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00:00The End
00:30The End
01:00The End
01:29The Blooming War's Over
01:35It's over, the war to end war
01:41The world celebrates peace
01:43Peace for all time
01:44But there is still a shadow
01:47The unhealing world neglects the first signs
01:50But little by little the shadow grows
01:52One man
01:53One man alone
01:54Has dared to forge anew the dreadful forces of destruction
01:57And unleash them
01:59How has this thing come to pass?
02:09Adolf Hitler was born 51 years ago in Austria
02:13Near the German frontier
02:14He is still very young when his father died
02:16In early life he is sickly
02:19But by the time he goes to school he's sturdy enough
02:22Just like any other schoolboy
02:23Who could imagine that young Adolf at seven
02:26Would have developed into this 25 years later
02:28At the age of 19 without waiting to get his diploma
02:32He leaves school and takes the entrance examinations
02:34The Academy of Painting at Vienna
02:35He failed
02:36He returns home to find his mother seriously ill
02:43Death soon takes her
02:44Adolf Hitler is left alone
02:46Friendless and without means
02:48At the age of 20 he finds himself among the pitiful army of the unemployed
02:51He tries his hand at art again
02:54He paints watercolours which friends try to sell for him in the campus of Vienna
02:58Not successfully
03:00So he takes copies of old masters
03:17And forges names to them
03:19Yet for all this he earns only enough to keep himself from starvation
03:23And to find a bed at nights
03:25In the Doss houses of Vienna
03:26He's 25 years old, this Austrian
03:29When Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany decrees the war of 1914
03:33The Kaiser promises
03:34I shall lead you to an era of wonders
03:37Wonders indeed
03:46Germany invents new war horrors
03:48First use of poison gas
03:50Frightfulness they called it then
03:53Germany invents air raids
04:03A nightmare legacy for all mankind
04:06The Lusitania
04:18Twelve hundred men, women and children drowned
04:23Sprolos versunken
04:25Sinking without trace
04:27Another German invention
04:29Hitler had dreamed of military glory
04:34But again he must resign himself to obscurity
04:37Along with Germany
04:38His country is defeated
04:39He is ruined
04:40And he himself after four bitter years of warfare
04:43Has gained nothing but a corporal strike
04:45One other thing
04:47We see for the first time the moustache
04:51Which was later to become
04:53And later still
04:55Hitler is thirty years old and a failure
04:58So he must have remained
05:00But the ex-Kaiser's era of wonders
05:02Has turned out to be an age of grinding poverty and chaos
05:05And it is this situation
05:07That gives adult Hitler his chance at last
05:10To avoid their just payments
05:13Appropriate punishment for their crime against humanity in 1914
05:16The Germans resort to inflation
05:18Money melts like snow
05:20In 1920 the dollar is worth about ten marks
05:22In 1921 a hundred marks
05:23In 1922 a thousand marks
05:25In the spring of 1923 a hundred thousand marks
05:28And in the same year millions and millions of marks
05:30Until we reach the astronomical figure of four billion marks to the dollar
05:34Inflation cheats the Allies
05:36But it also brings ruin to Germany
05:38Moral fiber of the whole nation is set
05:41Evil soil
05:43But fertile soil
05:45For the coming sowing of the seeds of Nazism
05:49Hitler has by now become a secret agent
05:52In other words a spy
05:53In the service of the Reichswehr
05:55Hitler has been entrusted with the task of watching the activities
05:58Of a new political party
06:00The German Workers' Party in Munich
06:02And while still in the pay of the army
06:04He first joins
06:05And then takes the leadership
06:07Of the very organization he was paid to spy upon
06:09He changes the title to the National Socialist German Workers' Party
06:13Which is speedily contracted to that word of dire meaning
06:16In 1923 the wretchedness and discontent of the people are at their worst
06:23It is on November the 9th that Hitler and his associates
06:26Including the famous General Ludendorff
06:29Decide that the moment has come for them to make a bid for power
06:32We are so sure of success that they draw up in advance
06:35The proclamation that their provisional government will make to the people
06:38After their coup d'etat
06:39But the coup d'etat fails
06:41The Nazi ranks waver and break
06:44On the eve of the writing
06:45Hitler had sworn to do or die
06:48I have bullets in my revolver for my comrades
06:51And one for myself
06:52If we fail
06:54He declared
06:55It was just a promise
06:57The first of so many
07:00He failed
