Erbkrank
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Erbkrank (English title: The Hereditary Defective) is a 1936 Nazi propaganda film.
Directed by Herbert Gerdes, it was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the NS-Rasse und Politisches Amt between 1935 and 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 the works. This film, as the others, was made with actual footage of patients in German psychiatric hospitals.
Prior to World War II, the film was distributed in America through the Pioneer Fund.
[edit] See also :
- Opfer der Vergangenheit
- Euthanasia
- List of films made in the Third Reich
- National socialist film policy
[edit] External links
- Erbkrank via cine-holocaust
- Erbkrank at the Internet Movie Database
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