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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Deadly Medicine: The Role of Physicians in Nazi Racial Eugenics
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Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest: Susan Bachrach, PhD
Guest: Richard Hirschhaut
Physicians and scientists played an integral role in implementing the racial eugenics program in Nazi Germany, which culminated in the murder of six million European Jews. How can a better understanding of physician involvement in what ultimately led to the Holocaust help us frame issues being debated in medicine today? Susan Bachrach, curator of special exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Richard Hirschhaut, executive director of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, discuss the...