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Educational poster charting inheritance of racial facial characteristics

Object | Accession Number: 1990.120.8

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Educational poster with a chart and profile drawings showing how facial characteristics are passed down from 1 man to his children and their families. It is from a portfolio of teaching panels designed by Alfred Vogel, a school headmaster and Nazi Party member, to instruct students on the superiority of the Aryan race, the virtue of racial purity, and the burden that Jews, as well as the handicapped, mentally ill, and unfit, place on society. For Hitler's government, the indoctrination of children through the required teaching of Nazi ideology was a powerful tool. The teaching of eugenics and racial biology began in primary school. Vogel's series provided illustrated aids on its key aspects, showing in simple pictures the urgency of the Jewish threat, the danger of racial miscegenation, or mixing of races, and how the pure breed will always be strongest, and mixed breeds must be eliminated.
    Artwork Title
    Vererbung der Rassenmerkmale
    Alternate Title
    Inheritance of Racial Characteristics
    Series Title
    Erblehre und Rassenkunde no. 65
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1938
    Geography
    publication: Stuttgart (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Markings
    front, top, black ink : Vererbung der Rassenmerkmale / (vorwiegend dinarisch) [Inheritance of Racial Characteristics / Predominantly dinaric]
    front, bottom, black ink : Vogel: Erblehre und Rassenkunde. – Alle Rechte vorbehalten.- Verlag für nationale Literatur, Gebr. Rath, Stuttgart-W [Vogel: Theory of Inheritance and Racial Hygiene. – All Rights Reserved. – Publishing Company for national Literature, Gebr. Rath, Stuttgart- Wurttemburg]
    front, top, right outside image, black ink : 65
    Contributor
    Publisher: Verlag fur nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath
    Author: Alfred Vogel

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Posters
    Category
    Nazi propaganda
    Physical Description
    Poster on cardstock with the title phrase: Vererbung der Rassenmerkmale / (vorwiegend dinarisch) [Inheritance of Racial Characteristics / Predominantly dinaric] across the top in Fraktur font. Below are profile sketches of 4 men and 3 women surrounding a family diagram composed of lines, squares and circles. The sketches are numbered and correspond with the diagram. The top of the chart shows man 1 creating two branching trees. The left branch descends through man 2 and woman 3 to man 4. The right branch shows two unnumbered shapes descending to woman 5 where the two branches reconnect and produce man 6 and woman 7. This poster is no. 65 in Vogel's series, and 1 of 9 in collection 1990.120
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
    Record last modified:
    2024-10-03 13:10:31
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