Deadly Medicine Exhibit
On September 11, I visited the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibit at the Reece Museum. The exhibit focused on medical research done during the Holocaust, specifically using Holocaust victims. Germany has been seeking to become the supreme country through medicine and beyond. They even installed a 2-child system at one point to keep the population at a successful and steady growth rate. This striving "model country" ended up torturing millions of people through the reign of Hitler (1933-1945). Specifically, I noticed there were strict policies in place for the sole purpose of making the country live up to a perfect standard in their eyes. 100,000 men were arrested for being homosexuals, and hundreds of those men were sent to be tortured at concentration camps. Germany claimed to have the best lunatic asylums because they strived to keep "different" people off the streets and in places where they would not be seen. Over 5,000 German children were killed because of the euthanasia beliefs of people holding office in that country.
As I mentioned before, medical research was a big candidate in the actions Germany took during Hitler's power. Children were used to perform research on tuberculosis. 700 infertile women were injected with toxins to find a way for mass sterilization in Jewish women. These toxins caused severe pain and death to those innocent women. These doctors and leaders were not seeking to help those in need; rather, they were seeking to make Germany a country of healthy people by eliminating the "unhealthy" people. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in 1938, said, "Our starting point is not the individual, and we do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked... our objectives are entirely different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world."
I learned a lot about German objectives during the 1930s through this exhibit. I was interested in the detail of what types of enhancement Germany was looking for in their country, which turned out to be mainly in the medical field. I was impressed by the accurate detail and information presented in the exhibit. I really enjoyed taking time to visit this exhibit.
As I mentioned before, medical research was a big candidate in the actions Germany took during Hitler's power. Children were used to perform research on tuberculosis. 700 infertile women were injected with toxins to find a way for mass sterilization in Jewish women. These toxins caused severe pain and death to those innocent women. These doctors and leaders were not seeking to help those in need; rather, they were seeking to make Germany a country of healthy people by eliminating the "unhealthy" people. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in 1938, said, "Our starting point is not the individual, and we do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked... our objectives are entirely different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world."
I learned a lot about German objectives during the 1930s through this exhibit. I was interested in the detail of what types of enhancement Germany was looking for in their country, which turned out to be mainly in the medical field. I was impressed by the accurate detail and information presented in the exhibit. I really enjoyed taking time to visit this exhibit.
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