«Racial hygiene, forgotten victims of Nazism» by Guillaume Dreyfus
Thursday 02 March 2017 at 7:30 PM
France, Germany, documentary, Senso Films, Geppert Productions, Zed, 58 min, 2016
Image from the documentary Racial hygiene, of the forgotten victims of Nazism by Guillaume Dreyfus. © Zed and Guillaume Dreyfus.
In 1905 the Society for Racial Hygiene was founded in Berlin. The law of July 14, 1933, known as the "law on the prevention of hereditary diseases" will lead to the forced sterilization of 400,000 people. Then, starting in 1939, the elimination of "lives unworthy of being lived" is implemented. As part of these different programs, nearly 300,000 people will be murdered.
The memory of medicine and science at the service of ethical reflection.
In the presence of Guillaume Dreyfus, director, Benoît Massin, former researcher in the history of science, director of the LeFacteurHumain firm, Magret Hamm, president of the victims' association in Germany BEZ (Bund der "Euthanasia"-Alcoolalcoolised and sterilised).
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