Eradicating the sick and weak in nature German survival of the fittest poster
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The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.
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Eradicating the sick and weak in nature
German survival of the fittest poster
overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)
Poster from the 1938 racial science textbook, Erblehre und rassenkunde für die grund- und hauptschule, by Alfred Vogel. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable, as well as the disabled, handicapped, and sickly.
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Color poster with 2 image panels: on the left is a hawk perched on a tree branch over dead rabbit; on the right is a blond man with an axe raised over his head, preparing to chop down a diseased, short, orange pine tree. In the background is a forest of tall, green pine trees.