... The Commission reviewed material available from the RCMP and CSIS, which

determined that the subject was born in 1933, and for that reason could not

have been involved in the commission of war crimes between 1939 and 1945.

CASE NO. 526. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the Canadian Jewish Congress, whose source of information was a private

individual. It was alleged that the subject under investigation might be Dr.

Josef Mengele. ... The Department of External Affairs reported that it had a

record in respect of the individual, but that the individual had been born in

1928 in Canada.... ... Furthermore, the subject's name is not one of the

aliases used from time to time by Josef Mengele.

CASE NO. 561. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, whose source of information was the Canadian Jewish Congress. It

was alleged that the subject was responsible for the deaths of "hundreds of

Jews." No specific evidence of the alleged war crimes was provided. ...

Records of the Department of Employment and Immigration ... indicate that the

subject was born in 1941....

CASE NO. 588.1. This individual was brought to the attention of the Commission

by the RCMP, who were investigating the suspicions of the Department of

Employment and Immigration officials that the individual might be older than he

claims and might be hiding a questionable past, which may have involved the

Nazi Party. ... It was verified [through various investigations] that the

subject is indeed who he claims to be and that he was indeed born in 1929. He

was barely 10 years old at the start of the war.

Sol Littman's Mengele Scare

As another piece of evidence that we are in the midst of a witch hunt a witch hunt in which

Simon Wiesenthal plays the role of chief inquisitor - consider Sol Littman's Mengele Scare. On

December 20, 1984, Mr. Littman - Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center - wrote

to the Prime Minister of Canada unequivocally affirming that

Mengele, employing the alias of Dr. Joseph Menke, applied to the Canadian

embassy in Buenos Aires for admission to Canada as a landed immigrant in late

May or early June, 1962. (In Jules Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War

Criminals, 1986, p. 67)

Then on January 23, 1985, Ralph Blumenthal wrote an article in the New York Times captioned

"Records indicate Mengele sought Canadian visa":

Other records indicate that Mengele applied to the Canadian Embassy in Buenos

Aires for a Canadian visa in 1962 under a pseudonym and that the Canadians

informed American intelligence officials of this attempt.

This information was widely reprinted and broadcast. Subsequently, both Mr. Blumenthal and Mr.

Littman affirmed that the information in this article concerning Josef Mengele came solely from

Mr. Littman. However, following its thorough investigation, the Commission concluded:

There is no documentary evidence whatsoever of an attempt by Dr. Joseph

Mengele to seek admission to Canada from Buenos Aires in 1962.

The affirmation has come from Mr. Sol Littman, and from him alone. ...

The advice which Littman solicited [in the course of his own research] ...

did not support his assumptions, but put him on notice about their fragility.

As stated at the outset, all that Littman could rely on was "speculation,

impression, possibility, hypothesis". Yet he chose to transmute them into

statements of facts which he publicized....

This is a case where not a shred of evidence has been tendered to support

Mr. Littman's statement to the Prime Minister of Canada on 20 December 1984, or

Mr. Ralph Blumenthal's article in the New York Times on 23 January 1985.

(Jules Deschenes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 70)

In view of Sol Littman's irresponsibility in engineering the Mengele Scare, it is not a little

ironic to note that it was this very scare which was the prime cause of the Canadian government