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The Rockefeller Foundation funds German research institutions that will develop Nazi eugenics programs.

Date: 1920

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The Rockefellers provide funding for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. These institutions which will become the foundation of Nazi eugenics, rooted in racial hygiene and hereditary science.