# Mengele and the city of blond twins... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632 "2009-03-24T19:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/1 "2009-03-24T19:50:03Z")
I saw on some website or other, and my google powers are deserting me, that a city was discovered somewhere in South America with an unusual amount of blonde twins. Supposedly this was caused by Joseph Mengele doing his boys-from-brazil experiments over the last 40 years or so - is there any truth to this story? It rings my bull-bells but I can’t really put the finger in why. ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/2 "2009-03-24T19:51:39Z")
Huh - mods I thought this was in GQ - could you move it please - I am not (at this time) looking for any debate… ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/3 "2009-03-24T20:32:19Z")
[A thread on the subject](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503284) from when the story circulated two months ago. No-one was convinced. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/4 "2009-03-24T21:32:35Z")
Besides, “Mengele and the City Of Blond Twins” is a really crappy band name. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/5 "2009-03-24T21:39:11Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Besides, “Mengele and the City Of Blond Twins” is a really crappy band name. But it would be a _great_ B-movie! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/6 "2009-03-24T23:26:10Z")
I’m seeing a series of adventure books, like the ones Isaac Asimov wrote about Lucky Starr. Except they’d be more adult, as there’d be cities of blond twins. And Nazis. And blond twin Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/7 "2009-03-25T02:34:27Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > But it would be a _great_ B-movie! 🙂 Yes, but “Mengele and the City of Blond Twins vs. the Zombies” would be an even better one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/8 "2009-03-25T03:39:56Z")
And “Mengele and the City of Blond Twins vs. the Airship Zombies of Doom” an even _betterer_ one. Josef Mengele, a tragic, doomed figure. Committed great evil, was redeemed in the jungle, only to discover that the salvation he so precariously found is doomed by an unimaginable enemy from _beyond life itself!_ ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/9 "2009-03-25T14:02:44Z")
You guys crack me up 🙂 Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/10 "2009-03-25T15:27:51Z")
I always thought it was because he convinced women pregnant with twins to move to that town. I remember reading that somewhere but have no idea where. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mengele-and-the-city-of-blond-twins/490632/11 "2009-03-25T17:49:50Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Besides, “Mengele and the City Of Blond Twins” is a really crappy band name. It sounds like a rather twisted porn film.😉