Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: children and women with severe disabilities

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3278 | Film ID: 2502A

Overview

Description: Reel 5 of 8: Children in beds; sounds of crying, though many are very still. CU of child who appears mildly retarded. VAR close views. 00:24:24 360-degree turning shot, close, child with very enlarged skull and bulging eyes, nurse holding. Room of severely handicapped children; extreme and more dramatic than previously. 00:26:02 Man in restraint, school desk-like, with mittens. Close views of deformed feet; individuals with erratic movements. Children with twisted limbs. Boy in bed, with legs in X shape. 00:28:17 Women at wooden benches and tables. Quite severe forms of disabilities and behavior. WS of room and CUs. Woman picking nose. One looking out window to beautiful scene. Woman on floor; one laughing. Some very touching. One in corner praying; one angry and gesturing. Some fighting. Quiet group, pan.
Film Title: Dasein ohne Leben [Existence Without Life]
Duration: 00:09:09
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: 00:23:16:00 to 00:32:25:00
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: CHILDREN 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: 3222
Source Archive Number: 20555 (BSP 22134) R5
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive