Eighty-five previously unreleased letters and diaries of the "Angel of Death", Josef Mengele, have been found in a Sao Paulo, Brazil police storeroom. The letters were seized in 1985 from the house of a German couple Mengele had been hidden by. Mengele was the brutal doctor who experimented on Jews and others in sadistic ways.

One way in which he would experiment was putting a person in a pressure chamber without protection and then, while watching, reduce the pressure until they went into convulsions and died. He would then study the effects pressure had on them after death.

He also had a fascination with twins. He would infect one twin with a disease and upon the death of the diseased twin then would kill the other, so he could do comparative autopsies.

Mengele died in 1979, at age 66, in a drowning incident and was never brought to justice.

The Scotsman

Extracts from the diaries and letters were printed yesterday by a newspaper in São Paulo.

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Of his own actions in "selecting" whether victims at Auschwitz were to live to work or to be experimented upon, or to be dispatched in the gas chambers, he wrote: "I gave life in Auschwitz, I did not take it."

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But he also remained true to the Führer’s ideal that Jews "should never be allowed to mix their blood with others".

And he wrote not a single word of regret about their destruction on an industrial production-line scale, yet found time to criticise Israel for its "persecution" of the Palestinians as early as 1969.

The Herald

Mengele fled to Argentina in 1949. Ten years later he moved to Paraguay, then to Sao Paulo state in 1960. He drowned in the coastal town of Bertioga, aged 66. DNA tests in 1992 concluded it was Mengele.

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