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National Geographic Explorer:
"Joseph Mengele, the escaped Nazi war criminal and SS physician, known as the Angel of Death, spent years doing bizarre medical experiments on twins at Auschwitz working to determine if twins held the key to building a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race for Adolf Hitler. Now a historian says he has evidence that Mengele's attempts may not have ended at Auschwitz, and that his obsession to engineer an Aryan master race continued, and that succeeded while he was on the run in South America. Deep in the Brazilian outback in a tiny town among the 80 households in a one-square-mile area are reportedly some 38 pairs of twins. Blond, blue-eyed twins. Bizarre and inexplicable, could they be the product of Mengele's machinations? Now, with exclusive access, EXPLORER goes inside the investigation; From the secret agents who trailed him, to the scientists now uncovering the facts behind the fantastical phenomenon, no stone is left unturned."
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thealiIs this the real "The Boys From Brazil"?
ThrobbinOminous tones of Nazism are not helped by the thumbnail.
ipfreelySubmitter looking for Brazilian Twins... found this interesting video by mistake, I presume.
Throbbin>> ^ipfreely:
Submitter looking for Brazilian Twins... found this interesting video by mistake, I presume.
Funny.
Actually it was featured on Huffington Post. Nice try.
EndAllThat town must have had a rather promiscuous, blonde, blue-eyed milkman, it seems.
As much as a mystery NatGeo seems to want to make out of this, there might just be a more plausible scientific explanation:
"Even though we could not find a definitive explanation for this higher incidence, the existence of other 'twin towns' around the world – most of them in remote isolated areas with high levels of inbreeding just as Linha São Pedro – shows that external influence is not needed for this to happen," [a scientist] says.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16492-nazi-angel-of-death-not-responsible-for-town-of-twins.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
But as they explicitly state, however, it's not a definitive explanation.
Interesting sift.
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garmachiAnd every twenty years or so, hooded wolves with lasers ride in on mechanical horses, steal one of each pair and send them back months later, roont.
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