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Some questions and discussion points for you and your students...
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In 1930, Carl Brigham wrote an article in which he retracted many of the conclusions he had reached in A Study of American Intelligence. "Comparative studies of various national and racial groups may not be made with existing tests," he now argued. He went on to state that one of the most pretentious of these comparative racial studies--the writer's own--was without foundation.1 Lenz, Baur, and Fischer ignored Brigham's retraction when they revised their work in the 1930s. How do you account for their behavior? What does it suggest about the quality of their research?
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What similarities do you notice between the efforts of German and American eugenicists to "protect the race"? What difference seems most striking?
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Read Oswald Bumke's statement carefully. To whom is his warning directed? What does he fear? How do you think his colleagues responded to his warning?
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