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'''Otto von Verscheur''' was rofessor at the [[Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics]], who was part of the development of [[Nazi race and biological ideology]]. | '''Otto von Verscheur''' was rofessor at the [[Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics]], who was part of the development of [[Nazi race and biological ideology]]. | ||
He was one of [[Josef Mengele]]'s teachers and directed his experiments and [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]]. According to Prof. Hans Grebe, who started an assistantship for von Verscheur in 1938, Mengele was "our chief's favorite student." Grebe denied his professor was [[antisemitism|antisemitic]]. <ref>{{citation | He was one of [[Josef Mengele]]'s teachers and directed his experiments and [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp]].<ref name=GM-Home>{{citation | ||
| url = http://mason.gmu.edu/~rerbeldi/final.html | |||
| author = Rebecca Erbelding | date = 28 April 2008 | |||
| title = The Historiography of Josef Mengele: Home | |||
| publisher = [[George Mason University]]}}</ref> According to Prof. Hans Grebe, who started an assistantship for von Verscheur in 1938, Mengele was "our chief's favorite student." Grebe denied his professor was [[antisemitism|antisemitic]]. <ref>{{citation | |||
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3vjtgh6fxs8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Benno+M%C3%BCller-Hill&source=bl&ots=ydVFH33loa&sig=HHfdIXeNixj23oqhyE3l3CCrNSY&hl=en&ei=fUvXTIHlFML48Aaf0bXlCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Otto%20von%20Verscheur&f=false | | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3vjtgh6fxs8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Benno+M%C3%BCller-Hill&source=bl&ots=ydVFH33loa&sig=HHfdIXeNixj23oqhyE3l3CCrNSY&hl=en&ei=fUvXTIHlFML48Aaf0bXlCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Otto%20von%20Verscheur&f=false | ||
| title = Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 | | title = Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 | ||
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| publisher = Cold Spring Laboratory Press | | publisher = Cold Spring Laboratory Press | ||
| year = 1997 | | year = 1997 | ||
| isbn = 978-087969531}}, pp. 163-167 | | isbn = 978-087969531}}, pp. 163-167</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Revision as of 19:35, 7 November 2010
Otto von Verscheur was rofessor at the Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, who was part of the development of Nazi race and biological ideology.
He was one of Josef Mengele's teachers and directed his experiments and Auschwitz Concentration Camp.[1] According to Prof. Hans Grebe, who started an assistantship for von Verscheur in 1938, Mengele was "our chief's favorite student." Grebe denied his professor was antisemitic. [2]
References
- ↑ Rebecca Erbelding (28 April 2008), The Historiography of Josef Mengele: Home, George Mason University
- ↑ Benno Müller-Hill (1997), Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, Cold Spring Laboratory Press, ISBN 978-087969531, pp. 163-167