07:18But he did not kill himself
07:21He ran away
07:23But he is caught
07:34And put on trial
07:35The sentence is five years imprisonment in the fortress of Landsberg
07:39But his treatment is by no means severe
07:42And he uses this enforced leisure
07:44To write his now famous Mein Kampf
07:46Germany's Book of Doom
07:48Outside the prison walls
07:51The situation continues to cause alarm
07:53It is feared the communist propaganda will ultimately triumph
07:56Those who had supported Hitler before
07:57Captains of industry, financiers, generals
08:00Unite to obtain his freedom
08:02It isn't Hitler they are concerned about
08:03They 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
08:12And so begins that era of power propaganda
08:19That eventually makes Hitler not the leader of a party
08:21But imposes him upon a whole people
08:24Leaflets, pamphlets, books
08:27An avalanche of words
08:29And promises
08:30The German loves their uniforms
08:33So Hitler gives out uniforms
08:35Uniforms for everybody
08:36Uniforms for boys
08:37Uniforms for girls
08:37Uniforms for girls
08:38For journalists, for motorists, workmen
08:39Whole 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
08:59Bring in over 70 million marks a year
09:02All profits
09:04For the party
09:05The Nazi party
09:07Like a quack selling a panacea at a fair
09:10Hitler makes the Germans believe that the Nazi policy is a cure for all their ills
09:15He promises everything to everybody
09:18And all the time the big parades go on
09:23Bigger and always bigger
09:26So that the people in their wretchedness
09:31Hungry and unemployed
09:33Swarm in their thousands into the Nazi organization
09:36The brown shirts become an army
09:38The private army of a single man
09:40A man who aspers to become dictator of Germany
09:44Dictator of Europe itself
09:45But many serious Germans still hold him suspect
09:48The problem is solved in one stroke
09:50The Reichstag
09:50Germany's parliament building catches fire on the night of February the 27th, 1933
09:56A few days before the so-called elections
09:59Which were to confirm or otherwise Hitler's accession to the chancellorship
10:03The communists are proclaiming the culprits
10:05Hitler and his men declare it was meant to be a signal for a Bolshevist revolution
10:09It was, of course, necessary to produce the actual perpetrators of the bar
10:14So a young Dutch heartwit named Marinus van der Lube
10:17Found by the police in the burning ruins
10:20Although there were no witnesses to his arrest except those
10:23He's made the chief incendiary and put on trial
10:26The others arrested are three Bulgarian communists
10:29Dimitrov, Popov and Tanev
10:32He literally surrenders when he hears he's accused of complicity
10:35But trial is a mockery, a solemn, legal farce
10:38Van der Lube has to...
10:40One day van der Lube shakes off his torper
10:42How many more times have I got to say it?
10:45Yes, I said fire to the Reichstag
10:46I've said it hundreds of times
10:48This has been going on for eight months now
10:50This torture
10:51I have no strength left
10:53I can't stand it
10:54Yes, I said fire to the Reichstag
10:57I did it myself
10:58Now sentence me and leave me in peace
11:01Van der Lube is condemned to be beheaded
11:05The 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
11:25Promises that would have placed a whole nation in chains of slavery
11:29The parade maddened public acclaim him
11:32Ovation succeeds ovation
11:35But his megalomania is still not satisfied
11:37One obstacle yet remains in the way of his ambition
11:41Hindenburg is President of the Republic
11:43And 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
11:51A national idol still
11:53And behind him is the German army
11:55As yet untouched by the taint of Nazis
11:58But Hindenburg is old
12:00Very old
12:01And Hitler knows he cannot live much longer
12:03So he decides to become President too
12:06And thus sole ruler of Germany
12:08Then to remilitarize the nation on a scale never before known to mankind
12:13First, however, he must deal with trouble in his own ranks
12:17He hears of Plotty
12:19Hindenburg names General von Schleicher as his successor
12:22Hindenburg has no love for Hitler
12:23He despises him as a gas man
12:25General von Schleicher and Captain Ernst Röhm
12:29Swashbucket and perverts
12:31Join together in a strange alliance to overthrow Hitler
12:35Hitler acts as always, instantly and without mercy
12:38General Gurling has given the task of cleaning up Berlin
12:41And his first target
12:42Is the man who stands between his
12:46Chief for the final fulfillment of his ambition
12:59General thrown in one slice up
13:02You see nothing?
