Friday, August 4, 2023

END TIME TRUTH: EUGENE OREGON 2023-ENDTIME CRUSADE!


2023 - 2024 ENDTIME CRUSADES!  
With: International Evangelist Steven Masone

ARE WE IN THE 7-YEAR TRIBULATION?


  • Antichrist? The Beast 666? The Coming Armageddon?  

  • The Tribulation? America Divided?

  •  Son Against Father, Mother gainst Daughter?

  • Civil Unrest?

  • World War III Threats? So many voices and Interpretations…

  • What does scripture say?

  • "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." Daniel 12: 9 

    • Hosted by Pastor James Rabe & Westside Apostolic Church  "With International Evangelist Steven Masone's ministry, expect signs & wonders!"

Salvation! Healing! Miracles!
Where: 1161 Grant St, Eugene, Or, 97402
When: TBA

Saturday 4-6pm Q&A with BBQ (love feast) Children's fun activities
For further info call: Pastor James Rabe, West Side Apostolic Church, EugeneOregon,  (541) 729-9167 -     (541) 334-4673     

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Got works? No? Then your faith is dead!





 




We will not win this 'end of days' spiritual battle through political change! Only those who can see apostasy has the church trapped in our four walls with the stinking spirit of "us four and no more" and cast down the strongholds of our minds that are receiving this strong delusion that hinders us from fulfilling the Great Commission! It is not by the "might" of our mega-church buildings and programs that saves, nor by the "power" of our whipped up carnal and fleshly soulish worldly services without true repentance! But by his Spirit though the preaching of the Gospel, and discipling of those we win. Instead, we hook them on the hype, and they come for a weekly fix without loving the Word which is Spirit and Life. 2Tim 2:15 "Evangelism without discipleship is death!" But we turn a blind eye if they just show up every now and again with their offerings and participation in our rah-rah sessions of futility. Our traditions and doctrines of men are as guilty of killing spiritual babies as much as the fleshly abortions have killed over 60 million babies in our country. We do this because we do not teach the truth about our calling and commandments to individually cloth the naked, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, minister to those sick and in prison. Our financial support does not abrogate that responsibility. One does not get to pay for others to obey God for them. Except the Goats! "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." Matthew 25


Sunday, October 17, 2021

The Gifts of The Spirit Are Alive and Well

by steven masone

 All of the teaching in 1 Corinthians 14 are Commandments of God...17"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. 40Let all things be done decently and in order." Now if God commands "forbid not to speak in tongues" (or operate in any of gifts) then where are these commandments cancelled by God's Word? Cessationists use one scripture out of context to claim the gifts have ceased, "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

[10] "But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." They usually leave out the conterxt.
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Cor 13 They say this means when the New Testament/Bible is cannonized, it is "that which is perfect shall come" Paul makes clear he is teaching that "that which is perfect shall come is the second coming of Jesus Christ...'But then face to face, now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." Clearly he speaks of Christ's return. now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Perfect in grk... "teleios: having reached its end, i.e. complete, by ext. perfect
Original Word: τέλειος, α, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: teleios
Phonetic Spelling: (tel'-i-os)
Definition: having reached its end, complete, perfect. The end of this Age at the second coming brings in the next Age where Jesus Christ, who is perfect, rules and reigns in a perfect New Jerusalem! Then...the gifts cease as we shall know as we are known by Christ, no : "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." Rev 22:5 No longer seeing through the glass darkly as there shall be no darkness there.

Friday, November 13, 2020

Secret Of The Book Of Daniel Unfolding!

 

by steven masone
Blasphemy in the Greek, means "Slander" ...so the Beast was given a Mouth speaking great things, and "Slanders." It seems the entire world's media are this "MOUTH!" Notice power was given unto "him (BEAST)" for 42 months. In the Greek the word "Owt-tos" is used for "him." However, it is also used for "them" and "IT." We know The Beast is also the System that makes up the World ("Cosmos" in Greek) So, when we see "he" being used "ow-tos" it can have a different meaning than we have been led to believe. In Rev 13:18 " Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six." In "number of a man" scribes added the English words "of a" . It should read..:number of man" as in mankind.







Now, study Daniel 12:7-10 "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand" So we see before the Time of the End, there is no understanding! With this in mind, throw out all your preconceived conclusions as to prophesy if you want to be among the wise! Don't be self-deceived and say to yourself "Well that's not how I was taught!" You should be saying "That's not how I studied it out for myself with divine revelation!" It' clear from Dan 12, that our understanding is withheld until the Time of The End. By God's Revelation not our intellectual human abilities!

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The End-Time Preachers As Watchmen On The Wall...Sounding The Trumpet Of Truth!




By Evangelist Steven Masone

      After many years with no father to teach me the right ways of this narrow path that leads to salvation, and God's Kingdom, the greatest battle I have fought was not against the Gates Of Hell from without, trying to prevail against The Church Of Jesus Christ, but against the tares, wolves in sheep's clothing, and the Jezebel/Ahab spirits embedded in the ministry of his Church as prophesy foretold of.  The Anti-Christ and his Bride, the Apostate Church....within the true Church that does teach Biblical salvation is embedded with the aforementioned spirit.    
27 Bible verses about Famine












God baptized me with the Holy Ghost and fire at eight years old even though I was not intellectually aware of what that experience meant. I was raised in the Church of Christ who preached Acts 2:38 for baptism's sake, but they did not have the revelation of New Birth as the lord Jesus taught. Ironically, on my Mother's side of my family, I come from a long line of preachers including Thomas and Alexander Campbell who started the Stone-Campbell Movement. The name comes from the primary founders of this branch of Christianity. In Kentucky, Barton Warren Stone (1772-1844) was a Presbyterian minister who, along with others, called for a return to simple New Testament Christianity. In fact, Stone believed that followers of Christ should go by no other name than “Christian.” In Pennsylvania and what is now West Virginia, father and son Thomas Campbell (1763-1854) and Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) championed the idea of “one Church of Christ upon earth.” They, too, believed that followers of Christ should not be identified by sectarian names and asked that only “Disciples” be used.

They also reject the Presbyterian form of church government (not theology or doctrine, but having levels of presbytery ruling over the local church.) which is actually more biblical. The Church of Jerusalem, which James the brother of Jesus was the overseer of, did not claim any authority over any of the New Testament churches. Even the Apostle Paul did not demand headship over the churches he established by requiring tithes, offerings, fealty, or setting up a Presbyterian model of hierarchy. 

 Church Polity | Evidence Unseen



Church Polity | Evidence Unseen
Church council is Elders of Five fold Ministry, who must  qualify
 per scripture. Officers are the Deacons. who are not Five=Fold ministry, 
but administrators who take "the waiting of tables"  responsibilities.




The Congregational model is the biblical one we clearly see in the early church until the wolves began the takeover, which ended with the Apostate Roman Catholic Church...State engineered pagan counterfeit Mystery Babylon.  However, for "filthy lucre's sake" and prideful ambition, the post-modern churches teaching proper salvific doctrine have poisoned the Body of Christ with the "Leaven of the Pharisees."  

So the Presbyterian form which even Apostolic Pentecostal groups utilize was foreign to me. I saw right away that there was a danger for autocratic abuse, which is also known as what the Nicolaitanes were guilty of beside their Balaam doctrines.   "Nicolaitan" (Greek: Νικολαϊτῶν; Νικολαΐτης) is the name ostensibly given to followers of the heretic Nicolas (Greek: Νικόλαος). The name itself means "victorious over the people" or "victory of the people",  from the Greek root meaning “conqueror” or “destroyer.”But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

From my earliest experiences in my home church, and I having been in the military, and had more than several leadership positions in Organizations with policies and procedures outlined for redress and governing to ensure justice for individuals as well as the integrity of the company, I studied the Bible to understand why we were not following scripture in Church government. 

Not wanting to "rock the boat"...I finished my Bible School studies, and began pursuing my calling focusing on my personal ministry. While still inBible School, I ministered in a California Youth Authority Prison, that five or six men from my church had been doing for about a year. Basically, they had to visit the units and recruit the young inmates for bible studies. of course all the usual denominational churches were competing for their bible studies as well.

No one from our church had yet won any souls who obeyed Acts 2:38. I was able to get about ten young men into my group which my Associate Pastor and mentor attended with me as we had become good friends as well. He was just there to observe as this was practicum for me. As I said I was baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire at eight, and I was an on fire new convert after re-baptized by the Holy Ghost and gone down in water baptism in the Name of Jesus accomplishing my New Birth being born again in water and Spirit!

I began to operate in the gifts of the Spirit, and on my third meeting a boldness came over me and the anointing fell on my group and 4 were baptized in The Holy Ghost! The next week we had morein the group and 5 were added to the 4. Soon we were up to a revival with seventeen, and others catching the fire just from the testimonies of those in my group when we weren't even there! So, I began to start getting the ball rolling on being able to baptize them in water as soon as possible. However, a PK whose teachings were title baptizing, told his dad we were teaching against the titles, and he complained to the head Chaplain, and I was barred from the unit as the chaplain was in doctrinal error as most are.

 Jealously raised it's ugly head with the other men from my church. who complained I was going to get all of us kicked out if my appeal to get back in was approved. The question was begged, "why did this new convert have immediate revival and the others had zero for an entire year?" Well God had anointed me at eight years old, and was training me for my ministry in  his timing and plan for my life. All of the sudden, I was elevated by my mentor and most of those in the congregation joining two of the young ministers being groomed to get 'daughter works or pastor openings' from congregations our Pastor was asked to oversee.
I was 33 by this time, and had already been involved in politics as a lobbyist getting laws introduced by organizations I represented, and did not want to play church politics! Between the cliques, and the ambitious and jealous backbiting that began in my own church, and seeing no Biblical redress available to me, I soon launched out into the deep as an independent preacher. I found an interim pastor position and called my pastor to get his blessing...but it was given reluctantly

  Most in the church believed I left in rebellion, but I did get permission, even if it was "covering my arms with goat hair" to get my blessing. Soon, I was led back to my birthplace in Stockton , California, where I started my first Church as an Independent, while keeping the elders I trusted as my headship and advisors. My mentor had left my home church, and was attending and assisting at one of the largest churces in the Apostolic movement in Stockton. 

  He told me he had spoke to their pastor about me and thought I should meet him and consider taking licence to affiliate my work with his. I did so, and agreed to also be part-time staff for him. I taught 'Gift of the Spirit' classes occasionally at the Bible College they operated, but most who were interested came to my church to see them in action. God sent me to the Highways and Byways to find backsliders, and the halt and lame and poor in spirit to build my church up. We began a homeless feeding night every Friday evening (Sabbath Service) and soon powerful revival broke out! Blind eyes opened, devils cast out in full manifestation, and I began baptizing an average of 25-35 a week in the name of Jesus Christ,  many, many filled with the Holy Ghost. Don't you know the knives of the Jealous came out slashing! Unfortunately, because of the large staff at the Church and Bible College teaching positions available, over fifty licensed preachers attend just to wait in line to get a paying job. Or at least be invited to sit on the platform to be seen of men. Very few were active in outreach or proved their ministry through soul winning. Many counted on nepotism and "networking the scourge of multi-level businesses that hit the movement with a furious get-rich-quick scheming spirit of greed that actually was also embedded in most ministry fundraising activities. I began to regret licensing with the Organization that was worse at the International level in nepotism and non-biblical church government. When you have an organization instead of the organism called the Body of Christ, you have Mystery Babylon affecting and infecting her leaven, leavening the whole lump! With nepotism, you have created ambitious wives as well as their husbands plotting and scheming just like Ahab and Jezebel when Ahab coveted Naboth's Vineyard...(a Type of Christ's Church the enemy wants)  1 Kings 21:1-16 states that Naboth owned a vineyard, in proximity to King Ahab's palace in the city of Jezreel. Because of this, Ahab desired to acquire the vineyard so that he could own it for his own because it was so beautiful. Since he inherited the land from his ancestors, Naboth refused to sell it to Ahab. Jezebel then had false witnesses lie and accuse Naboth of blasphemy.She not only wrought great evil, but she influenced Ahab to do evil. See how she acted when she heard of Naboth’s refusal. She replied with a stinging taunt (verse 7); she resorted to forgery (verse 8); her action was filled with hypocrisy (verse 9); she pressed others into perjury (verse 10); and she perpetrated the horrible act of murder (verse 13). Thus, she did away with Naboth, the righteous, God-fearing man; she gained the vineyard for Ahab, and he took possession of it. Is Jezebel in possession of the Lord's Church in this last hour?  In many doctrines taken from Calvinist and protestant Trinitarian theology....yes! Also in the Nicolaitane heresy of the post-modern church structure where a lead pastor is not in submission to the other five-fold ministry that should be in any healthy New Testament Church! The Church is a Theocracy to be organized by the Word of God in Holy writ, not an authoritarian dictatorship ran by the Ahab-Jezebel Tandem we see choking the garden Jesus Christ shed is blood for to make is disciples free indeed! So Man of God....   parresiazomai: Come out of Babylon!    Be the Watchman on the Wall Sounding The Trumpet of Truth leading God's people to follow the Holy Ghost and not Organized religion held captive by hirelings who are not the "called according to His Purpose!" "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."

Sunday, June 28, 2020

CONTROL HEALTHCARE AND YOU GAIN ABSOLUTE POWER!




National Health Care: Medicine in Germany,

 1918-1945

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me~Martin 
Niemöller 

Does the modern bureaucratization of medicine risk a return to the horrors of national socialist medicine?


Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly.
Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects. In addition, the increasing involvement of the German government in medical care and funding medical research established the government-medical complex that the National Socialists later used to execute their extermination policies.
The German social insurance and health care system began in the 1880s under Bismarck. Ironically, it was part of Bismarck’s “anti-socialist” legislation, adopted under the theory that a little socialism would prevent the rise of a more virulent socialism.
By the time of Weimar, German doctors had become accustomed to cooperating with the government in the provision of medical care. The reforms of the Weimar Republic following the medical crises of World War I included government policies to provide health care services to all citizens. Socially minded physicians placed great hope in a new health care system, calling for a single state agency to overcome fragmentation and the lack of influence of individual practitioners and local services. The focus of medicine shifted from private practice to public health and from treating disease to preventable health care. During the German “economic consolidation” of 1924-1928, public health improved under new laws against tuberculosis, venereal disease, and alcoholism, with new advisory centers for chemical dependency and counseling bureaus for marriage and sexual problems.
Medical concerns which had largely been in the private domain in the nineteenth century increasingly became a concern of the state. The physician began to be transformed into a functionary of state-initiated laws and policies. Doctors slowly began to see themselves as more responsible for the public health of the nation than for the individual health of the patient. It is one thing to see oneself as responsible for the “nation’s health” and quite another to be responsible for an individual patient’s health. It is one thing to be employed by an individual, another to be employed by the government.
Under the Weimar Republic these reforms resulted in clearly improved public health. However, the creativity, energy, and fundamental reforms found in social medicine during the Weimar Republic seem in retrospect a short and deceptive illusion. Medical reformers had wanted to counter the misery inherited from the first World War and the Second Empire on the basis of comprehensive disease prevention programs. In the few years available to the social reformers, they had remarkable success. But in connection with these reforms the doctor’s role changed from that of advocate, adviser, and partner of the patient to a partner of the state.
Where traditional individual ethics and Christian charity had once stood, the reformers posited a collective ethic for the benefit of the general population. Private charity and welfare were nationalized. The mentally ill, for example, having been literally released from their chains in the nineteenth century and placed in local communities and boarding houses in regular contact with others (the so-called “moral therapy”), were returned to state institutions to become the ultimate victims of state “solutions.”
With the world economic crisis of 1929, welfare state expenditures had to be reduced for housing, nutrition, support payments, recreation and rehabilitation, and maternal and child health. What remained of the humanistic goals of reform were state mechanisms for inspection and regulation of public health and medical practice. Economic efficiency became the major concern, and health care became primarily a question of cost-benefit analysis. Under the socialist policies of the period, this analysis was necessarily applied to the selection of strong persons, deemed worthy of support, and the elimination of weak and “unproductive” people. The scientific underpinning of cost-benefit analyses to political medical care was provided by the new fields of genetics and eugenics.

 

Genetics and Eugenics

At the same time as these economic and political developments, the application of nineteenth- century scientific discoveries began to make their way into twentieth-century public health and medical practice. Charles Darwin’s studies on natural selection were of course based upon animal populations living in nature and not human populations living in complex societies. But the biological basis of natural selection gave rise to a concept of “survival of the fittest” in human civilizations. This term was coined by the British social anthropologist Herbert Spencer, and the concept led to “Social Darwinism.”
Darwin’s theories (developed in parallel with Alfred Russel Wallace—another British natural scientist) had been published prior to full elucidation of the principles of genetics. With subsequent understanding and acceptance of the science of genetics, the underlying basis of natural selection could more completely be described. While scientists still did not understand what made up the gene (awaiting Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA in the 1950s) they began to search for outward expression of inner genetic tendencies. In the absence of being able to pinpoint individual genes, they sought outward expression of genetic “types.” These “typologies” were largely based upon external measurements of the body.
Much of this work was carried out by German anthropologists and physicians (often one and the same at that time) in newly acquired colonies in German East and Southwest Africa, prior to the loss of these colonies to Allied protectorates in World War I. Such work resumed following the war, however, and by 1927 the opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics was celebrated in Berlin as the advent of the “German Oxford.” The annual report of the Institute in 1932 stated: “The term eugenics means to establish a connection between the results of the studies in human genetics and practical measures in population policy.”
Under the new “scientific understanding” of human biology provided by genetics and its implementation under eugenics, poverty, for example, would become merely an expression of degeneracy (Entartung) and genetic inferiority. “Inferior” and “superior” became natural terms used by persons of nearly all political persuasions, as readily as the terms “handicapped,” “impaired,” “socially dependent,” or “disadvantaged” are used today.

 

Life Unworthy of Living

Following World War I there had been concern among some in Germany that the war had decimated the ranks of the qualified and strong while weak, unqualified, and inferior people had been spared. Many felt that scant resources should not be wasted on the sick and suffering. The philosophy of the unimportance of the individual in favor of the people (das Volk) led to the belief that individuals who had become “worthless, defective parts” had to be “sacrificed or discarded.”
Alfred Hoche, a neuropathologist (as Freud had been) and Karl Binding, a lawyer, published a pamphlet in 1922, The Sanctioning of the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living. Binding relativized the legal and moral prohibition, “Thou shalt not kill,” and Hoche alternated between economic and medical arguments. Neurologists in Saxony formally discussed the topic, “Are Doctors Allowed to Kill?” A physician in Dresden pointed out “the contradiction that many persons (reformers) demand an end to the death penalty for crimes, but the same people are for putting imbeciles [sic] to death.” By the time the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany, the mentally ill and the mentally retarded had begun to be sterilized and to be subjected to euthanasia in large numbers in German government institutions.

 

National Socialism and the Nation’s Health

No profession in Germany became so numerically attached to National Socialism in both its leadership and membership as was the medical profession. Because of their philosophical orientation toward finding a more scientific basis for medical research and practice, government funding for research, and the practical benefits of acquiring university positions and medical practices from the many banned and exiled German Jewish doctors, many physicians supported Nazi policies. One of the first Nazi laws, passed July 14, 1933, was the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny of Hereditary Disease,” intended to “consolidate” social and health policies in the German population and prohibit the right of reproduction for persons defined as “genetically inferior.” After 1933, the connection between the theory and practice of politicized medicine advocated by many in Weimar Germany became actual in Nazi Germany.
A “Genetic Health Court” consisting of judges and doctors made decisions about forcible sterilization. As “advocates of the state,” doctors prosecuted those persons charged with being “genetically ill” in sessions lasting generally no more than ten minutes and from which the public was barred. In 1935, an adjunct law allowed forcible abortion in such cases up to the sixth month of pregnancy. A total of 300,000 to 400,000 were sterilized and approximately 5,000 (nearly all women) died as a result of these operations. After 1945, it was argued to the Restitution Claims Commission of the German Bundestag that the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny of Hereditary Disease” not be considered in the same category as subsequent National Socialist race laws and other Nazi abuses. The sterilization law had been drafted earlier under the Weimar Republic as part of progressive health reform, and as late as 1961 was defended by an expert at the Max Planck Institute on the basis that “every cultured nation needs eugenics, and in the atomic age, more so than ever before.”

 

