Veteran Says He Saw Mengele as U.S. Prisoner
AP
From The New York Times
Published: February 15, 1985
A former United States Army soldier said today that he believes he saw Dr. Josef Mengele, the accused Nazi war criminal, in American custody shortly after World War II.
Walter Kempthorne, a 59-year-old retired engineer from Riverside, Calif., told reporters at the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies that he saw Dr. Mengele when he was a guard at a prison camp in Germany.
Mr. Kempthorne's responsibility was to prevent German prisoners from escaping or committing suicide.
One day while he was with another guard, Mr. Kempthorne said he encountered two other guards who were forcing a prisoner to exercise. He asked who the prisoner was.
''He then looked at me and with sort of a smirk, said, 'This here's Mengele,' '' Mr. Kempthorne said. He said the guard told him that the prisoner had sterilized thousands of women at Auschwitz, and added, ''We're getting him in shape to get hung.''
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