Nazi Angel of Death Josef Mengele 'Created Twin Town in Brazil'
One in five pregnancies in the small
Brazilian town have resulted in twins - most of them blond haired and blue eyed
By Nick Evans in Buenos Aires
www.telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose mission was to create a master race
fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until
his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945.
His task was to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic
quirk twins were produced – and then to artificially increase the Aryan
birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler.
Now, a historian claims, Mengele's notorious experiments may have borne fruit.
For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five
pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them
blond haired and blue eyed.
But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele made repeated visits there
in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering medical treatment
to the women of the town.
Shuttling between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, he managed to evade justice
before his death in 1979, but his dreams of a Nazi master race appeared
unfulfilled.
In a new book, Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, the Argentine
historian Jorge Camarasa, a specialist in the post-war Nazi flight to South
America, has painstakingly pieced together the Nazi doctor's mysterious later
years.
After speaking to the townspeople of Candido Godoi, he is convinced that Mengele
continued his genetic experiments with twins – with startling results.
He reveals how, after working with cattle farmers in Argentina to increase their
stock, Mengele fled the country after fellow Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, was kidnapped
by Israeli agents.
He claims that Mengele found refuge in the German enclave of Colonias Unidas,
Paraguay, and from there, in 1963, began to make regular trips to another
predominantly German community just over the border in Brazil – the farming
community of Candido Godoi.
And, Mr Camaras claims, it was here that soon after the birthrate of twins began
to spiral.
"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 urbane German who arrived in Candido Godoi was remembered with fondness by
many of the townspeople.
"He told us he was a vet," said Aloisi Finkler, a local farmer interviewed by Mr
Camarasa. "He asked about illnesses we had among our animals, and told us not to
worry, he could cure them. He appeared a cultured and dignified man."
Another farmer, Leonardo Boufler, said: "He went from farm to farm checking the
animals. He checked them for TB, and injected those that were infected. He said
he could carry out artificial insemination of cows and humans, which we thought
impossible as in those days it was unheard of."
But the Nazi eugenicist did not concentrate on animals alone.
A former mayor and town doctor, Anencia Flores da Silva, set out to try to solve
the town's mystery. He interviewed hundreds of people, and discovered one
character who crept on cropping up: an itinerant medic calling himself Rudolph
Weiss.
Dr da Silva said: "In the testimonies we collected we came across women who were
treated by him, he appeared to be some sort of rural medic who went from house
to house. 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."
The people of Candido Godoi now largely accept that a Nazi war criminal was an
inadvertent guest of theirs for several years in the early 1960s. 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.
While the twins birthrate varies widely in different countries, it is typically
about one in 80 pregnancies – a statistic that has left Mr Camarasa certain in
his claim that Mengele was successfully pursuing his dreams of creating a master
race, a real-life Boys from Brazil.
"Nobody knows for sure exactly what date Mengele arrived in Candido Godoi, but
the first twins were born in 1963, the year in which we first hear reports of
his presence," he said.
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