ahhh I'm Sick!

ahh, I'm Sick! The plane ride back was disgustingly long because i couldn't find my sleeping pills so i was wide eyed awake the whole time. It was also kinda cold on the plane and at camp the last day i was freezing so a combination of all these and the poor 3 hours of sleep we got friday night all contributed to me having a fever then strept throat sunday morning. I know, it's terribly cold all week long in Germany and we're having outside activities in it and the only day i get sick (and get sick hard) is the day i come back to nice warm Texas! not alot of fun at all. Either way i can say with assurance that the last day in the max planck institute and the concentration camp was very amazing. The historian at the max planck institute had such a complete understanding of the opinions and beliefs of the scientific community at beginning of the 20th century. One thing is to be completely and ignorantly racist or supremist but for scientific evidence from your own research (however biased that always is...) to lead you to believe that there was a necessity for ethnic cleansing in order to improve everyones life is another. However i did not see Ernst Rudin as redeemed in any sense because of what the historian told us about his colleagues who pointed out that by eliminating the phenotype there were still other alleles that would not be shown by the phenotype in which it would impossible without comprehensive genetic analysis rid the human race of this allele. The concentration camp was also very heavy material. The first time for me to experiance anything like that. Without Dr. Mark's explanations and stories none of us would have known the gravity of the evil deeds going on at Dachau.

The last day was a good although not a happy way to end the trip. I will say that the goodbye fest was well needed to end such a heavy day. I'm really glad i got this amazing experiance to go to Germany, definantly in no other place could i have had such a complete picture painted of the Nazi times, there impact on human research ethics, and just overall German history than Germany itself.