Misjudged People
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Verkannte Menschen Misjudged People | |
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Directed by | Wilhelm Ballier |
Written by | Wilhelm Ballier |
Produced by | Alfred Kell |
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Running time | 60 minutes (est.) |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Misjudged People (German: Verkannte Menschen) is a 1932 German documentary film that features the German deaf community. It was produced by the
Synopsis
The documentary has two parts, with the first part focused on education and the second on deaf people as actively contributing German citizens.[1]
Production
The organization Reich Union of the Deaf of Germany (Reichsverband der Gehörlosen Deutschlands,
Release
The film was released in 1932,[2][3] but the Nazis did not want the positive perception promoted,[4] so Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda, banned it in 1934.[1][5]
Reception
Carol Poore, writing in Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture, said that Misjudged People "is an important document about the German deaf community" in the Weimar Republic's last years.[1]
The Encyclopedia of Disability said that Misjudged People was an example of Deaf Europeans trying "to counter popular impressions of deaf people as inferior" by instead representing themselves "to hearing society as healthy, vigorous, and thoroughly modern individuals".[6]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-472-11595-2.
- ^ "Verkannte Menschen (Dokumentarfilm)". murnau-stiftung.de (in German). Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-56368-126-4.
- ^ Wasserkampf, Fridolin; Schar, Lothar (April 2007). "Gehörlose im Dritten Reich" (PDF). Deutsche Gehörlosen-Zeitung (in German): 99–104. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-19-532066-4.
- ISBN 978-1-4522-6520-9.
External links
- Verkannte Menschen filmportal.de
- Gehörlose in der NS-Zeit (in German) Deutscher Gehörlosen-Bund 2013
- Verkannte Menschen (in German) Landesverband der Gehörlosen Hessen 2009
- Misjudged People at IMDb