Typhus - Propaganda associating Jews & Poles with the disease and its spread by lice
Creator(s)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie (Camera Operator)
- Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie (Director)
- Heeresfilmstelle [Army Film Unit] (Producer)
Scope and Content
Nazi instructional (propaganda) film about measures to contain typhus, indicating the Polish-Jewish population is responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 1: Narration/voiceover, maps of Poland, Russia, incl. Bialystok, Lublin, Warsaw, Łódź, Pinsk. 00:34:54 Jews, seen closeup, with and without clothes. Ghetto scenes. Crowd on rail platform, threatening German soldiers, etc. Farm, thatch, geese. 00:35:54 INT, dwelling with filthy conditions, Jewish. Woman in bed, with child. Cartoon portrayal: KRANKE LAUS. An infected louse, goes onto innocent visitor to sick man on straw; scratching spreads the eggs into blood system. Graph - increasing sickness - EXANTHEM. Healthy louse (animation again) bites and picks up from the man's blood the threatening organism. CU of skin with dark spots (flecks). Foot with flecks. Tongue. Hand groping in bedclothes. Headache. Very sick man demonstrated for camera; leg stiff. Sores on toes. Limp arm. Female scientist testing, tubes, processing.
Note(s)
Bundesarchiv shot list gives sequence of precise locations of scenes: Warsaw, Lodz, Kasimiersz (Krakow), Kaluszin, Kazimiersz (Krakow), Town Hall, Lublin? See Stories 3298, 3299, 3300, Film ID 2504A for entire film "Kampf dem Fleckfieber."
Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: Public Domain. However, since copyright law may differ between the U.S. and Germany, Use statement U3 is being applied.
Subjects
- LICE
- ANTISEMITISM
- POLAND
- WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY)
- TYPHUS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- HYGIENE
- SCIENCE
- SCIENTISTS
- PROPAGANDA
- JEWS
- MAPS
- DISEASES
- MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
- PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
- GHETTOS
- POLES
Places
- Krakow, Poland
- Łódź [Litzmannstadt], Poland
- , Poland
- Warsaw, Poland
Genre
- Film
- Propaganda.
Copies
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