Holocaust Museum: Nazis used science to legit. persecution

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Germany Info Home: Culture & Life

In a new exhibit, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Washington examines how Nazi leadership in collaboration with

individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and

the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution,

murder and ultimately, genocide. The exhibition, ?Deadly

Medicine: Creating the Master Race,<sum> will run through October,

16, 2005.

The exhibit looks at how the Nazi regime was able to implement

its radical version of eugenics in an attempt to ?scientifically<sum>

build what it considered a superior race. The museum?s

website begins it description of the exhibit:

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to

" cleanse " German society of individuals viewed as biological

threats to the nation's " health " .Enlisting the help of physicians

and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and

anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that

began with the mass sterilization of " genetically

diseased " persons and ended with the near annihilation of

European Jewry.<sum>

By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been murdered,

and millions of other peoples - including Sinti and Roma,

various others ethnic groups, homosexuals, and other groups -

became victims of persecution and murder.

Deadly Medicine explores the Holocaust's roots in

then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought, said

Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield.

At the same time, it touches on complex ethical issues we face

today, such as how societies acquire and use scientific

knowledge, and how they balance the rights of the individual with

the needs of the larger community.

Among the many institutions around the world that lent objects,

documents, photographs and historic film footage to the

exhibition are about 45 German institutions. Notable contributors

from Germany include the Deutsches Hygiene Museum (hygiene

museum) in Dresden, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin

state archive, and the Prinzhorn-Collection of psychiatric art in

Heidelberg. Individual German scholars also contributed essays

to the exhibition catalog. Deputy Chief Mission of the German

Embassy Gottwald had the opportunity to preview the

exhibit with Director Bloomfield before its official opening.

April 26, 2004

Links

US Holocaust Memorial Museum - for museum location, hours,

and more http://www.ushmm.org/

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

[Guest guest]

Germany Info Home: Culture & Life

In a new exhibit, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Washington examines how Nazi leadership in collaboration with

individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and

the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution,

murder and ultimately, genocide. The exhibition, ?Deadly

Medicine: Creating the Master Race,<sum> will run through October,

16, 2005.

The exhibit looks at how the Nazi regime was able to implement

its radical version of eugenics in an attempt to ?scientifically<sum>

build what it considered a superior race. The museum?s

website begins it description of the exhibit:

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to

" cleanse " German society of individuals viewed as biological

threats to the nation's " health " .Enlisting the help of physicians

and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and

anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that

began with the mass sterilization of " genetically

diseased " persons and ended with the near annihilation of

European Jewry.<sum>

By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been murdered,

and millions of other peoples - including Sinti and Roma,

various others ethnic groups, homosexuals, and other groups -

became victims of persecution and murder.

Deadly Medicine explores the Holocaust's roots in

then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought, said

Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield.

At the same time, it touches on complex ethical issues we face

today, such as how societies acquire and use scientific

knowledge, and how they balance the rights of the individual with

the needs of the larger community.

Among the many institutions around the world that lent objects,

documents, photographs and historic film footage to the

exhibition are about 45 German institutions. Notable contributors

from Germany include the Deutsches Hygiene Museum (hygiene

museum) in Dresden, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin

state archive, and the Prinzhorn-Collection of psychiatric art in

Heidelberg. Individual German scholars also contributed essays

to the exhibition catalog. Deputy Chief Mission of the German

Embassy Gottwald had the opportunity to preview the

exhibit with Director Bloomfield before its official opening.

April 26, 2004

Links

US Holocaust Memorial Museum - for museum location, hours,

and more http://www.ushmm.org/

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

[Guest guest]

Germany Info Home: Culture & Life

In a new exhibit, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Washington examines how Nazi leadership in collaboration with

individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and

the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution,

murder and ultimately, genocide. The exhibition, ?Deadly

Medicine: Creating the Master Race,<sum> will run through October,

16, 2005.

The exhibit looks at how the Nazi regime was able to implement

its radical version of eugenics in an attempt to ?scientifically<sum>

build what it considered a superior race. The museum?s

website begins it description of the exhibit:

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to

" cleanse " German society of individuals viewed as biological

threats to the nation's " health " .Enlisting the help of physicians

and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and

anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that

began with the mass sterilization of " genetically

diseased " persons and ended with the near annihilation of

European Jewry.<sum>

By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been murdered,

and millions of other peoples - including Sinti and Roma,

various others ethnic groups, homosexuals, and other groups -

became victims of persecution and murder.

Deadly Medicine explores the Holocaust's roots in

then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought, said

Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield.

At the same time, it touches on complex ethical issues we face

today, such as how societies acquire and use scientific

knowledge, and how they balance the rights of the individual with

the needs of the larger community.

Among the many institutions around the world that lent objects,

documents, photographs and historic film footage to the

exhibition are about 45 German institutions. Notable contributors

from Germany include the Deutsches Hygiene Museum (hygiene

museum) in Dresden, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin

state archive, and the Prinzhorn-Collection of psychiatric art in

Heidelberg. Individual German scholars also contributed essays

to the exhibition catalog. Deputy Chief Mission of the German

Embassy Gottwald had the opportunity to preview the

exhibit with Director Bloomfield before its official opening.

April 26, 2004

Links

US Holocaust Memorial Museum - for museum location, hours,

and more http://www.ushmm.org/

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

[Guest guest]

Germany Info Home: Culture & Life

In a new exhibit, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Washington examines how Nazi leadership in collaboration with

individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and

the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution,

murder and ultimately, genocide. The exhibition, ?Deadly

Medicine: Creating the Master Race,<sum> will run through October,

16, 2005.

The exhibit looks at how the Nazi regime was able to implement

its radical version of eugenics in an attempt to ?scientifically<sum>

build what it considered a superior race. The museum?s

website begins it description of the exhibit:

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to

" cleanse " German society of individuals viewed as biological

threats to the nation's " health " .Enlisting the help of physicians

and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and

anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that

began with the mass sterilization of " genetically

diseased " persons and ended with the near annihilation of

European Jewry.<sum>

By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been murdered,

and millions of other peoples - including Sinti and Roma,

various others ethnic groups, homosexuals, and other groups -

became victims of persecution and murder.

Deadly Medicine explores the Holocaust's roots in

then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought, said

Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield.

At the same time, it touches on complex ethical issues we face

today, such as how societies acquire and use scientific

knowledge, and how they balance the rights of the individual with

the needs of the larger community.

Among the many institutions around the world that lent objects,

documents, photographs and historic film footage to the

exhibition are about 45 German institutions. Notable contributors

from Germany include the Deutsches Hygiene Museum (hygiene

museum) in Dresden, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin

state archive, and the Prinzhorn-Collection of psychiatric art in

Heidelberg. Individual German scholars also contributed essays

to the exhibition catalog. Deputy Chief Mission of the German

Embassy Gottwald had the opportunity to preview the

exhibit with Director Bloomfield before its official opening.

April 26, 2004

Links

US Holocaust Memorial Museum - for museum location, hours,

and more http://www.ushmm.org/

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm

Note:

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/new/cul_holocaust

_science.htm