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Beyond the Struggle: A Nation Reborn is a powerful historical drama that explores the aftermath of a nation torn by war and extremist ideology. The film follows the journey of a people striving to rebuild their identity, values, and hope after years of darkness. Through emotional storytelling and striking visuals, it portrays redemption, resilience, and the enduring human spirit that rises from the ruins. A touching reminder that even after the deepest struggles, a nation can be reborn.
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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 Goring is given the task of cleaning up Berlin
12:41And his first target is the man who stands between his chief
12:45And the final fulfillment of his ambition
12:47General, what's nice, sir?
13:00Well?
13:01You've seen nothing
13:31You've heard nothing
13:32You've heard nothing
13:33If not
13:42Victims are hounded out and shot down in scores
13:57Summer told that their arrest was a mistake
14:00They are freed
14:01They are freed
14:02Shove while attempting to escape
14:18Was the official excuse
14:21Hail Hitler
14:23Hail Hitler
14:25Hitler sends me that
14:41Yes, he hasn't forgotten you were once his friend
14:44That's very nice, sir
14:46He wants to save you the fate usually reserved for traitors
14:49He doesn't like to think of Stormtroopers walking around boasting of having shot the great Captain Röhm
14:54You mean he wants me to commit suicide?
14:56No, I won't take it
14:57I won't make it easy for him by committing suicide
14:59You will tell him he'll have to murder me too
15:01He'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
15:09Like my friend's
15:10I'd advise you to think it over
15:11I want a dozen bullets in my guts
15:12Like my friend's
15:13I'd advise you to think it over
15:15Hitler is no master of the situation
15:40And within only a few weeks
15:42Hindenburg has the good grace not to exhaust his rival's patience
15:46He takes leave of life on the 2nd of August
15:49And prolonged obsequies are ordained
15:51Culminating in the funeral of Tannenberg
15:54The German papers that announce the President's death
15:57At the same time publish the text of a law adopted the day before
16:01While Hindenburg was still living
16:03Decreeing Hitler President and Chancellor
16:06The same day German troops are compelled to take a strange new oath
16:11An oath of fidelity to Hitler personally
16:14I swear by God this sacred oath
16:17That I will render unconditional obedience to the leader of the German Reich and people
16:21Adolf Hitler
16:23The commander in chief of the armed forces
16:25And that I will as a valiant soldier at all times be ready to stake my life for this oath
16:31And while the German people mourn the passing of the great marshal
16:35The 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
16:46The people must decide
16:48A foregone conclusion under the mass attack of Goebbels' hysterical propaganda
16:52Hitler is duly confirmed
16:55More acclamations
17:00More ovations
17:01But the public expects more than this
17:03They want the fulfillment of all those hedges
17:06Hitler cannot deliver
17:08But he can and does
17:10Dope his dukes with growing doses of anti-Semitism
17:15He puts into effect his theory of racism
17:18According to which
17:19Only the 100% Aryan is worthy of living and propagating his kind in Germany
17:24How different from the ideal are the leaders themselves?
17:29Hitler thinking far ahead
17:34Sets out to capture the youth of Germany
17:36But Hitler who has made racism the foundation of National Socialism
17:40Cannot be sure that he himself is a true Aryan
17:43His father was the natural son of a young woman named Schickelgruber
17:47And he nearly came to bear that name himself
17:50Could he have become the master of Germany if that had been the case?
17:53Instead of Heil Hitler
17:55Imagine the nardysalute
17:57Accompanied by the ridiculous chant
17:59Heil Schickelgruber
18:02But as it happened
18:03An old man, Johann George Hitler
18:06At the age of 84
18:07Acknowledged as his son, Adolf Hitler's father
18:10The illegitimate Alois Schickelgruber
18:13At that time 39 years old
18:15Was old Johann George Hitler
18:20Really the man to whom Maria Anna Schickelgruber
18:23The farm girl
18:24Had surrendered 40 years previously?
18:26Famous men
18:28If 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
18:37And should the fever show signs of abating
18:40It can readily be whipped up again
18:42Shops are branded
18:44And then broken into
18:46Wrecked
18:47Blunder
18:48Any attempted resistance is a signal for a beating
18:50A collective fine is imposed on all the Jews in Germany
18:53The total sum running to millions of Mark
18:56So to resist
19:07Go to the dreaded Dachau concentration camp
19:10Where 100 die in the first five weeks
19:13But in any case the money is collected
19:15The wealth thus confiscated is used to help meet the cost of Germany's colossal rearmament
19:28Not all the money is used in this way
19:30Some goes to line the pockets of Nazi leaders
19:45The
19:59The
20:01The
20:03This permit of Berchteska, where strange sidelight on his complex character, guarded
20:24by his boy stormtroopers, he stands alone against this impressive
20:33background, face to face with the gigantic idol he has made of himself.
