Exhibit explains Nazis’ use of ‘Deadly Medicine’

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Exhibit explains Nazis’ use of ‘Deadly Medicine’

Written by Rick Hellman, Editor

The shower stall that’s actually a gas chamber is perhaps the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust. And while most people undoubtedly associate it with Auschwitz, the first time this tool of hygiene was perverted into a mass-murder weapon was as part of the Nazi campaign to clear Germans with mental and physical defects out of state institutions by any means necessary.

As many as 200,000 men, women and children deemed undesirable were killed in this program between 1939 and 1945, and many of the doctors who carried it out moved smoothly into concentration-camp employment. That is just one revelation in “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” a traveling exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that opens March 16 for a three-month run at the new home of the National Archives at Kansas City, 400 W. Pershing Road.

A related speaker series will further expound on the topics of eugenics, medicine in the Third Reich and more. (See below for details)
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the Center for Practical Bioethics have partnered with the National Archives to present the exhibit.

Their leaders believe “Deadly Medicine” has much to say to viewers today, particularly as the national political discourse is being dominated by issues of medical care, its cost and the morality of its distribution.

“It speaks to issues of individual responsibility, professional responsibility and medical ethics,” said Jean Zeldin, executive director of MCHE.
Zeldin first saw the exhibition when it premiered at the USHMM in Washington five years ago. “I felt it was a significant exhibit, and we should bring it here,” she said.

MCHE had worked with the National Archives (it was formerly part of the Bannister Federal Complex, Bannister Road and Troost Avenue) for over a decade, Zeldin said. It serves as the repository for the master tapes MCHE recorded with local Holocaust survivors in 1994, Zeldin said.
So when the National Archives got a brand new space in a rehabilitated building near Union Station, officials there jumped at the chance to house “Deadly Medicine” in its new gallery. It’s just the second exhibition in the new space.

A blood-based state

“Deadly Medicine” brings together photographs, video testimonies and artifacts from international collections. It shows how the Nazis took a commonly held, if now rejected, early-20th century belief in eugenics — i.e., the perfection of the human race through science — and warped it even further with their twisted theories about the purity of German blood.

“In February 1920, three years before the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler defines citizenship in terms of biology and birth,” said Fran Sternberg, MCHE’s director of university programs and adult education. “So the whole state is a blood-based state. And then you define who is hostile to the health of the blood and who is beneficial.”

That is how, Sternberg said, a doctor who has taken the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” can allow himself to operate a gas chamber/shower: In his mind, he’s not killing a person; he’s eradicating a germ and protecting the health of the body politic. The Nazi term for it was “racial hygiene.”

“Nazis are not out-of-this-world demons,” Sternberg said, “These are highly educated scientists from renowned research institutes and universities. … For whatever reason — for personal advancement or because they were real Nazis — they were comfortable spinning their ethics to comply with the regime.

“Nobody forced them to do anything. People got involved in committees … and saw it as a valuable and valid exercise.”

What began with the forced sterilization of undesirables ended with the industrial-scale murder of millions we now call the Holocaust.

For interested adults, some of the visiting speakers will take on the sub-topic of Nazi doctors in greater detail. Nearly 1,000 high school students are also scheduled to tour the exhibit during the day.

The exhibit also shows how the corruption of leading institutions by the Nazis made it easier for average Germans to go along with Hitler.
“When every institution is telling you this is OK — the army, education, the arts, media, judiciary — it’s got to be OK,” said Sternberg. “Your teacher is telling you this, not some weird Nazi guy.”

“It helps explain how it could have happened,” Zeldin said. “You have to go back to the concept of the racial state, as opposed to looking at the opening of Auschwitz as the beginning of the Holocaust.”

Viewing the exhibit

The public is invited to attend a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for “Deadly Medicine” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 16, at the National Archives, 400 W. Pershing Road. It will include a tour led by the curator of the exhibit, Susan Bachrach of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“Deadly Medicine” is a free exhibition and will be open March 16 through June 10. Viewer discretion advised, as it contains material that may be disturbing to some viewers.

The National Archives at Kansas City is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday for exhibit viewing; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. those same days for research. Free parking is available for visitors, with additional free parking available in the Union Station Parking Garage on the west side of Union Station.

The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 13 facilities nationwide where the public has access to federal archival records. It is home to more than 50,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from the 1820s to the 1990s created or received by nearly 100 federal agencies. Serving the Central Plains Region, the archives holds records from the states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

For more information, call (816) 268-8000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit www.archives.gov/central-plains.

“Deadly Medicine” is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 — Al, Sylvia, Bill, and Jerry. Additional support was provided by the Takiff Family Foundation and the David Berg Foundation. The Kansas City presentation of “Deadly Medicine” is made possible with the support of Saint Luke’s Health System, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kansas Humanities Council, Sprint Foundation and Oppenstein Brothers Foundation. Bus subsidies have been provided by the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund and the Flo Harris Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.

Wednesday speaker series
There is no charge for the following programs, but seating is limited and reservations are required two days prior to the event. Visitors may see the exhibit and have light refreshments from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the National Archives gallery, followed by the program at 7 p.m. in the venues indicated. For reservations, contact the National Archives at (816) 268-8010 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8010 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or kansascity.educate@nara.gov This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• March 24 at the Arthur Stillwell Room at Union Station – “German Physicians and Nazi Crimes: the Medical Profession and its Role in Nazi Germany” -- Patricia Heberer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• April 7 at National Archives at Kansas City -- “Nazi Culture: Daily Life in Germany, 1933-1939” -- Panel presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Carla Klausner of UMKC’s Department of History

• April 14 at National Archives – Film screening of “Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich” -- introduction and discussion led by Cheryl Lester, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas, and Milton Katz, Department of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute

• April 21 at National Archives – “Confronting Complicity: Professionals in the Third Reich” -- Panel presented by the MCHE’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Jeffrey W. Myers, Department of History, Avila University
Panelists

• April 28 at National Archives – “Racial Science in the United States Today” --
Leonard Zeskind, president, Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and author of “Blood and Politics”

• May 12 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “Medical Ethics and Nazi Ideology” -- William F. Meinecke Jr., Education Department, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• May 26 at National Archives – “The Perfect Baby: Eugenics, Race and Bioethics” -- Glenn McGee, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics, Center for Practical Bioethics

• June 2 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “The Doctors’ Trial” -- Professor Harry Reicher, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Exhibit explains Nazis’ use of ‘Deadly Medicine’
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Nazi officials at the ‘The Miracle of Life’ exhibition, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, 1935. The new Nazi museum leadership asserted that societies resembled organisms that followed the lead of their brains. The most logical social structure was one that saw society as a collective unit, literally a body guided by a strong leader.
The shower stall that’s actually a gas chamber is perhaps the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust. And while most people undoubtedly associate it with Auschwitz, the first time this tool of hygiene was perverted into a mass-murder weapon was as part of the Nazi campaign to clear Germans with mental and physical defects out of state institutions by any means necessary.

As many as 200,000 men, women and children deemed undesirable were killed in this program between 1939 and 1945, and many of the doctors who carried it out moved smoothly into concentration-camp employment.

That is just one revelation in “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” a traveling exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that opens March 16 for a three-month run at the new home of the National Archives at Kansas City, 400 W. Pershing Road.
A related speaker series will further expound on the topics of eugenics, medicine in the Third Reich and more. (See below for details)
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the Center for Practical Bioethics have partnered with the National Archives to present the exhibit.

Their leaders believe “Deadly Medicine” has much to say to viewers today, particularly as the national political discourse is being dominated by issues of medical care, its cost and the morality of its distribution.

“It speaks to issues of individual responsibility, professional responsibility and medical ethics,” said Jean Zeldin, executive director of MCHE.
Zeldin first saw the exhibition when it premiered at the USHMM in Washington five years ago. “I felt it was a significant exhibit, and we should bring it here,” she said.

MCHE had worked with the National Archives (it was formerly part of the Bannister Federal Complex, Bannister Road and Troost Avenue) for over a decade, Zeldin said. It serves as the repository for the master tapes MCHE recorded with local Holocaust survivors in 1994, Zeldin said.
So when the National Archives got a brand new space in a rehabilitated building near Union Station, officials there jumped at the chance to house “Deadly Medicine” in its new gallery. It’s just the second exhibition in the new space.

A blood-based state

alt

Photo provided by National Archives and Records Administration, College Park: Group portrait of T-4 Euthanasia program personnel at a social gathering. One of them plays the accordion.
“Deadly Medicine” brings together photographs, video testimonies and artifacts from international collections. It shows how the Nazis took a commonly held, if now rejected, early-20th century belief in eugenics — i.e., the perfection of the human race through science — and warped it even further with their twisted theories about the purity of German blood.

“In February 1920, three years before the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler defines citizenship in terms of biology and birth,” said Fran Sternberg, MCHE’s director of university programs and adult education. “So the whole state is a blood-based state. And then you define who is hostile to the health of the blood and who is beneficial.”

That is how, Sternberg said, a doctor who has taken the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” can allow himself to operate a gas chamber/shower: In his mind, he’s not killing a person; he’s eradicating a germ and protecting the health of the body politic. The Nazi term for it was “racial hygiene.”

“Nazis are not out-of-this-world demons,” Sternberg said, “These are highly educated scientists from renowned research institutes and universities. … For whatever reason — for personal advancement or because they were real Nazis — they were comfortable spinning their ethics to comply with the regime.

“Nobody forced them to do anything. People got involved in committees … and saw it as a valuable and valid exercise.”

What began with the forced sterilization of undesirables ended with the industrial-scale murder of millions we now call the Holocaust.

For interested adults, some of the visiting speakers will take on the sub-topic of Nazi doctors in greater detail. Nearly 1,000 high school students are also scheduled to tour the exhibit during the day.

The exhibit also shows how the corruption of leading institutions by the Nazis made it easier for average Germans to go along with Hitler.
“When every institution is telling you this is OK — the army, education, the arts, media, judiciary — it’s got to be OK,” said Sternberg. “Your teacher is telling you this, not some weird Nazi guy.”

“It helps explain how it could have happened,” Zeldin said. “You have to go back to the concept of the racial state, as opposed to looking at the opening of Auschwitz as the beginning of the Holocaust.”

Viewing the exhibit

alt

Photo provided by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Head shots showing various racial types. Most western anthropologists classified people into ‘races’ based on physical traits such as head size and eye, hair and skin color. This classification was developed by Eugen Fischer and published in the 1921 and 1923 editions of Foundations of Human Genetics and Racial Hygiene.
The public is invited to attend a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for “Deadly Medicine” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 16, at the National Archives, 400 W. Pershing Road. It will include a tour led by the curator of the exhibit, Susan Bachrach of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“Deadly Medicine” is a free exhibition and will be open March 16 through June 10. Viewer discretion advised, as it contains material that may be disturbing to some viewers.

The National Archives at Kansas City is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday for exhibit viewing; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. those same days for research. Free parking is available for visitors, with additional free parking available in the Union Station Parking Garage on the west side of Union Station.

The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 13 facilities nationwide where the public has access to federal archival records. It is home to more than 50,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from the 1820s to the 1990s created or received by nearly 100 federal agencies. Serving the Central Plains Region, the archives holds records from the states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

For more information, call (816) 268-8000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit www.archives.gov/central-plains.

“Deadly Medicine” is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 — Al, Sylvia, Bill, and Jerry. Additional support was provided by the Takiff Family Foundation and the David Berg Foundation. The Kansas City presentation of “Deadly Medicine” is made possible with the support of Saint Luke’s Health System, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kansas Humanities Council, Sprint Foundation and Oppenstein Brothers Foundation. Bus subsidies have been provided by the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund and the Flo Harris Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.

Wednesday speaker series

altThere is no charge for the following programs, but seating is limited and reservations are required two days prior to the event. Visitors may see the exhibit and have light refreshments from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the National Archives gallery, followed by the program at 7 p.m. in the venues indicated. For reservations, contact the National Archives at (816) 268-8010 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8010 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or kansascity.educate@nara.gov This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• March 24 at the Arthur Stillwell Room at Union Station – “German Physicians and Nazi Crimes: the Medical Profession and its Role in Nazi Germany” -- Patricia Heberer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• April 7 at National Archives at Kansas City -- “Nazi Culture: Daily Life in Germany, 1933-1939” -- Panel presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Carla Klausner of UMKC’s Department of History

• April 14 at National Archives – Film screening of “Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich” -- introduction and discussion led by Cheryl Lester, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas, and Milton Katz, Department of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute

• April 21 at National Archives – “Confronting Complicity: Professionals in the Third Reich” -- Panel presented by the MCHE’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Jeffrey W. Myers, Department of History, Avila University
Panelists

• April 28 at National Archives – “Racial Science in the United States Today” --
Leonard Zeskind, president, Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and author of “Blood and Politics”

