Josef Mengele and “The Land of the Twins”

According to a story in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, escaped Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele was passing the time in South America by performing genetic experiments on German settlers in a small town in Brazil.

The result, according to a new book Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, an unusual number of twins are being born in the small town of Candido Godoi, largely settled by people of German descent. Jorge Camarasa, the author of the book, believes that Josef Mengele visited Candido Gordoi under the name Rudolph Weiss and began treating pregnant women.

If Jorge Camarasa is correct, Josef Mengele wanted to boost the birthrate of blond haired, blue eyed children of the so called Aryan “master race” that Nazis believed were superior beings destined to rule the world. How Josef Mengele, who died in 1979, accomplished this is unclear, though modern fertility drugs have been known to cause multiple births.

Josef Mengele spent the Second World War as the chief medic at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz from May 1943 to January 1945, when he escaped just a step ahead of the Red Army. While at Auschwitz, Josef Mengele performed grotesque experiments on prisoners that were indistinguishable from torture. Josef Mengele well earned the name “Angel of Death” while at Auschwitz.

Josef Mengele spent the rest of his life in South America, on the run from various authorities who were anxious to apprehend him to bring him to account for his crimes during the Second World War. For at least two decades Josef Mengele was on the top of everyone’s list of Nazi war criminals who were at large. While evading the police forces and intelligence services of the civilized world, including the Israeli Mossad, Josef Mengele still found time, apparently, to continue his bizarre work in trying to foster the growth of the Aryan “master race.”

In popular culture, Josef Mengele is best known for his depiction in the 1970s film, The Boys from Brazil. In The Boys from Brazil, Josef Mengele, played by the late Gregory Peck, is attempting to clone a number of copies of none other than Adolf Hitler in various countries around the world, the idea being to create a new Fourth Reich, this time worldwide. Josef Mengele also appears in the currently released horror film, The Unborn.

Source: Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’, Nick Evans, The Telegraph, Januaru 21st, 2009