Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: various shots of individuals

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3275 | Film ID: 2502A

Overview

Description: Reel 2 of 8: Two women together, toothless smiles and laughter; one is older. Man descends stairs on all fours, to camera, CU. 00:06:15 CU man, gray-haired. Another, in jacket and sweater, all outside. 00:06:44 CU, Man, twitching; good looking. 00:07:03 CU, feet dragging. 00:07:14 WS of women in grassy area, one spitting out food. Various movements. 00:07:50 Woman, pretty eyes, sweet. 00:08:09 woman on bench in hopsacking, knees up. 00:08:22 Four men, on bench, pan right to more. Two men walking on sloped path. Various men, CU, not extreme. 00:09:20 Pan, group of men, including young men. CU of deformed feet; pan up to face of man. Various views. Barred windows in background. Man looks at hands, fingers. Various, to end.
Film Title: Dasein ohne Leben [Existence Without Life]
Duration: 00:06:04
Date: Production: 1941?
Locale: Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 00:05:02:00 to 00:11:06:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2502 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2502 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2502 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2502 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2502A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2502A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2502A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2502A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Keyword: MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RACIAL SCIENCE 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: See Stories 3274 through 3281 on Film ID 2502A for entire film "Dasein ohne Leben."

See Michael Burleigh, "Death & Deliverance," pp.197-200. Says film was probably completed during 1941, "as it was shown, along with the raw material [Hermann] Schweninger had shot, grouped now along rough thematic lines, to a select audience on 10 May 1942." Reports that the film has vanished, but he discovered 8 "of the 23 rolls Schweninger shot for these films, complete with soundtracks,... in 1989-1990... in Potsdam."
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3219
Source Archive Number: 20555 (BSP 22134) R2
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive