Rassenkunde des jüdischen Volkes [Racial Characteristics of Jews] – Nazi eugenic work, comprising a supposedly racial study of members of the Jewish people. The book includes many pictures of people of various races, with the goal of showing the essential differences between the races. Published by J. F. Lehmanns. The author, Hans Friedrich Karl Günther (1891-1968), was a member of the Nazi party and a professor of racial theory. He was serving as a professor of racial theory at the University of Jena when this book was published in 1930. Günther became very famous for his theories and influenced Hitler very much. Most of Hitler’s eugenic theories were actually taken from Günther’s book. 252 pp, 305 photographs, 23 cm, original hardcover binding.