Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race PDF

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From 1933 to 1945, Hitler's Nazi regime attempted to realize its vision of a biologically healthy and ethnically homogeneous population through "racial hygiene" programs designed to cleanse German society of those perceived to threaten its biological health. Deadly Medicine examines the critical role German physicians, scientists, public health officials, and academic experts played in supporting and implementing the Nazis' program of racial eugenics, which culminated in the Holocaust.

Illustrated with many never-before-published photographs, images from rare Nazi publications, and historical artifacts, Deadly Medicine presents essays by internationally recognized authorities that provide the wider contextual framework for a compelling visual and documentary exploration of the origins of the Holocaust. This publication is an accompaniment to the exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum running from April 22, 2004, through October 16, 2005.

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• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition (September 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807829161
• ISBN-13: 978-0807829165
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.5 x 12.5 inches
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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race PDF

This important book examines the medical and biological roots of Nazi Germany's campaign to rid itself of those deemed to be a threat to its biological health. Consisting of seven essays and 270 illustrations--photographs, images from Nazi publications, and historical artifacts--it describes how the Nazi regime enacted "racial hygiene" programs designed to purge German society of those it considered physically, mentally, and racially unfit.

The first four essays are by Sheila Faith Weiss ("German Eugenics, 1890-1933"), Daniel Kevles ("International Eugenics"), Gisela Bock ("Nazi Sterilization"), and Benoit Massin ("The 'Science of Race'").

The fifth essay--"Nazi 'Euthanasia' Programs" by Michael Burleigh'--describes the secret campaign Hitler launched in 1939 to rid Germany of those it declared mentally and physically unfit ("life unworthy of life"). The campaign began with the use of sedative overdoses, morphine injections, and starvation to kill children in hospitals. The "euthanasia" program then expanded to include adults who were gassed in specially built chambers at six killing centers inside the Third Reich--Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, and Sonnenstein in Germany and Hartheim in Austria.

In the sixth essay--"From 'Euthanasia' to the 'Final Solution'"--Henry Friedlander writes about how the Nazi murder of Germans judged physically and mentally unfit paved the way for the extermination of Jews in Poland. When Hitler ended the official phase of the euthanasia program in 1941 (the killings continued unofficially), much of the program's personnel and equipment were sent to Poland to set up and operate the Operation Reinhard death camps--Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor.