London, July 20 (ANI): The diaries of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death" are set to go under the hammer in the US.
The diaries, written after the end of the Second World War when Mengele had fled to Latin America, contain his philosophical reflections, autobiographical stories and poems written between 1960 and 1975.
The auction will include some 3,500 pages from "hidden journals" written by the doctor who carried out terrible medical experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The items, mostly small, spiral-bound notebooks, are expected to fetch between 185,000 pounds and 247,000pounds when they go on sale at Connecticut-based auctioneers Alexander Autographs on Thursday.
The company, which specialises in historical manuscripts, said the auction would include a "historically important" lot of 31 manuscripts in various forms, including bound journals.
"All writings are penned in ink in a legible hand, in generally excellent condition," the Sky News quoted an auction house spokesman as saying.
"They were seized in 2004 by the police at the home of a German couple with whom he was living in Sao Paulo," the spokesman stated.
He added they were then given to Mengele's son, Rolf, who only saw his father twice in his life. (ANI)
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