13:32You've heard nothing.
13:33Yes, not?
13:43Victims are hounded out and shot down in scores.
13:57Some are told that their arrest was a mistake.
14:01They are freed.
14:16Shot while attempting to escape.
14:19Was the official excuse.
14:23Hail Hitler.
14:39Hitler sends me that.
14:41Yes.
14:42He hasn't forgotten you were once his friend.
14:46That's very nice.
14:47He wants to save you the fate usually reserved for traitors.
14:50He doesn't like to think of Stormtroopers walking around boasting of having shot the great Captain Roan.
14:55You mean he wants me to commit suicide?
14:57No, I won't take it.
14:58I won't make it easy for him by committing suicide.
15:01You will tell him he'll have to murder me too.
15:04He'll have to finish the job himself to make it thoroughly worthy of him.
15:07I don't want his mercy.
15:09I want a dozen bullets in my guts like my friends.
15:13I'd advise you to think it over.
15:15Hitler is no master of the situation.
15:28And within only a few weeks, Hindenburg has the good grace not to exhaust his rival's patience.
15:47He takes leave of life on the 2nd of August, and prolonged obsequies are ordained, culminating in the funeral of tenors.
15:54The German papers that announced the President's death at the same time published the text of a law adopted the day before.
16:01While 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, that I will render unconditional obedience to the leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler.
16:23The commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
16:26And that I will, as a valiant soldier, at all times be ready to stake my life for this oath.
16:32And while the German people mourn the passing of the great marshal,
16:36the Austrian upstart secured himself finally in position as head of the German state.
16:42All that remains is the election.
16:44To confirm his succession, the people must decide.
16:48A foregone conclusion under the mass attack of Goebbels' hysterical propaganda.
16:53Hitler is duly confirmed.
16:55More acclamations.
16:59More ovations.
17:01But the public expects more than this.
17:03They want the fulfillment of all those pledges.
17:07Hitler cannot deliver.
17:09But he can and does dope his dupes with growing doses of anti-Semitism.
17:16He puts into effect his theory of racism.
17:19According to which, only 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, sets 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.
17:48And he nearly came to bear that name himself.
17:50Could he have become the master of Germany if that had been the case?
17:54Instead of Heil Hitler, imagine the naughty salute,
17:58accompanied by the ridiculous chant,
18:00Heil Schickelgruber!
18:03But as it happened, an old man, Johann George Hitler,
18:07at the age of 84, acknowledged as his son, Adolf Hitler's father.
18:11The illegitimate Alois Schickelgruber, at that time 39 years old.
18:18Was old Johann George Hitler really the man to whom Maria Anna Schickelgruber,
18:23the farm girl, had surrendered 40 years previously?
18:27Famous men, if they are Jews, are 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,
18:40it can readily be whipped up again.
18:42Shops are branded and then broken into.
18:46Wrecked.
18:47Blundered.
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 Mark.
18:57So, to resist, go to the dreaded Dachau concentration camp,
19:11where 100 die in the first five weeks.
19:14But in any case, the money is collected.
19:17The wealth thus confiscated is used to help meet the cost of Germany's colossal rearmament.
19:30Not all the money is used in this way.
19:42Some goes to line the pockets of Nazi leaders.
