Arguably the most notorious Nazi fugitive, Dr Joseph Mengele earned the nickname the ‘Angel of Death’ for his perverse and sadistic experiments at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war, Mengele escaped to Buenos Aires where he lived the high-life on the run. That is, until 1959 when the West German government indicted Mengele for mass murder and demanded his extradition.

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