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“After Mein Kampf?” (1940) is a British propaganda documentary created during World War II. It was produced by the Ministry of Information to expose the dangers of Nazi ideology and the consequences of Hitler’s rise to power. The film uses real footage and dramatic narration to illustrate the Nazi regime’s aggression across Europe and warn against fascism.
🎬 Director: Norman Lee
🎭 Narrator: Quentin Reynolds (English version)
📅 Year: 1940
🌍 Language: English
🎞️ Color: Black and White
⏱️ Runtime: Approx. 18 minutes
✅ Public Domain: Yes
📽️ Source: Available on archive.org
This historic documentary serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of resisting totalitarianism and preserving democratic values.
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Watch daily updated classics from our curated international film archive.
“After Mein Kampf?” (1940) is a British propaganda documentary created during World War II. It was produced by the Ministry of Information to expose the dangers of Nazi ideology and the consequences of Hitler’s rise to power. The film uses real footage and dramatic narration to illustrate the Nazi regime’s aggression across Europe and warn against fascism.
🎬 Director: Norman Lee
🎭 Narrator: Quentin Reynolds (English version)
📅 Year: 1940
🌍 Language: English
🎞️ Color: Black and White
⏱️ Runtime: Approx. 18 minutes
✅ Public Domain: Yes
📽️ Source: Available on archive.org
This historic documentary serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of resisting totalitarianism and preserving democratic values.
⸻
🔖 Hashtags (senza titolo nel tag):
#WorldWarII #AntiNazi #PropagandaFilm #BritishCinema #1940sDocumentary #PublicDomain #HistoricFootage #WW2Documentary #ArchiveFootage
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01:30The blooming war's over.
01:38It's over. A war to end war.
01:41The world celebrates peace. Peace for all time.
01:45But there is still a shadow.
01:47The unhealing world neglects the first signs, but little by little the shadow grows.
01:53One man, one man alone, has dared to forge anew the dreadful forces of destruction and unleash them.
02:00How has this thing come to pass?
02:10Adolf Hitler was born 51 years ago in Austria.
02:14Near the German frontier.
02:15He is still very young when his father died.
02:18In early life he is sickly.
02:20But by the time he goes to school he is sturdy enough, just like any other schoolboy.
02:24Who could imagine that young Adolf at seven would have developed into this 25 years later?
02:30At the age of 19, without waiting to get his diploma, he leaves school and takes the entrance examinations of the Academy of Painting at Vienna.
02:36He failed.
02:39He returns home to find his mother seriously ill.
02:43Death soon takes her.
02:44Adolf Hitler is left alone, friendless and without means.
02:48At the age of 20 he finds himself among the pitiful army of the unemployed.
02:53He tries his hand at art again.
02:55He paints watercolors which friends try to sell for him in the cafes of Vienna.
02:59Not successfully.
03:15So he takes copies of old masters.
03:18And forges names to them.
03:20Yet for all this he earns only enough to keep himself from salvation.
03:24And to find a bed at night.
03:25In the doss houses of Vienna.
03:28He is 25 years old, this Austrian.
03:30When Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany decrees the war of 1914.
03:34The Kaiser promises, I shall lead you to an era of wonders.
03:45Wonders indeed.
03:47Germany invents new war horrors.
03:49First use of poison gas.
03:51Frightfulness they called it then.
03:56Flammenwerfer.
03:57By the Germans.
04:02Germany invents air raids.
04:04A nightmare legacy for all mankind.
04:18The Lusitania.
04:191,200 men, women and children drowned.
04:25Sinking without trace.
04:28Another German invention.
04:32Hitler had dreamed of military glory.
04:34But again he must resign himself to obscurity.
04:37Along with Germany, his country is defeated.
04:40Is ruined.
04:41And he himself after four bitter years of warfare.
04:44Has gained nothing but a corporal strike.
04:47One other thing.
04:49We see for the first time the mustache.
04:51Which was later to become.
04:54And later still.
04:56Hitler is 30 years old and a failure.
04:59So he must have remained.
05:01But the ex-Kaiser's era of wonders has turned out to be an age of grinding poverty and chaos.
05:06And it is this situation that gives Adolf Hitler his chance at last.
05:12To avoid their just payments.
05:14Appropriate punishment for their crime against humanity in 1914.
05:17The Germans resort to inflation.
05:19Money melts like stone.
05:20In 1920 the dollar is worth about 10 marks.
05:22In 1921, 100 marks.
05:24In 1922, 1,000 marks.
05:26In the spring of 1923, 100,000 marks.
