Sculpture of a discus thrower used to teach racial science in Nazi Germany
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The sculpture was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany.)
approximately 1933-1945
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Sculpture of a discus thrower used to teach racial science in Nazi Germany
Statue of a man preparing to throw a discus used at The Deutsches Hygiene Museum in der DDR where exhibitions and the teaching of racial and eugenic theories originated during the Third Reich.
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Figure sculpture of a youth in athletic shorts and a sleeveless shirt with his right arm extended backward as he prepares to throw the discus in his hand.