Alles Leben ist Kampf (1937)
- Directed by
- Herbert Gerdes
- Genre
- silent film, propaganda film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 27 min
- 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 uses footage and narration to argue for forced sterilization of disabled people and encourage healthy Germans to have more children. It presents disabled people as a threat to the nation's future under the 1933 eugenics law.
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What happens
Alles Leben ist Kampf (English: All Life is Struggle) is a Nazi propaganda film produced in 1937, directed by Herbert Gerdes, and Werner Hüttig. This film is about disabled people and the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, passed to stop disabilities affecting subsequent generations through forced sterilization. At the same time, it called for hereditarily healthy Germans to reproduce so as to prevent their people from becoming extinct. It was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the NSDAP, the Reichsleitung, Rassenpolitisches Amt or the Office of Racial Policy from 1935–1937 to demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental retardation. This movie is along the same lines as Erbkrank (1936) which was similarly directed by Herbert Gerdes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Patriots (1937)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.