Death
Roschmann died in Asuncion, Paraguay on August 8, 1977. His body was unclaimed at first and there was some question raised as to whether it was truly that of Roschmann. The West German embassy attempted to make a positive identification of the body, which according to a story in the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color, bore papers in the name of "Federico Wegener", a known alias of Roschmann's. The newspapers also reported that the body was missing two toes on one foot and three on the other, consistent with war injuries apparently sustained by Roschmann, and that his body had been identified by a man named Emilio Wolf, who had been a prisoner under Roschmann and who later came to be running a delicatessen in Asuncion. Simon Wiesenthal, then the head of the Jewish Documentation Center, had been trying to have Roschmann brought to justice for a long time. Wiesenthal was skeptical that the body was truly that of Roschmann, saying "I wonder who died for him?"
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