Typhus - Propaganda associating Jews & Poles with the disease and its spread by lice

Identifier
irn1002486
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.359.1
  • RG-60.3299
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Heeresfilmstelle [Army Film Unit] (Producer)
  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
  • Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie (Director)
  • Forschungsgruppe der Militaeraerztlichen Akademie (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

Nazi propaganda film about the measures to contain typhus. The Polish-Jewish population is made responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 3: Scientists at work, seeking inoculation vaccine. Animation. Scientists.

Note(s)

  • Bundesarchiv shot list gives sequence of precise locations of scenes: Warsaw, Lodz, Kasimiersz (Krakow), Kaluszin, Kazimiersz (Krakow), Town Hall, Lublin? See Stories 3297, 3298, 3300, Film ID 2504A for entire film "Kampf dem Fleckfieber."

  • Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: Public Domain. However, since copyright law may differ between the U.S. and Germany, Use statement U3 is being applied.

Subjects

  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • SCIENCE
  • JEWS
  • ANTISEMITISM
  • POLAND
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
  • TYPHUS
  • HYGIENE
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • LICE
  • POLES
  • PROPAGANDA
  • DISEASES
  • SCIENTISTS

Places

  • , Poland

Genre

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