Conditions of Use and/or Copyright updated. Correspondence from Bundesarchiv in May 2023, initially sent to Leslie Swift states: no rights claimed anymore by Bundesarchiv, but we don't know who the rights holders might be
See Stories 3274 through 3281 on Film ID 2502A for entire film"Dasein ohne Leben" See Michael Burleigh,"Death & Deliverance" pp.197-200. Says film was probably completed during 1941,"as it was shown, along with the raw material [Hermann] Schweninger had shot, grouped now along rough thematic lines, to a select audience on 10 May 1942" Reports that the film has vanished, but he discovered 8"of the 23 rolls Schweninger shot for these films, complete with soundtracks,... in 1989-1990... in Potsdam"
Reel 3 of 8: INT clinic. Sound of moaning and irrational impulses. Nurse gives injection in bare buttocks. Caring for men in beds like tubs, padded, high sides. Feeding through nose tube. Tube inserted. Funnel, hands of nurses, etc. Various of hands, needles, striped aprons. (Sounds in BG) Woman has injection in arm; attendants. No faces of medical personnel are seen; only faces of patients. 00:14:17 Electric shock therapy given to man with moustache. Seen before and during; cloth in mouth. Arms moving. Aftermath; eyes rolling. 00:15:20 Midday meal. Nurses seen in MS, feeding. Metal bowls. 00:15:36 Patients eating in bed, feeding themselves. 00:15:52 CS of man reading magazine, seems normal. Identification papers with three photographs, birth date, etc. (i.e. schizophrenic, 1939)
Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: hospital care