Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race February 27, 2008

This moving exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explores the history of Nazi eugenic programs during the Third Reich. Designed to improve the hereditary qualities of a population, the Internationally supported "science" of eugenics paved the way, in Nazi Germany, for the mass "euthanasia" murders of disabled persons and the near annihilation of European Jewry. See artifacts, photographs, film footage and incredibly powerful personal testimonials from survivors of the infamous Nazi eugenics efforts. 'Deadly Medicine' serves as a stirring reminder of the critical importance of balancing the needs of society as a whole with the rights of the individual.