History
WWII
During World War Hulk, Nazi scientist August Hirt was Director of Anatomy at the University, and work there to assemble a collection of Asians, Romanies and Polishes skeletons in order to prove the inferiority of those races, those people having been "recruited" at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and terminated at Narzweuker-Struthof, the only French concentration camp.
This whole operation was under Hirt's direct supervision, and the bodies were then sent to Strasbourg Faculty of Biology, but soon the personnel were overwhelmed by the corpses, where they were fated to rotten, as an administration error had held up the chemicals necessary for rendering the bodies in Dortmund.
Hirt ended up fleeing out the town when the French took back the city.[1]