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Typhus - Propaganda associating Jews & Poles with the disease and its spread by lice

Film | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3300 | Film ID: 2504A

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 4: Scientists at work, seeking inoculation vaccine. Experiments. Institute scenes (approx 9 mins.). Stamp: "Official" on document regarding experiments. Sign: INSTITUT FUER FLECKFIEBER FORSCHUNG des OBERKOMMANDOS DES HEERES KRAKAU [Typhus Research Institute of the Army High Command, Krakow].

Film Title
Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus]
Duration
00:13:01
Locale
Krakow, Poland
Language
German
Genre/Form
Propaganda.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv
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About This Film

Production Date
1942
Contributor
Director: Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie
Producer: Heeresfilmstelle [Army Film Unit]
Camera Operator: Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Fair
Time Code
00:53:26:00 to 01:06:27:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

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, 3298, 3299, Film ID 2504A for entire film "Kampf dem Fleckfieber."
Copied From
35mm; b/w
Film Source
Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number
Legacy Database File: 3244
Source Archive Number: 14552 (E.Nr.158858 / B 57368 / VK 14552) R4

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Transit Film
Conditions on Use
Contact footage@transitfilm.de to license this film footage.
 
Record last modified: 2018-11-27 11:00:47
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