Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz ‘Angel of Death’ Josef Mengele

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.

Historians have long suspected Mengele returned to Europe — specifically Switzerland — after West Germany issued an arrest warrant in 1959.