Village of the Cloned

A story in the November 29th issue of the New York Post, located on page 17, was both fascinating and scary. It sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel. The National Geographic Channel aired a documentary on a remote Brazilian village, Candido Godoi, where some believe Nazi Joseph Mengele may have, once again, been experimenting and treating pregnant women. The documentary entitled “Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil,” features work by an Argentine historian and journalist Jorge Camarasa. Camarasa believes Mengele traveled to Candido Godoi in the 1960’s, and, posing as a doctor, treated pregnant women. Mengele performed lab experiments on Auschwitz victims where he sent over 350,000 men, women and children to the gas chambers, and was obsessed with finding out what triggers twin births in an attempt to assist Adolf Hitler in fulfilling his dream for a fertile Aryan race. Candido Godoi, with a population of 6,000, or about 80 families, has 44 sets of twins. The village twin rate is 100% above the global average for twin births, with many of the twins having blonde hair and blue eyes, which is unusual for Brazilians. The fact that a man as twisted and sick as Mengele may have continued his experiments years following his crimes against humanity in Nazi Germany makes this story all the more frightening if true.