Film produced by Nazi Party. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard c ...

Lit. opg.: p. 321-370.-Met reg. 383 p. ; 24 cm

Met lit. opg. en index. XIX, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in ...

"A report commissioned by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute and the Joint Working Group on Technology and Agrarian Development, Agricultural University, Wageningen." 61, [2] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and testing. Reel 2: The boy, "der kleine Georg" [Little George]. Blood test on slide under microscope. Microscopic view of slides and explanation by doctor. Blood is not the only factor analyzed. Eye color. Illustrates eye colors of both boys (in disputed baby case) and their parents. 01:18:39 Hair color. The doctor knows from the ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index. x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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"Who was the scientific progenitor of eugenic thought? Amir Teicher challenges the preoccupation with Darwin's eugenic legacy by uncovering the extent to which Gregor Mendel's theory of heredity became crucial in the formation (and radicalization) of eugenic ideas. Through an analysis of the entrenchment of genetic thinking in the social and political policies in Germany between 1900 and 1948, Teicher ...

"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ...

Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human diversity in the Western tradition. Whilst Nazi race theory is commonly associated with the idea of a superior "Aryan race" and with the idealization of the Nordic ideal of blond hair, blue eyes and a "long-skull", ...

86 pages illustrations, charts, plate 24 cm

The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated ...

"Schrifttum" at end of each article. vi, 146 pages

"Selection of articles from the pages of Northern World and Right magazines." 40 pages 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-453). 458 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Lit. opg.: p. 183-188. 188 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Lit. opg.-Index. xvii, 700 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen, 2008. ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Opening title sequence with production company, credits. Propaganda on genetic analysis. Family visits the doctor, who records their hair color, eye color, skull size with the appropriate equipment. (Some of these devices are artifacts displayed at the USHMM.) Family in waiting room. Doctor measuring skull size of man, woman, and their son, using calipers. Doctor checks hair coloring of mother against ...

Contains records pertaining to Nazi research including racial and medical research, physics, plant genetics, livestock, aviation, pest control, malaria control in Auschwitz, and typhus control in Dachau. Also includes correspondence concerning confiscation of the Bohr Institute, Einstein, waste material from Dachau, forced labor prisoners, status of war prisoners with scientific knowledge, and the ...

421 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Examines the role and function of physicians in Nazi concentration camps. Discusses the euthanasia program and medical experiments practiced on prisoners, almost exclusively Jews, by the SS and the Wehrmacht. Reports on malaria experiments in Dachau. Mentions Buchenwald as a laboratory of the pharmaceutical industry. Describes multi-purpose research, such as hereditary factors, viruses, phrenology ...