When I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States, I was sickened to learn about the horrible Nazi activities intended to improve and learn about the Aryan race on the human body. While many people are aware that the Nazis had these goals, most are unaware of the means used to achieve them. I was also unaware of the extent of their attempts to establish themselves as ideal specimens of the human race. They used many unforgivable methods to achieve these goals, some of which were revealed to me during my visit to the museum. The Nazis attempted to create a master race through means that were both vicious and less cruel. Before my visit to the museum, I was unaware that the Nazis had a program of forced sterilization of children. those who suffered from genetic disorders or any other trait undesirable from being transmitted hereditarily (Holocaust Museum).� These included the mentally ill, the blind, the deaf, those with severe physical abnormalities, serious alcoholics and half-African Germans. (Holocaust Museum).� Sterilization of these people was legalized by the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Ill Children, which came into force in 1933 ("Mortal Medicine").� The cases were heard in court, but the vast majority of cases were successful. with the aim of sterilizing (“Mortal Medicine”). An estimated 300,000 Germans were forcibly sterilized at the request of the Nazis (Holocaust Museum). Similar programs were in effect elsewhere in the world, including the United States (“Lethal Medicine”). ).� A law was put into effect in Virginia allowing for forced sterilization of "feeble-minded" people, and it was deemed legal by the Supreme Court ("Lethal Medicine").� Euthanasia was also used by the Nazis to eliminate these people, even children (“Medical Medicine”). , which prohibited marriages between Jews and Germans, and the encouragement of large Aryan families with the "Cross of Honor of German Motherhood", where mothers of four or more children received medals ("Mortal Medicine"). I was stunned to learn of the extent of the Nazis' actions in creating a perfect race, and I was sickened to think that the Nazis could have committed other crimes like these that are still unknown to the public. . The Nazis also performed cruel medical experiments on Jewish prisoners, both living and dead.