Deadly Medicine poster collection

Identifier: irn88567
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn88567

Acquisition

The posters were acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two posters: "Mendelian chart" and "Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur"

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Eradicating the sick and weak in nature German survival of the fittest poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn531090
- English
- 1938
- overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster from the 1938 racial science textbook, Erblehre und rassenkunde für die grund- und hauptschule, by Alfred Vogel. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable, as well as the disabled, handicapped, and sickly.
Poster with flowers illustrating genetic hybrids or Mischlings
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn531092
- English
- 1938
- overall: Height: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster from the 1938 racial science textbook, Erblehre und rassenkunde für die grund- und hauptschule, by Alfred Vogel. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable, as well as the disabled, handicapped, and sickly.

Deadly Medicine poster collection

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Eradicating the sick and weak in nature German survival of the fittest poster

Poster with flowers illustrating genetic hybrids or Mischlings