05:28And in the same year, millions and millions of marks.
05:31Until we reach the astronomical figure of 4 billion marks to the dollar.
05:35Inflation cheats the Allies.
05:37But it also brings ruin to Germany.
05:39The moral fiber of the whole nation is set.
05:42Evil soil.
05:44But fertile soil.
05:46For the coming sowing of the seeds of Nazism.
05:49Hitler has by now become a secret agent.
05:52In other words, a spy.
05:54In the service of the Reichswehr.
05:56Hitler has been entrusted with the task of watching the activities of a new political party.
06:00The German Workers' Party in Munich.
06:03While still in the pay of the army, he first joins and then takes the leadership of the very organization he was paid to spy upon.
06:10He changes the title to the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
06:14Which is speedily contracted to that word of dire meaning.
06:17Nazis.
06:19In 1923, the wretchedness and discontent of the people are at their worst.
06:24It is on November the 9th that Hitler and his associates, including the famous General Ludendorff,
06:29decide that the moment has come for them to make a bid for power.
06:32They are so sure of success that they draw up in advance the proclamation that their provisional government will make to the people after their coup d'etat.
06:40But the coup d'etat fails.
06:42The Nazi ranks waver and break.
06:44On the eve of the writing, Hitler has sworn to do or die.
06:48I have bullets in my revolver for my comrades and one for myself.
06:53If we fail, he declared.
06:56It was just a promise.
06:58The first of so many.
07:18He failed.
07:19But he did not kill himself.
07:22He ran away.
07:34But he is caught and put on trial.
07:36The sentence is five years imprisonment in the fortress of Landsberg.
07:40But his treatment is by no means severe.
07:43And he uses this enforced leisure to write his now famous Mein Kampf.
07:47Germany's book of doom.
07:49Outside the prison walls, the situation continues to cause alarm.
07:53It is feared the communist propaganda will ultimately triumph.
07:56Those who had supported Hitler before, captains of industry, financiers, generals, unite to obtain his freedom.
08:02It isn't Hitler they are concerned about.
08:04They want to create a diversion against the menace of the red wave.
08:08He is released from prison to find that his backers are readier than ever to give him help.
08:14And so begins that era of power propaganda.
08:18That eventually makes Hitler not the leader of a party, but imposes him upon a whole people.
08:23Leaflets, pamphlets, books.
08:26An avalanche of words.
08:28And promises.
08:30The German loves the uniform.
08:32So Hitler gives out uniforms.
08:34Uniforms for everybody.
08:35Uniforms for boys.
08:36Uniforms for girls.
08:37For journalists, for motorists, workmen.
08:40Whole factories are made over to manufacturing Nazi uniforms.
08:44Newspapers are required to spread the doctrine.
08:46Nazi cigarettes are introduced with pictures of the leaders on the cards.
08:51And the factories where the cigarettes are made belong to the party.
08:54The sales of cigarettes, uniforms, arms, insignia, flags, bring in over 70 million marks a year.
09:03All profits for the party.
09:05The Nazi party.
09:08Like a quack selling a panacea at a fair, Hitler makes the Germans believe that the Nazi policy is a cure for all their ills.
09:16He promises everything to everybody.
09:20And all the time the big parades go on.
09:23Bigger and always bigger.
09:29So that the people in their wretchedness, hungry and unemployed, swarm in their thousands into the Nazi organization.
09:37The brown shirts become an army.
09:39The private army of a single man.
09:41A man who aspires to become dictator of Germany.
09:44Dictator of Europe itself.
09:46But many serious Germans still hold him suspect.
09:48The problem is solved in one stroke.
09:50The Reichstag.
09:51Germany's parliament building catches fire on the night of February the 27th, 1933.
09:57A few days before the so-called elections.
10:00Which were to confirm or otherwise Hitler's accession to the chancellorship.
10:04The communists have proclaimed the conference.
10:06Hitler and his men declare it was meant to be a signal for a Bolshevist revolution.
10:10It was of course necessary to produce the actual perpetrators of the fire.
10:14So a young Dutch half-wit named Marinus van der Lubbe, found by the police in the burning ruins.
10:20Although there were no witnesses to his arrest except the police.
10:23Is made the chief incendiary and put on trial.
10:26The others arrested are three Bulgarian communists.
10:29Dimitrov, Popov and Tanev.
10:32Ultimately surrenders when he hears he's accused of complicity.
10:35But trial is a mockery.
10:37A solemn legal farce.
10:39Van der Lubbe has to...
