A notorious Nazi doctor known as the 'Angel of Death' is behind an alarming number of twins born in a small Brazilian town, a historian has claimed.
Josef Mengele was an SS physician in Auschwitz concentration camp where in a bid to create a master race for Adolf Hitler he carried out genetic experiments to find the key to producing twins.
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is behind the high proportion of blond-haired, blue-eyed twins in a Brazilian town, according to a new book
The aim was to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate.
In 1945 he fled the advancing Red Army and made his way to South America.
It is there that the medic, who is believed to have been responsible for up to 400,000 deaths in medical experiments at Auschwitz, may have succeeded in his mission.
Baffled scientists had been struggling to come up with a reason for the high proportion twins in the tiny Brazilian town of Candido Godoi - most of them blond-haired and blue-eyed.
A staggering one in five pregnancies there have resulted in the birth of twins - the usual rate is one in 80.
Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa has now come up with an astonishing theory.
In a new book, Mengele: The Angel Of Death In South America, he has pieced together the Nazi doctor's later years after his flight in the face of the Red Army advance.
The Russian forces liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
The town regularly celebrates its number of twins, this picture was taken in 2006
[size=-2]This picture listed on the town's website under 'twins' shows another gathering of the community's offspring[/size]
The residents of the Brazilian town claim Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s.
He first claimed to be a vet but then offered medical treatment to the women, providing them with strange potions and tablets and asking for blood samples.
After spending time in Argentina and Paraguay, in 1963 Mengele started making regular trips to the predominantly German farming community in Brazil.
Mr Camarasa claims it was soon after that the birthrate of twins began to spiral.
The entrance to Candido Godoi, which declares Farming Community And Land Of The Twins
'I think Candido Godoi may have been Mengele's laboratory, where he finally managed to fulfil his dreams of creating a master race of blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans,' he said.
'There is testimony that he attended women, followed their pregnancies, treated them with new types of drugs and preparations, that he talked of artificial insemination in human beings, and that he continued working with animals, proclaiming that he was capable of getting cows to produce male twins.'
The town's official crest shows two identical profiles and a road sign welcomes visitors to a 'Farming Community And Land Of The Twins'.
There is also a museum, the House Of The Twins. In a bid to solve the mystery, former mayor and town doctor Anencia Flores da Silva spoke to hundreds of people. There was one name that kept recurring in their stories - a medic calling himself Rudolph Weiss.
Dr da Silva said: 'He attended women who had varicose veins and gave them a potion which he carried in a bottle, or tablets which he brought with him.
'Sometimes he carried out dental work, and everyone remembers he used to take blood.' Mengele lived in freedom in Brazil for 18 years. He drowned in a swimming accident there in 1979 when he was 68.
Genetic tests were carried out on the remains to prove Mengele died thereby bringing to an end decades of rumours that he was still alive with reported sighting from places as far apart as Portugal and the U.S.
The 1978 feature film The Boys From Brazil had as its plot Mengele hiding in South America with plans to begin a Fourth Reich with other Nazi sympathisers.
The plan of Mengele, played by Gregory Peck, is to recreate the childhood of Hitler for the 95 young boys he cloned from the Nazi leader.
Josef Mengele pictured in 1977. He drowned in a swimming accident two years later, having lived in freedom in Brazil for 18 years
So, what could this mean?
Author and researcher Joseph P. Farrell summarises:
The article, based on the research of Latin American journalist Jorge Camarasa, indicates that the doctor of death did indeed continue his medical experiments – on children – in Latin America, based in part on work he did at Chile’s notorious Nazi compound, Cologna Dignidad. This confirms a suspicion I’ve long held about the abduction of children in Latin America, and Nazi activities there.
But the article signifies something else, and something vitally important, something, indeed, that I attempted to stress in my most recent book, Nazi International: that is, that the postwar Nazis were not merely tiny enclaves of war criminals huddled, panic-stricken, together in tiny enclaves in Latin America and elsewhere. They were, on the contrary, highly organized, well-funded, had their own intelligence and security apparatus, and most importantly, were conducting and continuing the lines of research they had begun during the war. While my books have concentrated on the physics aspect of this wartime and postwar research, the possibility that Mengele continued his own research lends a gruesome reality to the Boys from Brazil scenario
So are the possible experiments by Josef Mengele an indication that this is more than mere individuals escaping trial? Farrell seems to think so…
But for Menegele to have accomplished all this – and the article gives a hint of the sheer scale of this project – he would have to have had five things: (1) lots of financial backing, (2) research facilities and laboratory equipment, (3) lots of security to maintain the project’s secrecy, (4) a “supply” of willing or unwilling human subjects, and finally (5) the ability to move fairly freely between one postwar Nazi enclave and another.
We know who provided the finances (Martin Bormann), and we know who probably provided the security (Heinrich Mueller), and we know also who probably provided the administrative oversight of these postwar projects (Hans Kammler).
All this is indeed an indicator that we have but scratched the surface of the scale and scope of the Nazi International’s postwar activities and research.
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Another interesting theory involves what is known as the ‘Nazi Bell’. What was the mysterious ‘Bell’?
Ferrell claims that:
In 1945, a super high-tech Nazi secret weapons project code-named ‘The Bell’ left its underground bunker in lower Silesia, along with all its project documentation, and a four star general named Hans Kammler. Taken aboard a massive six engine Junkers 390 ultra-long range aircraft, ‘The Bell’, Kammler, and all project records disappeared completely, along with the gigantic aircraft carrying them. It is thought to have flown to America or Argentina. As a prelude to this disappearing act, the SS murdered most of the scientists and technicians involved with the project, a secret weapon that according to one German Nobel prize-winning physicist, was given a classification of ‘decisive for the war’, a security classification higher than any other secret weapons project in the Third Reich, including its atomic bomb.
Could the project have been moved to South America where it was continued?
Igor Witkowski ( a Polish aerospace historian who researched this craft for 20 years) speculated that it ended up in a Nazi-friendly South American country, Nick Cook (a British aviation journalist and author) speculated that it ended up in the United States as part of a deal made with SS General Hans Kammler and Farrell speculated that it did not reach the United States until it was recovered in the Kecksberg UFO Incident.
An incident in which the crashed object was reported to have an ‘acorn or bell like shape’ to it. Did a Nazi ufo from South America crash in Kecksburg that day?
One thing we can be sure of is that all of these Nazis did not end up in South America by coincidence. Yes, it did seem like a logical choice, considering its abundance of nationalist strongmen and Fascist dictators, but it seems that some within Hitlers SS had big plans for South America. Their dream was to continue building towards a master race thousands of miles from Germany, but was is a dream they ever realised?
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