Dr. Friedrich Rösing collection

Identifier: irn564923
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn564923

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Dr. Friedrich Rösing.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an eye color tool and a skin color tool used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

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Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564924
- English
- overall: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Tool for systematically identifying eye color, used as part of eugenics studies conducted in Nazi-controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. The original was designed in approximately 1910 by Swiss Anthropologist, Dr. Rudolf Martin, for use in the field to classify the relative “whiteness” of “mixed-race” people according to the color of their irises. In order to improve perceived functionality, the tool was redesigned twice by fellow anthropologists: Dr. Karl Saller in the early 1920s and Dr. Bruno K. Schultz in 1930. Many supporters linked eugenics, often referred to as racial hygiene, to race...
Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564926
- English
- a: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Tool for systematically identifying skin color, used as part of eugenics studies conducted in Nazi-controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. It was designed in 1905 by Austro-Hungarian Anthropologist, Dr. Felix von Luschan, for use in the field to classify the relative “whiteness” of “mixed-race” people according to the color of their skin. Many supporters linked eugenics to race, and believed that “race mixing,” modern medicine, keeping the “unfit” alive to reproduce, and costly welfare programs hindered natural selection and would lead to the biological “degeneration” of society. These ideas ...

Dr. Friedrich Rösing collection

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Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany

Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany