![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. 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.
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