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Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of a medical case containing two calipers and two pencils used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen.
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    Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1

    Geography
    use: Germany
    Date
    use:  approximately 1933-1945
    Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
    Spreading calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.1

    Geography
    use: Germany
    Date
    use:  approximately 1933-1945
    Sliding calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.2

    Geography
    use: Germany
    manufacture: Aschaffenburg (Germany)
    Date
    use:  approximately 1933-1945
    manufacture:  after 1897-1945
    Faber dermatograph pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.3

    Geography
    use: Germany
    manufacture: Stein bei Nürnberg (Germany)
    Date
    use:  approximately 1940-1945
    manufacture:  approximately 1940-1945
    Faber dermatograph pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
    Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4

    Geography
    use: Germany
    manufacture: Nuremberg (Germany)
    Date
    use:  approximately 1933-1945
    manufacture:  after 1900-1945
    Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
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