The latest, and perhaps the last, chapter in what must rank as the most bizarre search of the century began two weeks ago in a small Bavarian town in West Germany. It quickly led to a Brazilian suburb where, amid a tangle of documents, false names and controversial clues, there emerged the strange tale of friendship between a quiet Austrian couple and the reclusive man who had lived under an assumed name in a modest bungalow. Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian...
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