Magazine of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION AGAINST PSYCHIATRIC ASSAULT No. 3 – October 2006

Exhibition
in the Hygiene Museum Dresden
falsifies continuity into a break

Script
of the radio broadcast in ColoRadio, Dresden, on 5.10.2006

A
spectre is haunting the city – Dresden is however no longer afflicted by
psychiatry only secretly, rather its criminal past and present is being
re-negotiated at two large public meetings: On 11 October 2006 the Hygiene
Museum opens a special exhibition, “Deadly Medicine”, which more
precisely should have been called “The Murderous Physicians”.
The inauguration of the exhibition will be accompanied by protests, the
topic of today’s radio broadcast. Briefly before end of this special exhibition
next year, internationally organized coercive psychiatry in the form of
the “World Psychiatric Association” (WPA) will hold a congress
here about forced treatment on June 6- 8 / 2007.

In the original
version the exhibition “Deadly Medicine” in the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum still had the sub-title “Creating the Master Race” and
brings up for discussion the medical ideology and the medical mass murders,
which, badly enough, are unfortunately still played down by the use of the
Nazi jargon “euthanasia”.

The Hygiene
Museum changed the sub-title into “Race Delusion in National Socialism”
(„Rassenwahn im Nationalsozialismus“).
Last Thursday Jan Groth was able to conduct an interview with Mrs. Uhlig
of the Hygiene Museum for this programm, which we recorded and now broadcast
in commentated excerpts. She answered his question about the new sub-title:

Antje Uhlig,
Project Manager: [her answer – in German – can be heard here:
http://freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=14094
]
The new sub-title is a grave error, if not to say a lie about the whole
matter: With the term “Delusion” (“Wahn”), an attempt
was made to deny any reasoning to the murderous actions, which however is
exactly what the murderers claim for themselves, first by forced sterilization,
then by the gassing of the “unreasonable”, the insane, the inmates
of madhouses from 1939 onwards. It was thus an action against the insanity
represented in the mad persons. In doing so, the perpetrators are stylized
by the Hygiene Museum as victims and the guilt is thereby diminished. The
use of the words “Race Delusion” tries to attach an alleged “insanity”
to the mass murder, more exactly specified as “Insanity in National
Socialism”, in order to thereby send those who were designed by physicians
with a murderous diagnosis to extermination into the same extraterrestrial
orbit, in which one would so gladly like to imagine also the murderers.
Thus reason winds itself around its abysses and accordingly the Hygiene
Museum organizes remembrance in such a way as to ensure forgetfulness.

	“Adolf Hitler as a physician of the German people “… … shows, how medical the Nazis were
Exhibit of the exhibition: Magazine “Volksgesundheitswacht” (“Sentinel of the people’s health”) 1935 No. 8 – Page 3

With which
we come to the main point of criticism towards the exhibition: There is
pretence of a breach, where actually continuity prevailed: After the end
of the centrally organized murders in gas chambers authorized by Hitler,
followed in 1941on the one hand by the export of the murder method and the
personnel of the “Aktion T4” to Poland for the setting up of the
extermination camps, which went into operation as a consequence of the Wannsee
Conference in 1942. On the other hand the murders were continued in particular
directly in the psychiatric institutions and asylums by starvation and lethal
syringes. For this there was just as less a formal state contract for murder
as for the murders in the extermination camps but rather a broad consensus
of the murderers, their aids and confidants, who appointed themselves to
be acting in the best interest and/or the will of the community.

In order to
make it completely clear: naturally these victims were locked up. That is
the characteristic of a coercive psychiatry, even if one still today tries
to hush up its violent acts. Someone who locks up another person has taken
over the control and responsibility for him/her. If the captive person is
not provided with sufficient food by the captor, it is always murder if
he/she dies as a result of starvation. The withdrawal of sufficient food
with subsequent death can therefore only be understood as intentional, atrocious
murder of the locked-up person.

This decentralized
murder with the same murder methods, the same group of the victims and the
same group of perpetrators continued from 1945 to 1949 in exactly the same
way as it happened from 1941 to 1945. This continuity is denied by the Hygiene
Museum and instead it is stated that there was a breach in the murder system
in 1945 and the period of “Deadly Medicine” came to an end in
1945, although a source of documentation to the contrary is well known.
Instead, in a letter replying to the demand of the International Association
Against Psychiatric Assault, the Federal Association of Psychiatric Survivors,
the Regional Organization of Psychiatry Survivors Berlin Brandenburg and
the Lunatic Offensive not to deny those over 20.000 murder victims from
1945 to 1949, the Hygiene Museum responds with an almost grotesque criterion:
the exact circumstances of each individual case of murder would have to
be proven in order to correctly call it murder.

Thus the Hygiene
Museum makes a burden of proof reversal starting from 1945, which would
then also have to apply to the murders from 1941 to 1945. The result is
that the systematically committed crimes and the systematic cover-up of
these acts by the perpetrators blind out the acknowledgment of the victims
as victims. This perfidious step reminds one of the scornful attempts of
the Holocaust deniers when they state that certain criminological proof
is missing and therefore only a fraction of the murders were committed.
It is also obscene, because it assumes that the majority of over 20,000
of the victims who were allegedly not murdered but died as a result of too
little medicine, of medical neglect and that they could possibly have allowed
themselves to be killed by mutual consent, just as the word “Euthanasia”
was used at that time in order to deny the murders. Unfortunately this euphemism
is still used up until today.

Jan Groth questioned
Mrs. Uhlig about this:
Antje Uhlig, Project Manager :[her answer can be heard here:
http://freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=14094
]

The museum
thus adheres to representing continuity as a break. To protest this, on
October 11 starting at 12.30 p.m. a demonstration will be held in front
of the Hygiene Museum. In particular in the evening starting at 5.30 p.m.
as many as possible should come so that at the opening celebration it becomes
clear to the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Schaeuble, the American Ambassador
and the Governor Milbradt that the historical falsification and the denial
of over 20.000 murder victims is being contested.

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