20:39If Hitler knows nothing of the sentiment common to mankind, it is because a single passion,
20:45all-absorbing, dominates him. He wants to be not only the greatest, the most powerful,
20:52but the only master, even above God, whom he does not recognize, unless the clergy submits to his will.
21:03We do not want any other God, but Germany itself, cries Hitler.
21:09Goebbels echoes, God manifested himself, not in Jesus Christ, but in Adolf Hitler.
21:18Christ is a false prophet. 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.
21:31All of the gods.
21:33The Pope wants war.
21:37Catholic priests and Protestant clergymen, including the martyred Niemöller, are attacked or imprisoned
21:45when they resist the imposition of the Nazi theory upon their religion.
21:49Greater than the cross in Germany is the Hooked Cross.
21:53Hitler's power, symbolized by this cross, must be imposed everywhere, on everyone.
22:01And it even descends, this cult of Hitler, from a certain grandeur to the completely ridiculous.
22:07Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
22:17And so the people heil, and they fly the flags.
22:21Obedience and indiscipline.
22:43But for all the well-orchestrated ovations, Hitler knows that he's not silenced all consciousness.
22:51There are still those who would like to reach behind this living wall of machine-made enthusiasm.
23:07The 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 try to create a Germany of just one opinion, one point of view.
23:21The human mind in quarantine.
23:23Punishment for listening in to foreign countries is severe.
23:27In the final resort, the penalty is death.
23:30The German newspapers themselves have announced sentences for this crime of penal servitude ranging from three and a half to five years.
23:40Crime of wanting to hear the truth.
23:44But the people do listen.
23:54And ingenious tricks are resorted to.
23:56Still parades.
24:09And more parades.
24:11With Hitler now apparently assuming the role of a Nazi Nero.
24:15He maintains his torrent of auditory.
24:33The German people have no thought of invading any country.
24:48The 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.
25:11Hamburg, August 1934.
25:15Ten 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.
25:31When have the German people ever broken their word?
25:35This is the man who solemnly promised to respect the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Factor.
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 masquerade in the uniforms of the regular Austrian army, seize the broadcasting station, and announce falsely that the Dolfus ministry has resigned,
26:24and that Brintolin, a pro-Hitler Austrian minister, has taken his place.
26:29In the meantime, other Nazis have invaded the Chancellor and shot down Dolfus.
26:35He is carried into an office and placed on a settee.
26:39And 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.
27:05Well, is that you, Fay?
27:09Are you all right?
27:11Yes.
27:12So are the others.
27:14Well, I...
27:16I am going to die, and I just want you to look after my wife and children.
27:21Of course I will.
27:23You promise?
27:24I swear it.
27:26For the time being, our good friend Mussolini will look after them.
27:31We can trust him.
27:33Chancellor, 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 on conditions.
27:53Yes?
27:54Give immediate orders that Brintolin shall be placed at the head of the government,
27:58and that the army shall take no action against us.
28:02I 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 rental in!
28:18The one man for Austria is Schusnick.
28:23Dolphus.
28:25Dolphus dies without yield.
28:28The Nazi attempt fails.
28:30Austria remains Austria.
28:32For the time being.
28:34An immense throng attends the state funeral of the little chancellor.
28:38And Cardinal Initsa, Archbishop of Vienna, declares...
28:42He endured the death throes of our Lord, surrounded by enemies.
28:47Austria's respite is only temporary.
28:50In March 1938, Hitler sends for Chancellor Schusnick...
28:53and compels him to invite the Germans to take over Austria.
28:58German troops march into Europe.
28:59The crime is consummated.
29:01Schusnick meets a fate almost worse than that of Dolphus.
29:05He is thrown into prison to face no one knows what tormenting.
29:09It is a death.
29:10The crimes are not too much.
29:12But the crimes are not too much.
29:14Not too much.
29:15The crimes are too much.
29:17The crimes are too much.
29:19And the crimes are too much.
