Karin Magnussen
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1908 – 1997
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Who was Karin Magnussen?
Karin Magnussen was a German biologist, teacher and researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during the Third Reich. She is known for her 1936 publication "Race and Population Policy Tools", and her studies of heterochromia iridis using iris specimens, supplied by Josef Mengele, from Auschwitz concentration camp victims.
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- Born
- Feb 9, 1908
Bremen - Education
- University of Göttingen
- Died
- Feb 19, 1997
Bremen
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on July 23, 2013
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