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Deadly Medicine explores Nazi eugenics and the tragic path that utopian ideas about perfecting human genetic makeup took under Hitler's dictatorship. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as threats to the nation's “health”.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race is organized and circulated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Deadly Medicine is sponsored in part by The Samberg Family Foundation, the Dorot Foundation, the Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, and the Rosenbluth Family – Al, Sylvia, Bill and Jerry. Additional support was provided by the Takiff Family Foundation and the David Berg Foundation.