Background
Walter Gross was born in Kassel on 21 October 1904.
Walter Gross was born in Kassel on 21 October 1904.
A physician by training, he entered the NSDAP in 1925. In 1933 Dr Gross founded and headed the Reich Bureau for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare, which in April 1934 was integrated into the Racial Policy Department of the NSDAP.
In September 1942 Gross became head of this department and also head of the Science Division in the Ideology Department (Amt Rosenberg).
His zoological anti-semitism found typical expression in his pseudo-scientific work, Die rassenpolitischen Voraussetzungen zur Lösung der Judenfrage (1943).
Quotations: ‘As far as the historical appearance of the Jew in Europe is concerned, we believe that the hour of his death has irrevocably arrived.’
Reich leadership of the National Socialist German Doctors' Alliance in Munich , Germany
1932
A member of the Reichstag for the electoral district of Oppela, Gross was one of the most fanatical and influential advocates in the Party of the doctrines of racial purity, which he considered essential for the preservation of German national culture against the ‘imperialistic designs of the Jewish people on German soil’.
Reichstag
1936
