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Dr Death camp documents found

26th March 2010

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Documents discovered in a house near Auschwitz concentration camp could provide new information on Doctor Josef Mengele, the infamous Angel of Death who conducted horrific experiments on prisoners.

Historians from the Auschwitz museum explained that a homeowner had found around 280 documents relating to the work of the SS while carrying out a renovation on his house in Oswiecim.

It is believed that they had lain undisturbed for 65 years after being hidden there before Soviet troops liberated the camp in early 1945.

“This is a really important discovery because the names on the documents are not those of ordinary SS members but high-profile Nazi criminals such as Josef Mengele, the ...

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