This essay focuses on the research project regarding the genetic conditionality of homosexuality the physician Theo Lang carried out. Lang was research assistant of Ernst Rüdin at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich. During the 1920s and 30s this institute - affiliated to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society since 1924 - was performing cutting edge research in the fields of psychiatric genetics ...

Album, with title page of "Landjahrlager Rosenthal, 1941," and a photograph of an unidentified younog woman. The contents include handwritten texts with the following headings: "Worte für die Fahne," containing quotations from a variety of sources, including Hitler, Nietzsche, Himmler, Hölderlin, Frederick the Great, and Tolstoy, among others, and unattributed verses, "Der 9. November 1923," containing ...

Contains records relating to Jewish property: expropriation of Jews; Jewish owners and renters; and sale of Jewish property; medicine: racial biology and eugenics; sterilization of disabled persons; rabbis in local hospitals; expulsion of Jewish doctors; fines for consulting Jewish doctors; list of Jewish hospitals and pharmacies; education on racial biology and genetics for Aryan doctors; statistics ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311). 311 pages ; 25 cm

Discusses the involvement of the Italian scientific world in the fascist racial policy. States that the academic justification for the racial policy of the fascist regime was provided by views and theories stemming from the fields of anthropology, demography, and genetics. Affirms that Italian racism evolved from biological theory and took on a "spiritual" perspective, more acceptable to moderate racists ...

At head of title: Forschungsprogramm "Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus", Research Program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist Era." 56 pages.

Publisher's description: History has recorded the horrors of ethnic cleansing, but until now, America's own efforts to create a master race have been largely overlooked. In War Against the Weak, investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller IBM and the Holocaust Edwin Black reveals that eugenics-sham science made up to justify ethnic cleansing-had an incredible foothold in America ...

Medical reports, minutes, statistics, guidance, circulars, registers and correspondence relating to German organization and regulations of medical care (1925-1944): trainings, testing and approvals of employment of medical personnel; cure of diseases through hypnosis, suggestion, and magnetism; demolition of the synagogue Poolstr (1937/38); health surveillance of prisoners of war; medical procedures ...

"Eugen Fischer war der f��hrende deutsche Anthropologe der ersten H��lfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ber��hmt wurde er 1913 durch seinen vorgeblichen Beweis der Mendelschen Vererbung von menschlichen Rassemerkmalen in seiner Studie ��ber die sog. Rehobother Bastards. Fischer war von 1927 bis 1942 Direktor des Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes f��r Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik in Berlin. In diesem ...

Omslagtitel: Zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses. 272 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" ...

Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" ...

Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" ...

Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" ...

Five decades after the end of World War II, issues relating to the history and meaning of the Holocaust, far from fading from social consciousness, have, if anything intensified. New generations probe the past and its implications for understanding human behavior. As fresh information about the particularities of the Holocaust comes to light, we know more and more about how these events happened, but ...

Documentation from the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) in Barmbeck (a suburb of Hamburg)
 
 The General Hospital in Barmbeck started to be partially active in November 1913, and it opened completely in August 1914 with a capacity of 2,400 beds. The hospital was a part of the system of regional hospitals of Hamburg State. For several years during World War II, the hospital was subjugated ...

Eric Sonner (birth name Eric Sonnenschein, b. 1916 in Šumperk, Moravia, Austrian Empire) and Rose Sonner (née Ruzena or Roszi Deutsch, b. 1917 in Veľká Bytča, Trencsén county, Kingdom of Hungary) were Ashkenazi Jews from what is now the Czech Republic; both lost their first spouses during the Holocaust. They married in 1947 and immigrated to Vancouver, via Gottenberg, New York, and Toronto, in 1949.Rose ...

<div>Coming from an old Orthodox Jewish family, Mittwoch was born in Schrimm, Prussian Province of Posen, Imperial Germany (now Srem in Poland). He initially wanted to become a Rabbi. During his studies in Berlin he discovered Islamic studies and did his doctorate with Eduard Sachau.</div><div><br /></div><div>During World War I, Mittwoch was the head of the German Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient ...

Anthropometer, for measuring the human body, owned by Dr. Eugen Fischer, a German Anthropologist and leader in the Nazi-controlled German eugenics movement from 1933 to 1945. In the early 1900s, Swiss Anthropologist Dr. Rudolf Martin, designed the tool so that it could be stored in several pieces in a portable case and used in the field. Anthropometry is a branch of Anthropology that focuses on how ...