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Part One: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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The Origins of Caucasians

Johann Blumenbach used the term Caucasian to describe a variety of mankind that originated on the southern slopes of Mount Caucasus along Europe's eastern border. Samuel Morton theorized in the mid-1800s that intelligence was linked to brain size, declaring that white people had larger skulls and were the superior. This is like one of the precursors to fornology for sure. But Europeans don't want to do that. They want to be like... No, but we're liberals. We want... There's a scientific reason we shouldn't be doing this. Exactly.

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