Fascist racial theory and health

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3273 | Film ID: 2501

Overview

Description: Roll 4: Closeup, head on, to camera. SS on sleeveband [see Protokoll for content]. Ein Symptom...Volk...Gefahr. Wir muessen immer zum Teil in der Grossstadt leben. Ein Lebenstil. Ich habe die groesste Angabe...der Partei...Partei und Stadt wird. Einheit. 01:25:10 VCU to camera [see Protokoll for quote in German, roughly translated]: 'A people (Volk) must be either hammer or anvil. The value of the blood determines the value of the race. The German Volk has demonstrated its worth. It must become the nucleus (kernel) of the Greater German Reich. Then we will succeed in providing the proof that indeed, the individual is mortal, and his life ends with death; but a people (Volk) can renew itself, better and stronger with each generation, to eternal life.'
Film Title: Reichsgesundheitsfuehrer Dr. Conti [Reich Health Leader Dr. Conti]
Duration: 00:04:46
Date: Event: 11/23/1941
Production: 1941
Locale: Berlin, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:21:01:00 to 01:25:47:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2501 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2501 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2501 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2501 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2501 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2501 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2501 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2501 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Conditions on Use: Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Keyword: ARMBANDS CONTI, LEONARDO DOCTORS GERMANS GERMANY NAZI OFFICIALS PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RACE RACIAL SCIENCE

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in January 2001 for possible use in the Museum's special exhibition "Deadly Medicine.".
Note: Filmed in Conti's Berlin office, Wilhelmstrasse 63, on November 23, 1941. Notes indicate Leonardo Conti was born August 24, 1900 in Lugano. Medical studies in Berlin and Erlangen. 1939-1945: Reich Health Leader. 1944: SS Obergruppenfuehrer. Defendant in the Nuremberg doctors' trial, Case 1. The Bundesarchiv "Protokoll" describes him as one of the defenders, or champions, of fascist racial theory.

German portions transcribed and translated by Raye Farr

See also Stories 3270, 3271, and 3272, Film ID 2501 for entire film.
Copied From: b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3217
Source Archive Number: VK 50651 / NP 04364 / SP 20816 / SN 08545/12428 R4
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive