Karin Magnussen was a German biologist, teacher and researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during the Third Reich. She is known for her 1936 publication Race and Population Policy Tools and her studies of heterochromia iridis (different-colored eyes) using iris specimens, supplied by Josef Mengele, from Auschwitz concentration camp victims
Karin Auguste Ella was born in 1908 in Bremen. She was the daughter of Kunstmaler Walter Claus Magnußen and Anna Margareta Petersen.[1]
She passed away in 1997 in Bremen.
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