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TitleHuman genetics and the mass murder of Jews, gypsies and others

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Benno Muller-Hill

Call number940.5318/0124

Object number03505I

Place of publicationBloomington, Indiana, United States, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

PublisherIndiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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1998

Physical descriptionpp103-114

MaterialArticle

ISBN253333741

NotesPaper presented at the inaugural conference of the United States Holocaust Research Institute and published in the book 'The Holocaust and history.'pp103-114

Description

This is an example of genetics as a genocidal force. The author traces the influence of the 1921 genetics textbook by Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz on Hitler, who read it in prison, where it formed some of the core ideas of Mein Kampf. Also traces the career of Josef Mengele

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