| AUSCHWITZ THE RACIAL CURE |
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kinds of wounds it can cause; experiments on the
regeneration of bone, muscle, nerve tissue, and on bone transplantation,
involving removal of various bones, muscles, and nerves from healthy women. All
of the experiments were related to the Nazi biomedical vision, whether they
directly contributed to cultural genocide (as in the case of sterilization) or
were the work of German physicians taking a leading role in biological and
genetic purification.
In experiments in sterilization, of course, the
ideological source and goals are clear. But all the other experiments as well
reflect the Nazi image of “life unworthy of life,” of creatures who,
because less than human, can be studied, altered, manipulated, mutilated, or
killed — in the service of the Nordic race, and ultimately of remaking
humankind. One experiments without limit in order to “gather together the
best blood” and “once more breed over the generations the pure type
of Nordic German.”66 The task is never
accomplished, so one must continue experimenting. All of Auschwitz becomes not
only a vast experiment but an unending one. |
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