Saturday 9 May 2009

Angel of Birth

"There is testimony that he attended women, followed their pregnancies, treated them with new types of drugs and preparations, that he talked of artificial insemination in human beings, and that he continued working with animals, proclaiming that he was capable of getting cows to produce male twins."

"In the testimonies we collected we came across women who were treated by him, he appeared to be some sort of rural medic who went from house to house. He attended women who had varicose veins and gave them a potion which he carried in a bottle, or tablets which he brought with him. Sometimes he carried out dental work, and everyone remembers he used to take blood."


These are the children of Candido Godoi in Brazil, where the probability of giving birth to twins is around 1 in 5, or 16 times more than the 1 in 80 chance found in the general population. So who was this cell-splitting, fertility guru and what's his secret?

Take a closer look at the picture - awful lot of blonde hair and blue eyes donchathink? And why would he be so interested in getting women to spawn twins? Does sound eerily familiar this Boy From Brazil doesn't he?

This article suggests that Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's infamous Angel of Death, was continuing his plan to repopulate the Hitler Youth for some time after it was fashionable, starting with his first appearance in the town in 1963. In the two years before the end of the Second World War, he had picked out all of the available twins as they arrived at the camp and performed some cruel but seemingly pointless experiments on them (which you can read about here you sick fucks). Working under the name Rudolph Weiss (german for white, naturally) he worked as a travelling medic (lucky he didn't confuse his nomadic alias with a gypsy and gas himself).

However, after searching through google and finding the exact same story copied more or less word for word from the press release on most of the hits, an alternative, non-nazi, yet luckily just as titillating explanation has been found - the abundance of arytwins is down to a recessive gene passed down through the town's denizens being inbreeders extraordinaire -

" The high number of Aryan twins, meanwhile, probably has more to do with the town’s German ancestry than with any genetic manipulation on Mengele’s part. “I don’t think Mengele would have the knowledge, not to mention the means, to engender the rise in twin births in this community,” Matte says. “It’s noteworthy that twin births occurred there in almost every time period, even in the 1990s, so what kind of long-lasting manipulation could he have perpetrated?"

So much for the master race. So how come even after looking at the photos and seeing that the youngest twins look about 3, yet would be almost 30 if they were born in 1979 when Mengele encountered his final solution, did no-one but historynet and me mention this?

Is the level of fact-checking so poor in today's journalism that once the magic word "NAZI" was introduced that nobody even bothered looking for an alternative explanation, the "hang-on-a-minute..." feeling that something wasn't quite right here? It's lazy journalism and having missed out on the added inbreeding angle that the UK press was so appalled by (yet found so very, very newsworthy) during the Fritzl case they must be kicking themselves. If the UK press were an Old Testament book, they'd be Doucheronomy.

More on the world of churnalism here if you're interested.

Oh, found out the Microsoft Wingdings/NYC "accidental" anti-semitic faux pas at Snopes.com just to keep the nazi theme going for a bit of potential ad money. Not quite sure what all the fuss was about really...


Edit: Hmmm, seems like it became a smiley sticking its tongue out since I stuck the wingdingthing up. Some sort of Microsoft revisionism going on perhaps...

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