Nazi skeleton collection

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Conducted to complete a skeleton collection for an anatomical research project for Nazi race and biological ideology, under August Hirt at the Reich University of Strasbourg; one hundred twelve Jews at Auschwitz Concentration Camp were killed for the purpose.

Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers were both tried and convicted. Josef Mengele was later implicated.