Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who killed thousands of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War, continued experiments on people after he fled from justice to Latin America. Perhaps it is because of Mengele's experiments that an unprecedented number of twins are born in one of the Brazilian towns, says Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa
One in five women who become pregnant in the city of Candido Godoy subsequently give birth to twins, often blonde-haired and blue-eyed, according to The Daily Telegraph. According to Camarasa, this is due to the visits of Mengele, who in the 1960s, under the guise of a doctor, provided medical assistance to local women.
In his new book, Mengele: The Angel of Death in South America, the historian examined the activities of a Nazi criminal in the last years of his life. As you know, Mengele fled Germany in 1945 and hid in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where he died in 1979 without ever being brought to trial.
Camarasa is convinced that in Candido Godoy Mengele continued his experiments to increase the birth rate, which, according to the Nazis, were supposed to help the "Aryan race" take over the world. According to the historian, at first Mengele worked with cattle on farms in Argentina, but fled the country when another fugitive Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, was kidnapped there by the Israelis (in 1960 he was secretly taken to Israel and then executed).
In Brazil, Mengele began to visit Candido Godoy under the guise of a veterinarian and doctor, and soon after that, the number of twins being born skyrocketed, the historian points out. He believes that the city could serve as "a laboratory where Mengele was finally able to fulfill his dreams of creating a superrace of blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryans."
Local residents interviewed by Kamarasa said that in the 1960s, a certain doctor appeared in the city who treated livestock and people, and also engaged in artificial insemination. Former mayor, doctor Anencia Flores de Silva, who at one time tried to solve the mystery of the "city of twins" and interviewed residents, said that the mysterious doctor called himself Rudolf Weiss.
The percentage of twins born varies from country to country. On average, the chance of having twins is 1 in 80. Candido Godoy, where children with the same appearance are born much more often, has long enjoyed the fame of the "city of twins" - this is what is written on the sign that welcomes all visitors. The city even has a special museum - the House of the Twins.
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Josef Mengele from May 1943 to January 1945 was the chief physician of Auschwitz, where he conducted inhuman experiments on prisoners. One of Mengele's tasks was to "increase the fertility of Aryan women." The twins were of particular interest to "Doctor Death": three thousand twins who ended up in Auschwitz were subjected to experiments. Brothers and sisters received blood transfusions and organ transplants from each other. Less than 200 people survived Dr. Mengele's experiments.
