The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927. The Rockefeller Foundation supported both the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. The Rocekfeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Depression.

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  • The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927. The Rockefeller Foundation supported both the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. The Rocekfeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Depression. In its early years, and during the Nazi era, it was strongly associated with theories of Nazi eugenics and racial hygiene advocated by its leading theorists Fritz Lenz and Eugen Fischer, and by its director Otmar von Verschuer. Under Fischer, the sterilisation of so-called Rhineland Bastards was undertaken. During WW II, the Institute regularly received body parts, including eyes and skulls, from Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz to use in studies intended to prove Nazi racial theories and justify race-related social polices. After the German capitulation in May 1945, most of the thousands of files and lab material of the Institute were moved to an unknown location or destroyed and never obtained by the Allies to use as evidence in war crimes trials and to prove or dis-prove the Nazi racial ideology which had motivated mass genocide in Europe. Some of the staff of the Institute were able to escape trial.
  • Das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik (KWI), wurde 1926 in Berlin-Dahlem als Einrichtung der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft gegründet und 1927 eröffnet.
  • L'Institut Kaiser-Wilhelm d'anthropologie, d'hérédité humaine et d'eugénisme (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik) est un établissement de recherche scientifique allemand dont la période d'activité s'est étendue sur une période de 18 années, de 1927 à 1945. Durant le régime nazi il abrita les travaux des théoriciens de l'eugénisme et de l'hygiène raciale.
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  • The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927. The Rockefeller Foundation supported both the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. The Rocekfeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Depression.
  • Das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik (KWI), wurde 1926 in Berlin-Dahlem als Einrichtung der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft gegründet und 1927 eröffnet.
  • L'Institut Kaiser-Wilhelm d'anthropologie, d'hérédité humaine et d'eugénisme (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik) est un établissement de recherche scientifique allemand dont la période d'activité s'est étendue sur une période de 18 années, de 1927 à 1945. Durant le régime nazi il abrita les travaux des théoriciens de l'eugénisme et de l'hygiène raciale.
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  • Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
  • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
  • Institut Kaiser-Wilhelm d'anthropologie, d'hérédité humaine et d'eugénisme
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