• May 12 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “Medical Ethics and Nazi Ideology” -- William F. Meinecke Jr., Education Department, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• May 26 at National Archives – “The Perfect Baby: Eugenics, Race and Bioethics” -- Glenn McGee, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics, Center for Practical Bioethics

• June 2 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “The Doctors’ Trial” -- Professor Harry Reicher, University of Pennsylvania Law School
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written by Peter Aleff, March 05, 2010
An important but usually forgotten aspect of the Nazi eugenics programs is that their intellectual foundation came from the eugenics movement here in the USA, as documented in detail by Edwin Black in his book "War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to create a Master Race", Thunder Mouth Press, New York, 2003, and in other books such as, for instance, Martin S. Pernick: "The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of 'Defective' Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915", Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.

Moreover, the eugenics movement is not yet safely relegated to the dustbin of history but continues to linger on as the result of crypto-eugenic medical studies in which eugenics-minded medical doctors rigged clinical trials to achieve eugenic goals right here in the USA -- even several years after the defeat of the Nazis.

For instance, a small group of doctors who were trained during the heyday of eugenics duped their profession and smuggled their crypto-eugenic study results into the pediatric doctrine where they still dominate the daily routine in this country's intensive care nurseries. They started the withholding of life-saving oxygen from premature babies because they suspected their "defective germ plasm" to be the reason for a then new epidemic of baby-blinding and wanted to so eliminate these "defective persons of which the world has enough already", as documented at http://retinopathyofprematurit...enics.htm.

The evil after-effects of the pseudoscientific eugenics movement will continue to harm real people if such long hidden remnants of its thinking are not openly acknowledged and at long last ended.

Respectfully submitted,
Peter Aleff
Exhibit explains Nazis’ use of ‘Deadly Medicine’
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Nazi officials at the ‘The Miracle of Life’ exhibition, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, 1935. The new Nazi museum leadership asserted that societies resembled organisms that followed the lead of their brains. The most logical social structure was one that saw society as a collective unit, literally a body guided by a strong leader.
The shower stall that’s actually a gas chamber is perhaps the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust. And while most people undoubtedly associate it with Auschwitz, the first time this tool of hygiene was perverted into a mass-murder weapon was as part of the Nazi campaign to clear Germans with mental and physical defects out of state institutions by any means necessary.

As many as 200,000 men, women and children deemed undesirable were killed in this program between 1939 and 1945, and many of the doctors who carried it out moved smoothly into concentration-camp employment.

That is just one revelation in “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” a traveling exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that opens March 16 for a three-month run at the new home of the National Archives at Kansas City, 400 W. Pershing Road.
A related speaker series will further expound on the topics of eugenics, medicine in the Third Reich and more. (See below for details)
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the Center for Practical Bioethics have partnered with the National Archives to present the exhibit.

Their leaders believe “Deadly Medicine” has much to say to viewers today, particularly as the national political discourse is being dominated by issues of medical care, its cost and the morality of its distribution.

“It speaks to issues of individual responsibility, professional responsibility and medical ethics,” said Jean Zeldin, executive director of MCHE.
Zeldin first saw the exhibition when it premiered at the USHMM in Washington five years ago. “I felt it was a significant exhibit, and we should bring it here,” she said.

MCHE had worked with the National Archives (it was formerly part of the Bannister Federal Complex, Bannister Road and Troost Avenue) for over a decade, Zeldin said. It serves as the repository for the master tapes MCHE recorded with local Holocaust survivors in 1994, Zeldin said.
So when the National Archives got a brand new space in a rehabilitated building near Union Station, officials there jumped at the chance to house “Deadly Medicine” in its new gallery. It’s just the second exhibition in the new space.

A blood-based state

alt

Photo provided by National Archives and Records Administration, College Park: Group portrait of T-4 Euthanasia program personnel at a social gathering. One of them plays the accordion.
“Deadly Medicine” brings together photographs, video testimonies and artifacts from international collections. It shows how the Nazis took a commonly held, if now rejected, early-20th century belief in eugenics — i.e., the perfection of the human race through science — and warped it even further with their twisted theories about the purity of German blood.

“In February 1920, three years before the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler defines citizenship in terms of biology and birth,” said Fran Sternberg, MCHE’s director of university programs and adult education. “So the whole state is a blood-based state. And then you define who is hostile to the health of the blood and who is beneficial.”

That is how, Sternberg said, a doctor who has taken the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” can allow himself to operate a gas chamber/shower: In his mind, he’s not killing a person; he’s eradicating a germ and protecting the health of the body politic. The Nazi term for it was “racial hygiene.”

“Nazis are not out-of-this-world demons,” Sternberg said, “These are highly educated scientists from renowned research institutes and universities. … For whatever reason — for personal advancement or because they were real Nazis — they were comfortable spinning their ethics to comply with the regime.

“Nobody forced them to do anything. People got involved in committees … and saw it as a valuable and valid exercise.”

What began with the forced sterilization of undesirables ended with the industrial-scale murder of millions we now call the Holocaust.

For interested adults, some of the visiting speakers will take on the sub-topic of Nazi doctors in greater detail. Nearly 1,000 high school students are also scheduled to tour the exhibit during the day.

The exhibit also shows how the corruption of leading institutions by the Nazis made it easier for average Germans to go along with Hitler.
“When every institution is telling you this is OK — the army, education, the arts, media, judiciary — it’s got to be OK,” said Sternberg. “Your teacher is telling you this, not some weird Nazi guy.”

“It helps explain how it could have happened,” Zeldin said. “You have to go back to the concept of the racial state, as opposed to looking at the opening of Auschwitz as the beginning of the Holocaust.”

Viewing the exhibit

alt

Photo provided by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Head shots showing various racial types. Most western anthropologists classified people into ‘races’ based on physical traits such as head size and eye, hair and skin color. This classification was developed by Eugen Fischer and published in the 1921 and 1923 editions of Foundations of Human Genetics and Racial Hygiene.
The public is invited to attend a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for “Deadly Medicine” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 16, at the National Archives, 400 W. Pershing Road. It will include a tour led by the curator of the exhibit, Susan Bachrach of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“Deadly Medicine” is a free exhibition and will be open March 16 through June 10. Viewer discretion advised, as it contains material that may be disturbing to some viewers.

The National Archives at Kansas City is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday for exhibit viewing; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. those same days for research. Free parking is available for visitors, with additional free parking available in the Union Station Parking Garage on the west side of Union Station.

The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 13 facilities nationwide where the public has access to federal archival records. It is home to more than 50,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from the 1820s to the 1990s created or received by nearly 100 federal agencies. Serving the Central Plains Region, the archives holds records from the states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

For more information, call (816) 268-8000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit www.archives.gov/central-plains.

“Deadly Medicine” is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 — Al, Sylvia, Bill, and Jerry. Additional support was provided by the Takiff Family Foundation and the David Berg Foundation. The Kansas City presentation of “Deadly Medicine” is made possible with the support of Saint Luke’s Health System, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kansas Humanities Council, Sprint Foundation and Oppenstein Brothers Foundation. Bus subsidies have been provided by the Earl J. and Leona K. Tranin Special Fund and the Flo Harris Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.

Wednesday speaker series

altThere is no charge for the following programs, but seating is limited and reservations are required two days prior to the event. Visitors may see the exhibit and have light refreshments from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the National Archives gallery, followed by the program at 7 p.m. in the venues indicated. For reservations, contact the National Archives at (816) 268-8010 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (816) 268-8010 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or kansascity.educate@nara.gov This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• March 24 at the Arthur Stillwell Room at Union Station – “German Physicians and Nazi Crimes: the Medical Profession and its Role in Nazi Germany” -- Patricia Heberer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• April 7 at National Archives at Kansas City -- “Nazi Culture: Daily Life in Germany, 1933-1939” -- Panel presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Carla Klausner of UMKC’s Department of History

• April 14 at National Archives – Film screening of “Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich” -- introduction and discussion led by Cheryl Lester, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas, and Milton Katz, Department of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute

• April 21 at National Archives – “Confronting Complicity: Professionals in the Third Reich” -- Panel presented by the MCHE’s Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable, moderated by Jeffrey W. Myers, Department of History, Avila University
Panelists

• April 28 at National Archives – “Racial Science in the United States Today” --
Leonard Zeskind, president, Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and author of “Blood and Politics”

• May 12 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “Medical Ethics and Nazi Ideology” -- William F. Meinecke Jr., Education Department, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• May 26 at National Archives – “The Perfect Baby: Eugenics, Race and Bioethics” -- Glenn McGee, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics, Center for Practical Bioethics

• June 2 at Arthur Stillwell Room, Union Station – “The Doctors’ Trial” -- Professor Harry Reicher, University of Pennsylvania Law School