Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil

Summary Auschwitz, 1943. Joseph Mengele - the Nazi doctor known as "Angel of Death " - conducts a series of horrific human experiments. Experiments designed to determine if twins hold the key to building a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race for Adolf Hitler. Now a writer says he has evidence that the fertility experiments may not have ended, but secretly continued, 20 years later, deep in the Brazilian outback. There, in a tiny farming town, among the 80 households are some 44 pairs of twins. Blond, blue-eyed twins. With exclusive access to the secret agents that trailed him, to the scientists now uncovering the facts behind the fantastical phenomenon we go inside the largest investigation ever launched to find the definitive answer. Did Mengele unlock the Secret of the Twins?

S24.E8 ∙ Nazi Mystery: Twins from Brazil

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Coyote Salvatore Vecchio Lisa Ling Ryan Duffy

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 28, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA

Production companies : National Geographic Television National Geographic Society

Summary Auschwitz, 1943. Joseph Mengele - the Nazi doctor known as "Angel of Death " - conducts a series of horrific human experiments. Experiments designed to determine if twins hold the key to building a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race for Adolf Hitler. Now a writer says he has evidence that the fertility experiments may not have ended, but secretly continued, 20 years later, deep in the Brazilian outback. There, in a tiny farming town, among the 80 households are some 44 pairs of twins. Blond, blue-eyed twins. With exclusive access to the secret agents that trailed him, to the scientists now uncovering the facts behind the fantastical phenomenon we go inside the largest investigation ever launched to find the definitive answer. Did Mengele unlock the Secret of the Twins?

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 28, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA

Production companies : National Geographic Television National Geographic Society

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