10:40One day van der Lubbe shakes off his torpor.
10:43How many more times have I got to say it?
10:45Yes, I did fight for the Reichstag. I've said it hundreds of times.
10:49This has been going on for eight months now.
10:51This torture.
10:52I have no strength left. I can't stand it.
10:55Yes, I did fight for the Reichstag. I did it myself.
11:00Now sentence me and leave me in peace.
11:03Van der Lubbe is condemned to be beheaded.
11:06The others, except Torgler, are set free.
11:08So Hitler is confirmed as chancellor.
11:10He announces his policy.
11:12To the workmen, more wages.
11:14The employers, no strikes.
11:16To the small shopkeepers, legislation against the big stores.
11:20To mothers and children, protection against child labor.
11:24Promises. Promises that would have placed the whole nation in chains of slavery.
11:29The parade maddened public acclaimed him.
11:32Ovation succeeds ovation.
11:34But his megalomania is still not satisfied.
11:37One obstacle yet remains in the way of his ambition.
11:40Hindenburg is president of the republic.
11:42And it must not be forgotten that Germany is a republic.
11:46The old marshal is a legendary figure of the great war.
11:49A national hero.
11:50A national idol still.
11:52And behind him is the German army.
11:54Yet untouched by the taint of Nazis.
11:57But Hindenburg is old. Very old.
11:59And Hitler knows he cannot live much longer.
12:02So he decides to become president too.
12:04And thus sole ruler of Germany.
12:06Then to remilitarize the nation on a scale never before known to mankind.
12:11First, however, he must deal with trouble in his own ranks.
12:15He hears of Plotkin.
12:17Hindenburg names General von Schleicher as his successor.
12:20Hindenburg has no love for Hitler.
12:22He despises him as a gas man.
12:25General von Schleicher and Captain Ernst Röhm,
12:28swashbuckler and pervert,
12:30join together in a strange alliance to overthrow Hitler.
12:34Hitler acts as always, instantly and without mercy.
12:37General Göring is given the task of cleaning up Berlin.
12:40And his first target is the man who stands between his teeth
12:44and the final fulfillment of his ambition.
12:55General von Schleicher?
12:57Well?
13:25You've seen nothing. You've heard nothing.
13:27If not...
13:37Victims are hounded out and shot down in scores.
13:55Some are told that their arrest was a mistake.
13:58They are freed.
14:14Shot while attempting to escape.
14:17Was the official excuse.
14:20Hail Hitler.
14:36Hitler sends me that.
14:39Yes. He hasn't forgotten you were once his friend.
14:43That's very nice of him.
14:45He wants to save you the fate usually reserved for traitors.
14:48He doesn't like to think of stormtroopers walking around
14:50boasting they haven't shot the great Captain Röhm.
14:53You mean he wants me to commit suicide?
14:55No, I won't take it.
14:57I won't make it easy for him by committing suicide.
15:00You can tell him he'll have to murder me too.
15:02He'll have to finish the job himself to make it thoroughly worthy of him.
15:06I don't want his mercy.
15:08I want a dozen bullets in my guts, like my friends.
15:12I'd advise you to think it over.
15:14I'd advise you to think it over.
15:39Hitler is no master of the situation.
15:41And within only a few weeks,
15:43Hindenburg has the good grace not to exhaust his rival's patience.
15:47He takes leave of life on the 2nd of August.
15:50Prolonged obsequies are ordained,
15:52culminating in the funeral of Tannenberg.
15:55The German papers that announced the President's death
15:58at the same time published the text of a law adopted the day before.
16:02While Hindenburg was still living.
16:04Decreeing Hitler President and Chancellor.
16:07The same day, German troops are compelled to take a strange new oath.
16:12An oath of fidelity to Hitler personally.
16:15I swear by God, this sacred oath,
16:18that I will render unconditional obedience to the leader of the German Reich and people,
16:23Adolf Hitler, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
16:27And that I will, as a valiant soldier,
16:29at all times be ready to stake my life for this oath.
16:33And while the German people mourn the passing of the great Marshal,
16:37the Austrian upstart secured himself finally in position as head of the German state.
16:43All that remains is the election to confirm his succession.
16:47The people must decide.
16:49Foregone conclusion under the mass attack of Goebbels' hysterical propaganda.
16:54Hitler is newly confirmed.
16:56Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
16:59More acclamations, more ovations.
17:02But the public expects more than this.
17:04They want the fulfillment of all those pledges.
17:07Hitler cannot deliver.
