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Rockefeller Foundation funds the German Institute for Psychiatric Research.

Date: 1926

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The Rockefeller Foundation allocates $250,000 for the creation of the German Institute for Psychiatric Research. The institute's research focuses on the hereditary and neurological components of criminality, mental illness, and the relationship between "mental retardation" and race.