Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race December 16, 2006

This exhibition explores the Holocaust’s roots in then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific theory. The eugenics theory sprang from turn-of-the-century scientific beliefs asserting that Charles Darwin’s theories of the “survival of the fittest” could be applied to humans, and that the “inferior” should be eliminated from the population. Supporters believed that through careful controls on marriage and reproduction, a nation’s genetic health could be improved. Deadly Medicine includes 40 archival sources from around the world and is the first U.S. exhibition to represent a history of the Nazi biological state. More than 200 artifacts, 200 photographs and photographic reproductions as well as survivor testimony are included in the exhibition.

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