This exhibit is organized by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and offers great potential for educational opportunities on the topic during its run here in SC.
In the quest to produce a nation of superior Aryan beings in Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler turned to the concept of “racial hygiene,” or “eugenics.”
“Eugenics proponents argued that by keeping the ‘unfit’ alive to reproduce and multiply, modern medicine and costly welfare programs were interfering with natural selection, the concept Charles Darwin called the ‘survival of the fittest’ in the animal and plant world,” said Chief Curator of History Fritz Hamer.
This exhibit traces the journey of eugenics from its start as a scientific concept in the late 19th century to its deadly use by Nazi Germany as a justification for the sterilization and murder of millions of people.
For more information about this upcoming exhibit at the SC State Museum, please visit the museum website:
SC State Museum.
Additional information on the exhibit may be found at the
US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
