A dose of ‘Deadly Medicine’
June 19th, 2008
From the Ottawa Citizen:
“Deadly Medicine,” a traveling exhibit organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is on display in Ottawa. The exhibit documents the German eugenics movement of the 1930s, in which doctors and scientists worked with the Nazi regime to systematically eliminate so-called “undesirables,” including people with disabilities, first by sterilization, then by murder.
We see how eugenics evolved from the forced sterilization of the “feeble-minded” to the euthanization of “undesirables” and, ultimately, to the slaughter of millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and handicapped.
The exhibition is well-crafted but chilling. It leaves one weak in the knees.
Related story from the CBC: “We want people to think about some issues that happen today, since there’s kind of a new biological idealism in the air,” says exhibit curator Susan Bachrach.
See earlier post.
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