Posted on 04/10/2009 12:39:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BEFORE the Nazis began the mass murder of Jews, they started to sterilize or kill hundreds of thousands of their own — non-Jewish Germans, including children, who were considered mentally or physically defective. They even issued a “Ten Commandments for Choosing a Mate” that advised against marrying a person with an undesirable characteristic, or the possibility of inheriting one: “Never marry the one good person from a bad family.”
This intensive war against the “genetically unfit” is one of the areas explored in “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” a handsome and harrowing exhibition about the Nazis’ use of science, at Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University through June 12. The exhibition, a traveling version of one that opened at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in April 2004, will be accompanied by 10 public events and lectures by experts in fields like medicine, history and philosophy.
Besides the extent of Nazi mutilation and murder, “it’s also surprising how accepted it was by the medical establishment in Germany,” said Jack Coulehan, a Stony Brook professor emeritus who still teaches medical ethics and was involved in bringing the exhibition to the university. “These were all doctors who had devoted their lives to healing,” Dr. Coulehan said as he walked through the display, which includes photos, explanatory texts, excerpts from Nazi literature and eight screens showing Nazi propaganda films with English subtitles and other footage.
One film shows people in asylums, while a voiceover says that the money spent on them could be better used elsewhere. A wall of photographs focuses on 8 of the 5,000 children killed by injection or starvation. Another film features interviews with Jewish survivors, including victims of Nazi experiments on twins.
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Just think. You and I are ideologically and politically unfit.
I have an idea: Let’s open abortion facilities in the neighborhoods of the undesirable people, de-stigmatize abortion, they will avail themselves of the service, and Voila! A cleaner gene pool.
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The T4 program was supervised by Victor Brack, who worked directly out of the Reichs Chancellary. Many of those who subsequently worked in the extermination camps started in the T4 program, e.g SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Christian Wirth].
It was suspended in either 1940 or 1941 after public opposition led by Cardinal von Gehlen and other Catholic and Protestant church men.
I believe Sandra Day O’Connor, in a speech she gave after she retired, that dealt, in part,with abortion, used the phrase that was the cornerstone of the Nazi program; “Life unworthy of life”.
Strange days indeed. Conservatives only want to hold fast to what America is are called nazis. Idiots like Bill Ayers and the weathermen actually plot murder and fantasize about reeducation camps and mass murder, and they call it freedom.
Why can’t the folks at the New York Times see the obvious parallels between what the Nazis’ did and the genocidal policies they themselves promote in America today?
We have tobacco policies by state governments that not only mirror, but go beyond anything that even Hitler imagined.
So, what’s the beef with the Nazis, we’re really in simpatico with some of their mindset, at least.
Yadon’tthinkso? Try pretending to light a smoke somewhere where the Nazis have banned it, like everywhere.
They can even arrest you for it.
I read somewhere that the German docs would have a nurse admenister the ‘final touch’’ so they wouldn’t violate their oath. Our modern docs are not so inhibited.
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