19:46The End
19:47The End
19:48The End
19:49The End
19:51This permit of Vercheska
20:10This hermit of Bertscher's garden wears strange sidelight on his complex character, guarded
20:25by his boy stormtroopers.
20:30He stands alone against this impressive background, face to face with a gigantic idol he has made
20:38of himself.
20:39If Hitler knows nothing of the sentiment common to mankind, it is because a single passion,
20:45all-absorbing, dominates him.
20:48He wants to be not only the greatest, the most powerful, but the only master, even above
20:55God, whom he does not recognize, unless the clergy submits to his will.
21:04We do not want any other God but Germany itself, cries Hitler.
21:10Goebbels echoes, God manifested himself not in Jesus Christ but in Adolf Hitler.
21:19Christ is a false prophet, but he was a Jew, and Judaism is the source of all woes.
21:25All kinds of books are broadcast expounding the Nazi theory.
21:29Bolshevism, the fruit of Christianity.
21:32All of the gods.
21:34The Pope wants war.
21:38Catholic priests and Protestant clergymen, including the martyred Niemöller, are attacked or imprisoned
21:46when they resist the imposition of the Nazi theory upon their religion.
21:50Greater than the cross in Germany is the hooked cross.
21:54Hitler's power, symbolized by this cross, must be imposed everywhere, on everyone.
22:00And it even descends this cult of Hitler from a certain grandeur to the completely ridiculous.
22:07Heil Hitler!
22:08Heil Hitler!
22:09Heil Hitler!
22:10Heil Hitler!
22:11Heil Hitler!
22:12Heil Hitler!
22:13Heil Hitler!
22:14Heil Hitler!
22:15Heil Hitler!
22:16And so the people heil, and they fly the flags.
22:20Opinence and indiscipline.
22:43But for all the well-orchestrated ovations, Hitler knows that he's not silenced all consciousness.
22:49There are still those who would like to reach behind this living wall of machine-made enthusiasm.
23:06The only news that they get in their newspapers is Nazi news.
23:12And it is forbidden to listen in to foreign radio.
23:16The Nazis tried to create a Germany of just one opinion, one point of view.
23:21The human mind in quarantine.
23:24Punishment for listening in to foreign countries is severe.
23:28In the final resort, the penalty is death.
23:31The German newspapers themselves have announced sentences for this crime of penal servitude ranging
23:38from three and a half to five years.
23:41The crime of wanting to hear the truth.
23:44But the people do listen.
23:54And ingenious tricks are resorted to.
23:57Still parades.
24:10And more parades.
24:12With Hitler now apparently assuming the role of a Nazi Nero.
24:16He maintains his torrent of auditory.
24:33The German people have no thought of invading any country.
24:52The German government, like the German people, are filled with the unconditional wish to make the greatest possible contribution to the preservation of peace in this world.
25:12Hamburg, August 1934.
25:16Ten months later, Germany announced conscription.
25:19We want to be a peace-loving element among the nation.
25:23We cannot repeat that often enough.
25:26The first and best principle in our government's program is that we shall not lie.
25:32When have the German people ever broken their word?
25:35This is the man who solemnly promised to respect the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact.
25:41On March the 7th, 1936, German troops occupied the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland in violation of those treaties.
25:51May 1935.
25:54Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the international affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss.
26:04Five months later, the Germans instigate riots in Vienna.
26:07And on July the 25th, they decide upon the murder of Chancellor Dolfus, who opposes the Anschluss.
26:14The Nazis must parade in the uniforms of the regular Austrian army, seize the broadcasting station,
26:20and announce falsely that the Dolfus Ministry has resigned and that Brintolin, a pro-Hitler-Austrian minister, has taken his place.
26:30In the meantime, other Nazis have invaded the Chancellor and shot down Dolfus.
26:36He is carried into an office and placed on a settee.
26:40And for nearly four hours, he lies bleeding to death, deprived of any help whatsoever.
26:46There ensues one of the strangest, most poignant dramas of the days before the war.
26:52Well, is that you, Fay?
27:09Are you all right?
27:11Are you all right?
27:12Yes.
27:13So are the others.
