Comparative chart illustrating the probability of mental illness among the offspring of schizophrenics, manic-depressives, and members of the general population.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 95898

Overview

Caption: Comparative chart illustrating the probability of mental illness among the offspring of schizophrenics, manic-depressives, and members of the general population.

The chart was taken from a set of slides produced to illustrate a lecture by Dr. Ludwig Arnold Schloesser, director of education for the SS Race and Settlement Office, on the foundations of the study of heredity. [Lecture 1, Card 26]
Date: 1934
Locale: Munich, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Muenchen
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren
Event History: One slide published in a series of ten slide lectures on ethnology, heredity and the cultivation of race, edited by Dr. B. K. Schultz, director of racial education at the SS Race and Settlement Office, and published in 1934 by the J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich.

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Keyword: CHARTS/DIAGRAMS PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RACIAL CHARTS RACIAL SCIENCE/EUGENICS SLIDE SERIES
Photo Designation: NAZISM - GERMANY (1933-1945) -- Racism (Scientific) -- Eugenics: Racial Charts/Education/Literature