SAO PAULO, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The German doctor known as the Angel of Death for his part in the murders of hundreds of thousands of Jews during World War II was unrepentant to his end.
Josef Mengele, who fled the Third Reich as it collapsed and finally settled in South America, kept dairies that have only recently been revealed, the Scotsman reported Monday.
The diary material and letters, found last month at the federal police building in Sao Paulo, were seized in 1985 from the home of the German couple who hid Mengele, who died in 1979.
His personal writings reveal an absence of remorse for his crimes against humanity, continued support for Adolf Hitler's plans to create a master race, and admiration for South Africa's apartheid.
Of his own actions in "selecting" whether victims at Auschwitz were to live and work, be experimented upon, or sent to the gas chambers, he wrote: "I gave life in Auschwitz, I did not take it."
Mengele, the gifted son of a rich industrialist, has been held responsible for the deaths of as many as 400,000 people in the infamous Polish death camp.
