- Caption
- Family tree illustrating the transmission of musical genius through several generations of the family of Johann Sebastian Bach, taken from a set of slides produced to illustrate a lecture by Dr. Johannes Schottky, researcher in the SS Race and Settlement Office, on human heredity, with special attention to physical and mental disabilities. [Lecture 2, Card 29]
- Date
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1934
- Locale
- Munich, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Muenchen
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren
- Event History
- Dr. Schottky's lecture was the second 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.