Drugstore Museum Response Paper

ff exit 5 on the NJ turnpike, a few miles down the road resting on the banks of the Delaware River is located a small notable community by the name of Burlington City. Once the seat of power for Burlington County and a stop on the underground to freedom for the enslaved African, it possesses a rich and bountiful history.

Roberto Esposito, the author of the nonfiction book Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics, argues that medicine played a great role in Nazi ideology and practice. He suggests that the genocide carried out in the concentration camps was the result of “the presence of a medical ethics that was perverted into its opposite.” He also mentioned how most of the killings were “medically indicated” and carried out by the doctors at the camps.

Food and Drug administration is a very important agency that has been apart of the government for over a hundred years it was founded in June of 1906.Though FDA can trace its origins back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848, its origins as a federal consumer protection agency began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act.This 1906 act was created because there was along standing abuse in the consumer marketplace.This part of the government was made by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley in good faith for the people.

It is interesting to note that Nazis were cunning enough to choose locations that were far from the public eye because they probably knew to a certain degree that although the Nazi party had massive support, that could all go out the window if the German people found out cruel experiments and executions being conducted. Another thing to note is that it seems as though mentally disabled Germans were the guinea pigs for how the Nazis would experiment on and execute the Jews later on. Doctors weren't really needed at these institutions, they were only really there to maintain the illusion of a scientific and medical program. However they did have another task, which was to come up with reasons for the cause of their patients' deaths. They would send out letters to victims' families. It seems these Nazi doctors were very methodical in order to cover up what they were doing but it would turnout that weren't as clever as they thought they were. The families of the victims would notice inconsistencies with the official cause of death and later on public protests would cause Hitler to order the gas chambers be dismantled in August

He had any and every Jewish owned business ruined and he had them torn away from their family members. Hundreds of families were torn apart. Hitler sent Jewish people to ghettos and concentration camps where he had them tortured and murdered. Anyone who was caught or suspected of helping or hiding Jewish people would endure the same

From 1933-1939, some of Hitler’s laws were ones of semitism with the main persecution being on those of Jewish descent. Other than a boycott on Jewish businesses, they were not allowed to join the military, go to schools or universities, perform in shows, marry those who were not Jewish, and eventually, all parts of public life. Jews were not the only ones that were persecuted though. Those who had disabilities, incurable diseases, homosexuals, and were not of the Aryan-race were also singled out and shunned by society. For Hitler to create a utopia, he needed to think of a way to send away and dispose of those he saw as not worthy of being a German.

Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor on January 30, 1933. His regime brought citizens no guaranteed basic rights. In 1933, the first Nazi concentration camps were built. The initial camps imprisoned political opponents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, gypsies, and others classified as dangerous. During Hitler’s first six years, German Jews had more than 400 decrees and regulations. The first major law against the Jews was, the “Law for Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” of April 7, 1933. That law made Jews and “politically unreliable” employees excluded from state service. The laws began to go further by, restricting the numbers of Jews in schools and colleges, and taking business away from Jewish doctors and

Hitler showed absurd cruelty to the Jews. Maier says, “Hitler initiated actions against the Jews. They were turned into a race of "untouchables" within their own state, unable to pursue certain careers and a public life. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 defined as Jewish anyone with one Jewish grandparent. That a terrible fate would be their lot was clear in Hitler's remarks that war in Europe would lead to the "extinction of the Jewish race in Europe” (Adolf Hitler, Wendy Maier). Hitler showcased when he first came to power and tried to wipe out the jews. More about Hitler’s savagery. To include to Hitler’s savagery is his aggressive personality. He used aggressive power he had from the Nazis and came after his opponents. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia says,“political opponents such as von Schleicher and Gregor Strasser were murdered or incarcerated, and some Nazis, among them Ernst Roehm, were themselves purged. Jews, Socialists, Communists, and others were hounded, arrested, or assassinated”(Adolf Hitler, The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). Hitler used the aggressiveness of the Nazis to eliminate all threats and enemies. To be included to Hitler’s savagery and aggressiveness is his love for power. Hitler loved having power so much that he tried anything to achieve more and more of power. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia said,“he ran in the presidential elections of

