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Herbert Gerdes

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This "educational" film deals directly with the subject of the mentally ill and the institutionalized. It does not speak in the language of hate or discrimination: on the contrary - it is logically and scientifically presented with chilling dispassion. The "emotional" aspects of the narration appeal to the overall good and needs of society versus the care for and support of "lesser" individuals. It is an insidious film. The message is subtle and the conclusive decisions society needs to make are obvious. The narration becomes especially chilling and powerful when, in hindsight, we know all too well how far the message became reality and that the overwhelming majority of those we see on the screen were eventually subjected to "mercy killing". The comparison in costs to society to care for these people is no less offensive than the statement in the film that, "the farmer, by controlling the overgrowth of weeds, preserves what is most valuable." When the film asks, near its end, "Are we to burden future generations with this inheritance?", you understand clearly what this film was preparing its viewers for, if you, or they, couldn't figure it out up to that point. (fonte: rarefilmsandmore)… (més)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | May 11, 2021 |
Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s Ich klage an (I Accuse) is a lyrical treatment of a controversial topic—mercy killing—featuring sensitive performances by Paul Hartmann as the physician who administers a fatal overdose to his incurably ill wife; Heidemarie Hatheyer as the wife who begs him to release her from her suffering; and Mathias Wieman as the doctor who refuses her request. Gentle, loving, moving, the picture promotes assisted suicide, a quagmire as conflicted in the twenty-first century as it was in 1941. The genesis of the film came from a recommendation by Professor Karl Brandt, a member of the Führer’s entourage, that a picture be produced to persuade the public to accept the policy of euthanasia. The film’s virtually subliminal message is that the state must assume responsibility for the involuntary liquidation of the mentally handicapped. For decades thereafter, German physicians remembered its impact and the debates it stimulated about the morality of medical killing. Reports made by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS Security Service or SD) following the picture’s release on 29 August 1941 indicate that the film was favorably received, the majority of Germans, as well as most physicians, accepting its argument. Starting in 1939, victims were registered at Hereditary Health Courts, examined, and then transported to specially selected clinics where their lives were terminated. Does Ich klage an possess demonic qualities? It does not. It is a respectable, artistic triumph that was used to promote a program that went far beyond anything proposed in the picture. Its director later called it “a document of humanity in an inhuman time.” Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner; music by Norbert Schultze; featuring Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, and Mathias Wieman. (fonte: IHF)… (més)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | May 6, 2020 |
Film di Propaganda Nazista in favore dell'Eutanasia dei portatori di Handicap e Tare Ereditarie . Il filmato in particolare mostra una serie di problemi relativi ai costi delle strutture per accogliere e curare questi malati e "quante case per Tedeschi sani" si potrebbero invece costruire con quei soldi . Del filmato resta solo una copia Muta , senza audio .
 
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MemorialSardoShoahDL | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 17, 2017 |

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