Chapter II (1919-1933):
Science as Salvation:
Weimar Eugenics
Science as Salvation:
Weimar Eugenics
Above Image: One segment from the special exhibition, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which opened on April 22, 2004.
"If one imagines...a battlefield covered with thousands of dead youths...and then our institutions for idiots and their care..., One is most appalled by...the sacrifice of the best of humanity while the best care is lavished on life of negative worth." Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, Authorization of the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, Leipzig, 1920.