ABSTRACT
August Vetter, who headed the M. H. Goring Institute's psychological testing division in the outpatient clinic from 1939 to 1945, became a consultant for I. G. Farben in 1940 through an arrangement made by his eminent teacher and friend, Gustav Kafka. The relationship of the Goring Institute to the Labor Front arose from more than joint technical interest in industrial psychology and the Nazi bias toward harnessing expertise to expedite Adolf Hitler's policies. The Deutsche Arbeitsfront chief saw in Goring's incipient ascendancy in the economic realm a wedge by which that sector of German life could be pried loose from its traditional moorings and brought under the care and control of National Socialism as administered by the Labor Front. The industrial psychologists of the Goring Institute brought to this realm their emphasis on repair of the productive individual in his or her specific work environment.
