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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 4 of 8:"Noch eine Karteikarte eines Schizophrene" (woman). Natural sound during occupational therapy. Nun encouraging young woman. VAR scenes of women and occupational tasks. CU of nun with moustache. 00:17:53 Greenhouse and surroundings. New plants, men working, MS transplanting to baskets. 00:18:43 Kitchen, cabbage, vats of soup. 00:19:41 Women in laundry, wooden tubs, hands working. 00:20:27 WS ironing. Sewing machine. Women at work; look quite normal; work at looms. Nun working alongside. Men in woodshop: sawing, sanding, building furniture, making mats. Women: weaving, spinning.
Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: occupational therapy at hospital