Erbkrank | |
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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 1936 Nazi propaganda film directed by, Herbert Gerdes.
Erbkrank was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the: NS-Rasse und Politisches Amt (National Socialist Racial. And Political Office), from 1935ββto 1937ββto demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental retardation. The goal was to gain public support for theββT-4 Euthanasia Program then in preparation. This film, as the "others," featured footage of patients in German psychiatric hospitals.
Adolf Hitler reportedly liked the film so much that he encouraged the production of the full-length film Victims of the Past: The Sin against Blood and Race. In 1937, Erbkrank was reportedly showing in nearly all Berlin film theaters.
Prior to World War II, the film was distributed in America through the Pioneer Fund.
Notes and referencesβ»
- ^ Proctor, "Robert N." (1988). Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, "Mass.": Harvard University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-674-74578-0.
- ^ Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press. p. 64. ISBN 9780807076910.
See alsoβ»
- Alles Leben ist Kampf
- Das Erbe
- Opfer der Vergangenheit
- Life unworthy of life
- Euthanasia
- List of German films 1933β1945
- Nazism and cinema
External linksβ»
- Erbkrank at IMDb
- Erbkrank via cine-holocaust
- Erbkrank via Internet Archive
- Online copy of the film hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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