ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月17日 18時23分

Photos by @gabrielegalimbertiphoto / Twins occur normally once in every 80 pregnancies. Here, however, one in five pregnancies typically results in twins – 20% of the population, most with blond hair and blue eyes. Welcome to the Brazilian town of Candido Godoi (Rio Grande do Sul, South Brazil) – the so-called “twin capital of the world.”
A recent book by the Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa, a specialist in the Nazi post-war flight to South America, claims that this abnormally high frequency of twins may be due to the Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele. During the Second World War, Mengele was the SS doctor in Auschwitz-Birkenau and carried out genetic experiments for the production of twins in an attempt to create a master race for Hitler. He is believed to be responsible for 400,000 deaths in medical experiments in Auschwitz. In 1949, he fled to South America, settling first in Argentina then moving to Paraguay and finally to Brazil. He lived in Brazil for 18 years until his death in 1979. He was buried in Embu das Artes in the state of Sao Paolo.
Mengele visited the small town of Candido Godoi various times in the 1950s and 1960s. Candido Godoi may have been Mengele’s laboratory where he worked on creating his Aryan master race (as dramatized in the 1978 movie The Boys from Brazil). I photographed and interviewed many sets of twins in Candido Godoi. I also interviewed people that met the Nazi doctor personally, telling me that Mengele gave medical attention to several women, followed their pregnancies, and treated them with new types of drugs and preparations. The greatest majority of twins were born after 1952, the year when Mengele was first reported to have visited the town. #twins #twin #mengele #brazil #candidogodoi #southamerica #josefmengele #pregnancy

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