![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. 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.
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