The Twins of Brazil: Nazi Work?
A small town in rural Brazil has a birth rate of twins which is 1,000% above the global average. This small farming community was founded as a German settlement around 1900, but became famous in the 1990s when word of its astonishingly high rate of twins hit the global scene.
According to a National Geographic special, Candido Godoi is currently home to 44 pairs of twins to only 81 families. In other words, more than half the families in the town have a pair of twins. Could it be the work of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele?
While at Auschwitz, Mengele had been fascinated by twins. He ordered twins to be separated from the rest of the incoming prisoners, and housed in a separate barracks. Mengele, dubbed the "Angel of Death," performed numerous barbaric experiments on twins, including dissecting them while still alive without anesthetic, and sewing together non-twin children in the hopes of creating a conjoined twin.
According to a National Geographic special, Candido Godoi is currently home to 44 pairs of twins to only 81 families. In other words, more than half the families in the town have a pair of twins. Could it be the work of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele?
While at Auschwitz, Mengele had been fascinated by twins. He ordered twins to be separated from the rest of the incoming prisoners, and housed in a separate barracks. Mengele, dubbed the "Angel of Death," performed numerous barbaric experiments on twins, including dissecting them while still alive without anesthetic, and sewing together non-twin children in the hopes of creating a conjoined twin.
