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The 'Nazi Twin' Myth

Josef Mengele has been blamed for a boom of blue-eyed twins in a Brazilian town. But Gerald Posner has proof that despite the Nazi doctor’s gruesome experiments on twins during the war, he wasn’t behind the town’s twin mystery.

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