SCIENTISTS DECIDE BRAZIL SKELTON IS JOSEF MENGELE (original) (raw)
World|SCIENTISTS DECIDE BRAZIL SKELTON IS JOSEF MENGELE
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- June 22, 1985
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American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced jointly today that a skeleton recently exhumed from a graveyard near here was unquestionably that of Dr. Josef Mengele.
A separate report by American experts concluded that the bones were those of the long-sought Nazi death-camp doctor ''within a reasonable scientific certainty.''
Under questioning, the Americans said they had ''absolutely no doubt'' of their findings and ruled out any possibility of a hoax.
U.S. Accepts Conclusions
In Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d said the Justice Department accepted the group's conclusion, while in Los Angeles, officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies said they were ''99 percent'' satisfied that the skeleton was Dr. Menegle's. [Page 8.] There was no immediate response from the Israeli authorities, who had said last month that they would await the forensic experts' reports before drawing a conclusion on whether or not the remains were those of Dr. Mengele.
''I came here not knowing whether it was or wasn't Josef Mengele,'' said Dr. John J. Fitzpatrick, acting chairman of the radiology department at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and a forensic radiologist selected as an independent expert by the Wiesenthal Center. ''I go home fully convinced that it was Mengele.''
Brazilians Also Emphatic
Brazilian Government authorities were equally emphatic. ''It is our scientific opinion that this exhumed skeleton belongs to Josef Mengele,'' said Romeu Tuma, the federal police chief of Sao Paulo, who has headed the investigation since a burst of evidence from West Germany led here three weeks ago.
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