is a town in Paraguay , located in the Cordillera Department . The town contains a German clubhouse, a church, a cemetery, and a statue of José Félix Estigarribia , the President of Paraguay ( August 15 1939 - September 7 1940 ) who died in a plane crash above the town.
It is most notable as the temporary hiding place of Joseph Mengele , the notorious Nazi scientist who experimented on Concentration Camp inmates. Mengele and his wife Martha fled to Altos in 1959 , after the West German government discovered his address in Buenos Aires , Argentina and issued a warrant for his arrest. His wife failed to adjust to their new life and left him. In 1960 , panicked at the increased interest in his wherabouts by Nazi Hunter s and the recent capture of Adolf Eichmann , Mengele left Altos for Hohenhau in southern Paraguay.
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