Editing Gerald Posner (section)

=== ''Mengele: The Complete Story'' ===
Posner's first book, co-written with British journalist [[John Ware (TV journalist)|John Ware]], was the 1986 biography ''Mengele: The Complete Story''. The book was the result of a five-year ''pro bono'' lawsuit that Posner brought on behalf of survivors of Josef Mengele's medical experiments at [[Auschwitz]].<ref name="bitterlawyer.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.bitterlawyer.com/gerald-posner-cravath-to-controversy/|title=Gerald Posner: Cravath to Controversy – Bitter Empire|date=June 10, 2009|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018035531/http://www.bitterlawyer.com/gerald-posner-cravath-to-controversy/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Posner and Ware obtained exclusive access to 5,000 pages of Mengele's diaries and personal papers for their book.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133d/essays/Posner1986TPolfer083.htm|title=Tiffany Polfer on Posner (1986)|access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>"How Nazi War Criminal Josef Mengele Cheated Justice for 34 Years," Chicago Tribune Magazine, May 18, 1986.</ref> The book was critically recognized as the "definitive" biography of Mengele.<ref>
* "A fascinating account of Mengele's life on the run and the fruitless efforts to apprehend him." "Mengele: The Complete Story: A Review," by Harry Trimborn, ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', July 13, 1986, p. 9
* "The book effectively paints a picture of a lonely, embittered Nazi.  It knocks down decades of myths that Mengele was shielded by a protective squad of underground Nazis."  "Book Review: Mengele, Entertainment, United Press International, July 18, 1986, BC Cycle
* "The research is remarkable."  "Escape for the Angel of Death, Mengele: The Complete Story," by John Gellner, ''The Globe and Mail'' (Canada), July 19, 1986, p. D17
* "The Mengele story has now been told, excellently, by the authors of this book&nbsp;..." Books: Evil of the Mediocre/Review of Mengele, by Norman Stone, ''The Sunday Times'' (London), August 31, 1986, Issue 8456
* "Well researched and wonderfully free of all the customary fantasy and exaggeration&nbsp;... Fascinating."  "The Death Doctors," by [[Neal Ascherson]], ''The New York Review of Books'', May 28, 1987
* "This highly engrossing book gives the fullest account yet published of Josef Mengele's life&nbsp;..." "Mengele: Review," Publishers Weekly, June 1986
* "It's a pity that the official search for him did not match the vigor with which Posner and Ware stalk their subject in print."  Mengele: The Complete Story, Book Review Supplement, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', July 1986.</ref>

Posner testified before the [[United States Senate]] in 1986 about how Mengele used an [[International Red Cross]] passport to travel safely from Europe to Argentina in 1949.<ref name="kahler.org">{{Cite web| url=http://kahler.org/mengele.pdf | title=How Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele cheated justice for 34 years | access-date=December 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203002058/http://www.kahler.org/mengele.pdf | archive-date=December 3, 2012 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all}}</ref>  He also testified about the discovery made by himself and Ware that Mengele had twice been captured by U.S. Army troops in 1945, but released both times before authorities realized he was on several wanted lists.<ref name="kahler.org"/>

In June 1986, Posner appeared with Mengele's only son, Rolf Mengele, on the ''[[Phil Donahue Show]]''. Syndicated columnist, [[Lewis Grizzard]], called the hour-long live program "an incredibly compelling piece of television journalism."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1986/06/26/a-riveting-program-on-angel-of-death/|title=A Riveting Program On 'Angel Of Death'|access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref>

Some of the content in ''Mengele: The Complete Story'' was utilized by the [[United States Department of Justice]]'s [[Office of Special Investigations (United States Department of Justice)|Office of Special Investigations]] (OSI), which in, February 1985, began an in-depth investigation into Mengele's post-war activities and whereabouts. The investigation, done in conjunction with the [[United States Marshals Service]],  was launched after allegations that Mengele was at any time in the custody of or had any relationship with U.S. government institutions or personnel after World War II. In its official report to the [[Attorney General of the United States]] in 1992, ''In the Matter of Josef Mengele'', OSI noted it was indebted to Posner for obtaining a witness statement concerning Mengele's whereabouts from October 1945 to August 1, 1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/criminal/hrsp/archives/1992/10-01-92mengele-rpt.pdf |title=In the Matter of Josef Mengele }}</ref>