Genetic disease, eugenics

Identifier
irn1000541
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.252.1
  • RG-60.0600
Dates
1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Producer)

Scope and Content

Film produced by Nazi Party. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard conditions.

Note(s)

  • "Erbkrank," 2 reels, appears on Film ID 2501, Story 3267 and 3268, and partially on Film ID 3914 See Story 3269, Film ID 2501 for a similar film.

Subjects

  • EUGENICS
  • RACIAL SCIENCE
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • GERMANY
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

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