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Content Modules
Overview of Nazi Medicine and the Ethical Violations during National Socialism
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To describe medical practice in Nazi Germany and provide a general overview of the ethical violations committed by physicians, nurses, and scientists.
Objectives:
- Describe the practice of medicine in Nazi Germany.
- Analyze medical practice and governmental policies that became united in their focus.
- Discuss ethical violations that were perpetrated upon people deemed to be inferior.
Suggested Video:
"In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine" by John Michalczyk. Available from Amazon.com.
The Conditions and Antecedents
Part I: Racism and Anti-Semitism
Part II: Eugenics and “Racial Hygiene” in Europe and America
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Purpose:
To describe racism and anti-Semitism in Germany and evaluate the importance as contributors to the Holocaust.
Objectives:
- Describe anti-Semitism at the time Hitler came to power.
- Analyze how Hitler used racism and anti-Semitism as a basis for blame for economic, social, and health threats.
- Discuss racism and anti-Semitism as bases for eventual Nazi policies regarding marriage, sterilization, and legal and economic sanctions against "inferior" people.
Suggested Video:
"Gentlemen's Agreement"
Involuntary Sterilization in the US and Germany
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To describe how eugenics led to the involuntary sterilization of people who were deemed "inferior" or to have hereditary conditions.
Objectives:
- Describe the policies that led to the sterilization laws in the US and Germany.
- Analyze the impact of these laws.
- Discuss how these laws laid the ground work for the "euthanasia" program.
Suggested Video:
"Tomorrow's Children"
The “Medicalization” of Murder: The “Euthanasia” Programs
Part I: The Children’s Euthanasia Program
Part II: Adult Euthanasia: The T-4 Killing Program
Part III: “Wild” Euthanasia
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Purpose:
The purpose of this module is to describe how the "euthanasia" program in
Germany began with the murder of children with disabilities.
Objectives:
- To identify the major historical factors leading to the children's euthanasia program.
- To describe the major beliefs of the German people and the German culture consistent with the development of the children's euthanasia program.
- To specifically appraise the roles of physicians and nurses in these killings.
Suggested Video:
Healing by Killing, Part I
Roles of Physicians, Nurses, and Caregivers in the “Final Solution”
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The purpose of this module is to describe the role of physicians, nurses, and caregivers in the plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Objectives:
- Describe the purpose of the "Final Solution."
- Describe the Aktion Reinhard death camps.
- Explore the evolution caregivers to killers.
Suggested Video:
"Escape from Sobibor"; "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann
How Healers Became Killers
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To describe how physicians and nurses who had sworn to provide care for their patients became their killers.
Objectives:
- Describe 4 major factors that influenced caregivers to become killers.
- Analyze the relative importance of these factors.
- Analyze the role of governmental policy in these factors.
Suggested Video:
"Healing by Killing", parts 1 and 2.
Roles of Physicians and Nurses in the Medical Experiments Related to “Racial Hygiene”
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The purpose of this module is to describe the role of physicians and nurses in experiments that were designed to increase the survival of the German troops.
Objectives:
- To identify the cultural and socio-political factors in Germany at the time of the experiments.
- To describe the current code of ethical behavior in human research that existed.
- To understand how the cultural and socio-political context engendered Nazi experiments counter to this code.
- To describe the development of racial hygienist policies in Germany.
- To describe the experiments that occurred with the context of the War effort and consistent with racial hygienist policies.
- To analyze the "rationale" used to justify experimentation against the established code.
Suggested Video:
"Science and the Swastika", part 2. Available from www.historychannel.com
Roles of Physicians and Nurses in the Medical Experiments for Military Purposes
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The purpose of this module is to describe the role of physicians and nurses in experiments that were based upon the notion of furthering the "science" of racial hygiene.
Objectives:
- To identify the cultural and socio-political factors in Germany at the time of the experiments.
- To describe the current code of ethical behavior in human research that existed.
- To understand how the cultural and socio-political context engendered Nazi experiments counter to this code.
- To describe the development of racial hygienist policies in Germany.
- To describe the experiments that occurred with the context of the War effort and consistent with racial hygienist policies.
- To analyze the "rationale" used to justify experimentation against the established code.
Suggested Video:
"Healing by Killing", part 2; "Science and the Swastika", part 2. Available from www.historychannel.com
Post-war Trials and Consequences
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To describe the fate of the Nazi perpetrators in post-war trials.
Objectives:
- To discuss the outcomes of the various trials.
- To evaluate the justice of the outcomes.
Suggested Video:
"Judgment at Nuremberg". Available from Amazon.com.
Ethical Vigilance: Monitoring Contemporary Events
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To describe a framework for monitoring contemporary events.
Objectives:
- To recognize the potential for ethical conflicts in contemporary events.
- To see contemporary events within the historical context of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Suggested Videos:
Euthanasia:
"You Don't Know Jack", "How to Die in Oregon"
Medical Dilemmas:
"Extreme Measures", "Confession"
Genocide:
"Hotel Rwanda"
Abortion:
"Praying with Lior", "Juno"
Racism:
"Mississippi Burning"
Medical Experiments:
"Miss Evers' Boys", "My Sister's Keeper"
HIV/AIDS
"And the Band Played On"