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00:00Henry here got on the train with two hundred dollars he couldn't see any harm in a friendly
00:11game of cards what if the other men were strangers and take Joe Collins he's got a
00:18nice wife at home but he met this girl at the bar and she looked after the first couple of drinks
00:30there's a good old-fashioned word for people less we call them suckers and there are other people
00:57people who stay up nights figuring out how to take away what they've got there are all kinds of
01:08game Mike here for instance he's got everything in me he's young he's healthy got a job and he's
01:16got a kind of a fool big factories to make things a man can use big cities to do the business of a
01:23big company and people lots of people enough to work the farm and build the factories dig the mines
01:31run the business all kinds of people people from different countries with different religions
01:40different colored skins free people they can live together and work together and build America
01:49together because they're free free to vote to say what they please go to their own churches
02:00to pick their own jobs
02:04yeah Mike's got something all right he's got America but there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how
02:17to take that away from him I happen to know the facts friends I'm just an average American but I'm an American American and some of the things
02:28I see in this country of ours make my blood boil I see people with foreign I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you
02:37now I ask you if we allow this thing to go on what's going to become of us real Americans
02:44I've heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to hear it in America
02:49this fella seems to know what he's talking about
02:52what are we real Americans going to do about it
02:55you'll find it right here in this little pamphlet
02:58the truth about Negroes and foreigners
03:00the truth about the Catholic Church
03:03do you believe in that kind of talk
03:05I don't know makes pretty good sense to me
03:08and I tell you friends we'll never be able to call this country our own until it's a country without
03:14without what yeah without what without Negroes without alien foreigners without Catholics
03:24without Freemasons what's wrong with the Masons I'm a Mason hey that fella's talking about me
03:33and that makes a difference doesn't it these are your enemies these are the
03:39people who are trying to take over our country now you know them you know what
03:43they stand for and it's up to you and me to fight them fight them and destroy them
03:49before they destroy us thank you
03:57before he said Mason you were ready to agree with him yes but he was talking about
04:03what about those other people in this country we have no other people we are American people
04:11what about you you aren't American I I was born in Hungary but now I am an American citizen and I
04:19have seen what this kind of talk can do I saw it in Berlin what were you doing there I was a
04:24professor at the University I heard the same words we have heard today but I was a fool then I
04:31thought Nazis were crazy people stupid fanatics but unfortunately it was not so you see they knew
04:40that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country so they split Germany into small groups they
04:46used prejudice as a practical weapon to triple the nation of course that was not easy to do they had to
04:53work hard to do it you see we human beings are not born with prejudices always they are made for us made
05:02by someone who wants something remember that when you hear this kind of talk somebody is going to get
05:08something out of it and it isn't going to be you this is not classroom theory I saw it happen I saw it first in Berlin
05:20in 1932 five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening to the Nazi speaker Eric was a Catholic
05:29Anton a student of mine was a Jew Heinrich owned a small hardware store Carl was a farmer and Hans was an unemployed metal worker
05:43To all Boerian Germans I say at this time you inherited the nation which rightfully belongs to you to you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany the Nazi Party will provide land for the farmer with the
05:58work for the farmer work for the worker and profits for the small businessmen who is getting these things now
06:05the Jew the Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright who makes all the money and takes all our jobs
06:14the Jew he must be shunned he must be ostracized he must be eliminated and the Catholics we don't want
06:25our great nation run by a foreign church we Germans will know what to do with these people when the time comes
06:31they and their faith must be destroyed then there are the Freemasons in Germany we have no place for secret societies
06:40there may be only one society and that is a Nazi Party there may be no secrecy about that in the new greater Germany
06:48one by one he attacked each minority and he split them off one from the other these men were all fellow Germans when they came here today
06:55these men were all fellow Germans when they came here today now they were split into rival groups
07:00suspicious of each other hating each other they were being swindled all of them
07:07but the men who was really being fooled was Hunts he was pure German according to Nazi standards
07:15to him they promised everything and he fell for it
07:22that's how Hunts became a Superman they gave him a uniform and they pumped up his ego
07:28he wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore he was a member of the master race
07:34Hunts and thousands of others like him all playing a suckers game
07:40they gambled with other people's liberty and of course they lost their own
07:46a nation of suckers Hitler needed these people there was lots of work to be done
07:53there were trade unions to be smashed because unions were organized and might offer resistance
08:00there were many political parties in Germany these the Nazis destroyed
08:05they were determined to smash every organization where people might band together and resist them
