"Incurably insane"

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3268 | Film ID: 2501

Overview

Description: A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"].

Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feebleminded]. "Irrsinning und blind" [insane and blind]. Various criminal categories, epileptic, "Lustmoerder" [rapist/murderer]. "Soll es so weiter gehen?" [Should this continue?] Symbol of the Rassenpolitische Amt incorporating horse's head and initials RA. "Darum fuehren wir die Sterilisation dieser..." [That's why we are conducting sterilization of these...] "Sonst geht unser herrliches Volk und seine Kultur zugrunde!" [Otherwise our splendid Volk and its culture will be destroyed!] ENDE. Rassenpolitische Amt der NSDAP.
Film Title: Erbkrank [Genetically Diseased (Impaired)]
Duration: 00:11:38
Date: Production: 1937
Locale: Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Producer: Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Poor
Time Code: 00:22:36:00 to 00:34:14:00
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

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Keyword: GERMANS GERMANY MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RACE RACIAL SCIENCE STERILIZATION

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: Portions of record were translated by Raye Farr.

See Story 3267, Film ID 2501 for Reel 1 of "Erbkrank". See also Film ID 3914. See also "Alles Leben ist Kampf" for a short version of "Erbkrank" (Story 3303, Film ID 2505A).
Copied From: 16mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3212
Source Archive Number: 1560 (SP 12817) R2
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive