Creating the master race, the international museum of surgical science welcomes the united states holocaust memorial museums traveling exhibition deadly medicine. We see a white lab coat belonging to a murderous german doctor, a pair of oven mitts used when operating an incinerator, and a wide array of calipers for racial anthropometry. Creating the master race examines how the nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder, and ultimately, genocide. Creating the master race, is a special exhibition organized and circulated by the united states holocaust memorial museum in washington, d. Creating the master race is the first major survey exhibition to present this link. It is left to the reader to determine whether such truths are unique to a particular historical era or can serve as a template to assist our informed medical choices now and into the future. Creating the master race examines how the nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used. Creating the master race from 1933 to 1945, nazi germanys government led by adolf hitler promoted a nationalism that combined territorial expansion with claims of biological superiority an aryan master race and virulent antisemitism. Deadly medicine creating the master race 1st edition. Mike anderson talks with patricia herbererrice about the exhibit, deadly medicine. Through reproductions of photographs and documents, films, and survivor testimony, it traces how the persecution of groups deemed biologically inferior led to the near annihilation of european jewry. This exhibit examines how the nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help. Creating the master race pendleton, oregon for immediate release the united states holocaust memorial museums traveling exhibition deadly medicine. Europe pmc is a service of the europe pmc funders group, in partnership with the european bioinformatics institute.
It includes content provided to the pmc international archive by participating publishers. Creating the master race to open at united nations headquarters the united states holocaust memorial museums travelling exhibition, deadly. Deadly medicine amid a chilling collection of photographs, film clips, and medical paraphernalia. Rent deadly medicine creating the master race 1st edition 9780807829165 and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used textbooks. Creating the master race, running from march to july 19, 2009, at the jewish museum berlin about. From the early twentiethcentury international eugenics movements to presentday dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic manipulation, the issues remain timely.
The exhibition examines how the nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize. The original note authorising t4 is on display in deadly medicine amid a chilling collection of photographs, film clips, and medical paraphernalia. Creating the master race is made possible through the support of the david berg foundation, the blanche and irving laurie foundation, the lester robbins and sheila johnson robbins traveling and temporary exhibitions fund. This intensive war against the genetically unfit is one of the areas explored in deadly medicine. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus.
The following text is the narrative of an online exhibit developed by the united states. Creating the master race, exhibition at the holocaust museum, washington, dc, october, 2004 october 16, 2005. I mention that because i read yesterday about the traveling exhibit deadly medicine. The museum has created the press and graphics kits linked below to help ensure our deadly medicine traveling exhibition reaches the widest audience at your venue. Deadly medicine in south africa ethics, humanities. Creating the master race inspires reflection on the continuing attraction of biological utopias that promote the possibility of human perfection. Creating the master race examines how nazi leadership. Creating the master race from 1933 to 1945, hitlers nazi regime attempted to realize its vision of a biologically healthy and ethnically homogeneous population through racial hygiene programs designed to cleanse german society of those perceived to threaten its biological health.
Creating the master race exhibition you are invited to the first in a series of three seminars. Creating the master race an exhibition at the united states holocaust memorial museum, 100 raoul wallenberg place, s w washington, dc, 200242126. Floor plan of the intended exhibition space, including complete and accurate dimensions. United states holocaust memorial museum exhibition deadly medicine. The exhibition moves the viewer from state public health and preventive medicine to the racial state. The doctors trial online exhibition the doctors trial encyclopedia article euthanasia program encyclopedia article deadly medicine. Creating the master race examines how the nazi leadership. Scientists in the biomedical fields, many of them medically trained experts, played a role in legitimizing these policies and helping to implement them. It is particularly unsettling that the science that contributed most to what the books subtitle calls creating the master race is. It was conceived by the holocaust memorial museum in washington, d. Creating the master race shows how the nazi regime under adolf hitler aimed to change the genetic makeup of the population through measures known as racial hygiene. Creating the master race traces this history from the early 20thcentury international eugenics movement to the nazi regimes science of race. The united states holocaust memorial museums traveling exhibition deadly medicine. This diagnosis that state medicine is the cause of deadly medicine is an injustice to the many socialists including those who happened to be jewish who fought nazi race policy.
Creating the master race exhibition collection were transferred to the ushmm oral history branch from the museums institutional archives in april 20. Deadly medicine creating the master race project director, susan bachrach. Dvd0332 the video chronicles how nazi leadershipin its zeal to find biological solutions to social problems worked with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good to. Creating the master race the following text is the narrative of an online exhibit developed by the united states holocaust memorial museum in 2004. Creating the master race shows how the nazi regime under adolf hitler aimed to change the genetic makeup of the population through measures known as racial hygiene or eugenics, and the role that scientists in the biomedical fields especially anthropologists, psychiatrists, and geneticists, these were all medically. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content. Oral history interviews from the united states holocaust memorial museums deadly medicine.
Creating the master race examines how nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and ultimately, genocide. Creating the master race, makes its debut at stony brook university on monday, april 6 at the charles b. Creating the master race, a handsome and harrowing exhibition about the nazis use. The united states holocaust memorial museums traveling exhibition, deadly medicine.
Creating the master race is made possible through the support of the david berg foundation, the blanche and irving laurie foundation, the lester robbins and sheila johnson robbins traveling and temporary exhibitions fund established in 1990, and the dorot foundation. It is sponsored in part by the samberg family foundation, the dorot foundation, the viterbi family foundation of the jewish community foundation of san diego, and the rosenbluth family. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. United states holocaust memorial council board of trustees. Creating the master race is a traveling exhibition produced by the united states holocaust memorial museum and presented at florida atlantic university in conjunction with the center for holocaust and human right education and the dorothy f. This seminar will be opened by prof vasu reddy, dean of the faculty of humanities and chairperson of the tuks aids reference group and it will be chaired by pierre.
As the head of the kaiser wilhelm institutes department for human heredity, dr. Creating the master race is the companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the united states holocaust memorial museum. Creating the master race lays bare the critical role german physicians, scientists, public health officials, and academic experts played in supporting and implementing the nazis murderous program of racial eugenics that culminated in the holocaust. Creating the master race is a traveling exhibition produced by the united states holocaust memorial museum. Myths often serve a protective role by providing comfort so that deeply held convictions. Creating the master race the online exhibition script in encyclopedia format deadly medicine. The exhibition and this end page 602 publication represent a notable event in the history of holocaust scholarshipnamely, recognition of the role of medical science by a leading holocaust. Sample floor plans a pdf and b pdf these are for reference onlya museum exhibitions specialist will design a plan specific to your space press and marketing resources. United states holocaust memorial museum exhibition deadly. Creating the master race which is now at loyola marymount university in. From 1933 to 1945, nazi germany s government led by adolf hitler promoted a nationalism that combined territorial expansion with claims of biological superiorityan aryan master raceand virulent antisemitism.
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