Ernst Rüdin
Swiss psychiatrist (1874-1952) · Switzerland · Academics · Died at 78
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Something wrong?Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich.
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Wilhelm Frick in his cell at Nuremberg, November 1945![This poster (from around 1938) reads: "60,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read '[A] New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP."](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg/330px-EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg)
This poster (from around 1938) reads: "60,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read '[A] New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP."
Karl Brandt on trial, 20 August 1947
Photo from Josef Mengele's Argentine identification document (1956)Awards
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Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children.
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