29:22of fate almost worse than that of Dolphus, he is thrown into prison to face no one knows
29:28what torment.
29:42The Cardinal Initzer sees his palace invaded and sacked by a fanatical mob of Hitler youth.
29:52Oh, let's try this door. Come on. Look at it locked. Let's go hang out the side.
30:07Let's go hang out the side.
30:22Who are they?
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. Go on. Break it down.
30:46That's right. Break it in. Come on.
30:50Stop. Stop. I beg of you. Do not make sacrilege.
30:54Remember, this is the house of the Prince of the Church.
30:56You old humbug. You can't stop us. Get out of the way.
31:05Come on.
31:06Here you are. There's another one coming down.
31:16No, please. We have precious treasures of the church.
31:19Get out of the way.
31:20If he won't let it go, send him down with it.
31:23Yes.
31:24Let him down.
31:25Let him down.
31:26Let him down.
31:27Let him down.
31:28Let him down.
31:29Let him down.
31:30Let him down.
31:31Let him down.
31:32Let him down.
31:33Let him down.
31:34Let him down.
31:35Let him down.
31:36Let him down.
31:46Father, the people.
31:47But they know not what they do.
31:53The pace of events intensifies.
31:55After the Austrian, the Sudetenland crisis.
31:58This war seems inevitable.
32:08But the Pact of Munich establishes a new agreement.
32:11Hitler guarantees formally and solemnly
32:14Czechoslovakia's new frontiers.
32:28Czechoslovakia, faithful to her undertaking,
32:33relinquishes the Sudetenland territory
32:35to the troops of the Reich.
32:37The world breathes with relief.
32:40And on the 26th of September, 1938,
32:58Hitler says of the Sudetenland...
33:01This territorial claim is the last I have to make in Europe.
33:05I have assured Mr. Chamberlain,
33:07and 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
33:53swallows the mere morsel of Memo, the Lithuanian port.
33:57Great Britain decides upon conscription,
34:00and Hitler is solemnly warned that any further act of aggression means war.
34:06The 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.
34:32There is a gulf that can never be bridged.
34:39But von Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow
34:41to sign a non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin.
34:45The astonishment aroused throughout the world is soon tinged with irony.
34:49So paradoxical is this new friendship between the two dictators.
34:58Carol 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.
35:06Hitler and Stalin disguised as Frederick II and Catherine the Great.
35:10Germany is no less astonished than the rest of the world.
35:13Especially the older people,
35:14who are unable to understand such a fantastic somersault.
35:19But Hitler has always concentrated on you.
35:21The 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.
35:39modern magic.
35:43There we go.
35:47It's a beautiful scene with the old people.
35:49It's beautiful.
35:51Jonathan.
35:54Mother?
35:55Where do you go?
35:57Upstairs to my room.
35:58No, stay here.
36:00There are things I must talk to you about.
36:03Oh, Mother, must we?
36:04Can'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.
36:11I 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.
36:21I got used to distrusting servants, strangers, even friends.
36:28But one's own child.
36:31No, that didn't seem possible.
36:33How could you bring yourself to do it?
36:38You must have hated your father. Why?
36:40I didn't hate him. I love him.
36:42Love him?
36:44Yes. And I'm suffering as much as you are. Probably more.
36:48After 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?
37:02Well, it would have been an excuse.
37:07I don't need excuses.
37:12I 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?
37:44Is 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?
37:56So you're proud of what you did?
38:00You sneaked off to your leader and repeated your father's words?
38:06Of your own free will?
38:10Of course.
38:11But you're mad.
38:13You'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.
38:24Well, 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.
38:38I wish I'd never loved you.
38:40Never loved father.
38:41Herman.
38:42Herman, don't.
38:44Don'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.
39:12I know that I have no duties to anything but Germany.
39:15And I only live to serve her.
39:26What a crime.
39:29What a crime.
39:46What a crime.
39:48And now the final and greatest crime of all.
39:52Poland invaded.
39:55Open towns bombed.
39:57Over 350 ships mined, torpedoed or bombed to the depths.
40:03Half of the menacing neutrals.
40:05Finland.
40:06Denmark.
40:07Norway.
40:08No people, however remote, are safe.
40:11Luxembourg.
40:12Holland.
40:13Belgium.
40:14Security vanishes from Europe.
40:15And still another crime.
40:16France, too, is laid in ruins and devoured by the war dogs of Europe.