27:15Well, I...
27:17I am going to die and I just want you to look after my wife and children.
27:22Of course I will.
27:24You promise?
27:25I swear it.
27:27For the time being, our good friend Mussolini will look after them.
27:32We can trust him.
27:34Chancellor, I allowed Major Fay to come here so that you could speak to him on serious matters.
27:40The first and most important thing for you to do is to order the army to make no move against us.
27:46Senful priest.
27:48Chancellor, you shall have a priest.
27:51On conditions.
27:53Yes.
27:54Give immediate orders that Rintolin shall be placed at the head of the government
27:58and that the army shall take no action against us.
28:03I only wanted peace.
28:07No blood must be shed on my account.
28:11But Schusnick is the man to form a new government.
28:15I tell you the man we insist upon having his Rintolin!
28:18The one man for Austria is Schusnick.
28:24Dolphus.
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.
28:39And Cardinal Initzer, Archbishop of Vienna, declares...
28:43He endured the death throes of our lord surrounded by enemies.
28:48Austria's respite is only temporary.
29:07In March 1938, Hitler sends for Chancellor Schusnick...
29:10and compels him to invite the Germans to take over Austria.
29:14German troops march into the era.
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 torment.
29:29The cardinal Initzer sees his palace invaded and sacked...
29:46by a fanatical mob of Hitler youth.
29:59Ha!
30:02Ha!
30:03Ha!
30:06Ha!
30:07Here you are!
30:08Get up!
30:23Who are they?
30:24Who are there?
30:27Ha!
30:28Hello. Police. Hello. Police.
30:33Hurry up. Up you go. Break the window.
30:35Yes. Smash it open. Break open the window.
30:38Please send help quickly.
30:42Go on. Break it. Use your gun.
30:45Go on. Break it down.
30:46Let's go back. Don't get sealed. Don't get sealed.
30:49That'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 serve us. Get out of the way.
31:05Come on.
31:15Here you are. There's another one coming down.
31:17No, please. We have precious treasures of the Church.
31:20Get out of the way.
31:21If he won't let it go, send him down with it.
31:23Let him down. Let him down.
31:26Let him down.
31:27Let him down.
31:33Get out of the way.
31:41Let him fall.
31:46Father, that's the people.
31:47But there's no other one sheep.
31:49The pace of events intensifies after the Austrian, the Sudetenland crisis.
31:58War seems inevitable.
32:09But the Pact of Munich establishes a new agreement.
32:12Hitler guarantees formally and solemnly Czechoslovakia's new frontiers.
32:18Czechoslovakia, faithful to her undertaking, relinquishes the Sudetenland territory into the troops of the Reich.
32:37The world breathes with relief.
32:48And on the 26th of September, 1938, Hitler says of the Sudetenland...
33:00This territorial claim is the last I have to make in Europe.
33:05I have assured Mr. Chamberlain, and I repeat now, that when the Sudeten problem is settled,
33:12Germany will not raise any more territorial questions in Europe.
33:15Here are the words from the Führer's very mouth.
33:31Within six months, the promise is broken.
33:34Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
33:38And German troops enter Prague.
33:51In the same month, the ogre of Berlin swallows the mere morsel of Memo, the Lithuanian port.
33:56Great Britain decides upon conscription.
33:59And Hitler is solemnly warned that any further act of aggression means war.
34:05The sands are running out.
34:23And August 1939 brings the most cynical stroke of all.
34:27Four years before, Hitler had declared...
34:30Between Germany and Russia, there is a gulf that can never be bridged.
34:39But von Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin.
34:46The astonishment aroused throughout the world is soon tinged with irony.
34:50So paradoxical is this new friendship between the two dictators.
34:57A little cartoons hit off the situation.
35:01I've changed my emblem a little just to please you.
35:04There's nothing new under the sun.
35:07Hitler and Stalin disguised as Frederick II and Catherine the Great.
35:11Germany is no less astonished than the rest of the world.
35:14Especially the older people who are unable to understand such a fantastic somersault.