17:09But he can, and does,
17:11dope his dukes with growing doses of anti-Semitism.
17:16He puts into effect his theory of racism,
17:19according to which,
17:20only the 100% Aryan is worthy of living and propagating his kind in Germany.
17:25How different from the ideal are the leaders themselves.
17:33Hitler, thinking far ahead,
17:35sets out to capture the youth of Germany.
17:37But Hitler, who has made racism the foundation of national socialism,
17:41cannot be sure that he himself is a true Aryan.
17:44His father was the natural son of a young woman named Schickelgruber.
17:48He nearly came to bear that name himself.
17:51Could he have become the master of Germany if that had been the case?
17:54Instead of Heil Hitler,
17:56imagine the Nazi salute,
17:58accompanied by the ridiculous chant,
18:00Heil Schickelgruber!
18:03But as it happened,
18:04an old man, Johann Georg Hitler,
18:07at the age of 84,
18:08acknowledged as his son Adolf Hitler's father,
18:11the illegitimate Alois Schickelgruber,
18:14at that time 39 years old.
18:18Was old Johann Georg Hitler
18:20really the man to whom Maria Anna Schickelgruber,
18:23the farm girl,
18:24had surrendered 40 years previously?
18:27Famous men, if they are Jews,
18:29are forced to flee their country.
18:31Three Nobel Prize winners,
18:33Einstein,
18:34James Frank,
18:35Freud,
18:36all have to go.
18:38And should the fever show signs of abating,
18:41it can readily be whipped up again.
18:43Shops are branded,
18:44and then broken into.
18:46Wrecked,
18:47plundered.
18:48Any attempted resistance is a signal for a beating.
18:51A collective fine is imposed on all the Jews in Germany,
18:54a total sum running to millions of marks.
19:07Those who resist
19:08go to the dreaded Dachau concentration camp,
19:11where 100 die in the first five weeks.
19:14But in any case, the money is collected.
19:18The wealth thus confiscated
19:20is used to help meet the cost of Germany's colossal rearmament.
19:36Not all the money is used in this way.
19:39Some goes to line the pockets of Nazi leaders.
19:43Some goes to line the pockets of Nazi leaders.
20:14This hermit of Berchtesgaden
20:17wears strange sidelight on his complex character.
20:22Guarded by his boy stormtroopers,
20:28he stands alone
20:30against this impressive background,
20:33face to face with a gigantic idol he has made of himself.
20:37If Hitler knows nothing of the sentiment common to mankind,
20:41it is because a single passion, all absorbing, dominates him.
20:45He wants to be not only the greatest,
20:48the most powerful,
20:50but the only master.
20:52Even above God, whom he does not recognize,
20:56unless the clergy submits to his will.
21:02We do not want any other god but Germany itself,
21:06cries Hitler.
21:08Goebbels echoes,
21:10God manifested himself,
21:12not in Jesus Christ,
21:14but in Adolf Hitler.
21:17Christ is a false prophet,
21:19but he was a Jew,
21:21and Judaism is the source of all worlds.
21:24All kinds of books are broadcast expounding the Nazi theory.
21:28Bolshevism, the fruit of Christianity.
21:31All of the gods.
21:33The pope wants war.
21:35Catholic priests and Protestant clergymen,
21:39including the martyred Niemöller,
21:41are attacked or imprisoned
21:43when they resist the imposition of the Nazi theory upon their religion.
21:47Greater than the cross in Germany is the hooked cross.
21:51Hitler's power, symbolized by this cross,
21:54must be imposed everywhere, on everyone.
21:58And it even descends this country.
22:00On everyone.
22:01And it even descends this cult of Hitler,
22:03from a certain grandeur,
22:05to the completely ridiculous.
22:08Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
22:10Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
22:14Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
22:17And so the people hail,
22:19and they fly the flags,
22:21obedience and indiscipline.
22:30To help in the creation of a real and better peace,
22:34so help us God.
22:36Hail your leader and liberator,
22:38Sieg Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil Hitler!
22:43But for all the well-orchestrated evasions,
22:46Hitler knows that he's not silenced all consciences.
23:00There are still those who would like to reach behind
23:03this living wall of machine-made enthusiasm.
23:07The only news that they get in their newspapers
23:10is Nazi news.
23:13And it is forbidden to listen in to foreign radio.
23:16The Nazis try to create a Germany of just one opinion,
23:20one point of view,
23:22the human mind in quarantine.
23:25Punishment for listening in to foreign countries is severe.
23:28In the final resort, the penalty is death.
