The World - News from Nov. 15, 1985
A retired Israeli diplomat said that Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal inadvertently gave out misinformation that harmed efforts to find Josef Mengele, the death camp doctor of World War II. Benno Weiser Varon, Israeli envoy to Paraguay from 1968 to 1972, said Wiesenthal’s report that Mengele was living in the Paraguayan jungle steered pursuers away from his actual residence in Brazil. In the Mengele case, Wiesenthal “failed miserably,” Varon said. He appeared before a group of Holocaust survivors meeting in Terre Haute, Ind., to review the Mengele case.
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