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e first genocide of the 20th Century, perpetrated by the Germans against the people of the Narma and Herero tribes. Up to three quarters of the population of these people were systematically killed.

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Fischer would go on to contribute to the anti semitic Nuremberg Laws established by Nazi Germany.

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Eugenics and racism go hand in hand, a claim that can be confirmed by eugenicist creations like the Eugen Fischers hair colour gauge

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This was done in 1908

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He was a German man who was racist and used the hair gauge to determine people’s “whiteness” according to their hair colour and texture.

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Eugen Fischer was a German who came up with the idea to determine people’s ‘whiteness’ based on there hair

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this object is a selection off 30 different colours and textures of synthetic hair in a tin box. Hair gauge was designed by a german scientist Fischer and used by him to judge the relative whiteness.according to hair colour and texture, of mixed race people in what is now Namibia. Fischer carried out his work in 1908 and Namibia is the site of the first genocide of the 20th Century, perpetrated by the Germans against the people of the Narma and Herero tribes