JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Aryan Race, Dermatology, Venereology
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From the 1860s darwinian anatomists and doctors took the lead in a public movement for anthropological studies. There were studies into the diversity of physique, skill shape and cultural morphology of the inhabitants past and present of the lands that formed germany. Politically radical scientists, virchow and vogt were key figures in founding associations and organizing excavations and publications. Armand de quatrefages suggested the prussian race was corrupted by dark mongoloid finnish and slavonic elements that differed from true race in other religions. The true aryans aristocrats were the french and southern. There was a questionnaire sent to school teachers and reports were received on 15 million school children. The findings were intended to settle the issue of whether there had been intermingling of the asiatic aryans with an aboriginal european population. The results showed that there many different physical types in germany. Among the jews 11. 17% had blond hair and many were blue eyed.
