Propaganda film on eugenics/Nazi racial science

Identifier
irn1001219
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0215
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Gustav Weiss (Producer)
  • Anton Kutter (Director)
  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

Opening title sequence with production company, credits. Propaganda on genetic analysis. Family visits the doctor, who records their hair color, eye color, skull size with the appropriate equipment. (Some of these devices are artifacts displayed at the USHMM.) Family in waiting room. Doctor measuring skull size of man, woman, and their son, using calipers. Doctor checks hair coloring of mother against his hair color-spectrum samples; same process with eye color of mother, child.

Note(s)

  • Actors: Anni Markert, Fritz Reif, Walter Holten, Karl Schaidler; Consultant: Dr. Heinz Graupner More complete film can be found on Film ID 2502B, stories 3283 and 3284, ordered for Racial Science exhibit.

Subjects

  • DOCTORS
  • PROPAGANDA
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • NURSES
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • RACE
  • CHILDREN
  • BABIES
  • TOOLS
  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • RACIAL SCIENCE
  • FAMILIES
  • HUMAN HAIR
  • EUGENICS

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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