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12. Eugen Fischer. “Die Fortschritte bei menschlichen Erblehre als Grundlage eugenischer
Bevölkerungspolitik,” p. 71 (source unidentified) RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series
A, Box 20, Folder 187.
13. RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series A, Box 20, Folder 187.
14. AMPG, I Abt., Rep. 1A. Nr. 2399/3, Bl. 90.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., Bl. 80.
17. Ibid.
18. AMPG, I. Abt., 1A., Nr. 2404/3, Bl. 49.
19. RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series A, Box 20, Folder 187.
20. Fischer is a good example of an anthropologist who was influenced, even formed,
by the state and yet contributed to the viability and practice of the deadly ideology it embodied.
Given his wish to conform, one can imagine that had he lived under a more humane
or benign government, he might have been a different kind of professional.
21. AMPG, I. Abt., 1A, Nr. 2404/2, Bl. 14–17.
22. Ibid.
23. RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series A, Box 4, Folder 46.
24. Ibid., Box 10, Folder 63.
25. Proctor 1988, 44, from Benno Müller-Hill, Murderous Science (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988); BAK, R 73/15342, fol.64.
26. NAA, Register to the Materials of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO) collection
(Schafft and Zeidler 1998).
27. Ernst R. Fugmann. “Das wirtschaftsgeographische Gefüge des Generalgouvernements.”
Unidentified article found in a collection at the Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde.
28. NAA, IDO Collection.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Correspondence Fliethmann, IDO Collection, Folder 70.
33. JUA, IDO Collection, Folder 7o.
34. These women anthropologists carried on research in their own assigned villages, usually
traveling without their male colleagues but under heavy SS guard.
35. Ibid.
36. Ravensbrück is often thought of as solely a women’s camp. It incorporated, however,
both a youth camp and a men’s camp.
37. One assumes from the nature of the collection that materials have been destroyed.
Informants in Poland indicate that pictures of their naked bodies were taken, but only the
portraits of faces and ethnographic shots of material goods and landscapes exist today. It is
possible that some materials remain to be found.
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