handicapped, incurables,a nd homosexuals, as well as jews and gypsies
genetic perfectability and german superiority
"eugenics - racial hygene"
Social Darwinism - the fittest would sruvive, the weakest would die away
Germans got their ideas for eugenic science from Americans (27 employed sterilization practices)
Americans admired the advancements of Germany in this field
Erbkranks - the genetically diseased
German-American connection in eugenics
1933 - Doctors & scientists were ready and willing to offer their expertise i
Germany - a "biocracy" a living body that had to be healed
Jews, Slavs, and Africans seen as inferior
Science, Law, and Politics worked against the Jews
Jewish doctors gradually barred from the medical system
all state institutions of public health
Basically what we have here is hundreds, thousands, millions of people in poverty.
And so we apply ruthless lifeboat ethics. The more people you throw off the lifeboat, the more space and comfort you have at the disposal of those left, and so you come up with a system of discriminating who to throw off the lifeboat and who to give the new space/resources to.
the involvement of doctors legitimized the implementation of racial theories
sterilization of the unfit was the first step on the road toward the Final Solution
hospitalization of undesirables was a major burden on the medical and social services
Oct. '39, backdated to Sept. 1 '39
law had to do with land allotment
Euthanasia began in fall of '39
Hadamar, harthein, sonnenshtein
6 euthanasia centers
"useless eaters"
death by starvation
lethal injection
reason for death given: "acute appendicitus' (but the appendix was removed years before!)
nurses helped apply lethal injection
gassing with carbon monoxide; calculated the amount of gas needed for extermination chambers
after jan '42 doctors formally mobilized into total racial purification
"eliminating the Jewish disease"j
Jews segregated into ghettos
(many died of starvation, especially in the warsaw ghettos. documented suicide and cannibalism still haunt us)
about 100,000 Jews died of disease long before deportation to death camps
Jewish doctors performed heroically
clandestine medical school and study of starvation
Jewish doctors sometimes asked to decide among those in hospitals who (10/100) would die
doctors on hand at the camps to decide who had the "privilege" of being put to work for the 3rd reich
people sent to become pharmaceutical experimentation subjects
subjects of human experiments
Dachau
experiments performed on camp inmates to help teh war effort
high altitute tests especially torturous
pressure chambers, testing the limits of the human body
to determine how long a downed pilot could survive in the frigid north atlantic prisoners were packed in ice
neuengamma
20 Jewish children, 5-12 yr/old lymph glands removed
april 20 1945 surviving children killed
experiements not based on solid scientific foundation and contributed little to nothing to scientific knowledge
'42-'44
1500 pairs of twins at aushwitz
Barracks 10
sterilization experiments
many women died or were forevermaimed
eye experiments
genetic blindness
trying to convert brown eyes to blue by injecting methyline blue
experiment subjects gassed after they were no longer useful
doctors assisted in every step, including gassing
doctors had to be present at every "execution"
close to 50% of physicians were members of the Nazi party
out of the Nuremberg trials
10 point limits for acceptable permissable research
1st principle: no adult human subject could be subjected to research unless he or she consents to being involved
morals used to enable certain acts
root of racism and an ideology that says some lives are valuable and others useless and costly
racial superiority over the dignity of the individual
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html
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