Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service is reversing course and will allow limited access to its file on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, currently held at the Federal Archives.
Mengele was notorious for conducting inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
The dossier had been sealed under extended protection rules, with repeated refusals as recently as February this year. But a pending legal appeal has prompted a shift toward greater transparency.
A Zurich historian wants to check claims Mengele may have visited Switzerland in the 1950s and early ’60s under a false identity to go on a skiing holiday with his wife.
Conditions for access are still being defined.
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