Did Mengele Create a Twin Town in Brazil?
Did Mengele Create a Twin Town in Brazil? Wednesday January 28, 2009For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out why one in five births in a small town in Brazil are twins (the usual average is one in 80 births). Could Mengele be responsible? Josef Mengele (a.k.a. “the Angel of Death”) is notorious for being the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz who experimented on twins. At the end of the war, Mengele escaped to South America, leaving many to wonder what Mengele had been doing from the time he reached Argentina in 1949 and his death in Brazil in 1979. Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa believes Mengele, using the pseudonym Rudolph Weiss, made a number of visits to the Brazilian town of Candido Godoiwas during the 1960s to continue his twin research. At first, Mengele posed as a vet, but soon he was giving medical treatment to women. The townspeople remember him administering new drugs and taking blood. Could
