Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil

[Swede]

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?

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4087/Overview?source=link_tw_02#tab-Overview

[varelse]

1. That's just creepy

how do you find this stuff?

[stray cat]

2. Spoiler alert

The Answer at the end is NO - concretely. It leads you on until the very end of the show. There is conclusively a genetic component with all having the same ancestor.

[valerief]

3. Hmm. Think I'll Netflix "The Boys from Brazil" now. nt

[tyedyeto]

5. My first thought was that movie n/t

[mopinko]

8. one of the worst movies ever made.

but you should watch it, anyway. poor gregory peck. not sure if this was his last movie, but wrestling with a stuffed dog head is a hell of a way to go out. a regular laugh riot.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. There is a Brazilian soap opera about human clones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Clone

[Jackeens]

6. Another spoiler alert....

Nazi 'Angel of Death' not responsible for town of twins

Brazilian scientists have rejected claims that the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele – notorious for his experiments at Auschwitz – was responsible for creating a tribe of twins in a small town near the border with Argentina.

In his book, Mengele: The Angel Of Death In South America, Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa claims that Mengele made regular trips to Linha São Pedro, a small and predominantly German settlement near the city of Cândido Godói in Brazil, during the 1960s. Shortly afterwards, the birth rate of twins began to spiral, he says.

However, Ursula Matte of the medical genetics unit at Porto Alegre Hospital in Brazil and her colleagues reject any notion that Mengele was responsible for the phenomenon. Her team was invited to Linha São Pedro during 1994 to investigate reports of a higher than average number of twin births in the town.

More: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16492-nazi-angel-of-death-not-responsible-for-town-of-twins.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

[Swamp Rat]

7. I have Brazilian relatives, some who have blue eyes, and others with green eyes,

dark and light skin, all within one nuclear family... a sister that looks like a Yanonmami and another like a Nederlander. :shrug: