ID

FBW003524      Short documentary

Country / Year

Germany, 1936

Original Title

Erbkrank

Other Title(s)

The Hereditary Defective

Directed by

Herbert Gerdes

Produced by

NSDAP [Reichsleitung, Rassenpolitisches Amt], Berlin

Length

265 m / 23'15''

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 20 Feb 1936: Censor B 41464, B 53738

Remarks

1. Laut Zensurkarte durfte der Film nur in Begleitung eines mündlichen Vortrags gezeigt werden, wobei der Redner vom Rassenpolitischen Amt anerkannt sein mußte.

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

NS-Propaganda film for „Hereditary health“. In contrasting the bad living conditions of proletarian children with scenes of hospitals for mentally ill, the comment denunciates the “Jewish liberal ideas” that cares more for the “Unuseful” than for healthy members of the German nation. Intertitles say that the percentage of Jews among the mental ill was remarkably high.

Subject Terms

1930-1939; Nazi propaganda films; Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP

Holdings

- Bundesarchiv - Filmarchiv, Berlin: 255 m / 23'15''; 16mm

Bibliography

- , in: Völkischen Beobachter (Nürnberg), Nr. 127, 06.05.1936