Falsification
of history in the “Deadly Medicine” exhibition
Denial of over 20,000 murder
victims from 1945 to 1949
A
call to protest and participate in a demonstration
(Resolution
Point # 1 of the G.A. of Septemer 26, 2006)
 The
“Hygiene Museum” in Dresden will host the Exhibition “Deadly
Medicine” from October 12, 2006 to June 24, 2007(1).
However in this exhibition the medical mass murders from 1945 to 1948/49
of inmates in German psychiatric institutions by starving them to death
is concealed, and history is thereby falsified.
It is one and the same group of victims and perpetrators who murdered
and committed the murders from 1939 to 1949. The same murder methods were
used from 1945 to 1949 as in the previous years from 1941 to 1945. Those
murders are described by Heinz Faulstich in his book “Death by Starvation
in Psychiatry 1914-1949”(2), and Ernst Klee documented
them in his film “Sichten und Vernichten”.
Compared
with the whole of Germany, the then Soviet zone had the highest murder
rates of inmates in the psychiatric internment camps, as proved by Heinz
Faulstich. When one compares the death rates of the population outside
the camps with the average death rates in the institutions in the Soviet
zone, it is clear that the death rate in the institutions in the years
1946 to 1947 stood at 24%, whereas it stood at only 2,1% and 1,9% respectively
for those not interned and in the year 1949 it was still 9% as opposed
to 1,3%.(3)
In
the four occupied zones the murders which were committed by the medical
staff totalled over 20,000 victims in the period from 1946 to 1948/49,
i.e. after the end of the Nazi rule.(4) In fact, one
must assume that there were many more victims. The continuation of the
research in this field is still ongoing. The Allies were nevertheless
liberators, because after a few years under the new government in Germany,
the murder rates in the psychiatric internment camps did in fact decline.
Let
us now look at the U.S.A. Also in the American zone 9,9% of the psychiatric
institution patients died in the year 1946, 8,0% in the year 1947 and
6,8% in the year 1948.(5) Furthermore, there was no right
of asylum for the medical victims of persecution by the doctors in the
U.S.A. Even if the alleged “mentally ill” were able to escape
the impending gas chambers, they would have been sent back by the U.S.A.
if they mentioned their medical slander.
Now
back to the falsification of history by the “Hygiene Museum”:
Why does the “Hygiene Museum” deny the murders, against all
reason? The most plausible explanation is to protect the perpetrators
and to cover up the crimes of their occupational group after 1949. Then
how did things continue with this supposed “scientific” psychiatry?
Which new, once again putatively “humane” methods followed the
murders as supposed “euthanasia”? Lobotomy, i.e. psychiatric
brain surgery. Electro shocking, which is still used up until today. Insulin
shock and completely new, the administering of mind-altering and bodily
harmful drugs in psychiatry, always under imminent threat of coercion
or direct force: being locked up and bound, complete control in a complete
institution. The connecting link is coercion, which is the constant factor
in all of these methods in order to obtain a so-called illness insight.
Even up to today psychiatric survivors travelling to the U.S.A. can only
enter the country with the lie that they have not been slanderously certified
to be “mentally ill” i.e. to have “schizophrenia”
e.g.
All
these legalized violations of human rights begin with slanderous jargon:
Here is the opinion of Prof. Thomas Szasz on this:
“Schizophrenia” is a strategic label as “Jew” was
in Nazi Germany. If you want to exclude people from the social order,
you must justify this to others, but especially to yourself. So you invent
a justificatory rhetoric. That”s what the really nasty psychiatric
words are all about: they are justificatory rhetoric, labelling a package
“garbage”, it means “take it away! Get it out of my sight!”
etc. That”s what the word “Jew” meant in Nazi Germany;
it did not mean a person with a certain kind of religious belief. It meant
“vermin!”, “gas him!” I am afraid that “schizophrenic”
and “sociopathic personality” and many other psychiatric diagnostic
terms mean exactly the same thing; they mean “human garbage,”
“take him away!”, “get him out of my sight.“(6)
The medicaly based human rights violations reached their climax in mass
murder. Ernst Klee summarized this by saying: “It wasn’t the Nazis
who needed the doctors, it was the doctors who needed the Nazis.”(7)
The
International Association Against Psychiatric Assault (IAAPA), the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft
Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V., the Landesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener
Berlin Brandenburg e.V. and the Irren-Offensive e.V. all requested that
the exhibition and it’s brochure be changed so as to relate the facts
and to stop falsifying history. The museum directors have not heeded this
request but instead will only supplement their accompanying program.
We
therefore call upon the public to protest against this falsification of
history and to participate in the demonstration on the opening day, October
11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. in front of the “Hygiene Museum” in Dresden.
The opening
event starts at 6 p.m., at which the Federal Minister for the Interior,
Mr. Wolfgang Schaeuble, and the Ambassador of the USA will be present.
Our
demands:
- end
the falsification of history – stop denying the murder of more than
20,000 by German psychiatry from 1945 to 1948/49
-
investigate,
and publicize on the internet, the names of all the assumed 300,000
victims of the systematic medical mass murder from 1939-1949, so that
their relatives can at least learn something about the true fate of
their family members and the minimum of dignity can be restored to
the victims by acknowledging that those murdered existed and had names.
- Public
acknowledgement that international – and in particular German – psychiatry,
because of it´s mass murders and their torture regime, is a
criminal coercive system and not a science.
We
point out that the reason for establishing the United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, after the Nuremberg trials and the
horror at the atrocities of the systematic psychiatric mass murders in
the gas chambers of the “Aktion T4”, – which began in 1939 as
a medical/biologistical campaign in Germany and were followed by the extermination
camps in Poland, – was also to protect human rights by the rule of law,
so that a person will not be forced to use rebellion as the last resort
against tyranny and oppression.
International
Association Against Psychiatric Assault (IAAPA), Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft
Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V., Israeli Association Against Psychiatric Assault,
Weglaufhaus Initiative Ruhrgebiet e.V., Irren-Offensive e.V., Landesverband
Psychiatrie-Erfahrener Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., Werner-Fuß-Zentrum,
Landesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener NRW e.V.
1
See www.dhmd.de/neu/index.php?id=835
2 Lambertus-Verlag: Breisgau 1998
3 Faulstich 1998: 670 und 713
4 vgl. Faulstich 1998: 715
5 ebd.: 713
6 from: ‘Interview mit Thomas Szasz’, in the New Physician, 1969
7 Ernst Klee quoted from his speech at the IPPNW-Congress in Nuremberg
1997
|
