Twins are creepy to begin with. But a Nazi-created Aryan army of twin children? Yipes.
A notorious Nazi doctor known as the 'Angel of Death' is behind an alarming number of twins born in a small Brazilian town, a historian has claimed.
Josef Mengele was an SS physician in Auschwitz concentration camp where in a bid to create a master race for Adolf Hitler he carried out genetic experiments to find the key to producing twins.
The aim was to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate.
In 1945 he fled the advancing Red Army and made his way to South America.
It is there that the medic, who is believed to have been responsible for up to 400,000 deaths in medical experiments at Auschwitz, may have succeeded in his mission.
Baffled scientists had been struggling to come up with a reason for the high proportion twins in the tiny Brazilian town of Candido Godoi - most of them blond-haired and blue-eyed.
A staggering one in five pregnancies there have resulted in the birth of twins - the usual rate is one in 80.
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Boys from Brazil...haven't seen that film in ages. Good flick!
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