08:11there were Jews to be beaten and killed the Jews were not powerful but they were a convenient excuse for all the nation's ills
08:20and besides a Nazi party member could not take over this man's toll
08:24hundreds of Catholics were put in jail because the Catholic Church had strength and could resist the Nazi drive for power
08:33they had split the nation into a hundred pieces and then one by one they had destroyed the pieces
08:42over these broken pieces the Nazis rode into power one party one nation one religion
08:50these men had won their struggle for power they now ruled all of Germany
08:58but still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy the truth
09:04they found that truth does not die easily and so they decided to abolish truth
09:11one great source of truth is literature so they burned books 20 million of them
09:17many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed or driven from their country
09:23teachers writers scientists education was discouraged in five years college attendance dropped 53 percent
09:34it was forbidden to listen to a British radio program or read an American newspaper
09:40in Nazi Germany you had to get you information from Dr. Goebbels he knew what was best for you
09:47the church was one forcing German is still strong enough to proclaim the truth in public
09:53this Catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality
09:59the Protestant church also continued to try and fight for truth
10:04the Nazis put this man in a concentration camp
10:07there were others who spoke for truth and I am proud to say that educators were among them
10:14and what may I ask is an Aryan I don't know my son
10:21but let us see what our present so-called authorities have to say about it
10:27they say he is tall
10:35slender
10:39blue eye
10:49and blond
10:51there is no Aryan race
10:54and more important
10:57there is no master race
10:59there are people who may find these ideas convenient
11:04convenient, but science cannot support them. There is no scientific proof that there is
11:13any correlation between a man's racial characteristics and his native ability or character. In all
11:22racial groups we find the same range of potentialities. We find idiots and geniuses, we find criminals
11:34and philanthropists. We must judge each man as an individual, and not by the color of his
11:43skin or his eyes, or by the length of his nose.
11:56Come in, gentlemen. It's comfortable.
11:58And remember that there is no master race. That is a scientific truth. Anyone who tells
12:09you otherwise is lying.
12:19And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany. A lot of my German
12:25friends wondered what had hit them. How did it happen? Where did it start? It started
12:33right here. And this was where it could have been stopped. If those people had stood together,
12:40if they had protected each other, they could have resisted the Nazi threat. Together they
12:45would have been strong. But once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were herpes.
12:50When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out. They made the mistake of gambling with
12:57other people's freedom. Now let's see how those bets paid off. Karl the farmer was gambling on
13:03a better life for himself. What he got was extra hours of back-breaking work, as much as a hundred
13:09hours a week. He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce, because
13:13now Hitler was preparing for war. For Heinrich, who owned a hardware store, the bet didn't pay off either.
13:25One hundred and four thousand small businesses were closed in two years. And for Hans, conditions
13:32hadn't improved any. He had a job now, in a munitions factory, but he worked long hours for little pay.
13:39The working conditions grew increasingly bad. And even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permitted to leave it.
13:50And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war. Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack.
14:00Once again, Hitler needed Hans to do his dirty work. Hans was an expert at brutality this time.
14:09And Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other peoples. The Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians.
14:18But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. His pure-blooded supermen were defeated
14:27by the mongrel armies he despised. By the British of El Alamein. By the Russians at Stalingrad.
14:45Then on D-Day, by American soldiers of every color and religion, who smashed across the Normandy beaches
14:56and drove on through to the heart of Germany. For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait,
15:04the Nazi game did not pay off. The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies. Pure Aryan bodies.
15:15Karl, the farmer, was left in the snow outside of Moscow. Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno.
15:23And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own.
15:33We must never let that happen to us or to our country. We must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion.
15:40Because in this country we all belong to minority groups. I was born in Hungary. You are a Mason. These are minorities.
15:47And then you belong to other minority groups too. You are a farmer. You have blooms. You go to the Methodist Church.
15:54Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing. You have a right to be what you are and say what you think,
16:02because here we have personal freedom. We have liberty. And these are not just fancy words. This is a practical and priceless way of living.
16:11But we must work at it. We must guard everyone's liberty or we can lose our own. If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice,
16:22we are threatening our own freedom. And this is not simply an ideal. This is good, hard common sense.
16:31You see, here in America is not a question whether we tolerate minorities. America is minorities. And that means you and me.
16:43So let's not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any men to be threatened by any act or word. Let's be selfish about it. Let's forget about we and they. Let's think about us.
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