Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

• 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 7 months 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...

• 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 7 months 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...