Otmar von Verscheur

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Otto von Verscheur was professor at the Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, who was part of the development of Nazi race and biological ideology.

He was one of Josef Mengele's teachers and directed his experiments and Auschwitz Concentration Camp.[1] According to Prof. Hans Grebe, who started an assistantship for von Verscheur in 1938, Mengele was "our chief's favorite student." Grebe denied his professor was antisemitic. [2]

References

  1. Rebecca Erbelding (28 April 2008), The Historiography of Josef Mengele: Home, George Mason University
  2. Benno Müller-Hill (1997), Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, Cold Spring Laboratory Press, ISBN 978-087969531, pp. 163-167