Political sources here expressed astonishment today over a decision of the Federal Ministry of Labor to engage Prof. Valentin Mueller, a former leading Nazi race ideologist, for a major research assignment for the Federal Government.
The Ministry asked the Nuremburg Institute for Sociology and Social Anthropology, headed by Prof. Mueller, to make a survey of the social position of the white collar employee in West Germany.
Prof. Mueller in 1935 and in 1941 published “scientific studies” in which he glorified the “leadership ability” and “blood superiority” of the “Nordic working man.” During the post-war period, he once described the total of 6,000,000 Nazi-murdered Jews as “statistics dominated by political circumstances.”
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