40:18France, too, is laid in ruins and devoured by the war dogs of Europe.
40:31France, too.
40:32France, too.
40:33France.
40:3440 years now.
40:36Why did Hess fly to the British Isles?
40:50Although it has not been officially admitted,
40:52the 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.
41:06Hitler faced another winter of war and starvation.
41:19Grabbed the Ukrainian wheat.
41:21Grabbed Baku's oil and other materials of war.
41:25Attacked Russia was the order.
41:27Another pledge broken.
41:29Another Hitler crime.
41:36Eastward, westward, where to next?
41:48Will this man be the master of your destiny?
41:56America answers no.
41:58No.
41:58No.
41:58No.
42:06America answers no.
42:08God.
42:09No.
42:09No.
42:10No.
42:11No.
42:12No.
42:13No.
42:16Yeah.
42:17No.
43:17I'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 during 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 45,
44:02when, by all ordinary standards, the Germans should be ready to quit.
44:06Germany 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.
44:25They, the young, will not betray the sacred trust put in them by their fear.
44:30They 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.
44:46And here, in this crib, or in a carriage where a baby lies,
44:51is mine like a fresh tablet, white and unruled.
44:55Anything 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
45:09and turning him over to the Bund Deutscher 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.
45:39In Hitler, Germany, when a child is able to walk,
45:43he's also able to march and to carry a flag.
45:45I 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 stucca,
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,
46:09they're taught to make helmets.
46:11Who uses a helmet?
46:12A football player, yes,
46:14but also a tank man.
46:17Here again in this group of jugen,
46:19as they're called,
46:21we get the meaning of total war.
46:24Here, and these children,
46:26now 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.
46:53In 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.
47:12Hitler and the Nazis have mocked it indelibly,
47:17black and deep with ideas we 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.
47:31On the German report card,
47:35the word behavior has been changed to obedience.
47:39And 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
47:52not only a rifle,
47:54but a machine gun.
47:55At 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 are made to believe
48:21that the same thing will again happen in this war,
48:24that the English and the Americans hate each other,
48:28and that they have a common enemy in 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,
48:40and 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.
49:05Nothing 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 allied shipping.
49:15This is General Guderian,
49:18a German hero
49:20to whom Hitler has given great power.
49:24We can understand the importance
49:25of young people in the minds of the Nazis
49:27when we realize
49:29that these personal appearances
49:31are part of a German general's daily routine.
49:35Guderian must not only match
49:38his military skill
49:39against men like General Eisenhower
49:41and Marshal Zhukov,
49:43but he must be ready at all times
49:45to impress upon the youth of Germany
49:48that Hitler is counting as much upon them
49:51as he is upon his army.
49:53In the past,
49:57some have made the mistake
49:58of comparing various Nazi 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 a good deed every day.
50:13They're not interested
50:14in helping a blind man cross 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 is 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 tank traps
50:42and defense ditches.
50:51On the Western Front,
51:00we've captured boys like 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 fanatical Nazis
51:18ready to spy
51:19and sabotage.
51:21Some we have executed
51:23and others
51:24we have sent to prison
51:25for 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 to use
51:37so skillfully
51:38and efficiently.
51:40Here,
51:41in an unidentified
51:43German city,
51:45the Hitler youth
51:46of 18
51:46is welcomed
51:48into the Wehrmacht.
51:49But the welcome
51:50is merely a formality.
51:52For 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,
51:59in England,
52:00and in Russia.
52:02These men have never known
52:03the pleasures of a home,
52:05of a family,
52:06of going to church
52:07on Sunday,
52:08and of having a sweetheart
52:10that one day
52:11they plan to marry.
52:12The entire life
52:14of these men
52:14has been in
52:16a Hitler uniform.
52:18Hitler's orders,
52:19stated clearly
52:20in Mein Kampf,
52:21have been obeyed.
52:23This is the German citizen
52:25of the next 25 years.
52:28This is the man
52:29who will still be a threat
52:30to any permanent peace
52:32when the guns
52:33have ceased firing.
52:35And it's because of them
52:36that the occupation
52:38of Germany
52:38is going to be
52:39one of our most
52:39difficult problems.
52:40These men are tough.
52:43We are going to have
52:44to be that much tougher
52:45if Americans
52:47don't want to be
52:47back in uniform
52:48in another ten years,
52:50fighting Germany
52:51all over again.
52:52to be one of...
53:03and to be one of your
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