23:33German newspapers themselves have announced sentences
23:36for this crime of penal servitude
23:38ranging from three and a half to five years.
23:41Crime of wanting to hear the truth.
23:53But the people do listen,
23:55and ingenious tricks are resorted to.
24:09Still parades and more parades,
24:12with Hitler now apparently assuming the role of a Nazi Nero.
24:25He maintains his torrent of oratory.
24:55An orgy of ringing declarations.
24:57The German people have no thought of invading any country.
25:01The German government, like the German people,
25:04are filled with the unconditional wish
25:07to make the greatest possible contribution
25:10to the preservation of peace in this world.
25:13Hamburg, August 1934.
25:16Ten months later, Germany announced conscription.
25:20We want to be a peace-loving element among the nation.
25:24We cannot repeat that often enough.
25:27The first and best principle in our government's program
25:30is that we shall not lie.
25:32When have the German people ever broken their word?
25:36This is the man who solemnly promised to respect
25:39the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact.
25:42On March the 7th, 1936,
25:45German troops occupied the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland
25:49in violation of those treaties.
25:52May 1935.
25:55Germany neither intends nor wishes
25:57to interfere in the international affairs of Austria,
26:00to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss.
26:04Five months later, the Germans instigate riots in Vienna.
26:08And on July the 25th,
26:10they decide upon the murder of Chancellor Dollfuss,
26:13who opposes the Anschluss.
26:15The Nazis masquerade in the uniforms of the regular Austrian army,
26:19seize the broadcasting station,
26:21and announce falsely that the Dollfuss ministry has resigned
26:25and that Rinterlin, a pro-Hitler Austrian minister,
26:28has taken his place.
26:30Meantime, other Nazis have invaded the Chancellor,
26:34shot down Dollfuss.
26:36He is carried into an office and placed on a settee.
26:40And for nearly four hours he lies bleeding to death,
26:44deprived of any help whatsoever.
26:47There ensues one of the strangest,
26:49most poignant dramas of the days before the war.
27:08Father, is that you, Faye?
27:11Are you all right?
27:12Yes.
27:14So are the others.
27:16Well, I... I am going to die,
27:19and I just want you to look after my wife and children.
27:22Of course, I will.
27:24You promise?
27:26I swear it.
27:28For the time being, our good friend Mussolini will look after them.
27:32If we can trust him...
27:35Chancellor, I allowed Major Faye to come here
27:38so that you could speak to him on serious matters.
27:41The first and most important thing for you to do
27:43is to order the army to make no move against us.
27:47Send for a priest.
27:49Chancellor, you shall have a priest on conditions.
27:53Yes?
27:55Give immediate orders that Rintelin shall be placed at the head of the government
27:59and that the army shall take no action against us.
28:04I only wanted peace.
28:08No blood must be shed on my account.
28:12But Schusnick is the man to form a new government.
28:15I tell you, the man we insist upon having is Rintelin!
28:20The one man for Austria is Schusnick.
28:26Dolphus dies without yield.
28:29The Nazi attempt fails.
28:31Austria remains Austria.
28:33For the time being.
28:35An immense throng attends the state funeral of the little chancellor
28:39when Cardinal Inezer, Archbishop of Vienna, declares...
28:43He endured the death throes of our Lord, surrounded by enemies.
29:05Austria's respite is only temporary.
29:08In March 1938, Hitler sends for Chancellor Schusnick
29:11and compels him to invite the Germans to take over Austria.
29:14German troops march into Vienna.
29:16The crime is consummated.
29:21Schusnick meets a fate almost worse than that of Dolphus.
29:25He is thrown into prison to face no one knows what torments.
29:39The Cardinal Inezer sees his palace invaded and sacked
29:43by a fanatical mob of Hitler youth.
30:01Let's try this door.
30:03Look at it. Let's go round the other side.
30:08Right, right.
30:28Hello. Police.
30:30Hello. Police.
30:33Hurry up. Up you go. Break the window.
30:35Yes, smash it open.
30:36Break open the window.
30:38Please, send help quickly.
30:42Go on, break it. Use your guts.
30:44Go on, break it down.
30:46Let's go around. Don't get through.
30:48That's right. Break it in. Come on.
30:51Stop, stop. I beg of you, do not make sacrilege.
30:54Remember, this is the house of the prince of the church.
30:57You old humbug, you can't stop us. Get out of the way.
31:05Come on.
31:15Here you are. There's another one coming down.
31:17No, please. You are the precious treasures of the church.
31:20Get out of the way.
31:21If he won't let it go, send him down with it.
31:24Yes, send him down.
31:36Get out of the way.
31:47The father forgives them, but they know not what they do.
31:54The pace of events intensifies.
31:56After the Austrian Sudetenland crisis.
32:01War seems inevitable.
32:06But the pact of Munich establishes a new agreement.
32:09Hitler guarantees formally and solemnly...
32:12Czechoslovakia's new frontiers.
32:27Czechoslovakia, faithful to her undertaking...
32:30relinquishes the Soviet Union.
32:32Czechoslovakia, faithful to her undertaking...
32:35relinquishes the Sudetenland territory to the troops of the Reich.
32:38The world breathes with relief.
32:56And on the 26th of September, 1938...
32:59Hitler says of the Sudetenland...
33:01This territorial claim is the last I have to make in Europe.
33:05I have assured Mr. Chamberlain, and I repeat now...
33:09that when the Sudetenland problem is settled...
33:12Germany will not raise any more territorial questions in Europe.
33:16Here are the words from the Fuhrer's very mouth.
33:30Within six months, the promise is broken.
33:34Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
33:38And German troops enter Prague.
33:50In the same month, the ogre of Berlin swallows the mere morsel of memo...
33:55the Lithuanian vote.
33:58Great Britain decides upon construction...
34:01and Hitler is solemnly warned that any further act of aggression means war.
34:21The sands are running out.
34:24And August 1939 brings the most cynical stroke of all.
34:28Four years before, Hitler had declared...
34:31Between Germany and Russia, there is a gulf that can never be bridged.
34:40But von Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow...
34:43to sign a non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin.
34:46The astonishment aroused throughout the world is soon tinged with irony.
34:51So paradoxical is this new friendship between the two dictators.
34:59Current cartoons hit off the situation.
35:02I've changed my emblem a little just to please you.
35:05There's nothing new under the sun.
35:08Hitler and Stalin disguised as Frederick II and Catherine the Great.
35:12Germany is no less astonished than the rest of the world.
35:15Especially the older people who are unable to understand such a fantastic somersault.
35:20But Hitler has always concentrated on you.
35:23The young people are his.
35:25Caught up in their earliest years in the great Nazi machine.
35:28They think as Hitler wishes them to think.
35:30They will do only what Hitler wishes them to do.
35:33Their fanatical belief in their leader transcends all other consideration.
35:37Even family ties.
35:51Come on.
35:53Mother?
35:54Where are you going?
35:56Upstairs to my room.
35:58No. Stay here.
36:00There are things I must talk to you about.
36:02Oh, Mother, must we? Can't we leave it till later?
36:05No, later. I may find excuses for you.
36:07Later I may even have begun to love you again.
36:10I want to speak to you now while I feel only contempt for you.
36:14While I see in you nothing but a despicable little spy.
36:18I got used to distrusting servants.
36:21Strangers.
36:23Even friends.
36:25But one's own child.
36:28No, that didn't seem possible.
36:34How could you bring yourself to do it?
36:36You must have hated your father. Why?
36:38I didn't hate him. I love him.
36:41Love him?
36:42Yes. And I'm suffering as much as you are.
36:45Probably more.
36:46After all, I was the one who had to denounce him.
36:50Oh, they forced you.
36:53They suspected your father and questioned you.
36:56Threatened you, perhaps.
36:58Do you really think that I'd yield to threats?
37:05Well, it would have been an excuse.
37:09I don't need excuses.
37:11I don't need excuses.
37:15I don't understand.
37:16That's obvious.
37:19When Amy Anker informed on her mother, she didn't understand either.
37:22And when Franz Weber denounced his elder brother, his parents cursed him.
37:27Who are these people you're talking about?
37:29My comrades of the Hitler Youth.
37:31And yet, after denouncing her mother, whom she adored, Amy Anker hanged herself.
37:37And Franz Weber tried to commit suicide.
37:39You see, they'd simply done their duty, knowing they'd pay for it with their lives.
37:44Duty?
37:46Is that what you call it?
37:48To spy on your own family?
37:51To betray those who love you?
37:54Is that what you call duty?
37:59So you're proud of what you did.
38:02You sneaked off to your leader and repeated your father's words.
38:08Of your own free will?
38:10Of course.
38:12You're mad.
38:15You're all of you mad.
38:17You don't understand anything that doesn't conform with your comfortable bourgeois ideas.
38:21All the time you use the words family and love.
38:24Well, you know what I think?
38:25If Germany is weak and poor and foreign countries don't respect her, it's your fault.
38:29Yours and other mothers like you.
38:31You can't make a nation strong by bringing up her children in the bourgeois atmosphere of the home.
38:36By softening their spirit with sloppy sentiment.
38:39I wish I'd never loved you, never loved father.
38:42Helmut.
38:43Helmut, don't.
38:45Don't, my little one.
38:47You don't know what you're saying.
38:49It's so terrible, all these things you're telling me.
38:52It's horrible.
38:54Love is within the reach of any mere animal.
38:56The only sentiment that truly ennobles man is the spirit of sacrifice.
39:01Our Führer has taught us that.
39:03That is why I despise your tears and why I am proud of myself.
39:07I suppose that when I think of my father, I shall suffer sometimes.
39:11But I haven't any remorse.
39:13I know that I have no duties to anything but Germany.
39:16And I only live to serve her.
39:27What a cry.
39:34What a cry.
39:42What a cry.
39:44And now the final and greatest cry of all.
39:48Poland invaded.
39:50Open towns bombed.
39:53Over 350 ships mined, torpedoed or bombed.
39:58Over 350 ships mined, torpedoed or bombed to the depths.
40:04Half of the menace and neutrals.
40:06Finland.
40:08Denmark.
40:10Norway.
40:11No people, however remote, are safe.
40:14Luxembourg.
40:16Poland.
40:18Belgium.
40:20Security vanishes from Europe.
40:22And still another crime.
40:24France too is laid in ruins and devoured by the war dogs of Europe.
40:47Why did Hess fly to the British Isles?
40:50Although it has not been officially admitted,
40:53the world now has reasons to believe that Hess came with a peace offer.
40:57Stop the war and join the Nazis in a joint war against the Soviet Union.
41:16Hitler faced another winter of war and starvation.
41:19Grab the Ukrainian wheat.
41:21Grab Baku's oil and other materials of war.
41:25Attack Russia was the order.
41:27Another pledge broken.
41:29Another Hitler crime.
41:44Eastward, westward, where to next?
41:48Will this man be the master of your destiny?
41:56America answers no.
42:18America answers no.
42:49The End
43:08As a reporter who spent quite a bit of time in Hitler Germany,
43:13and who wrote a diary which had the good fortune to be read widely by a great many Americans,
43:19I've been asked by the Army-Navy Screen Magazine to talk about the film you're going to see.
43:25Well, the film is concerned with the Nazi youth movement.
43:29That is, it's about what Hitler has been able to do with the young people of Germany
43:35during the 12 years he's been in power.
43:38It's also enemy film, captured on the Western Front only a very short time ago.
43:44Perhaps that's one of the remarkable things about these pictures.
43:48They're so terribly recent.
43:50This is not a film of five years ago, or even of two years ago.
43:56To be precise, this is training film photographed in the winter of 1944 and 45,
44:02when, by all ordinary standards, the Germans should be ready to quit.
44:11Germany cannot be defeated, their set faces say.
44:15Let the very old doubt.
44:17Let the seriously wounded and the mortally ill believe all is lost.
44:22But not they, the young people.
44:25They, the young, will not betray the sacred trust put in them by their Führer.
44:31They will still carry their banners high.
44:34And where, we ask, does this strength come from?
44:38Why are they so confident?
44:40Where does it begin?
44:42Here is where.
44:47And here, in this crib, or in a carriage where a baby lies,
44:52is mined like a fresh tablet, white and unruled.
44:57Anything can be written on that tablet, as the Nazis well know.
45:02So they begin their education for hate and death, war and conquest,
45:07by taking the child from his parents and turning him over to the Bund Deutscher Mädchen,
45:14a young girls' organization with over a million members,
45:18already dedicated to the principles of Nazism.
45:22We will not permit them to lapse into the old way of thinking
45:26Hitler has said of the children in these carriages.
45:29Instead, we will make them state children, and we will raise them according to plan.
45:40In Hitler Germany, when a child is able to walk, he's also able to march and to carry a flag.
45:46I saw many such demonstrations as these during my years in Berlin.
45:51And still they go on.
45:53Children who learn to say gun, grenade, and stuka,
45:57at an age when you and I were learning the meaning of words like cat, rat, and bat.
46:06And instead of playing with dolls, they're taught to make helmets.
46:11Who uses a helmet?
46:13A football player, yes, but also a tank man.
46:17Here again in this group of Jugend, as they're called, we get the meaning of total war.
46:24Here in these children, now a little older, and proudly exhibiting their swastikas,
46:30we see what the Nazis mean when they say that every member of the new generation
46:36must be brought under the spell of National Socialism.
