A history of science and injustice | Guided tour of the exhibition at the Ihnestraße Memorial

With this permanent exhibition, Freie Universität Berlin commemorates the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, in whose former building the university’s Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science is now located.

The exhibition documents the racist and dehumanising research of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, whose staff were already devising selection measures during the Weimar Republic. From 1933 onwards, the Institute legitimised the Nazis’ policies of persecution and extermination, and conducted unethical research of its own.

The exhibition also commemorates the victims of this science that had abandoned all ethical limits and shows that scientific research is always embedded in social and political contexts to which researchers must respond.

An event organised by the Max Planck Society in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin / Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science.

• Further dates in 2026: 3 July, 7 August, 4 September, 2 October, 6 November, 4 December.
• Time: 2 pm
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Meeting point: Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
• Admission free, maximum 12 people