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Israeli spy admits Mossad allowed Josef Mengele to escape

A former Israeli spy has described how an operation to capture the 'Angel of Death' Josef Mengele in Argentina had to be called off to prevent the escape of Adolf Eichmann.

Israeli agents were taken off Mengele's trail in 1960 so that agents of the foreign intelligence service Mossad could focus their efforts on detaining Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

With the Eichmann operation going smoothly allowing agents to smuggle the senior Nazi back to Israel where he was convicted of war crimes and executed, they planned to go back later for Mengele.

But by the time agents went back to look for for him Mengele had escaped from Argentina. He died, without ever coming to trial, in Brazil in 1979.

The failure to hold Mengele to account for many cruel wartime crimes such as performing human experiments on inmates at Auschwitz is an acutely sensitive issue for survivors of the Holocaust.
Read entire article at Telegraph