Deadly Medicine Speaker Series

DEADLY MEDICINE SPEAKER SERIES
5:30-6:30 exhibit viewing ~ 6:30-7:00 light reception ~ 7:00-8:30 program

There is no charge for these programs, but seating is limited and
reservations are required two days prior to the event by contacting kansascity.educate@nara.gov or 816-268-8010

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND NAZI POLICY
March 24 - Arthur Stilwell Room, Union Station
Dr. Patricia Heberer - Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies ~ USHMM

Dr. Heberer will explore the role of physicians in the planning and implementation of Nazi “racial hygiene” policies and programs, such as compulsory sterilization and the clandestine "euthanasia" program .

“NAZI CULTURE:” DAILY LIFE IN GERMANY, 1933-1939
April 7 - National Archives Kansas City
Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable ~ MCHE

This panel will discuss the impact of Nazi policy and programs on the “ordinary Germans,” community institutions, and individuals and groups designated “enemies of the regime.”

"SELLING MURDER:" THE KILLING FILMS OF THE THIRD REICH
April 14 - National Archives Kansas City
Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable ~ MCHE

This film examines Nazi propaganda films aimed at justifying "euthanasia" policies of the 1930s and 1940s. A moderated discussion will follow the film viewing.

CONFRONTING COMPLICITY: PROFESSIONALS IN THE THIRD REICH
April 21 - National Archives Kansas City
Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable ~ MCHE

This panel will explore the involvement of the universities, the clergy, the military, and artists and musicians in advancing Nazi policy and programs.

RACIAL SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY
April 28, 2010 - Venue to be determined
Leonard Zeskind ~ President, Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights

Mr. Zeskind will examine the origins, modes of operation, and collaborations, of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and antisemitic groups in America and their present and future implications.

MEDICAL ETHICS AND NAZI IDEOLOGY
May 12 - Union Station
Dr. William F. Meinecke, Jr. ~ Education Department, USHMM

Dr. Meinecke will discuss the dangers of medicine in the service of political ideals – specifically, the role of government in determining “national health,” the ethical justifications used by physicians to further these policies, and the contemporary implications of these positions.

EUGENICS IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
May 26 - Venue to be determined
Dr. Glenn McGee~ John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics ~ Center for Practical Bioethics

THE DOCTORS TRIAL
June 2 - Union Station
Dr. Harry Reicher ~ University of Pennsylvania Law School

Dr. Reicher will explore the American military’s proceedings against German physicians and administrators for their participation in the T-4 “euthanasia” program, medical experimentation on human beings, and the systematic murder of those the Nazis deemed "life unworthy of life."

PRESENTED BY

Presented by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City and in cooperation with the Center for Practical Bioethics.

PRESENTING SPONSORS

SPONSORS

Oppenstein Brothers Foundation

Bus subsidies for Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race are provided by grants from the Earl J. and Leona K. Trainin Special Fund and the Flo Harris Supporting Foundation at the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.

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