This was after the Nazi concentration camps and the brutality being carried out in them were well known to the world. In 1938, von Verschuer had agreed to join the advisory committee of the EN at the invitation of Davenport and was becoming an essential link between American eugenics and Nazi policy. In 1940, he was welcomed as a foreign member of AES (Weiss 2010). Von Verschuer considered genes in a holistic context as units striving for unity, order, and higher ideals in service to the state, or Volk (Weindling 1989).
