Some of the cast and crew of this film would later face accusations of Crimes Against Humanity at Nuremberg Trials for contributing to the Nazi Action T-4 euthanasia program.
On November 29th of 1941, the Vatican newspaper referred to the film, which had been presented two months earlier at the Venice Film Festival, in its reminder that the practice of euthanasia was a mortal sin for Catholic believers.
More than 50,000 people died under this programme, that was heavily disguised by titling them as "The Charitable Foundation For The Transportation of the Sick" and "Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care".
With the authorisation and go-ahead of Adolf Hitler Messer's "Karl Brandt and [Chancellery chief] Philipp Bouhler (11th September 1899 - 19th May 1945) are hereby instructed to extend the authority of physicians designated by name in such a manner that those who are, as far as humanly possible to judge, incurably sick may, after the most scrupulous assessment of their state of health, be granted a merciful death."
"Ich klage an" was passed by the Censor on the 15th of August 1941.
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