Nazi propaganda film on eugenics

Identifier

irn1004798

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2013.22.1
RG-60.1541

Dates

1 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937

Level of Description

Item

Languages

Silent

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004798

Creator(s)

Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP (Producer)
James Gatti
Barbara Gatti

Scope and Content

Part of a Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Nazi Party's Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. 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.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Note(s)

"Erbkrank," 2 reels, appears on Film ID 2501, Story 3267 and 3268, and in Story 600. See Story 3269, Film ID 2501 for a similar film.

Subjects

RACIAL SCIENCE
GERMANY
USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
MENTALLY ILL
EUGENICS
PROPAGANDA (NAZI)

Places

, Germany

Genre

Propaganda.
Film

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