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GENETICS AFTER AUSCHWITZ*
Genetics Institute, Cologne University Federal Republic of Germany
The fast growth and flourishing of science and technology in a vacuum of values was instrumental in organizing the various genocide programmes in Nazi Germany. This use of science and scientists for both ideological and practical goals has been overlooked by most observers including the scientists themselves. Some reasons for this are discussed herein
*This article has been revised and translated by the author from the German, which is to appear in Die Wissenschaften und der Holocaust, ed. Herbert A. Strauss.