Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
KWI-A building in the 1920s. Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin-Dahlem.
KWI-A building in the Nazi years. Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin-Dahlem.
Literature
Sheila Weiss. Review of Racial Science and Genetics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, by Hans-Walter Schmuhl and Carola Sachse. Journal of the History of Biology 38, no. 2 (2005): 367–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4331948. This is a book review of the book Racial Science and Genetics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, and it covers the racist pseudoscience utilized by the Nazis in their racial endeavors.
Baader, Gerhard, Susan E. Lederer, Morris Low, Florian Schmaltz, and Alexander V. Schwerin. “Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States.” Osiris 20 (2005): 205–31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3655257. This article covers the leadup to human test subjects for experiments in Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the United States.
SCHÜRING, MICHAEL. “EXPULSION, COMPENSATION, AND THE LEGACY OF THE KAISER WILHELM SOCIETY.” Minerva 44, no. 3 (2006): 307–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41821368. This article covers the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat, more specifically on the fate of the KWI, and its similarities to the failure to compensate Germany for its losses prior to World War II.