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What Measures to Save a People?

On Herman Lundborg, head of the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology

2015 59mMovie

Documentary

The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.

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Maja Hagerman

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Jeanette Backman

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Gunnar Broberg

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Karl-Henrik Gustavson

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Dora Isaksson

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Stefan Mikaelsson

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Curt Persson

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Katarina Pirak Sikku

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Margareta Huuva Stenberg

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Sigrid Sagka Stångberg

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Anna Sunna

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