World War II Nazi SS captain chose me to write about compassion for the elderly with dementia

I have worked in elder care for eight years, a job I am passionate about and that brings me happiness.

During this time, I discovered that Georg Bachmayer, an SS captain and subcommander of the Mauthausen concentration camp, faked his suicide in 1945. I gathered evidence that he lived in Spain from 1968 until his actual death in 2008 at the age of 94 from Parkinson’s disease. I wrote a book about this discovery, focusing on it from a social and healthcare perspective with total compassion for dependent elderly people.

Interestingly, my father worked at Bayer, a pharmaceutical company that conducted experiments in Mauthausen, and Bachmayer was born on the same day as my girlfriend at the time, whose surname, Mathiesen, is strikingly similar to “Mauthausen.” The only available date to present my book in my hometown was May 26, the exact date of Bachmayer’s real death.

Frederick Forsyth, a renowned author who wrote about escaped Nazis, lived in Ondara, Spain, where I also resided while writing my book, completely unaware of his connection. Additionally, Forsyth was born in Ashford, England, the very town where I lived when I decided to dedicate myself to elderly care with total compassion.

The coincidences in my life related to this investigation are astonishing and have given deeper meaning to my work.