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Fascist racial theory and health

Film | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3270 | Film ID: 2501

Film Title: Reichsgesundheitsfuehrer Dr. Conti [Reich Health Leader Dr. Conti]
Genre: Propaganda
Duration: 00:04:36
Event Date: 11/23/1941
Locale: Berlin, Germany
Language: German
Credit: Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv

Production Date: 1941
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 00:59:52:00 to 01:04:28:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2501 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2501 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Keyword: CONTI, LEONARDO
DOCTORS
GERMANS
GERMANY
MAPS
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 3271, 3272, and 3273, Film ID 2501 for entire film.
Copied From: b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3214
Source Archive Number: VK 50651 / NP 04364 / SP 20816 / SN 08545/12428 R1
Copyright: Copyright. Transit Film
Conditions on Use: Contact footage@transitfilm.de to license this film footage.
: Record last modified: 2018-04-26 13:45:00
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1002457

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