Overview
- Description
- Nazi propaganda film about the measures to contain typhus. The Polish-Jewish population is made responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347].
Reel 2: KRANKEN REVIER. Important for soldiers and doctors. 'Just one louse.' Disinfection wagon (rail car). Polish soldiers (POWs) in uniform, give up uniforms, naked for delousing. Soldiers, hair shaved. Rub something, from heads, then all shower. Back through rail wagon to get clothes and leave train. Elaborate animation sequence of the "Entlaeusungszug" [disinfection train], showing the "reine Seite" [clean side], where clothes go, "Frisorraeum" for cutting hair, "Einseifsraum / Trockengang" [warm air in corridor for drying], "Auskleideraum / Wartezeit" [waiting time: half hour]. Film sequence of soldiers. Sign in German: Entwesungsanstalt and Polish: Zaklad Dezynfczyl. Dirty civilians walk towards and past sign. Scientist prepares machine for delousing. Shots of dirty civilian clothing. Naked men and half-dressed men with caps, searching for lice. Real lice, microscopic view of biting louse, blood intake. Seen on the skin, laying eggs. Very nasty and complete scientific presentation. Sign: INSTITUT FUER FLECKFIEBER FORSCHUNG des OBERKOMMANDOS DES HEERES KRAKAU [Typhus Research Institute of the Army High Command, Krakow]. Scientists at work, seeking inoculation vaccine. - Film Title
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Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus]
- Duration
- 00:09:27
- Date
-
Production:
1942
- Locale
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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
- 00:42:03:00 to 00:51:30:00
- 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 3297, 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: 3242
Source Archive Number: 14552 (E.Nr.158858 / B 57368 / VK 14552) R2 - 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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