35:19But Hitler has always concentrated on you.
35:22The young people are his.
35:23Caught up in their earliest years in the great Nazi machine.
35:27They think as Hitler wishes them to think.
35:29They will do only what Hitler wishes them to do.
35:32Their fanatical belief in their leader transcends all other considerations.
35:36Even family ties.
35:38Leland.
35:39Mother.
35:40Where are you going?
35:41Upstairs to my room.
35:43No.
35:44Stay here.
35:45There are the things I must talk to you about.
35:46Oh Mother must we?
35:47Can't we leave it till later?
35:48No, later.
35:49I may find excuses for you.
35:50Come 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.
36:08Later 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.
36:20I got used to distrusting servants, strangers, even friends.
36:27But one's own child.
36:30No, that didn't seem possible.
36:33How could you bring yourself to do it? You must have hated your father. Why?
36:39I didn't hate him. I love him.
36:42Love him?
36:43Yes. And I'm suffering as much as you are. Probably more.
36:47After all, I was the one who had to denounce him.
36:51Oh, they forced you.
36:54They suspected your father and questioned you. Threatened you, perhaps.
37:00Do you really think that I'd yield to threats?
37:06Well, it would have been an excuse.
37:10I don't need excuses.
37:13I don't understand.
37:15That's obvious.
37:17When Emmy Anker informed on her mother, she didn't understand either.
37:21And when Franz Weber denounced his elder brother, his parents cursed him.
37:25Who are these people you're talking about?
37:28My comrades of the Hitler Youth.
37:30And yet, after denouncing her mother whom she adored, Emmy Anker hanged herself.
37:36And Franz Weber tried to commit suicide.
37:38You see, they'd simply done their duty, knowing they'd pay for it with their lives.
37:43Duty?
37:45Is that what you call it?
37:47To spy on your own family?
37:50To betray those who love you?
37:53Is that what you call duty?
37:58So 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.
38:12But you're mad.
38:14You're all of you mad.
38:16You don't understand anything that doesn't conform with your comfortable bourgeois ideas.
38:21All the time you use the words family and love.
38:24Will you know what I think?
38:25If Germany is weak and poor and foreign countries don't respect her,
38:28it'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.
38:38I wish I'd never loved you.
38:40Never loved father.
38:42Herman.
38:43Herman, don't.
38:45Don't, my little one.
38:46You don't know what you're saying.
38:48It's so terrible, these things you're telling me.
38:51It's horrible.
38:53Love is within the reach of any mere animal.
38:56The only sentiment that truly ennobles man is the spirit of sacrifice.
39:00Our Führer has taught us that.
39:02That is why I despise your tears and why I am proud of myself.
39:06I suppose that when I think of my father I shall suffer sometimes.
39:10But I haven't any remorse.
39:11I know that I have no duties to anything but Germany.
39:14And I only live to serve her.
39:26What a crime.
39:28What a crime.
39:47What a crime.
39:49And now the final and greatest crime of all.
39:53Poland invaded.
39:55Open towns bombed.
39:58Over 350 ships mined, torpedoed, or bombed to the depths.
40:04Half of the menacing neutrals.
40:06Finland.
40:08Denmark.
40:10Norway.
40:11No people, however remote, are safe.
40:14Luxembourg.
40:16Holland.
40:18Belgium.
40:20Security vanishes from Europe.
40:21And still another crime.
40:23France, too, is laid in ruins and devoured by the war dogs of Europe.
40:24France, too, is laid in ruins and devoured by the war dogs of Europe.
40:26The war dogs of Europe.
40:47Why did Hess fly to the British Isles?
40:49Although it has not been officially admitted, the 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.
41:02Hitler faced another winter of war and starvation.
41:19Grabbed the Ukrainian wheat.
41:21Grab Baku's oil and other materials of war.
41:24Attack Russia was the order.
41:27Another pledge broken.
41:28Another Hitler crime.
41:29Another Hitler crime.
41:44Eastward, westward, where to next?
41:48Will this man be the master of your destiny?
41:51America answers no.
