Karin Magnussen was a German biologist, teacher and researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during the Third Reich.
20 Facts About Karin Magnussen
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Karin Magnussen is known for her 1936 publication Race and Population Policy Tools and her studies of heterochromia iridis using iris specimens, supplied by Josef Mengele, from Auschwitz concentration camp victims.
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Karin Magnussen was lesbian but only began a lifelong relationship with her partner Dorothea Michaelsen in 1945.
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Karin Magnussen completed her schooling in Bremen, graduating with a degree.
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Karin Magnussen then studied biology, geology, chemistry and physics at the University of Gottingen.
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Karin Magnussen graduated in 1932 with an examination in the subjects of botany, zoology and geology.
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Karin Magnussen was first and later second in her state examinations for a high school teaching position; inter alia in biology in 1936.
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In Hanover, Karin Magnussen was employed as a secondary school teacher.
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Karin Magnussen had joined the National Socialist German Student League during her studies.
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Karin Magnussen's research focused on the inheritance of eye color in rabbits and humans.
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Karin Magnussen used the scientific method to lead her to the conclusion that the eye is not only genetically, but hormonally, determined.
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At least until spring 1945, Karin Magnussen was working in Berlin.
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Karin Magnussen's completed research was published in 1949, being entitled On the relationship between histological distribution of pigment, Iris color and pigmentation of the eyeball of the human eye.
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In 1950, Karin Magnussen taught at a girls' high school in Bremen.
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Karin Magnussen worked as study counselor and official, including the teaching of biology.
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Karin Magnussen was considered a popular teacher who led an interesting biology lesson.
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Karin Magnussen noted in 1980, in a conversation with the geneticist Benno Muller-Hill, that the Nuremberg Laws were not fair enough.
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Karin Magnussen denied until the last minute that Mengele would have killed children for their scientific studies.
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Karin Magnussen was entangled by her cooperation with Mengele and the supply of "human material", and mired deep in concentration camp crimes, but she claimed to know nothing about them.
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Karin Magnussen began a lifelong relationship with her partner Dorothea Michaelsen in 1945.