Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: hospital care

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3276 | Film ID: 2502A

Overview

Description: Reel 3 of 8: INT clinic. Sound of moaning and irrational impulses. Nurse gives injection in bare buttocks. Caring for men in beds like tubs, padded, high sides. Feeding through nose tube. Tube inserted. Funnel, hands of nurses, etc. Various of hands, needles, striped aprons. (Sounds in BG) Woman has injection in arm; attendants. No faces of medical personnel are seen; only faces of patients. 00:14:17 Electric shock therapy given to man with moustache. Seen before and during; cloth in mouth. Arms moving. Aftermath; eyes rolling. 00:15:20 Midday meal. Nurses seen in MS, feeding. Metal bowls. 00:15:36 Patients eating in bed, feeding themselves. 00:15:52 CS of man reading magazine, seems normal. Identification papers with three photographs, birth date, etc. (i.e. schizophrenic, 1939)
Film Title: Dasein ohne Leben [Existence Without Life]
Duration: 00:05:31
Date: Production: 1941?
Locale: Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 00:11:06:00 to 00:16:37:00
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: EATING MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL MENTALLY ILL NURSES PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (NAZI) 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: 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: 3220
Source Archive Number: 20555 (BSP 22134) R3
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive