Ha´aretz zu "Psychiatry and the Final Solution"

Im Gegensatz zu der völligen Ignoranz der deutschen Medien hat die
international bekannte israelische Zeitung "Ha´aretz" in ihrer
Wochenendausgabe vom 26. Juni eine langen Artikel mit dem Titel:
Psychiatry and the Final Solution
über unseren Kommentar/Protest zu der Ausstellung "Tödliche Medizin"
veröffentlicht, die im Jüdischen Museum in Berlin bis 19.7. zu sehen
ist: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1095632.html

Inzwischen hat "Ha´aretz" den Artikel ins Englische übersetzt:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097437.html
Unten einige Zitate daraus.

Wir freuen uns sehr darüber, dass diese renommierte Zeitung über
unsere Forderung berichtet, die ganze Wahrheit des systematischen
ärztlichen Massenmords zu dokumentieren. Hier unser Link dazu:
http://www.zwangspsychiatrie.de/geschichte/informationen-zur-ausstellung-to
dliche-medizin-z-z-im-judischen-museum-in-berlin
Die Texte unseres Flugblattes sind hier veröffentlicht:
"Die volle Wahrheit, bitte!" http://www.iaapa.de/zwang3_dt/hygiene_museum.h
tm
"Ausstellung im Hygiene-Museum Dresden verfälscht Kontinuität zum
Bruch" http://www.iaapa.de/zwang3_dt/ausstellung.htm
"8 Forderungen" http://www.iaapa.de/8_demands.htm#dt

Ein Hinweis des
Werner-Fuß-Zentrum
im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
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Hagai Aviel, 51, one of the founders of the Israeli
Association Against Psychiatric Assault, approached the museum to
offer his help in organizing the show, entitled "Deadly Medicine:
Creating the Master Race." His hope was to convince its curators that
the show does not, in fact, address the Nazi regime per se, but rather
a particular branch of psychiatry. Aviel argues that it was
psychiatrists who paved the way for the Final Solution. He believes
the only way to do justice to all concerned - himself, the museum,
Germany, Israel and the victims - is for the museum to extend the time
frame of the exhibition, which now is 1933-1945, and acknowledge that
this "deadly medicine" was in use as late as 1949, claiming the lives
of an additional 20,000 people in special psychiatric facilities.
[...]

The Nazis were not the first to propose the creation of a
"superior race." Indeed, the concept, an integral part of social
Darwinism, dates back to the mid-19th century. At the dawn of the 20th
century, there was support in several countries (including the United
States, Switzerland and Sweden) for policies aimed at creating such a
race, which included such measures as castration of the mentally ill
and others who were deemed inferior. [...]

The Nazi party's rise to power gave that idea the official
seal of approval.
In 1933, Germany's leading psychiatrists opened so-called
genetic-health courts, where people were tried for such "offenses" as
manic depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and the like. Between 1933
and 1939, some 400,000 German men were castrated, after it was
determined that they did not contribute to the party, the state or
science. A number of them died as a result. Also subject to castration
were Germans who suffered from various disorders like depression or
addictions. And of course, both Jews and Gypsies were defined as
inferior races.
On September 1, 1939, bowing to a request from the psychiatric
elite, Hitler signed an order calling for the systematic murder of
people "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination." This
was the only document that linked him directly to mass murder, and its
codename was T4, for "Tiergartenstrasse 4," the Berlin address where
the request from an organization of physicians and other officials had
originated. [...]

The order resulted in the establishment of six euthanasia
centers in psychiatric institutions throughout the Reich, and during
the two years in which it was in effect, a total of 70,000 Germans
were murdered on the basis of this directive - most of them in gas
chambers. When the order was eventually revoked, the murderous staff
who worked in these centers went on to the camps in Eastern Europe,
where they put their expertise to use in killing Jews.

While Aviel, his colleagues and Jewish Museum officials agree
that some 20,000 civilians died or were killed in these institutions
between 1945 and 1949, they differ as to the method used. Aviel
maintains that the systematic murder outlined under order T4 continued
during those years. By contrast, the museum people assert that these
people died because of the poor conditions in the facilities.[...]

Standing outside the museum, since he has been banned from the
immediate grounds, Aviel hands out flyers that explain his
organization's struggle. He wears a shirt calling for "the whole
truth" - referring to the fact that he believes the museum should
mention in the exhibition that there were four additional years of
killings, and many victims. He is adamant that he supports the
exhibition, but demands the museum tell the whole story.
"[Aside from psychiatrists], there is no other civil servant
who can arrest a citizen and penetrate his body," Aviel argues.
"Everything that may not be done to a regular person may be done to
whomever the psychiatrist determines. Nowadays, too, psychiatrists can
determine who is eligible to have basic rights and who isn't." [...]

At the start of the decade, Aviel and his colleagues at the
association found out that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington was about to launch the "Deadly Medicine" exhibit. They
contacted its curator, Susan Bachrach, offering their help, and tried
to explain that she ought to change the time frame of the exhibit.
Bachrach refused.

In 2006, the exhibition traveled to the Deutsches Hygiene-
Museum (German Museum for Hygiene) in Dresden, one of the most
important institutions dealing with German race theory. Aviel's
association contacted this museum, too, offering its help. After
receiving yet another cool response, they decided to take action. They
organized a demonstration in Dresden that not only drew attention, but
also resulted in a huge police presence at the site. However, the
protesters failed to attain the desired change.

It seems that in Berlin, too, Aviel and his colleagues have
not received the attention they sought, and also failed to change the
time frame covered by the exhibit. Nevertheless, they continue to
stand not far from the entrance, wearing over their clothes the huge
white shirt with the "whole truth" motto, handing flyers out to every
visitor. [...]

Aviel realizes people in the U.S. have no interest in
accepting his association's position and demands (after all, the
Americans liberated Europe and, as far as they are concerned,
everything ended in 1945) - and, likewise, most Germans (since it was
the the Third Reich that murdered the patients, and it was defeated).
However, he has difficulty understanding the Jewish Museum's scornful
response.

"It is very important for a Jewish museum to show such an
exhibit," he says. "It helps Israel politically, since the moment the
Jews become just one group of victims, it robs Holocaust-deniers, who
are motivated by anti-Semitism, of their argument's legitimacy.
Because the Jewish organizations do not support us, they pave the way
for the museum to dismiss our demand. Israel and the Jews want to
monopolize the Holocaust, even if it means children won't study the
evolution of the Final Solution."

"If I were doing it all over again," concedes Kampmeyer, "I
would have added one sign, perhaps the last in the exhibit, noting
that after the war, 20,000 more people died."
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