Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

Identifier: irn82507
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn82507

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a hair color chart and storage case used as part of anthropological race studies during the Eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

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Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3690
- English
- 1928-1945
- overall: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Tool for systemically identifying hair color, used as part of eugenics studies conducted in Nazi-controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. The original was designed around 1905 by German Anthropologist Dr. Eugen Fischer, to classify the relative “whiteness” of “mixed-race” people according to their hair color. In 1928, Fischer and fellow Anthropologist, Dr. Karl Saller, reorganized and redesigned the tool. Many supporters linked eugenics, often referred to as racial hygiene, to race, and believed that “race mixing,” modern medicine, keeping the “unfit” alive to reproduce, and costly welfare pro...
Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3691
- English
- 1928-1945
- overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Case for a tool for systemically identifying hair color, used as part of eugenics studies conducted in Nazi-controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. The original was designed around 1905 by German Anthropologist, Dr. Eugen Fischer, to classify the relative “whiteness” of “mixed-race” people according to their hair color. In 1928, Fischer and fellow Anthropologist, Dr. Karl Saller, reorganized and redesigned the tool. Many supporters linked eugenics, often referred to as racial hygiene, to race, and believed that “race mixing,” modern medicine, keeping the “unfit” alive to reproduce, and costly...

Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

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

Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany