Forensic Tests Confirming the Presence of Chemical Substances in the Tissue of Mengele's Body Did not Identify This as Mengele

 43 Years Ago Today

Wednesday 7th of February 1979
Nazi doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele aka Der Todesengel suffers a stroke while swimming and drowns at the age of 68 in Bertioga, Região Sudeste, Brazil.
Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identification card he had been using since 1971. The remains were exhumed on 6 June 1985 and extensive forensic examination confirmed with a high degree of probability that the body was Mengele's.

Moreover, forensic tests confirming the presence of chemical substances in the tissue of Mengele's body did not identify this as "Mengele": their identification as Mengele's was confirmed in a special case of the body having been injected with a substance resembling an estrogen receptor in order to induce a condition known to cause breast cancer. Nevertheless, Mengele's name was on a list of potential chemicals suspected by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to be carcinogenic. Accordingly, there was a strong possibility of chemical carcinogenic activity in Mengele's body. Moreover, the EFSA made significant efforts as of 5 May 1996 to find a chemical responsible for a range of cancerous conditions including ovarian, breast, prostate, uterine, prostate cancer, adrenal, endometrial, lung and ovarian cancer with and without Mengele's.