Editing Josef Mengele (section)

==Exhumation==
[[File:Mengele US Navy Medicine (page 10 crop).jpg|thumb|upright|Forensic anthropologists examine Mengele's skull in 1986. The skeleton is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine in Brazil.{{sfn|''The Guardian''|2017}}]]
Sightings of Mengele were being reported all over the world in the decades following the war. Wiesenthal claimed to have information that placed Mengele on the Greek island of [[Kythnos]] in 1960,{{sfn|Segev|2010|p=167}} in [[Cairo]] in 1961,{{sfn|Walters|2009|p=317}} in Spain in 1971,{{sfn|Walters|2009|p=370}} and in Paraguay in 1978, eighteen years after he had left the country.{{sfn|Levy|2006|p=296}} He insisted as late as 1985 that Mengele was still alive—six years after he had died—having previously offered a reward of [[USD|US$]]100,000 ({{Inflation|US|100,000|1982|fmt=eq|r=-5}}) in 1982 for the fugitive's capture.{{sfn|Levy|2006|pp=297, 301}} Worldwide interest in the case was heightened by a mock trial held in [[Jerusalem]] in February 1985, featuring the testimonies of over one hundred victims of Mengele's experiments. Shortly afterwards, the West German, Israeli, and U.S. governments launched a coordinated effort to determine Mengele's whereabouts. The West German and Israeli governments offered rewards for his capture, as did ''[[The Washington Times]]'' and the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]].{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986|pp=306–308}}

On 31 May 1985, acting on intelligence received by the West German prosecutor's office, police raided the house of Hans Sedlmeier, a lifelong friend of Mengele and sales manager of the family firm in Günzburg.{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986|pp=89, 313}} They found a coded address book and copies of letters sent to and received from Mengele. Among the papers was a letter from Wolfram Bossert notifying Sedlmeier of Mengele's death.{{sfn|Levy|2006|p=302}} German authorities alerted the police in São Paulo, who then contacted the Bosserts. Under interrogation, they revealed the location of Mengele's grave{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986|pp=315, 317}} and the remains were exhumed on 6 June 1985. Extensive [[forensic]] examination indicated with a high degree of probability that the body was indeed that of Josef Mengele.{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986|pp=319–321}} Rolf Mengele issued a statement on 10 June confirming that the body was his father's and that news of his father's death had been concealed to protect people who had sheltered him.{{sfn|Posner|Ware|1986|p=322}}

In 1992, [[DNA test]]ing confirmed Mengele's identity beyond doubt,{{sfn|Saad|2005}} but family members refused repeated requests by Brazilian officials to repatriate the remains to Germany.{{sfn|Simons|1988}} The skeleton is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine, where it is used as an educational aid during forensic medicine courses at the [[University of São Paulo]]'s medical school.{{sfn|''The Guardian''|2017}}