A new traveling exhibit at the University of Maryland Baltimore campus focuses on the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler's deadly plan to create his master race.

Officials said while it's an exhibit that chronicles a point in time that's hard to look back on, it's also important to remember.

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The exhibit is on loan from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and is called Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. It starts with the history of eugenics, which is the process of sterilizing or eliminating people who are deemed undesirable.

"It really explores from the very beginning the idea of eugenics and how Hitler copied that idea to make it something that would allow him to lead to the extermination of Jews, gypsies and homosexuals," said M.J. Tooey, the executive director of the UMB Health Sciences and Human Services Library.

Tooey said Hilter started using eugenics to create his ideal of the master race in the early 1930s, before the concentration camps were created and even before World War II began.

"When eugenics was just a theory and a science, Hitler set out through the Nazis to identify people who were mentally unfit or who were homosexual. Eventually, he extended to the Jews, and he actually started exterminating these people prior to what we think of in the concentration camps," Tooey said.

Staff at the UMd. Baltimore location thought it was important to bring the exhibit to the library because it explores the role of science and medical professionals.

"It definitely looked at the science of eugenics and how doctors and physicians and researchers were involved in validating this awful thing," Tooey said.

The hope is for people to see it and learn from past mistakes so history never repeats itself.

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UMd. exhibit explores eugenics during Holocaust