46:40Today we know from the Nazis' loud boasts that there is no schoolboy,
46:45no apprentice working in a trade, whether a girl or a boy,
46:49who is not a member of some Nazi youth organization.
46:53In fact, such membership is compulsory,
46:56just as every young person is forced to dedicate himself to Hitler
47:01and the divine mission that Germany will one day rule the world.
47:07No, the young mind of a German child is no longer fresh and unruled.
47:13Hitler and the Nazis have mocked it indelibly.
47:17Black and deep with ideas we know belong to the Dark Ages.
47:22Racial superiority, religious intolerance,
47:26and no respect for the rights of any people other than Germans.
47:32On the German report card, the word behavior has been changed to obedience.
47:39And here we see a group of Hitler youth being rewarded for their obedience
47:44and for the things they've learned.
47:46For knowing 141 experiments in gas and their antidotes.
47:51For knowing how to shoot, not only a rifle, but a machine gun.
48:00At the same time, they're taken on strength through joy tours and shown German monuments.
48:06Much time is spent on Frederick the Great,
48:09for he too once had the combined strength of Europe against him.
48:14But his enemies failed to remain united and Frederick the Great emerged triumphant.
48:20And these German children are made to believe
48:22that the same thing will again happen in this war.
48:25That the English and the Americans hate each other
48:29and that they have a common enemy in Russia.
48:33Every nation knows that its future resides in its youth.
48:37But no nation has known it better than Germany under Hitler.
48:41And none has worked harder to impress its young people with the ideas of sacrifice.
48:47And that's why, after five years of war,
48:51after Germany's cities have been bombed mercilessly
48:54and six million of her soldiers lie dead,
48:57the youth of Germany still wish to serve Hitler
49:01and eagerly accept jobs aboard submarines as helpers.
49:05Nothing would excite and please these young Nazis more
49:09than to venture into hostile waters on such a ship
49:13and sink important Allied shipping.
49:17This is General Guderian, a German hero to whom Hitler has given great power.
49:24We can understand the importance of young people in the minds of the Nazis
49:28when we realize that these personal appearances
49:32are part of a German general's daily routine.
49:36Guderian must not only match his military skill
49:39against men like General Eisenhower and Marshal Zhukov,
49:43but he must be ready at all times to impress upon the youth of Germany
49:48that Hitler is counting as much upon them as he is upon his army.
49:56In the past, some have made the mistake
49:59of comparing various Nazi youth organizations
50:03with our own Boy Scouts in our YMCA.
50:06It's a bad comparison.
50:08This group of kids is not figuring out how to perform a good deed every day.
50:13They're not interested in helping a blind man cross the street
50:17or carrying an old woman's packages.
50:20This is war.
50:22These children know it, and they want more of it.
50:26Now we can begin to see why the German boy is so confident
50:30and why, when he learns the war is now being fought on sacred German soil,
50:36he is eager to volunteer for a labor battalion,
50:40eager to march off to dig the necessary tank traps and defense ditches.
50:45♪
50:59On the Western Front, we've captured boys like this.
51:03Because they are boys, we have not believed they were dangerous
51:08or a threat to our military operations.
51:11Only gradually, and at a cost to American lives,
51:15have we learned that they are fanatical Nazis,
51:18ready to spy and sabotage.
51:21Some we have executed, and others we have sent to prison for life.
51:26Now they furrow all of Germany with fortifications.
51:30But when the time comes, they're ready to stand behind them
51:34with the guns and machine guns they've learned to use
51:37so skillfully and efficiently.
51:41Here, in an unidentified German city,
51:45the Hitler youth of 18 is welcomed into the Wehrmacht.
51:49But the welcome is merely a formality,
51:52for there has been no real transformation from civilian life to army life
51:57as there has been in our own country, in England, and in Russia.
52:02These men have never known the pleasures of a home, of a family,
52:06of going to church on Sundays,
52:09and of having a sweetheart that one day they plan to marry.
52:13The entire life of these men has been in a Hitler uniform.
52:17Hitler's orders, stated clearly in Mein Kampf, have been obeyed.
52:23This is the German citizen of the next 25 years.
52:27This is the man who will still be a threat to any permanent peace
52:32when the guns have ceased firing.
52:35And it's because of them that the occupation of Germany
52:39is going to be one of our most difficult problems.
52:42These men are tough.
52:44We are going to have to be that much tougher
52:47if Americans don't want to be back in uniform in another 10 years,
52:51fighting Germany all over again.
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