...stressed that "in order to preserve [their] hereditary endowment," the German people "must reject alien elements, and when these have already insinuated themselves, it must suppress them and eliminate them." Though he did not "characterize every Jew as inferior as Negroes are," he insisted that "the Jew is...

...Fischer in 1939 extended this line of thinking specifically to the Jews. He said: 'When a people wants to preserve its own nature it must reject alien racial...themselves it must suppress them and eliminate them. This is self-defence.'4 As well as belief in racial purity, there was the idea that in a given race...

...Fischer in 1939 extended this line of thinking specifically to the Jews. He said: 'When a people wants to preserve its own nature it must reject alien racial...themselves it must suppress them and eliminate them. This is self-defence.'5 Some appalling imagery was used to give racism a biological justification....

...on June 20, 1939, referring to the "science" of eugenics and the Jewish threat, Eugen Fischer said: When a people wants somehow or other, to preserve...eliminate them. The Jew is such an alien and, therefore, must be warded off. This is self-defense. In saying this, I do not characterize every Jew as inferior,...

...from anthropologist and "race scientist" Professor Fischer, who, in a lecture on 20 June 1939 said: "When a people wants, somehow or other, to preserve...them and eliminate them. The Jew is such an alien,... saying this, I do not characterize every Jew as interior, as Negroes, and I do not underestimate the...

...encouraged, later that year Professor Eugen Fischer, this time responding to coal barons of the Ruhr, wrote, "When a people wants somehow or other to preserve...nature, it must reject alien racial elements and when they have already insinuated themselves, it must suppress and then eliminate them. The Jew is such...