{"id":8339,"date":"2016-01-08T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2016-06-16T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:35:21","slug":"the-english-disease-the-health-education-film-as-nazi-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/01\/08\/the-english-disease-the-health-education-film-as-nazi-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Disease: The Health Education Film as Nazi Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael Sappol<\/em><\/p>\n

Deformed unfortunates trudge back and forth, in a darkly-lit procession, over a map of Great Britain as the soundtrack sounds anxious notes of alarm. That extravagantly horrific scene introduces the Die englische Krankheit<\/a> <\/em>(The English Disease<\/em>), a 13-minute black-and-white health education film, produced during wartime, under the supervision of Nazi authorities, by Universum Film AG (\u201cUFA\u201d), the largest German film studio of the time. After a censorship board approved it as suitable for adults and children, it premiered in Berlin in April of 1941.<\/p>\n