I found myself standing in front of the K Complexes, my father had probably worked on the development of K IV, he probably even inaugurated it. Why that one in particular? The dates fit. My father was posted to Auschwitz Birkenau between January and July 1943, work on the complexes began early in 1942 and was completed in late 1943. By the time he arrived here, I guess the first two were already operational and the third was in the testing phase, the foundations were probably still being dug on K V. In fact, I knew this was true, I had read so many books, so many survivor accounts, I knew all there was to know. This is why I know that Papa was working under the orders of the first Kommandant of Auschwitz, the sinister SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höß, who would later be arrested by the Allies in Bavaria living under an assumed name; he would be tried and sentenced to death by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal in 1947 and hanged in front of one of the Kremas of his beloved Auschwitz. In the summer of 1943, when my father was taking up his new post in Buchenwald, Höß would be replaced by Arthur Liebehenschel and Richard Baer. The first would be arrested and executed in ’48 with the creepy Kommandante of the women’s Lager in Birkenau, Maria Mandl and her deputy, ‘The Beautiful Beast’ Irma Grese, whom Papa probably flirted with between shifts. Richard Baer died in prison awaiting trial in 1963. Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death, escaped via the Franciscan ratline in Italy, and took off for the clear air of Perón’s Argentina to Paraguay and Brazil to invest his part of the immense Mengele family fortune, live it up and die a natural death in 1979 at the age of 68 somewhere in Brazil, leaving behind him the myth of an Übermensch whom even death could not touch. When asked, ‘Why does your father not turn himself in?’ his son, in an interview in New York, replied, ‘That has nothing to do with me, that’s his business.’ If I’d been his son, I would have turned him in and demanded to testify at the trial as one of his victims.