One of the leaders of Nazism, nicknamed “The Angel of Death”, passed after World War II to New Helvecia, Uruguay, where he married.
Local media reported this Wednesday the appearance of swastikas in Nueva Helveciaa small town of Uruguay where Joseph Mengele, one of the leaders of Nazism got married 65 years ago. It is a rock with the symbol coined by the Nazis carved on it and a cistern cover with the same element.
The Nazi discovery in Uruguay
The owners of a house in the Uruguayan town of Nueva Helvecia – located 120 kilometers west of Montevideo – were organizing and cleaning the garden this Tuesday when they accidentally unearthed the rock, and then found the lid with Nazi symbols. Next to the swastikas the number 1943 is inscribeda year in which the Second World War (1939-1945) was still in progress, and in which, apparently, the house would have been built.
The owner of the property spoke with the local newspaper Helvecia, where she declared: “these pieces are a dark part of our history” and also added: “it is incredible that we have found this material, It is really very removing“We still don’t know what we are going to do with this.” Mengele married his brother Karl’s widow, Martha María Wil, in Nueva Helvecia, as discovered in 2008 by Uruguayan researcher Héctor Amuedo.
Nueva Helvecia today has approximately 10 thousand inhabitants. It was founded in the mid-19th century by European immigrants, mostly German and Swiss, under the name of the Swiss Colony. In the years of World War II, This town brought together Nazi sympathizers.
Mengele in South America
Josef Mengele was a German doctor and Nazi officer, who carried out macabre experiments on Jews and gypsies in the Auschwitz concentration camp, in addition to selecting thousands of prisoners for execution in the gas chambers. At the end of the war, escaped to South America. In 1949 he fled to Argentina, under the name Helmut Gregor.
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Once Germany requested his extradition, he fled to Uruguay, where he passed through Colonia Switzerland (today Nueva Helvecia). He then escaped to Paraguay, ending up in Brazil. There, “The Angel of Death”, He drowned in 1979although it was only confirmed that it was him in 1985. A film about Mengele’s escape is currently in post-production.
Source: Ambito
