Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man's facial features with a caliper. The picture is often contextualized, in these books, museums, and image archives as an illustration of the National Socialist obsession with quantifiable racial purity, particularly as it was applied to Jews.
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