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Lectures

7 p.m.

William Meinecke, Jr., Ph.D.
Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

presents

“Deadly Medicine: German Doctors and the Nazi State”

March 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
The Living Center, 110 Henderson Building

as part of the

Deadly Medicine Exhibit
on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
February 16–May 2
HUB–Robeson Gallery

This program explores the perversion of medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Between 1933 and 1945, a politically extreme, antisemitic variation of eugenics determined the course of state policy in Nazi Germany. The Nazis justified their program of territorial expansion with claims of biological superiority—an “Aryan master race”—and virulent antisemitism. Adolph Hitler enlisted the help of medical professionals, many of whom applauded the Nazi regime’s emphasis on biology and heredity, as well as new career opportunities and additional funding for research. In the process, broad segments of the German medical profession became embroiled in Nazi crimes, especially in forced sterilization, the “Euthanasia” killing program, and ultimately in the Holocaust.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It has been made possible by The Lerner Foundation and Eric F. and Lore Ross.  This traveling exhibition is co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Jewish Studies Program, the Rock Ethics Institute, the College of Medicine, and the Science, Technology, and Society Program, the Jewish Studies Program, the College of the Liberal Arts, and the HUB-Robeson Galleries.

Details

COST: free
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: HUB-Robeson Galleries
WEBSITE: http://www.sa.psu.edu/usa/galleries