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Eugen Fischer was an anthropologist and eugenicist, who during the 1900s, studied unions between Germans and native Africans in Namibia (then known as Sud-west Afrika). His report, during which he studied and made tests with the heads of 778 Herero and Nama prisoners of war led to a ban on unions between Germans and natives. He believed that the half-breed children (or Mischlinger) from these unions could be useful for Germany, but the bloodline was to end with them.
After the creation of Deustch-Mittelafrika, he was Hermann Goering's chief scientist, writing a dozen books on race including a two-volume work called Principles of Human Hereditary and Racial Hygiene (published in 1921) and a field study called The Rehnoboth Bastards and the Problem of Miscegnation Among Humans. In 1927, he addressed the World Population Conference, which addressed issues such as biology and population growth, food and population, differential fertility, the psychology of falling birth rates, international migration and migration restriction, heredity, and disease.
Under his supervision, thousands of 'Mischlinger' were sterilized and reduced to slave labour. He would permit the occurrences of abomdinable medical experiments, such as those conducted by Otmar Freiherr von Verscheur, who performed experiments on African twins, which included injecting chemicals into the subjects' eyes, burning them alive, infecting them with tropical diseases, etc.
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Otmar Freiherr von Verscheur
Fischer's reign of terror would end with the collapse of Deustch-Mittelafrika into dozens of warring tribal states just before the outbreak of the Second Weltkrieg. Fischer's status in the aftermath of the violence is unknown, though it has long been suspected that he was killed in the midst of the violence.
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A 'Mischlinger' who was sterilized after this photo was taken
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Fischer's assistants storing skulls of human experimentation victims