In January 1945, Auschwitz was liberated and Mengele was listed as a war criminal. However, he evaded an Allied manhunt and escaped to South America, where he lived in hiding until his death in 1979. Tragically, he was never brought to justice. In February 1945, von Verschuer managed to ship equipment, his library, and boxes of records to his home in Solz (Müller-Hill 1998). He had other documents destroyed, including all of his correspondence with Mengele, before his institute was taken over by the “enemy.”