41:52America answers no.
41:53America answers no.
42:21America answers no.
42:24They were finalised sin from November's.
42:25Will this love mind?
42:26Tiger Kirsten Lafida from Somewhere Centaurée Desirees.
42:28To you in front of the way.
42:33Two Fate and Aufgabe resumed by the fact,
42:36anire of war and 무 fair bee préfкого.
42:37General Martin is who told me back at that time.
42:39Under the way then it's beenoland's Sinan,
42:42HistoryД reinforced by the view.
42:44Holyoke Twin replaces dunes drinkingully in hospital.
42:46Police沒有xoas really as part of the gun.
42:47As a reporter who spent quite a bit of time in Hitler, Germany,
43:12and who wrote a diary, which had the good fortune to be read widely by a great many Americans,
43:18I'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
43:34during the 12 years he's been in power.
43:37It'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.
43:55To be precise, this is training film photographed in the winter of 1944 and 1945,
44:02when, by all ordinary standards, the Germans should be ready to quit.
44:07Germany 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.
44:21But not they, the young people.
44:24They, the young, will not betray the sacred trust put in them by their fearer.
44:31They will still carry their banners high.
44:34And where, we ask, does this strength come from?
44:37Why are they so confident?
44:39Where does it begin?
44:41Here's where.
44:42And here, in this crib, or in a carriage where a baby lies,
44:51his mind like a fresh tablet, white and unruled.
44:56Anything can be written on that tablet, as the Nazis well know.
45:01So 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 Bundesdeutscher Mädchen,
45:13a young girls' organization with over a million members,
45:18already dedicated to the principles of Nazism.
45:21We 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,
45:32and we will raise them according to plan.
45:35In Hitler, Germany, when a child is able to walk,
45:43he'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 learned to say gun, grenade, and stucke,
45:57at an age when you and I were learning the meaning of words like cat, rat, and bat.
46:02And instead of playing with dolls, they're taught to make helmets.
46:11Who uses a helmet?
46:12A football player, yes, but also a tank man.
46:17Here again in this group of jugend, as they're called,
46:21we get the meaning of total war.
46:24Here, and these children, now a little older,
46:27and proudly exhibiting their swastikas,
46:29we see what the Nazis mean
46:32when they say that every member of the new generation
46:35must be brought under the spell of National Socialism.
46:40Today, we know from the Nazis' loud boasts
46:42that there is no schoolboy,
46:45no apprentice working in the trade,
46:47whether a girl or a boy,
46:49who is not a member of some Nazi youth organization.
46:52In fact, such membership is compulsory,
46:56just as every young person
46:58is forced to dedicate himself to Hitler
47:01and the divine mission
47:03that Germany will one day rule the world.
47:07No, the young mind of the German child
47:10is no longer fresh and unruled.
47:14Hitler and the Nazis
47:15have marked it indelibly,
47:17black and deep with ideas
47:19we know belong to the dark ages,
47:22racial superiority,
47:25religious intolerance,
47:26and no respect for the rights of any people
47:29other than Germans.
47:32On the German report card,
47:35the word behavior has been changed to obedience.
47:38And here we see a group of Hitler youth
47:41being rewarded for their obedience
47:43and for the things they've learned,
47:46for knowing 141 experiments in gas
47:49and their antidotes,
47:51for knowing how to shoot,
47:53not only a rifle,
47:54but a machine gun.
47:59At the same time,
48:01they're taken on strength through joy tours
48:03and shown German monuments.
48:06Much time is spent on Frederick the Great,
48:08for he too once had the combined strength
48:11of Europe against him.
48:13But his enemies failed to remain united,
48:16and Frederick the Great emerged triumphant.
48:19And these German children
48:20are made to believe
48:21that the same thing will again happen
48:23in this war,
48:25that the English and the Americans
48:26hate each other,
48:28and that they have a common enemy
48:30in Russia.
48:32Every nation knows
48:34that its future resides in its youth,
48:37but no nation has known it better
48:39than Germany under Hitler,
48:41and none has worked harder
48:42to impress its young people
48:44with the ideas of sacrifice.
