![This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film01]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2ee91faf-6a84-49b4-88a1-7a2f7ffed943.jpg "This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film01]")
This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It shows two doctors in a ward in an unidentified asylum. The existence of the patients in the ward is described as "life only as a burden." Such propaganda images were intended to develop public sympathy for the Euthanasia Program.
Item View![This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film02]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/57eb0e55-f2c8-4411-8350-a2c98716932c.jpg "This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film02]")
This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It shows patients in an unidentified asylum. Their existence is described as "life without hope." The Nazis sought, through propaganda, to develop public sympathy for the Euthanasia Program.
Item View![This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film09]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fba7d077-2fec-4ed1-919e-faf5fa9dfc99.jpg "This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film09]")
This image originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It is captioned: "A moral and religious conception of life demands the prevention of hereditarily ill offspring." Nazi propaganda aimed to create public support for the compulsory sterilization effort.
Item View![Slide taken from a Nazi propaganda filmstrip, promoting "euthanasia," prepared for the Hitler Youth. [LCID: film07]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/36398da0-6083-4f07-a805-f04701486a93.jpg "Slide taken from a Nazi propaganda filmstrip, promoting \"euthanasia,\" prepared for the Hitler Youth. [LCID: film07]")
Slide to indoctrinate youth taken from a Nazi propaganda filmstrip. Promoting "euthanasia," it was prepared for the Hitler Youth. The caption says: "Mentally ill Negro (English) 16 years in an institution costing 35,000 RM [Reichsmarks]." Place and date uncertain.
Item View![Photograph with the caption: "...because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce." [LCID: film08]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8bf96763-ffda-4512-8146-889bb68f19dc.jpg "Photograph with the caption: \"...because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.\" [LCID: film08]")
Photograph with the caption: "...because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce." This image originates from a film, produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry, that aimed through propaganda to develop public sympathy for the Nazi Euthanasia Program.
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