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 propaganda film about the measures to contain typhus. The Polish-Jewish population is made responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 3: Scientists at work, seeking inoculation vaccine. Animation. Scientists.
Note(s)
Bundesarchiv shot list gives sequence of precise locations of scenes: Warsaw, Lodz, Kasimiersz (Krakow), Kaluszin, Kazimiersz (Krakow), Town Hall, Lublin? See Stories 3297, 3298, 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
- POLAND
- HYGIENE
- TYPHUS
- LICE
- DISEASES
- PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
- SCIENCE
- ANTISEMITISM
- JEWS
- POLES
- SCIENTISTS
- PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
- MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- PROPAGANDA
Places
- , Poland
Genre
- Propaganda.
- Film
Copies
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