Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: people with extreme deformities

Identifier
irn1002466
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.359.1
  • RG-60.3279
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

Reel 6 of 8: Toddler without legs or arms, unclothed, close views in bed. Stumps. Disfigured face of child, CU. Man with elephantitis in one leg. Very crooked body in bed. VAR extreme deformities. Female dwarf; crying young person, CU. 00:36:56 Lit for effect, menacing, tough man. VAR CUs for dramatic effect. VCU: sticking out tongue, etc.

Note(s)

  • See Stories 3274 through 3281 on Film ID 2502A for entire film "Dasein ohne Leben." See Michael Burleigh, "Death & Deliverance," pp.197-200. Says film was probably completed during 1941, "as it was shown, along with the raw material [Hermann] Schweninger had shot, grouped now along rough thematic lines, to a select audience on 10 May 1942." Reports that the film has vanished, but he discovered 8 "of the 23 rolls Schweninger shot for these films, complete with soundtracks,... in 1989-1990... in Potsdam."

  • Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: no rights claimed anymore by Bundesarchiv, but we don't know who the rights holders might be

Subjects

  • RACIAL SCIENCE
  • PROPAGANDA
  • MENTALLY ILL
  • PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

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