Overview
- Description
- Nazi instructional (propaganda) film about measures to contain typhus, indicating the Polish-Jewish population is responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347].
Reel 1: Narration/voiceover, maps of Poland, Russia, incl. Bialystok, Lublin, Warsaw, Łódź, Pinsk. 00:34:54 Jews, seen closeup, with and without clothes. Ghetto scenes. Crowd on rail platform, threatening German soldiers, etc. Farm, thatch, geese. 00:35:54 INT, dwelling with filthy conditions, Jewish. Woman in bed, with child. Cartoon portrayal: KRANKE LAUS. An infected louse, goes onto innocent visitor to sick man on straw; scratching spreads the eggs into blood system. Graph - increasing sickness - EXANTHEM. Healthy louse (animation again) bites and picks up from the man's blood the threatening organism. CU of skin with dark spots (flecks). Foot with flecks. Tongue. Hand groping in bedclothes. Headache. Very sick man demonstrated for camera; leg stiff. Sores on toes. Limp arm. Female scientist testing, tubes, processing. - Film Title
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Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus]
- Duration
- 00:08:30
- Date
-
Production:
1942
- Locale
-
Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Łódź [Litzmannstadt], Poland
Krakow, Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
-
Director:
Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie
Producer: Heeresfilmstelle [Army Film Unit]
Camera Operator: Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:33:33:00 to 00:42:03:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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Administrative Notes
- 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
- Bundesarchiv shot list gives sequence of precise locations of scenes: Warsaw, Lodz, Kasimiersz (Krakow), Kaluszin, Kazimiersz (Krakow), Town Hall, Lublin?
See Stories 3298, 3299, 3300, Film ID 2504A for entire film "Kampf dem Fleckfieber." - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3241
Source Archive Number: 14552 (E.Nr.158858 / B 57368 / VK 14552) R1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:51:40
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