Karin Magnussen | |
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| Born | 9 February 1908 |
| Died | 19 February 1997 (aged 89) |
| Parent | Walter Magnussen |
Karin Magnussen (9 February 1908 – 19 February 1997) was a German biologist, teacher and researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during the Third Reich. She is known for her 1936 publication Race and Population Policy Tools and her studies of heterochromia iridis (different-colored eyes) using iris specimens, supplied by Josef Mengele, from Auschwitz concentration camp victims.[1]
She was lesbian but only began a lifelong relationship with her partner Dorothea Michaelsen in 1945.[2]
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