Re: Mengele: The Complete Story
I remember that from the book, too. Romantic and sad.
That book is really only valuable for such direct quotes from the man himself and anecdotes from those who knew him. The rest is a lot of convoluted Freudian garbage by the journalist biographer who never misses an opportunity to insult his subject, even going so low as to ridicule Mengele's physical appearance several times. It would be much better to read the diaries directly without this lawyer/investigative journalist/author interrupting every other paragraph to shout at us "This guy was a horrible person!"
Mengele and Gitta Stammer did have an affair, but she refused to admit it out of embarassment. The book talks of an incident where the Stammer children saw their mother and "Peter" lock themselves in a bedroom to be alone with one another. He also apparently had sexual flings with just about every young female farmhand the Stammers hired. He kept himself occupied. :-)