Lecture on Deadly Medicine
On Tuesday, September 12th professor Stephen G. Fritz led a lecture at the Reece Museum going in dept on the Deadly Medicine exhibit that was on display.
Fritz began his presentation by explaining the roots of eugenics and its origins from the Greek "eugenes" for "good birth." Then furthered that explanation saying that, "..these ideas were quite ancient in origin." I for one have always felt like the underlying roots in the holocaust were new in design from the Nazis but then learning that philosophers such as Plato and some of the greats such as Charles Darwin had toyed with the idea of selective reproduction to those with desirable qualities. Fritz also went in dept of Nazi Germans views on the positive eugenics and negative eugenics. The positives including laws to promote a those who obtain genetic health, and the negative eugenics sterilizing those who were mentally ill, eventually leading to the Euthanasia program to simply kill these people unfit for reproduction in their eyes.
The Nuremberg Laws we set in September of 1935. It was a Reich Citizenship Law that was built for the Law for the Protection of German Blood. It prohibited many things including marriage and sexual relations between German gentiles and German Jews.
Fritz's lecture was well put together and informative. It was a fantastic way to tie together the exhibit I was able to visit and the lecture based around the exhibit.
Fritz began his presentation by explaining the roots of eugenics and its origins from the Greek "eugenes" for "good birth." Then furthered that explanation saying that, "..these ideas were quite ancient in origin." I for one have always felt like the underlying roots in the holocaust were new in design from the Nazis but then learning that philosophers such as Plato and some of the greats such as Charles Darwin had toyed with the idea of selective reproduction to those with desirable qualities. Fritz also went in dept of Nazi Germans views on the positive eugenics and negative eugenics. The positives including laws to promote a those who obtain genetic health, and the negative eugenics sterilizing those who were mentally ill, eventually leading to the Euthanasia program to simply kill these people unfit for reproduction in their eyes.
The Nuremberg Laws we set in September of 1935. It was a Reich Citizenship Law that was built for the Law for the Protection of German Blood. It prohibited many things including marriage and sexual relations between German gentiles and German Jews.
Fritz's lecture was well put together and informative. It was a fantastic way to tie together the exhibit I was able to visit and the lecture based around the exhibit.
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