The Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (English: Reich Institute for Film and Images in Science and the Classroom), before 1940 known as the Reichsstelle für den Unterrichtsfilm (English: Reich Office for Teaching Films) was a branch of the

Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture The Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture (german: , also unofficially known as the "Reich Education Ministry" (german: ), or "REM") existed from 1934 until 1945 under the leadership of Bernhard Rust and was responsible for unifying t ...

which was charged with the creation of educational films in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. The office was founded on June 26, 1934, and was headed by Kurt Gauger, a member of the Nazi SA and the

Volkssturm The (; "people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was not set up by the German Army, the ground component of the combined German ''Wehrmacht'' armed forces, ...

. By 1944 the Reichsanstalt had produced some 900 films; over 270 of them were for schools, the rest were for research and teaching purposes at universities. A total of more than half a million film copies were delivered. How many of these films were actually used is unclear. The office also served as a lender for teaching media such as films and light pictures as well as for demonstration devices. In 1943, there were 36 provincial authorities and 1243 administrative centers in the occupied territories. It also edited a series of media pedagogical writings and from 1935 to 1943 also the magazine ''Film und Bild in Wissenschaft, Bildung und Volksbildung''. On Feb. 6, 1935 a "Abteilung Hochschule" - university division - was established within the Reichsstelle, and in 1936 it absorbed the Deutsche Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Filme. In December 1945, the Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (FWU) was founded as a successor organization immediately after the capture of the inventory by US soldiers. The division into district areas was maintained.

u. a. (Hrsg.): ''Schaffendes Schulvolk. Die Tiefenseer Schulschriften''. Beltz, Weinheim u. a. 1993, ). * Michael Kühn: ''Unterrichtsfilm im Nationalsozialismus. Die Arbeit der Reichsstelle für den Unterrichtsfilm / Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht''. Septem Artes, Mammendorf/Obb. 1998, , (Zugleich: München, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Diss., 1997), (faktenreiche, aber etwas undistanzierte Arbeit). * Malte Ewert: ''Die Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. (1934 - 1945)''. Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 1998, , (''Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft'' 15). * Malte Ewert (Hrsg.): ''Neue Dokumente zur Geschichte der Schulfilmbewegung in Deutschland''. Band 2: ''Die Rundschreiben der Reichsstelle für den Unterrichtsfilm (RfdU) und späteren Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (RWU)''. 2 Teile. Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2003, , (''Studien zur Zeitgeschichte'' 35)
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einer Reihe von der RWU produzierter und vertriebener wissenschaftlicher Filme und zugehöriger Publikationen im

Virtual Laboratory The online project Virtual Laboratory. Essays and Resources on the Experimentalization of Life, 1830-1930, located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, is dedicated to research in the history of the experimentalization of life. T ...

des Max-Planck-Instituts für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Malte Ewert (Hg.): Neue Dokumente zur Geschichte der Schulfilmbewegung in Deutschland II
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