Deadly Medicine Audio Guide
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In the early 1900s, scientific advances held great promise for mankind. Utopian visions of creating perfect human beings seduced reformers. Many people linked heredity to modern ills—allegedly rising rates of mental illness and retardation, crime, alcoholism, and disease—and looked toward eugenic solutions. Advocates of eugenics—the study and practice of improving humans through selective reproduction—encouraged “more valuable” people to marry and have large families while proposing measures to prevent those seen as “unfit” and “burdens” on society from having any children.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime in Germany, in collaboration with scientists and physicians, applied eugenic policies on a wide scale. Guided by claims of biological superiority, the Nazis strived ruthlessly not to perfect mankind, but to create a “superior, Aryan race.” In this drive, they crafted the Final Solution that resulted in the murder of six million Jews as well as many others viewed as threats to the “health” of the nation.
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