MENGELE

Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death."

From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).

Not only is Mengele based on sometimes astonishing revelations gleaned from the doctor‘s private writings, but lt includes groundbreaking interviews with some Mengele relatives, the neo-Nazi families who afforded hirn safe haven in South Arnerica, and everi some Israeli Mossad agents who for the first time spoke about how they had located but failed to capture hirn in the early 1960s. Nineteen of the twenty chaptets are about Mengele‘s life on the run and how he got away.

With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.

Gerald L. Posner is the international bestselling author of HITLER‘S CHILDREN (transiation nghts also a‘ailable), CAS CLOSED: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, and KILUNG THE DREAM: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He lives in New York City and is working on his next book.
Producer and author John Ware lives in London.