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(HOLOCAUST). Vogel, Alfred. Erblehre und Rassenkunde in bildlicher Darstellung [“Racial Biology and Ethnology in Pictorial Presentation”]. Graphic reproductions by Eberhard Braucht. Second, revised and expanded edition. Complete in 78 plates - 14 of which are text (including title) and 65 are elaborate colored charts, illustrated and photographic plates. Loose as issued in original portfolio, light wear. Folio. Stuttgart: Verlag für Nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath 1939 The illustrated plates in this scarce portfolio were intended for school instruction. Through these vivid racist and anti‐Semitic presentations, students would imbibe the rabid Nazi theories of race, with its pseudo-scientific basis in modern genetics. No doubt due to such insidious pedagogic tools as this portfolio, by the time Hitler unleashed the Final Solution, the belief that Jews were racially inferior was pandemic throughout German society. Alfred Vogel, a biology curriculum writer and elementary school principal in Baden, worked alongside artist Eberhard Brauchle to create these extremist pedagogical images using the latest in color printing technology. Detailed information concerning the additional content found in this second edition, available upon request. The illustrated plates in this scarce portfolio were intended for school instruction. Through these vivid racist and anti‐Semitic presentations, students would imbibe the rabid Nazi theories of race, with its pseudo-scientific basis in modern genetics. No doubt due to such insidious pedagogic tools as this portfolio, by the time Hitler unleashed the Final Solution, the belief that Jews were racially inferior was pandemic throughout German society. Alfred Vogel, a biology curriculum writer and elementary school principal in Baden, worked alongside artist Eberhard Brauchle to create these extremist pedagogical images using the latest in color printing technology. Detailed information concerning the additional content found in this second edition, available upon request.