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Erbkranker Nachwuchs – Vintage Print

Erbkranker Nachwuchs, 1935 — historic print
Erbkranker Nachwuchs, 1935. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Titled "Erbkranker Nachwuchs" ("Hereditarily Diseased Offspring"), this 1935 image is a reproduction of photographs taken from an album made for the Berlin exhibition "Das Wunder des Lebens." The show appeared shortly after Nazi Germany's 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which led to the forced sterilization of roughly 400,000 people. The record names no individuals, so the picture presents its subjects as examples of a supposed hereditary category rather than as known persons, and it is best read as a record of state-backed racial hygiene propaganda.

Created / published1935
Medium1 photomechanical print(?)
NotesReproduction of photographs. In album: Ausstellung Das Wunder des Lebens" Berlin 1935
SubjectsBirth defects--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162531

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