Erbkrank (1935)
- Directed by
- Herbert Gerdes
- Genre
- documentary film, propaganda film
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This Nazi propaganda film aims to dehumanize people with mental illness and intellectual disabilities. It shows footage from psychiatric hospitals to build public support for a government euthanasia program.
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What happens
Erbkrank (English: Congenitally Diseased) 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 1935 to 1937 to demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental retardation. The goal was to gain public support for the T-4 Euthanasia Program then in preparation. This film, as the others, featured footage of patients in German psychiatric hospitals. Adolf Hitler reportedly enjoyed 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Friesennot (1935)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.