Heredity and Scientific Racism – Antisemitic Textbook – Stuttgart, 1939

Heredity and Scientific Racism – Antisemitic Textbook – Stuttgart, 1939
Erblehre, Abstammungs- und Rassenkunde in Bildlicher Darstellung [Study of Heredity, Genealogy and Racial Science, in Pictorial Representation], portfolio with plates of text, illustrations and sketches for teaching heredity and race theory. Text by Alfred Vogel; illustrations by Eberhard Brauchle. Stuttgart: Verlag für National Literatur Gebr. Rath, [second edition from 1939]. German.
Portfolio with 69 (out of 80) plates combining text, illustrations and diagrams (many of them in color) intended for the instruction of heredity and scientific racism in schools in Nazi Germany. The portfolio was created by Alfred Vogel, an elementary school principal in Baden, to accompany a textbook he had written on the subject (Erblehre und Rassenkunde für die Grund- und Hauptschule, 1937). The plates were illustrated by Eberhard Brauchle.
The plates form two groups, the first of which deals with the laws of Mendelian Inheritance using illustrations and diagrams to present various experiments and studies in plants. The second group of plates deals with heredity and racial science. By means of illustrations, diagrams, photographs and more, the plates present the antisemitic racial theory about the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of other races.
The portfolio, which reflects the doctrine of the Nazi party and the Nuremberg race laws, puts a special emphasis on the nature and character of the Jews: their inferior genetics, their defilement of the Aryan race, their degenerate culture, their corrupted morality, their love of money, their plot to take over the world, etc. On the bottom of some of the plates appear quotations and sentences reflecting the racial and antisemitic principles of the Nazi party.
Incomplete copy with 69 (out of 80) plates: plates no. 10-15, 17-48, 48a, 49-78. Missing eleven plates (including title page). Portfolio: 40 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to margins of plates. The portfolio is somewhat worn, with tears and blemishes to edges and spine. Inked stamp to portfolio's front board and to inside front board.