At the same time that photography can refer to extremely happy moments and with memories capable of bringing to all a feeling of great joy and nostalgia, there is also the “back of the medal”, which reflects photography as an informant role of problems that, for many, are even unknown.
Many years ago, specifically in the tragic period of World War I and World War II, the feeling of racial segregation and belief based on a possible?Superiority? From the Aryan race allied to the somewhat absurd idea of the need to make one?Purification of human beings led to strange analyses and conclusions by the authorities of the time.
- The scientifically called practice? Eugenics? A (and still has for those who believe in it) the premise of fundamentally analyzing certain physical characteristics and.
- As evidenced by the capture of the chambers of the time.
- These were elements that could even determine decisions that should be agreed to the people themselves such as reproduction.
- Union or even their survival.
Historically, the publications of the English scientist Charles Darwin, responsible for formulating the famous Theory of Evolution, are considered the beginning of the idea. By taking certain concepts and trying to work as authors by their very nature, an undemocratic conclusion was reached on the Part of some European countries that people with certain genetic problems must be sterilized. Justification?” To improve the human race. “
Nanism, gigantism, deafness, blindness, skull size, there were multiple elements that had the unthinkable ability to decide whether that person would remain fertile or even alive, in some situations even took seriously the need to study common physical characteristics to determine traits. belonging to criminals, murderers or people with violent tendencies.
Many photos were taken by the lenses of researchers who, increasingly financially fed by dictators and political strategists intolerant of racial variety, undertook hours and hours of research and even conducted cruel experiments to prove their theories, with this the precepts, which were previously only physical, even reached the religious aspect (see the Holocaust committed against Jews mainly in the time of Nazi Germany).
To get an idea of the level at which this concept has been reached, the book Hitler and the Jews written by Philippe Burrin describes the imposition of a law that no photograph can describe how uncompromising this idea can be:
On 18 August 1939, a circular from the Ministry of the Interior required doctors and midwives of the Reich to declare children suffering deformities, gathered in special sections, killed by drug injection or starvation.