Josef Mengele - The Hunt for a Nazi Criminal

Dr. Josef Mengele was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, infamous for his deadly medical experiments on twins. But at the end of WWII, he simply disappeared. Not even Mossad could track him down and he died in Brazil, still a free man 34 years after the war had ended.

How could this come about? The doctor responsible for horrifying experiments on living human brings in Auschwitz, who had weeded out the incoming prisoners and sent thousands of them directly into the gas chambers, was considered one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals.

Nevertheless, he lived undetected in Germany until 1948 and under his own name in Argentina until 1959, although the German government was aware of both his crimes and his whereabouts. It was not until 1959 that German prosecutors issued arrest warrants. Mengele first moved to Paraguay, then to São Paulo in Brazil. In particular, the Israeli intelligence service Mossad was after him and he narrowly managed to escape its agents twice. But who was Josef Mengele? How was he able to go to ground after the end of the Second World War and lead a new life without being recognized? Our documentary reconstructs his life and talk to family members and acquaintances - as well as experts who draw a psychological profile of the so-called "Angel of Death of Auschwitz."