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A piece from "Deadly Medicine," a new special exhibit at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Nazis relied heavily
on the pseudo-science of eugenics to prop up their racism. In Nazi
propaganda, healthy young Aryans propped up the sickly and
subhuman; scientists charted the results of race mixing.

The exhibit points out that other
nations took similar measures but
never at the level of a nationwide
compulsory program.
In the United States, laws that
banned marriages between races and
between the so-called normal- and fee-
ble-minded were borne of the same
ideals but were not carried out on the
same scale. The U.S. Supreme Court
approved forced sterilizations, with the
usually liberal Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes reasoning, "Three generations
of imbeciles are enough."

German Priority

Unlike the smattering of American
states and foreign nations that passed
such laws and carried them out loose-
ly, Germany dedicated a higher priori-
ty to such measures.
"This is a national health policy
enforced with the power of the
police," Bachrach said.
The exhibit teaches that society
should be wary of Machiavellian med-
ical ethics, said Dr. Gilbert
Meilaender, the Richard & Phyllis
Duesenberg Professor of Christian

Ethics at Valparaiso University in
Indiana.
"It demonstrates that it's precisely in
aiming at health that we have to be
careful because health is an undeniable
good," he said. "Curing illness and
relieving suffering are important
goods, but they are not the only
Goods."
But visitors should be careful to dis-
tinguish science as an accomplice to
evil from science as a source of evil,
said Dr. Ruth Faden, executive direc-
tor of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics
Institute at the Johns Hopkins
University and the daughter of
Holocaust survivors.
"It's unrealistic to think that science
can be an island of rectitude in the
wider ocean of culture," she said.
"You have to look at how in one
country these pernicious theories
found fertile political ground."
The exhibit, open daily during
museum hours, is open through
October 2005. An online accompani-
ment captures the bulk of the content
and can be found at the museum's
Web site, www.ushmm.org

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