The Boy From Brazil

Telegraph/Freedom's Cost ^ | 01/22/2009 | Chaim

[chaimke]

Gregory Peck, as the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, and Sir Lawrence Olivier, as a Nazi hunter, both starred in the 1978 thriller The Boys From Brazil. In that movie Dr. Mengele has hatched a monstrous plot to bring back Adolf Hitler in a younger, more energetic form. The movie was based on a thriller of the same name by Ira Levin.

Yesterday the British daily Telegraph, had the following on its online edition:

Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'

The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small Brazilian town, an Argentine historian has claimed.

There is an elderly woman in my neighborhood who recalls Mengele's visit to her block, in Auschwitz, when she was 16 years old. He came with some musician's and he danced with some of the younger women, including her. He put a handkerchief on her shoulder where he touched her so as not be contaminated by touching a Jewess. Upon leaving he took various women, of all age groups, who were never seen again. She describes Mengele's steel look as frightening, oppressing her heart, even as he tried to seem amiable and charming. She dared not refuse the dance, though her heart was not in the mood...

While being on the run the man had to earn a living, but his madness, his blood thirst, lead me to believe that the central premise of Mengele's plot in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil was closer to reality than even the author dared think. Few monsters in the 20th century or before ever managed to be so revered in a small village in Brazil or anywhere else in the world, for that matter...

[jedi150]

Ahhh I think he suceeded with Bill Clinton.

[LottieDah]

Mengele was such a monster and did all those awful experiments on people yet liberals called Bush and Cheney Nazis.