"Incurably insane"
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
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Erbkrank [Genetically Diseased (Impaired)]
- Duration
- 00:11:38
- Date
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Production:
1937
- Locale
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Germany
- Language
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Silent
- Genre/Form
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Propaganda.
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
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