The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service announced today (Monday) that Josef Mengele's archive materials will be made available to the public.
For years, Swiss authorities prevented access to the archival materials of the 'Angel of Death of Auschwitz' from the time he was in the country "to protect intelligence sources and sensitive information.".
According to a report in Kan News, after a number of members of parliament filed an appeal, it was decided that the public would be granted permission to review various documents, under conditions and restrictions to be determined later.
Josef Mengele worked as a doctor at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, where he was responsible for the selection process and sent hundreds of thousands to their deaths. Mengele was infamous for his experiments on twins.
After the war, he fled Germany and, like other Nazi criminals, emigrated to South America.
He died in 1979 in Brazil, where he lived under an assumed name.
About a year ago, an investigation was published on the German public broadcasting network MDR that located a police file on Mengele, which had previously been considered lost.
The documents, which apparently originated in the archives of the Argentine Federal Police, contained explosive information about Mengele's whereabouts after World War II, including documents showing that he attempted to enter the Federal Republic of Germany in February 1959. The file contained a corresponding request to Argentine authorities, which had not been previously documented.
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