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Part One: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards

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The Earl of Bulonvillea's Argument for Subjugation

Carolus Linnaeus was the father of modern taxonomy and binomial nomenclature. He saw humanity as another species in the animal kingdom, which given the way Christians talked about animals in this period of time was a pretty noteworthy belief. It's going to cause some problems later because he divides the human race into four subspecies: European, American, Asiatic and African.

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