Eldorado: Mengele Alive or Dead? (2020)
Eldorado: Mengele Alive or Dead?
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Within world history, Josef Mengele has become one of the most hated and despised characters of all time. And it's no wonder: a Nazi, he was Adolf Hitler's right-hand man to carry out medical experiments. The cruelty was barbaric and shocking when the world discovered details. In 'Eldorado: Mengele Alive or Dead?', director Marcelo Felipe Sampaio explores the story of the German doctor and, above all, focuses on his passage through South America after the end of the Nazi regime. The most interesting, however, are the accounts coming from the Eldorado neighborhood, on the border of the cities of Diadema, São Bernardo do Campo and São Paulo, where Mengele supposedly lived under another name. There are dozens of stories and even conspiracy theories that come together in one sense, and that should shed light on the obscure life of this man who never paid for his crimes.
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A return to the story of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's passage through South America. Conspiracy theories report that the border of Diadema, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Paulo was the center of German immigration. In the Eldorado neighborhood, on the border of these cities and bathed by the Billings Dam, lived a gentleman named Pedro Hochbichler, one of the aliases adopted by the alleged Mengele. Mengele fled to the US leaving a double in Brazil.
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