Hitler had an invincible ally without whom he could have never flourished. His ally was the world that chose to endure silence as Germany kept challenging the boundaries of the universal acceptance for its evil actions. The Holocaust didn't begin with crematoria. Hitler moved gradually, carefully intensifying his anti-Jewish guidelines. In 1935, he approved the Nuremberg Laws, depriving all Jews of German citizenship. Jews were then streaked from the businesses, their stores were rejected, they were singled out for unusual taxes, and they were forbidden from "intermarrying" with

Ideology did not only make doctors see Jews as inhuman, but it changed how they saw human life. During bombing raids on Germany, sometimes the sick and the old were killed so that there was room and resources for others to be treated (Annas and Grodin 24). This reflects the idea that human life was not inherently of high value, and so could be disposed of for “economic” reasons. It is important to note that this predates Nazism. Nazi ideology did not simply flip how everyone in Germany thought, it grew from some previous values. In World War One, many of the mentally ill died because they were not valued high enough to receive any rations (Annas and Grodin 24). The German medical community itself, like many others around the world at the time, accepted ideas of racial “hygiene” prior to Nazism (Annas and Grodin 18-26). This reflects that they accepted hierarchies of value on human life, and so when state need for “security” from Jews arose, it was not a huge step. Other parts of society reflect this as well. I.G. Farben saw the slave labor of the camps as “a consumable raw material, a human ore from which the mineral of life was systematically extracted. … gold teeth for the Reichsbank, hair for mattresses … Even the moan of the doomed became a work incentive, exhorting the remaining inmates to greater effort” (Lifton 188). The combination of antisemitism and a low inherent

When he was brought back from the front lines to be treated for his wounds ne noticed that all of the shops were open and the Jewish people were still working as if the war was not in progress. This angered Hitler and it stayed with him many years. After Hitler was in power the Nazis organization

The Jewish people in Germany never were treated with the same respect and kindness as those not of Jewish descent. The Germans anti-Semitic ways date a long way back in history, however it was Hitler’s leadership and power that enforced horrific anti Semitic actions throughout

This negatively impacted the workers lives, as trade unions are vital in order to ensure that workers of communities are being entitled to their human and natural rights and are being treated fairly. When the ban was placed, the sense of safety the workers had was stripped away, and Hitler were able exploit them for benefit. While ruling Germany, Hitler's ideology was that if he could control factors of peoples like, he could control their ideas. Therefore, ultimately when the Nazi party and he himself were in power, Jews weren’t his only target, his own people were too. He highly influenced German’s lives as once he rose to power, he dictated how Germans

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

Hitler had grown to hate many things. The thing he hated most was not a thing it was a group of people. Jewish people in Hitler's eyes were to blame for the humiliating loss of World War One. Hitler's view on the Jewish people were very harsh and the people of Germany, did not care before but once Hitler mentioned his hate all theirs views changed. Hate grew and the Jews were not getting treated correctly at all. Hitler wrote about the Jewish problem in 1919 for a German army indoctrination course. This hate did not start when they lost in the first world war it had begun early and Hitler thought they caused all the losses of the war and they were to blame even though it was much deeper than that. For Hitler it seemed the Chancellor of Germany was allowing him to state his opinion on the Jewish Problem. Karl Marx who was a very successful in his fields was Jewish and Hitler thought that the idea was alien and and it could only lead for negative consequences for Germany and its people He was able to use his political stance to get all of his views across on the Jewish people. He thought none of the Jewish success could do any good for Germany because it was done by Jewish people they had no value to Hitler and when he would present all these foolish ideas the people grew the same hate and were starting to see the same ideas presented by Hitler. He not only discredited all of the Jewish success he made them feel like they should not be in Germany because they ruined