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Wiesenthal's image in Austria has suffered because of a row with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky over former Nazis in Austrian politics. "Two old Jews fight, and the SS men laugh," says Wiesenthal sadly. He realizes that he may have to be content with what he calls "the biological solu-tion"—the hope that Mengele, who has circulatory ailments, will die soon. But that would not satisfy his outrage that a murderer has gone unpunished. And there is no guarantee that the hunter may not go before the hunted.
*Mengele has found his way into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil.