Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 1943: Fellow of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1949: Fellow of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur 1949: Corresponding member of the American Society of Human Genetics 1953: Honorary member of the Italian Society of Medical Genetics 1955: Honorary member of the Anthropological Society of Vienna 1956: Honorary member of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics 1959: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Bibliography Erbpathologie (Hereditary pathology, 1934). Erbbiologie als Unterlage der Bevölkerungspolitik (Hereditary biology as a basis for the population policy). First published in 1933, re-published and modified in 1936. Rassenhygiene als Wissenschaft und Staatsaufgabe (Racial hygiene as Science and State function, 1936). Leitfaden der Rassenhygiene (Textbook of Racial hygiene, 1944). Eugenik. Kommende Generationen in der Sicht der Genetik (Eugenics: Coming Generations in the view of Genetics, 1966). See also Nazi eugenics Heinrich Gross Notes References Other sources {{citation | editor1-last=Westermann | editor1-first=Stefanie | editor2-last=Kühl | editor2-first=Richard | editor3-last=Gross | editor3-first=Dominik | title=Medizin und Nationalsozialismus vol. 1: Medizin im Dienst der "Erbgesundheit": Beiträge zur Geschichte der Eugenik und "Rassenhygiene" (English: Medicine and National Socialism, Vol. 1: Medicine at work, the "hereditary health": Contribution to history of Eugenics and "race hygiene")| year=2009 | publisher=LIT Verlag Münster| isbn=978-3643104786| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=h54Gsl6JBT8C&pg=PA78 }} Sheila Faith Weiss: After the Fall. Political Whitewashing, Professional Posturing, and personal Refashioning in the Postwar Career of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer. Isis, Vol. 101 (2010), 722–758. Peter Degen, "Racial Hygienist Otmar von Verschuer, the Confessing Church, and comparative reflections on postwar rehabilitation," pp. 155–65 in Jing Bao Nie, Japan´s Medical Wartime Atrocities (London: Routledge&Kegan, 2010) Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. Paul Weindling, "'Tales from Nuremberg': The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology and Allied medical war crimes policy," in Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung, ed. Doris Kaufmann, v.2 (Goettingen: Wallstein, 2000), 635–652. Katrin Weigmann: "In the name of science. The role of biologists in Nazi atrocities: lessons for today's scientists" in EMBO Reports v.2 #10 (2001), 871–875. Eric Ehrenreich, "Otmar von Verschuer and the 'Scientific' Legitimization of Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2007 21(1):55–72 External links "In the name of science" EMBO Reports article about KWI scientists' wartime atrocities, with images of Verschuer "Skeletons in the Closet of German Science" Deutsche Welle'' article on Verschuer's research connection to Mengele 1896 births 1969 deaths People from Hersfeld-Rotenburg