in 1985, burda-verlag purchased from rolf mengele the handwritten notes of his father, josef mengele, which consisted of several thousand pages, for one million deutsche marks, which resulted in the bunte's publishing a series of articles on the notorious doctor from the auschwitz concentration camp, who was among the perpetrators of gruesome medical experiments on live human beings. the burda-verlag did not pay royalties from reprints to rolf mengele, instead they went to the survivors of auschwitz and their dependents.