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Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Hardcover

Series: Film Europa, Book 28

Film StudiesGerman HistoryHolocaust

ISBN10: 1805394797
ISBN13: 9781805394792
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Apr 1 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread incurable diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population.

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