Decision of the International Mock Trial on defendant Ernst Rüdin
By Newsdesk
The United Nations Headquarters in New York hosted the International Mock Trial on Human Rights as part of the 2023 Holocaust Remembrance under the UN Outreach Programme on the Holocaust. In an imagined courtroom, 32 students between 15 and 22 years old, from ten countries, interrogate the so-called father of Nazi Racial Hygiene, ardent Nazi Ernst Rüdin (his person was presented by an actor). A psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, Rüdin was responsible for untold suffering and death during the 1930s and 40s. On trial was the right for those most vulnerable to be protected from harm; the responsibility of leadership;
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