- Wolfgang Abel
Wolfgang Abel (
13 May 1905 -1 November 1997 ) was an anthropologist and one ofNazi Germany 's racial biologists. He was the son of theAustria n paleontologistOthenio Abel .From 1931 Wolfgang Abel was engaged at the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics . In 1933 he became a member of theNSDAP . He was involved incompulsory sterilization of children, who resulted from relationships between German women and dark-skinned French soldiers. In 1934 he wrote an article, which was published in the German newspaper "Neues Volk", with the title "Bastarde am Rhein" (Rhineland Bastard s). In 1935 he joined theSS . In 1942 Abel was successor toEugen Fischer for the professorship of racial biology at theUniversity of Berlin .After
World War II he lived in Austria until his death in 1997.Literature
* Lusane, Clarence (2002). "Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experience of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African Americans in the Nazi Era (Cross Currents in African American History)" Routledge. ISBN 978-0415932950
* Proctor, Robert (2006). "Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis" Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674745780
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