Which South-American Country?

[Jaga]

Main language is not Spanish nor Portuguese but Native American based?
Josef Mendele was hiding until the end of his life (Nazi connection ?
Had the longest dictatorship until 1989 among South American countries?
Is much larger than Great Britain, or Poland?
Has the most prominent German community in Latin America?

[Jaga]

By the way, there were no traffic lights on the streets even in the capital, at least until 80s

[karl]

Jaga

Your questions is a challenge of that I am not sure of. With the question of traffic lights, my best guess would be Brasilia {Brazil}. The second guess of Indians speaking not Spanish or Portuguese would one or more tribes that live in the upper Amazon in the Amazon basin. This is a very large area that is not only remote, but not a good place for white people to be. This is the area of many small river branches that make up the head waters of the Amazon river. It is very large and tropical with very excellent savannas that would be in normal conditions, highly excellent for cattle raising.

The only Indian tribes amongst the very many that come to mind are: Piraha and Kayapos, I am sorry, but that is the only names that come to mind at the moment.

My Spanish is Castilian from my early days whilst working for my uncle in Buenos Aires to then our family Estancia in Uruguay.



Interesting man, Josef Mengele {Wolfgang Gerhard}, excellent education, very skilled at his profession as a physician. But in war time, made a bad choice after being wounded to then become the death Angel at Auschwitz. The following is a dry history of a mans life, how he lived and his accomplishments.




Josef Mengele



(March 15, 1911 - February 7, 1979?)


Early Life


Born March 16, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany

Parents were Karl (1881-1959) and Walburga (d. 1946) Mengele

Two younger brothers: Karl (1912-1949) and Alois (1914-1974)

Nickname was "Beppo"

1926 diagnosed with osteomyelitis


Education and beginning of WWII


1930 graduated from the Gymnasium

March 1931 joined the Steel Helmuts (Stahlhelm)

January 1934 SA absorbsed Stahlhelm

October 1934 left SA because of kidney trouble

1935 awarded PhD from the University of Munich

January 1, 1937 appointed a research assistant at the Third Reich Institute for Heredity, Biology, and Racial Purity at the University of Frankfurt; worked with Professor Otmar Freiherr von Vershuer

May 1937 joined the NSDAP (member #5574974)

May 1938 admitted to the SS

July 1938 awarded medical degree by University of Frankfurt

October 1938 began basic training with the Wehrmacht (lasted three months)

July 1939 married Irene Schoenbein

June 1940 joined the medical corps (Sanitätsinspektion) of the Waffen SS

August 1940 appointed an Untersturmführer

Attached to Genealogical Section of the Race and Resettlement Office in occupied Poland

June 1941, sent to the Ukraine as part of the Waffen SS; received the Iron Cross, Second Class

January 1942 joined the Waffen SS's Viking Division medical corps; earned the Iron Cross, First Class by pulling two soldiers out of a burning tank while under enemy fire; also awarded the Black Badge for the Wounded and the Medal for the Care of the German People; wounded

End of 1942 reposted to the Race and Resettlement Office, this time in its headquarters in Berlin

appointed to Haupsturmführer (captain)


Auschwitz


May 30, 1943 arrived at Auschwitz

Conducted medical experiments on twins, dwarfs, giants, and many others

Seemingly constant presence and participation in the selections at the ramp

Responsible for selections in the women's camp

called "Angele of Death"

March 11, 1944 his son, Rolf, was born

Sometime middle of January 1945, he fled Auschwitz


On the Run


Arrived at Gross-Rosen camp; then left before Russians liberated it on February 11, 1945

Spotted at Mauthausen

Captured as prisoner of war and held in a POW camp near Munich

Received papers from fellow prisoner, Dr. Fritz Ulmann; for vanity reasons had not gotten blood type tattooed beneath arm, American Army did not realize he was a member of the SS and released him

Aliases include: Fritz Ulmann, Fritz Hollmann, Helmut Gregor, G. Helmuth, Jose Mengele, Ludwig Gregor, Wolfgang Gerhard

Remained on George Fischer's farm for three years

1949 escaped to Argentina

1954 his father came to visit him

1954 divorced from Irene

1956 had his name officially changed to Josef Mengele

1958 married his brother, Karl's, widow - Martha Mengele

June 7, 1959 West Germany issued its first arrest warrant for Mengele

1959 moved to Paraguay

1964 the Universities of Frankfurt and Munich withdrew his academic degrees

Assumed that his remains were buried in Embu, Brazil in a grave marked "Wolfgang Gerhard"

Believed to have died on February 7, 1979 on the beach at Bertioga in Embu, Brazil while suffering a stroke while swimming in the ocean.

February 1985 a public trial, in absentia, was held at Yad Vashem

In June 1985, the body in the grave was exhumed for forensic identification.

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

I am glad you were trying so hard to find all this information. We are learning our all life. You were right about Indians and their native language. But this is Paraguay we talk about.

+++Mendele in 1959 moved to Paraguay+++

Paraguay is one of the countries which are rarely visited for tourism.

Recently Anthony Bourdain visited Paraguay in search for relatives:
www.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown/season-4/paraguay/index.html#autoplay=true

and here is more about its history and dictatorship:

The dictator | Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda - Paraguay