Overview
- Description
- Film produced by Nazi Party. 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.
- Film Title
-
Erbkrank [Hereditarily Diseased]
- Duration
- 00:24:19
- Date
-
Event:
1937
Production:
- Locale
-
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:01:00 to 01:24:20:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 300 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 300 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 300 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 300 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 300 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 300 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 300 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 300 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 1992. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Learning Center.
- Note
- "Erbkrank," 2 reels, appears on Film ID 2501, Story 3267 and 3268, and partially on Film ID 3914
See Story 3269, Film ID 2501 for a similar film. - Copied From
- 16mm DNS (I)
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1035
Source Archive Number: 243.3 R1+2 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:41
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