Eugen Fischer
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Eugen Fischer was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and
Fischer at the University of Berlin in 1934
Young Rhinelander who was classified as a Rhineland bastard and hereditarily unfit under the Nazi regime as a result of his mixed race heritage
Head of Herero prisoner at Shark Island used for medical experimentation
Rhineland bastard
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Rhineland bastard was a derogatory term used in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to describe children born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army
Eugen Fischer
…in Nazi Germany who were descended from French-African soldiers who occupied western areas of Germany after the First World War and were known as the Rhineland bastards; the children were subsequently subjected to sterilization. Fischer did not officially join the Nazi Party until 1940. However, he was influential with…
"Brutality, Bestiality, Equality" on a German postcard, in juxtaposition to the official French motto of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", sent in January 1923. A Senegalese man of the French Army is represented alongside a Czech soldier.