Nazi Nurse, The (3-Day Rental)

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Kevin Hicks of The History Squad has been working in schools, colleges and historic sites for over seventeen years, leading dramatic and powerful presentations and workshops. Thoroughly researched, these historically accurate performances inspire and engage learners with commanding narrative and first-hand accounts of what life was like in the selected historical context; what it was like to live through and be directly involved with both key moments in history and every day.

With the aim of bringing to life key moments in history through dramatic performances, we offer a collection of 10- to 15-minute monologues of characters from history. The films provide learners with an opportunity to put their learning in context, helping them better understand complex issues, which can be seen in their subsequent work.

This film is a monologue performed by 'Greta Schmidt', a nurse living in Nazi Germany who is involved in the T4 euthanasia programme. While the film focuses on euthanasia and theories regarding eugenics, it also offers students an insight into why ordinary people were willing to follow the Nazis to such grotesque extremes, by explaining the background of poverty and desperation in Germany following the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression.

If using this film as an aid to revision, the film about the SS Major could be used in conjunction to offer students different perspectives and explanations regarding why people followed Hitler.

The film includes references to the following historical events and ideas:

• Compulsory membership to the Nazi party for civil servants
• The economic problems faced in Germany during the 1920s
• The rise of Hitler including rallies, his skills as an orator and the cult of the leader
• The Euthanasia Programme in Nazi Germany and the perceived 'problem' of the mentally ill being a costly burden on society
• Mein Kampf
• Eugenics and race theory

Running time: 7min 38sec (plus 1min 36sec interview)