48:47And that's why,
48:49after five years of war,
48:51after Germany's cities
48:52have been bombed mercilessly
48:54and six million of her soldiers lie dead,
48:57the youth of Germany
48:58still wish to serve Hitler
49:00and eagerly accept jobs
49:02aboard submarines as helpers.
49:04Nothing would excite
49:06and please these young Nazis more
49:08than to venture into hostile waters
49:11on such a ship
49:12and think important to live shipping.
49:17This is General Guderian,
49:19a German hero
49:20to whom Hitler has given great power.
49:24We can understand the importance
49:25of young people
49:26in the minds of the Nazis
49:27when we realize
49:29that these personal appearances
49:31are part of a German general's
49:34daily routine.
49:36Guderian must not only
49:37match his military skill
49:39against men like
49:40General Eisenhower
49:41and Marshal Zhukov,
49:43but he must be ready
49:44at all times
49:45to impress upon the youth
49:47of Germany
49:48that Hitler is counting
49:50as much upon them
49:51as he is upon his army.
49:55In the past,
49:57some have made the mistake
49:58of comparing various
50:00Nazi youth organizations
50:02with our own Boy Scouts
50:04and our YMCA.
50:06It's a bad comparison.
50:08This group of kids
50:09is not figuring out
50:10how to perform
50:11a good deed every day.
50:13They're not interested
50:14in helping a blind man
50:15cross the street
50:16or carrying an old woman's packages.
50:19This is war.
50:21These children know it
50:22and they want more of it.
50:25Now we can begin to see
50:27why the German boy
50:29is so confident
50:30and why,
50:31when he learns the war
50:32is now being fought
50:33on sacred German soil,
50:36he is eager to volunteer
50:37for a labor battalion,
50:39eager to march off
50:40to dig the necessary
50:41tank traps
50:42and defense ditches.
50:44On the western front,
51:01we've captured boys
51:02like this.
51:03Because they are boys,
51:05we have not believed
51:06they were dangerous
51:07or a threat
51:08to our military operations.
51:11Only gradually
51:12and at a cost
51:13to American lives
51:15have we learned
51:16that they are
51:16fanatical Nazis
51:18ready to spy
51:19and sabotage.
51:21Some we have executed
51:23and others
51:24we have sent
51:25to prison for life.
51:27Now they furrow
51:28all Germany
51:29with fortifications.
51:30But when the time comes,
51:32they're ready
51:33to stand behind them
51:34with the guns
51:35and machine guns
51:36they've learned
51:37to use so skillfully
51:38and efficiently.
51:39here
51:41in an unidentified
51:43German city
51:44the Hitler youth
51:46of 18
51:46is welcomed
51:48into the Wehrmacht
51:49but the welcome
51:50is merely a formality
51:51for there has been
51:53no real transformation
51:54from civilian life
51:55to army life
51:56as there has been
51:57in our own country
51:58in England
51:59and in Russia.
52:02These men
52:02have never known
52:03the pleasures
52:04of a home
52:04of a family
52:06of going to church
52:07on Sunday
52:08and of having
52:09a sweetheart
52:10that one day
52:11they plan to marry.
52:13The entire life
52:14of these men
52:14has been in
52:16a Hitler uniform.
52:18Hitler's orders
52:18stated clearly
52:20in Mein Kampf
52:21have been obeyed.
52:23This
52:24is the German citizen
52:25of the next 25 years.
52:28This is the man
52:29who will still
52:30be a threat
52:30to any permanent peace
52:32when the guns
52:33have ceased firing.
52:35And it's because
52:35of them
52:36that the occupation
52:38of Germany
52:38is going to be
52:39one of our most
52:39difficult problems.
52:41These men
52:42are tough.
52:43We are going
52:44to have to be
52:44that much tougher
52:45if Americans
52:47don't want to be
52:47back in uniform
52:48in another 10 years
52:50fighting Germany
52:51all over again.
52:52The end
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53:07millions
53:07to back
53:08the
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