German Youth and Euthanasia

Following the sterilization laws, the National Socialists next implemented a strategy of euthanasia to solve the remaining problem of those whose conception and birth had preceded these laws. The pediatrician Ernst Wentzler, while developing plans to improve care in the German Children’s Hospitals in Berlin, personally decided (as consultant to Hitler’s Chancellery) on the deaths of thousands of handicapped children. Hans Nachtsheim placed delivery orders for handicapped children for his pressure chamber experiments on epilepsy. Joseph Mengele delivered genetic and anthropological “material” from Auschwitz to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and conducted his infamous twin experiments on the child victims of the Holocaust.
Julius Hallervorden at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research at Berlin-Buch carried out several research projects based on euthanasia programs. Hallervorden and others systematically collected the brains of their patients who had been killed, taught the murdering doctors how to dissect, and cooperated closely with institutions where murdered children had previously been given thorough examinations and tests. During interrogation by an American officer in 1945, he stated, “I heard that they were going to do that . . . and told them . . . if you are going to kill all these people, at least take the brains . . . . There was wonderful material among these brains beautiful mental defectives, malformations and early infantile disease. I accepted these brains, of course. Where they came from and how they came to me, was really none of my business.” The collection was until recently kept by the Max Planck Institute (formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute) in Frankfurt and used for brain research.
In a system in which so many were routinely condemned to die, the temptation proved strong to use human subjects in medical experimentation prior to their tragic and terrible deaths.
The Luftwaffe had developed aircraft which could climb to altitudes of nearly 60,000 feet, altitudes unattainable by Allied fighter aircraft. However, tolerance of these altitudes on the part of pilots had not yet been tested. Trials on volunteers at altitudes above 36,000 feet had to be discontinued due to severe pain. For this reason, lethal altitude experiments in pressure chambers were conducted on 200 victims held prisoner in Dachau concentration camp in a program called: “Trials for Saving Persons at High Altitude.”
Many German ships were also being sunk in the North Atlantic and North Sea, and the same group of medical investigators conducted painful ice bath experiments on 300 Dachau prisoners in a research program entitled “Avoidance and Treatment of Hypothermia in Water.” Other medical experiments were carried out with chemical and biological warfare agents and infectious diseases.
Following World War II much of this data was kept classified by Allied military authorities on the basis of national security. Debate continues to this day on the validity of these experiments and the ethical implications of any use of such data.

 

The Banality of Evil

We now know the end of this historical horror story of massive crimes against humanity and the leader of the thousand-year Reich burning in a bunker in Berlin. But it is not so easy to recognize the steps on the path down the slippery slope when we don’t yet know the end of the story—as today we do not know which social health reforms in combination with which new medical technologies have the potential to plunge modern society over a brink in which disaster might result. Is legalized abortion a new form of medicide? Is doctor-assisted suicide a step toward positive euthanasia? Is modern genetic testing and the Human Genome Project the first step to a new eugenics? Is health care rationing, which is always a result of government involvement in medical care, a step toward the new definition of”life unworthy of living” ? Is our present “quality of life index” a new way of saying it?
Nazi medicine was implemented by a political-medical complex—on the basis of political health care—a scientific and social philosophy imposed by a totalitarian regime. It should never happen again, but could it ever happen again?
In the United States the medical profession operates in a mixed (not a national socialist) economy which does not yet have the institutionalized mechanisms of control and regulation of Weimar Germany and in a democratic political system which thankfully does not have the political ideology of the Third Reich. But the “banality of evil” described by Hannah Arendt in the Third Reich may stem largely from a government bureaucracy in which 90 percent of the people think 90 percent of the time about process—not purpose. Does the modern bureaucratization of medicine hold any real risk for a possible return with new health reforms and new medical technologies—to some of the horrors of National Socialist medicine? Removal of personal responsibility (“I was only following orders”), personal authority, and personal choice in a bureaucratized system may leave less and less room for individual ethics in the conduct of medical science and practice.
Politicized medicine is not a sufficient cause of the mass extermination of human beings, but it seems to be a necessary cause. The Nazi Holocaust did not happen for some inexplicable German reason; it is not an event that we can afford to ignore because we are not Germans or not Nazis. The history of Germany from 1914 to 1945 is a telescoping of modernity from monarchy, war, and collapse to democracy and the welfare state, and finally to dictatorship, war, and death.
Medical ethics is the responsibility of all members of a society, not just doctors and scientists. Medicine and science alone do not have the answers to such questions as: When does life begin? When should it end? Are humans just the sum of their genetic parts or genetic programs? While bioethicists debate, individual medical choices are made a million times a day among doctors, patients, their families, and increasingly the government. The product of all these choices ultimately constitutes the ethical, legal, and social framework in which the practice of medicine and of medical research are conducted. In the end it is the preservation of freedom that will guide us to the best application of new health reforms and technologies in the future.

Dr. Robert Ritter of the German National Department of Health (right) and his associates carried out anthropological measurements and genealogical research. They prepared fingerprints and photographs in order to ascertain the “proportion of gypsy blood” in all of the Sinti and Roma of “Greater Germany.”
Nazi medicine was implemented by a political-medical complex, a scientific and social philosophy imposed by a totalitarian regime.
From The Exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being.”