Sterilization; marriage health law

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3269 | Film ID: 2501

Overview

Description: Propaganda for sterilization (15m10s); "Kampf ums Dasein" [struggle for life] (2m12s); enactment of the marriage health law (4m30s); positive Nazi goals (1m50s).

Nazi racial propaganda film about mentally and physically disabled people and the danger and drain they are on the Aryan nation. This film (like "Erbkrank") shows footage of men, women and children who have been placed in hospitals, asylums, etc. There are CUs of sad, destroyed people. Footage of their behavior (i.e., a man standing in a field of daisies "whipping" the air with an imaginary whip, another man angrily beats his hand on a door). A doctor inspects the tiny, misshapen bodies of adults lying in cots. Another doctor talks to a couple of patients outside on a park bench. A pretty woman toys with her hair while talking to a doctor who is off-camera. The narrator identifies her as "eine junge Judin." She chats happily, laughs. Narrator: "...die selbst in der Krankheit ihrer Rasse erkennen laesst." Huge "parade" of old and mentally handicapped people file past the camera through an archway. End of film shows "proper" Aryan children, Nuremberg rallies, soldiers, etc.
Film Title: Opfer der Vergangenheit [Victims of the Past]
Duration: 00:25:05
Date: Production: 1937
Locale: Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Camera Operator: H.O. Schulz
Camera Operator: Alfons Pennarz

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 00:34:32:00 to 00:59:37:00
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: CHILDREN DOCTORS HOSPITALS JEWS MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RACIAL SCIENCE RALLIES (NAZI) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STERILIZATION WOMEN

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: Used in USHMM special exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race." (Video 7)

Other credits: Manuscript: Dr. R. Frercks; Music: Kurt Krueger; Spielleitung: Gernot Bock-Stieber. Actors: Kurt Muhlhardt, Trude Haefelin, Max Lohmann.
Censor Date: March 15, 1937. NSDAP Reichspropagandaleitung, Amstleitung Film, Berlin.
Reichsfilmarchiv reference available in departmental files.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3213
Source Archive Number: 46 (E.Nr.030605)
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive