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Deadly Medicine Creating the Master Race

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ISBN-10: 0807829161

ISBN-13: 9780807829165

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dieter Kuntz, Susan Bachrach

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From 1933 to 1945, Hitler's 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.Deadly Medicineexamines the critical role German physicians, scientists, public health officials, and academic experts played in supporting and implementing the Nazis' program of racial eugenics, which culminated in the Holocaust. Illustrated with many never-before-published photographs, images from rare Nazi publications, and historical artifacts,Deadly Medicinepresents essays by internationally recognized authorities that provide the…    
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Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.25" wide x 12.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Dieter Kuntz is museum historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Susan Bachrach is exhibition curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
German eugenics, 1890-1933
International eugenics
Nazi sterilization and reproductive policies
The "science of race"
Nazi "euthanasia" programs
From "euthanasia" to the "final solution"
Reflections of a German scientist