Uruguay: Man in the Icebox

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"At Last." In Montevideo meantime, as police reconstructed it, another man calling himself Oswald Heinz Taussig, from Vienna, rented Casa Cubertini for two months and one afternoon moved in a large packing crate—presumably containing the yellow trunk. "At last," he quipped to a neighbor, "we have the icebox." Cukurs arrived in Montevideo Feb. 23 and registered at the Victoria Plaza Hotel about noon. Two hours later, a black Volkswagen rented by Künzle arrived at Casa Cubertini, and Cukurs and a companion walked into the house. An hour later, say neighbors, a group of men left the house and drove off. No one heard anything resembling the sounds of a struggle.

At week's end all the police seemed to have were theories. "Künzle" and "Taussig" had long since disappeared. Cukurs' son claimed that Soviet agents had killed his father for his harsh wartime treatment of Communists. Nearly everyone else suspected a secret group of Jewish agents. No one in Germany or Israel admits knowledge of a group called "Those Who Can Never Forget." Yet last week, in an anti-Nazi demonstration in Tel Aviv, some marchers carried boldly lettered signs that read: "We can never forget."