Texas Museum Displays Exhibit of Nazi Medical Experimentation
A major traveling exhibit from one of the world's foremost collections of Nazi artifacts has been loaned to the Bell County Museum for a limited engagement through May 21.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., traces the history of ethnic purification from the early 20th century international Eugenics movement to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime's "science of race." It also challenges viewers to reflect on the present-day interest in genetic manipulation that promotes the possibility of human perfection.
The Holocaust Museum's description paints the grisly picture: "From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to 'cleanse' German society of people 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 started with the mass sterilization of 'hereditarily diseased' persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry."
It's a reality that cannot be denied as much as we may want to. Younger generations must learn from these horrors so they can never be repeated.
The Bell County Museum's hours are 12:00 PM. until 5:00 PM Tuesday – Friday; Saturday, 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race has been featured in major museums all across the nation. Below is a commercial from another stop which gives a glimpse into what you can expect.
For More information,
http://www.bellcountymuseum.org/Museum/index.html
BONUS:
a report from Ann Arbor Community Television about the exhibit
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