Racial Hygiene And Nazi German Medicine

The racism was important for Nazi's ideology. Under this ideology, Nazi regimebegan its crazy massacre. These victims were slaughtered cruelly just because theywere Jews, Gypsies, and Disabled persons or Physically inferiors. Holocaust reflectedthe evil nature of Nazi regime. Nevertheless, Nazi regime can not commit the crimealone, it needs a package of systems to support the item.In19th century, the remarkable scientific achievements make scientific status hasbeen greatly improved. Since the19th century, the industrialization of society broughtabout an unprecedented problem. In this context, science is seen as the key to solvethe social problems of industrialization. With the rise of social Darwinism andgenetics, people saw the hope that the theory is applied biology and medicine tohuman society. German racial hygiene movement is just that. It applied the biologytheory to human society. This theory made genetics to determine the speciesdifference, and accordingly identified the rationality of the existence of racialdifferences. Thus it saw the whole of human civilization process as a result of thestruggle between the races. At the same time, this theory also saw racism is built onthe basis of biology, especially genetics. This makes the racial hygiene became thebest tool to confirm the Nazi racial theory.As the Nazis' rise to power, racial hygiene in Germany has become an importantsubject in the medical field. The medical profession was unified(gleichgeschaltet) intoa single by Nazi movement. Through controlling the medical publishing and medicaleducation reform, the Nazis changed the values of the traditional medicine of theGerman medical profession, and poured into the idea of racism. German medicalprofession has long recognized the Nazi race theory, they launched the "racialhygiene" movement is closely linked with the Nazis. Thus, the German medicalprofession to give the most powerful support of the Nazi rulers. In the process ofbackward Nazi, they are not passive acceptance but active participation into theNazi's Racial policies. Through their scientific research, the scientists in this areasupported the Nazi racial theories. Moreover, they also actively participated in the Nazi racial policy formulation, implementation and management.Whether the Nazi sterilization law or the Nuremberg Laws, the German medicalprofession has been deeply trapped into. The German medical profession made theNazi racial legislation become possible. Under their active cooperation, the Naziracial policies was implemented smoothly. All this eventually led Germany to theabyss of evil. Finally, when the German massacre machine running, the Germanmedical profession again the use of racial hygiene, to find an excuse for the Holocaust.In this process, the German doctor directly involved in the Nazi euthanasia programand the Holocaust against the Jews.It is important for Nazi racism to reveals Nazi the nature of evil. Nazi racism inthe Third Reich has been agreed and supported by the German medical profession.German medicine has degenerated into a tool of the evil. The Nazi regime neverrefused to use scientific means to against humanity. Biology and medicine has aspecial role in human society. Thus they became the most useful tool for the Nazis toprove racial theory. Because of this, the German medical profession was abused byNazi. In the process of complicity with the Nazis, the medical profession is moreactive than the other disciplines. Through the studying of the medical professionunder the Nazis, people are able to better, more comprehensive understanding ofunclear relationship of science and Nazi regime.