| The Search for Mengele | 
 enlarge | Director: Brian Moser
Actors: Josef Mengele, Rolf Mengele, David Frost
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 66991
Format: Black & White, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 78 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 913409
UPC: 720229913409
EAN: 0720229913409
ASIN: B001B2E5IY
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
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Product Description
THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS NAZI FUGITIVE
The most notorious of 24 SS doctors at Auschwitz concentration camp, Josef Mengele, "The Angel of Death," sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths and performed appalling experiments on living children. For forty years after the Second World War, he was one of the world's most wanted war criminals - yet he was never brought to Justice. The Search for Mengele Examines his life through the eyes of those who knew him and traces his escape through Germany to Italy, then to Argentina, Paraguay and ultimately, Brazil, where he drowned in 1984.
Those who protected him talk of the infamous Nazi doctor living out his last years in poverty, cut off from his wealthy family back home - and subject to perhaps the final irony, hiding out amongst a multi-racial society. But is it too easy to simply dismiss Mengele as a monster? Was he alone responsible, or was he the product of a warped system of values? If so, could the whole gruesome episode of history be repeated in the future? And why was he never caught? "The Search for Mengele" seeks the answers to these questions.
Filmed in ten countries including Germany, Israel, Poland and Brazil and featuring numerous interviews The picture which emerges of Mengele from the interviewees in the film is often quite different from the standard view. They describe his years as a "likeable" and "outstanding" student in Germany, as a highly qualified young doctor, a "strikingly handsome" SS officer on the Eastern front and, later in life, as an embittered and paranoiac fugitive. Interviewees include Rolf Mengele, who visited his father in Paraguay in 1977 and pressed him to answer for his past actions. In Rolf's words, "'If they really wanted to get him, they could have, but there were long periods in his life when they did not want to."
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After the Angel of Death August 8, 2008
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"The Search for Mengele"
After the Angel of Death
Amos Lassen
Of all the Nazis aside from Hitler, Josef Mengele was the most infamous. He was responsible for sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths as well as performed the worst medical experiments on adults and children. After the war was over, Mengele managed to escape justice for forty years.
First Run Features is releasing "The Search for Mengele", a documentary on the hunt for the notorious Nazi. Narrated by David Frost, the film traces Mengele's escape through Germany to Italy and then on to South America to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil where he was finally died. The movie looks at Mengele's life as recalled by those that knew him and we hear how he lived during his final years as he remained undercover in a multi-racial society, something that he worked to eliminate in Germany. The film also raises the question that Mengele cannot be dismissed as a solitary monster because that would be a bit too convenient. The film questions whether Mengele alone could have been solely responsible for the deaths and it is possible that he was just the product of a "warped system of values". Is there a possibility that something like the reign of terror of the Third Reich could happen again? Most important is the question of why Mengele was never caught.
"The Search" was filmed in ten countries and features interviews and photographs and it looks at Mengele's life and his crimes as well as at those that aided him in eluding justice and we learn that if the agencies of the world really wanted to catch him he could have and would have been caught.
Perhaps the most interesting interview is with Rolf Mengele who discovered that his "Uncle Fritz" was actually his father.
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