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Exhibit on Nazi eugenics opens at Science Museum

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Nazi propaganda
"You Are Sharing the Load! A Hereditarily Ill Person Costs 50,000 Reichsmarks on Average up to the Age of Sixty." The image illustrates Nazi propaganda on the need to prevent births of the "unfit."
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

An exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota looks at how the Nazis used science to help legitimize the Holocaust.

"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" explores the Nazi eugenics movement of the 1930s and 1940s. That movement that came out of the idea that "unfit" individials had to be eliminated to build a superior Germany.

The exhibit was created at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer talked with Dr. Susan Bachrach, the curator of special exhibitions at the Holocaust Museum.

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Nazi propaganda
"You Are Sharing the Load! A Hereditarily Ill Person Costs 50,000 Reichsmarks on Average up to the Age of Sixty." The image illustrates Nazi propaganda on the need to prevent births of the "unfit."
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum