Brian Martin

Nazi on the run: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, by Olivier Guez, reviewed

Guez vividly imagines the haunted life of the infamous Auschwitz doctor who fled to South America in 1947

Josef Mengele, photographed in Paraguay in 1960. [Getty Images]
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  • The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

    Olivier Guez, translated by Georgia de Chamberet

    Verso, pp. 224, £11

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