Erbkrank
| Erbkrank | |
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 Title card | |
| Directed by | Herbert Gerdes |
| Distributed by | NS-Rasse und Politisches Amt |
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Running time | 21 minutes, 19 seconds |
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Language | German |
Erbkrank(English:Hereditary Disease) is a 1936Nazi propagandafilmdirected byHerbert Gerdes.
Erbkrankwas one of six propagandistic movies produced by theNS-Rasse und Politisches Amt(National Socialist Racial and Political Office), from 1935 to 1937 to demonize people inGermanydiagnosed withmental illnessandmental retardation.The goal was to gain public support for theT-4 Euthanasia Programthen in preparation. This film, as the others, featured footage of patients in Germanpsychiatric hospitals.
Adolf Hitlerreportedly liked the film so much that he encouraged the production of the full-length filmVictims of the Past: The Sin against Blood and Race.In 1937,Erbkrankwas reportedly showing in nearly all Berlin film theaters.[1]
Prior toWorld War II,the film was distributed in America through thePioneer Fund.[2]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^Proctor, Robert N. (1988).Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p.358.ISBN978-0-674-74578-0.
- ^Saini, Angela (2019).Superior: The Return of Race Science.Beacon Press. p. 64.ISBN9780807076910.
See also
[edit]- Alles Leben ist Kampf
- Das Erbe
- Opfer der Vergangenheit
- Life unworthy of life
- Euthanasia
- List of German films 1933–1945
- Nazism and cinema
External links
[edit]- ErbkrankatIMDb
- Erbkrankvia cine-holocaust
- ErbkrankviaInternet Archive
- Online copy of the filmhosted by theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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