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In May 1933, Nazi students burned thousands of books in Berlin. Among those books were works by Franz Boas, a scientist who spent fifty years proving that Nazi ideas about race were wrong. His journey began decades earlier in an Inuit snow house in the Canadian Arctic.
In the 1800s, scientists believed humans belonged to separate races ranked from best t…
