The Impact of Phrenology on Racism

Phrenology was the first organized scientific attempt to categorize human races in an official capacity as such its impacts extended to the racial policies of history's most racist regime. The Nazis quote early works focused on miscegenation and studies by Eugene Fisher in German Southwest Africa today's Namibia involved physical measurements. Similar methods were later used for physical anthropological characterization of Jews and the justification and racial purification and the Holocaust.