Ratlines (World War II)
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The ratlines were systems of escape routes used by Nazis and their collaborators to flee Europe from 1945 onwards in the aftermath of World War II. Two primary routes developed independently with thei
Italian passport used by SS officer Josef Mengele to immigrate to Argentina under a false name
A travel ID issued to a Croatian national by the International Committee of the Red Cross
Pro-Nazi industrialist Petter Forsström
U-530's crew was probed about their potential complicity.
Josef Mengele
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Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research
Ratlines (World War II)
…of significant Nazis and their collaborators escaped, including Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić, as well as Schutzstaffel (SS) officers Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, both perpetrators of the Holocaust. Starting in 1947, the United States utilized Draganović's network and an official at the International Refugee…
Mengele at Solahütte in 1944
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Birkenau, May/June 1944
(from l. to r.) Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Höss at Solahütte in 1944 (Höcker Album)
Jewish children kept alive in Auschwitz for use in Mengele's research. They were liberated in January 1945.