Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Josef Mengele
Switzerland's Federal Intelligence Service will release previously secret files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. Historians have long sought access to these documents to investigate his potential time in Zurich while an arrest warrant was active. Mengele, known for his brutal experiments at Auschwitz, evaded prosecution and died in Brazil in 1979.
- ▪The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to files on Josef Mengele after years of rejections.
- ▪Historians suspect Mengele returned to Switzerland after an arrest warrant was issued in 1959.
- ▪Mengele was responsible for the deaths of approximately 400,000 people at Auschwitz.
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World News Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Josef Mengele By Jewish News Syndicate Published May 17, 2026, 1:28 p.m. ET The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of rejecting repeated requests by historians who sought to see if the German death camp doctor spent time in Zurich when there was an international arrest warrant against him. Mengele, who has been dubbed the ‘Angel of Death’ for his sadistic experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, fled to South America after World War II but subsequently returned to Europe as a tourist when he visited Switzerland at least once for a ski vacation with his son in 1956.
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