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Eugenics (Nazi Germany) now in school curriculum

Caz | 13.09.2014 21:59 | Anti-racism | Education | Globalisation | London | World

Eugenics is now in the school curriculum, known as 'Opening Minds' devised by the RSA (Royal Society for the Arts); President the Princess Royal, Patron the queen. The RSA is located within the John Adam St Gang network in London. (also known as the olympians, or the Committeeof 300).

'Opening Minds' science curriculum. Hierarchy of appearances.
'Opening Minds' science curriculum. Hierarchy of appearances.

Opening Minds school curriculum, designer babies
Opening Minds school curriculum, designer babies

Opening Minds school curriculum, measuring bodies
Opening Minds school curriculum, measuring bodies

Eugenics, measuring the head
Eugenics, measuring the head

Eugenics measuring heads
Eugenics measuring heads

Eugenics measuring the body.
Eugenics measuring the body.


Although the public has shunned what happened is Nazi Germany, (which included 'anthropometry and eugenics) the school curriculum 'Opening Minds' instructs students in these. Students are to consider that physical differences can lead to a hierarchy of 'good/not so good'. Ultimately this can lead to judgements about people's differences - some people being better than others. And where will it go from there?

Eugenics is back.

'Opening Minds' Science curriculum, teacher's notes:
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/56066609/013-Quintin-Kynaston-Opening-Minds-Science-Eugenics-curriculum-QK-UK-The-World

Measuring humans in Nazi Germany:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otmar_Freiherr_von_Verschuer

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (16 July 1896, Wildeck, Hesse-Nassau – 8 August 1969, Münster, West Germany) was a German human biologist and eugenicist concerned primarily with "racial hygiene" and twin research.[1][2][3] He was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre, und Eugenik; KWIfA) in Berlin and the Institute for Genetic Biology and Racial Hygiene (Institut für Erbbiologie und Rassenhygiene).
Involvement in Nazi human experimentation
He received Heinrich Himmler's permission to work in Auschwitz from 1944 on. One of Verschuer's best known assistants was Josef Mengele, who, as one of the SS physicians at the Auschwitz death camp, later became known as the "Angel of Death".[4]
Verschuer was never tried for war crimes despite many indications that he not only was fully cognisant of Mengele's work at Auschwitz, but even encouraged and collaborated with Mengele in some of his most grisly research. In a report to the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG) from 1944, Verschuer talked about Mengele's assistance in supplying the KWIfA with some "scientific materials" from Auschwitz


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