Hitler's Salon: The Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich 1937–1944. By Ines Schlenker. Vol. 20 in the series German Linguistic and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Peter Lang. 2007. Pp. 338. Paper $114.95. ISBN 3-0391-0905-7.

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formed the background for the Verschuer-Mengele collaboration. This interpretation is untenable: Fischer articulated the "phenogenetics" program in 1931 and used it to justify the establishment of a "Department of Hereditary Psychology" at the KWIA as early as 1935. Of course it would have been good to have more detailed accounts of actual basic research in human genetics during this period, and a separate chapter on the fates of the actors after 1945. In the effort to make the text more widely readable, the writing gets a bit awkward in some places. But none of this detracts from the overall assessment: this is a fine overview of human genetics in Nazi Germany that should circulate widely.