"The Hunt for Mengele's Suitcase"
What has proven the single most vexing matter I have ever investigated?
Read my article - "THE HUNT FOR MENGELE'S SUITCASE" - in the summer issue of Stay Thirsty Magazine
"For thirty-two years I have unsuccessfully tried to solve the riddle of what happened to a briefcase stuffed with medical notes and lab specimens belonging to Auschwitz's Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. There is no better illustration that no matter how great a journalist's resolve and commitment, some issues stubbornly refuse to be wrapped up with a tidy final chapter."
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c301577-ef76-4250-85bf-ade9beba836f_640x310.jpeg)
Gerald Posner, in 1984 in Asuncion Paraguay, sitting between Colonel Alejandro von Eckstein (on the left), one of Josef Mengele's co-sponsors for citizenship in Paraguay, and Dr. Otto Biss, a German physician who claimed to have treated Nazi fugitive Martin Bormann in Asuncion.