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“Nazi Medicine/The Unpleasant and the Star” looks like one of those documentaries that the History Channel plays on a perpetual loop. You know the type: World War II era grainy dark and white footage coupled with new day scholars providing historical context and a few meager details to attend the epic wander. I tend to avoid historical documentaries because they often target viewers accustomed to MTV/modern media editing techniques. The emphasis on the bombastic and dramatic dominates every frame of these documentaries, and all of the shows must rely on historical events after the invention of photography because viewers can’t seem to have interest in anything that doesn’t proceed across their television screens. Distinct, you’ll eye a few documentaries about Roman history or the Middle Ages from time to time, but even then the producers have to punch up the program with reenactments or voiceovers to support people tuned in. As far as I can reveal, about the only abet of these shows is getting people eager enough in the subject matter to read books for further information.
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Having complained about history programs, I do have to say that “Nazi Medicine” is an immensely absorbing introduction into a topic tiny discussed in the broader context of the Nuremberg trials. Created by Professor John Michalcyzk of Boston College’s Department of Film Studies, “Nazi Medicine” focuses a spotlight on the Nazi doctor’s trial of 1946. Most of us know about the first Nuremberg trial where Herman Goering, Julius Streicher, and others faced an international tribunal for war crimes, but the doctor’s trial apparently fell through the cracks. Considering that these were the monsters responsible for the deaths of millions in research laboratories and concentration camps, it is surprising more hasn’t been made of their activities. “Nazi Medicine” explores the historical antecedents that made the grotesque experimentations of the German physicians possible, looking benefit to the early days of the twentieth century and the intense interest in eugenics. According to the documentary, the United States led the charge in investigating the potential of realizing the dreams of Social Darwinism through hard science. The American variant of eugenics was inherently racist, but the results on this side of the pond rarely went beyond pen and paper.
Europeans were not so lucky. German doctors picked up on the foundations laid by American scientists and do into practice experimentations on the human body so sickening as to defy description. Physicians place up pressure chambers to test the effects of rude pressure on the human body, or messed around with germ and viral injections. What the doctors hoped to finish were answers that would aid the German war anxiety. Instead, the results of these experiments were inconclusive or downright nonexistent. What intrigued me most about “Nazi Medicine” was not the laundry list of atrocities (most of which we have heard about countless times before) but how the doctors moved from practitioners and guardians of the public health to conscienceless monsters who made distinctions between “well-behaved” and “base” human beings. One of the new scholars interviewed for the film does an agreeable job of explaining how this irrational concept system took on a perverse logic. The doctors could experiment on definite human beings–Jews, but others as well including criminals and the mentally infirm–because they believed these people were either not human or spoiled humans. After all, do we not consume animals to better the human hasten? Is this logic sociopathic? Probably, but once the physicians made the distinction the door was wide commence for all sorts of horrific projects. The trial ultimately led to a statement about medical ethics unruffled recognized today.
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“The Snide and the Star,” regrettably, is on shakier fair and interpretative ground than “Nazi Medicine.” This second documentary attempts to set concrete links between the Catholic Church and the holocaust. The program looks benefit through two thousand years of history, citing the Gospels and other tracts that promoted anti-Semitic views. There can be no doubt that the Church did subscribe to anti-Semitism during various stages of its history, as did Protestant Christianity. The Crusades, for example, occasionally targeted Jews even as they tried to liberate the Holy Land from Muslim influence. Martin Luther wrote a short book about the threat he conception the Jews posed to every trustworthy Christian. The reasons the Church often attacked Jews were many, from the former “they killed Christ” standby to the perception that Jews acted as lenders of money at usurious interest rates in the Middle Ages. These examples are contained in historical records. But to accuse the current Church of anti-Semitism is a perilous proposition at best. Did the Pope overtly or covertly help the Nazi regime’s campaign to eradicate the Jews? Or was the Pope essentially powerless to conclude the rampages of a brutal regime led by an unstable madman? The answers to these questions are far from definite despite what this documentary claims. One wonders if the filmmaker has an ulterior motive for defaming the Church.
The DVD of “Nazi Medicine/The Unfavorable and the Star” contains several extras. You derive a couple of trailers for “Fighter” and “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” a photographic gallery called “Inside the Reich,” a director’s biography and filmography, and some information on the concentration camps. Michalcyzk’s “Nazi Medicine” documentary is as informative as it is hideous. And yes, the first program on this disc has inspired me to read more about the subject. Unfortunately, the shoddy claims made about the Catholic Church diminish, if only slightly, the overall impact of the DVD.
“In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine” is a 60-minute documentary by Professor John J. Michalczyk, Director of Film Studies at Boston College, made in 1997, which was the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg Physicians Trial, which was held from December 1946 to August 1947. Michalczyk went to the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps to interview both survivors of the Nazi experimentations and leader scholars who studied the practices of Nazi medicine such as Dr. Michael Grodin, Dr. Charles Roland, and Professor Michael Kater. There is also an interview done at Auschwitz in 1995 with Hans Munch, a venerable S.S. doctor in this video, which is narrated by Donald Winning.
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The film begins by examining how not only Germany but also the United States were enthusiastic at the begin of the 20th century in eugenics as an example of a scientific Social Darwinism. In the U.S. eugenic studies were being funded by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockerfeller and over half the states had sterilization laws on the books at one point. However, it was the Nazis in the 1930s who then effect the theoretical work done by American scientist into practice in the Third Reich, beginning with the Nuremberg Laws excluded Jews from various professions, including the practice of medicine. It was doctors in Nazi Germany who pushed for the state-sponsored program of “racial hygiene,” which meant the forced euthanasia of almost a half-million citizens with mental and physical defects. In the death camps these physicians engaged in many experiments with questionable scientific merit and clearly no upright accountability. This included studies of how grand gas would be needed to slay a clear number of prisoners as expeditiously as possible and high-altitude testing that ruined the lungs of the “subjects.”
“Nazi Medicine” chronicles the path of these scientists, who began providing justification for the Nuremberg sterilization laws, the practice of euthanasia, and eventually to genocide. What is both enchanting and horrifying about this documentary is that what the Nazis did was not simply follow orders from Hitler and his bureaucrats. These physicians were integrally alive to in all of these decisions, from developing the Nazi accelerate laws to the unethical experiments conducted in the death camps. Michalczyk also makes the point that after the Nuremberg Trial of those Nazi doctors, 10 international tenets of acceptable experimentation were established, including, most importantly, the informed consent of the subject.
This is a graphic documentary, and even those who have seen footage of the Holocaust are going to obtain this video upsetting. But, as the quote from Allan A. Ryan, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations points out on the front cover: “The dread of Nazi eugenics and experimentation” invent this documentary “a work of truth and timeliness.”
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