Review Exhibition The Cold Eye/Book review Margit Berner Monograph Final Pictures

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Exhibition Sources

Exhibition leaflet: https://www.topographie.de/fileadmin/topographie/public/Veranstaltungen/Der_kalte_Blick___Flyer___Web.pdf (German/English).

Exhibition announcement: https://hdgoe.at/the_cold_eye (English)

Notes

1 Auden, The dyer’s hand, 97.

2 Fliethmann married in late 1943 and operated from the Institute of German Eastern Research (IDO), Race and Ethnicity Studies research division on the premises of the former Jagiellonian University in Krakow under Viennese anthropologist and ethnologist Anton Plügel (1910–1945). She would eventually end up as his war draft substitute for the project (1942 -43). Kahlich- Könner was employed by the Anthropological Institute in Vienna.

3 Letter from IDO departmental head Anton Plügel (1910–1945) to Fliethmann, October 1941.

4 Berner claims to have identified 631 family members initially involved in the study. Berner, Letzte Bilder, 14.

5 See: https://www.akg-images.de.

6 The Polish Jewish community was diverse before 1945. See: Rudnicki, "Jews in Poland Between the Two World Wars.", 4-23.

7 See: Fassin, "Ethical turn in anthropology”, 429–435.

8 The war apparently cut short the production of an envisioned reference work on the “typology of Eastern European Jews”, Aly, Der Kalte Blick, 104.

9 https://portal.ehri-project.eu/units/us-005578-irn518579.

10 The Baur-Fisher-Lenz handbook appeared in various ever more extended versions under slightly varying titles between 1927 and 1940 and would become the corner stone of racial hygiene in the Third Reich and beyond. Baur, Menschliche Erblehre, 1940. See also: Proctor, "Anthropologie to Rassenkunde.", 138-179.