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"genetic psychiatry." Part of von Verschuer's re-packaged identity was a position he got after the war with the newly-created Bureau of Human Heredity in Copenhagen. The Rockefeller Foundation provided the money to found the new Danish office where the same eugenics activities could be more quietly advanced. The Bureau of Human He~edity received a letter from von Verschuer mentioning that he had the results of Auschwitz "research" moved to Copenhagen in 1947, to the care of Danish Institute Director, Tage Kemp, also a member of the American Eugenics Society. Kemp had worked on eugenics with the Rockefeller Foundation since they financed his 1932 research stay at Cold Springs Harbor Eugenics Record Office. Kemp's Institute hosted the first International Congress in Human Genetics after the war in 1956.44 JDR Ill's Population Council and the "Crypto-eugenics" Eugenics was the foundation of John D. Rockefeller Ill's obsession with overpopulation. Given his enormous influence and the huge financial muscle of the Rockefeller Foundation to fund scientific research, it was an obsession which would have untold consequences for generations after his death. John D. III was nurtured on the grim pseudo-science of Malthus and fears of population growth. When he was a senior at Princeton University in 1928, his father, John D. Rockefeller Jr. named his son to the board of the family's Bureau of Social Hygiene, a birth control organization. JDR Ill's Princeton mentor, economics professor, Frank Fetter, was a member of the American Eugenics Society. Fetter taught that "democracy was increasing the mediocre and reducing the excellent strains of stock ...."45 In 1931, JDR III joined the board of the Rockefeller Foundation itself. There" eugenicists like Raymond Fosdick and Frederick Osborn, founding members of the American Eugenics Society, fostered JDR Ill's interest in population control. Osborn was president of the American Eugenics Society in 1946, and was also president of the racist Pioneer Fund. With John D Rockefeller III he would co-found the Rockefeller Population Council. During the Third Reich, Osborn had expressed his early support for German
