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Eugen Fischer () and led to the Compulsory Sterilization of hundreds of thousands of other individuals, deemed racially defective, such as the Rhineland Bastard s, the mentally ill, and the mentally retarded. Born in Karlsruhe , Germany , Fischer joined the Nazi party soon after it was established. A book, ''Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene'', co-written by him and Erwin Baur and Fritz Lenz , served as the "scientific" basis for Nazism 's attitude toward other races. He served as the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Of Anthropology, Human Heredity, And Eugenics , until 1933 , when Hitler appointed him rector of the University Of Berlin . Under the Nazi regime, Fischer developed the physiological specifications used to determine racial origins. He and his team experimented with Gypsies and African-Germans, taking Blood and measuring Skull s to find scientific validation for his theories. Fischer retired from the university in 1942 . After the war, he completed his memoirs, which critics claim whitewash his role in the Genocidal program of the Third Reich . He died in 1967. |
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