is actually residing at a
home in Hohenau which Is lizted to a person named A. Wanderer"
with telephone No. 6. The government source implied that
this might be Mengele's residence. Most important of &al Is
the fact that Trostle claims DT. Bestard admitted to him that
Mengele is 'still in Paraguay.
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NOTES which ma be of interest:
Name Alfred ENSTEIN also appears as witness for
citizenship
Mengele, from 1954 to 1959, lived in Argentina. First
arrived in Paraguay in 1951. Moved between Brazil.
Argentina and Uruguay.
Father - Karl Mengelt
Mother - Walburga Hupfauer
1957 travelled to Germany
11 August 1962 - German Embassy started extradition
procedures. In November 1962 issued orders for his
arrest. On 16 November 1970 again issued orders for
his arrest. (Judge Manuel Antonio Perez Dominguez.)
Has worked as a representative for Vest German firm sell-
� ing farm machinery.
Obtained Paraguayan citizenship on 27 November 1959.
In 1960 Isareli agents were looking for Mengele and
he left Paraguay for Brazil.
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