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Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf Part 1
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00:00The End
02:37Berlin, 1914.
02:40There are no ruins yet.
02:42In a fervor of nationalism, the troops march to war, color streaming and bands playing.
02:56Dazzling pomp surrounds the Kaiser.
03:05Legends arise about generals such as Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who stem the Russian advances
03:11in the east and finally take over command of the whole German army.
03:18War is brutal.
03:20The greatest war to date proves the effectiveness of new weapons of destruction.
03:27Poison gas is used, and advance is made with tanks.
03:37War is carried on in the air, and a ruthless war at sea with the submarine as a new weapon
03:42is proclaimed.
03:45The Russian army was destroyed.
03:46The Russian army was destroyed.
03:57The Russian army was destroyed.
04:11The Russian Empire is the first to collapse.
04:14The November Revolution brings the Bolsheviks to power, and in 1918, Lenin makes peace with
04:20Germany.
04:46After the last German great offensive miscarried, the sailors in Kiel light the flame of the
04:50revolution.
04:51The Kaiser abdicates, and the Republic is proclaimed in Berlin.
05:15The revolutionary tide carries forward Karl Liebknecht, the man who voted against the war
05:19of the Kaiser's empire.
05:21He is now followed by the masses.
05:24Real power, however, is not with the Social Democrats who have formed a government, but
05:28with the army chiefs on whom they lean.
05:30The workers' movement is split in two.
05:34The left radical insurrection, inspired by Liebknecht, is crushed by the army, called in by the
05:39Social Democratic government.
05:42Liebknecht and many of his supporters are murdered.
05:56At Versailles, the victors dictate their peace terms.
06:00The young republic pays the price of a lost war.
06:03Alsace-Lorraine becomes French, Posen and West Prussia Polish, and Memel Lithuanian.
06:10Germany is deprived of her colonies and has to pay war damages to the victors.
06:15Otherwise, however, Germany remains intact.
06:18The new free city of Danzig retains its German character, and the Rhineland, although a militarized
06:24zone, remains German soil.
06:27The war industries are dismantled and the army restricted to 100,000 professional soldiers.
06:33But Germany's sovereignty is not endangered.
06:38The Social Democrat Ebert rules as president.
06:41He needs the support of the army to maintain the authority of the young democracy in the face
06:45of the many national groups which refuse to admit defeat, and still less, to accept the terms
06:50of the peace treaty.
06:59The foreign minister, Rattenauer, is murdered by nationalist fanatics because he wishes to adhere
07:03to the peace terms.
07:07In Bavaria, the army and the Free Corps conduct their own violent policies and refuse to recognize
07:12the authority of Berlin.
07:15General von Epp finances extreme nationalist elements from secret army funds.
07:25His adjutant, Captain Rem, hires spies to report on the activities of these elements.
07:32One of these spies becomes member number seven of the new National Socialist Party, on which
07:37he is to report.
07:38With the help of Rem's money, he even becomes leader of the party.
07:42In 1920, he is the party spokesman at meetings protesting against the peace treaties with the
07:47allies in Russia.
07:55This Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau, the son
08:03of the 50-year-old customs official, Alois Hitler, and his 28-year-old third wife, Clara.
08:11When Adolf is eight years of age, the family moves to a small house in Leonding, near Linz.
08:17Here, father and son disagree.
08:19Alois Hitler wishes the boy to become an official.
08:22Adolf wants to be an artist.
08:24He defies his father.
08:26He is a poor sort of pupil and fails in his exams, both in Linz and in Steyr.
08:34At the age of 16, he falls ill with tuberculosis and leaves school forever.
08:39In 1907, he moves to Vienna, seeks admittance to the Academy of Art, but is not accepted.
08:45He shares a furnished room with a friend.
08:48Turned away from the Academy of Art a second time, he becomes a part-time laborer and hawker
08:52of postcards painted by himself.
08:55He lands in a flophouse, but considers himself superior to the other tramps.
09:05For a few coppers, he buys his first anti-Semitic pamphlets.
09:09These are part of the Ostara library for the blond defenders of the rights of man.
09:14In order to obtain certain numbers no longer in circulation, Hitler looks up Ostara's publisher,
09:19Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, who in 1900 founded an order for blond, blue-eyed men.
09:26According to Lanz, the blond superman sits differently from and has different toes from the dark and inferior
09:32races whose extermination he demands.
09:35He depicts world history as a life-and-death struggle between the blond and the dark.
09:42The swastika is his sign, and for him, the Jew is the devil himself.
09:47These pipe dreams are a revelation to the unemployed, starving hermit in the flophouse.
09:53Hitler must believe in the difference between people and races so that he can count himself among the master race.
10:01His due for military service, he has left Austria and settled in Munich.
10:05His call-up papers reach him there, and in fear of the police, he musters but is turned down because
10:10of poor health.
10:12In Munich, he leads the same life as in Vienna.
10:16Only on the outbreak of war is there an end to his isolation and deprivation.
10:25On August 1, 1914, he stands in the middle of a singing and cheering crowd on the Odeonplatz in Munich
10:32and listens to the proclamation of the declaration of war.
10:38In a wave of enthusiasm, he volunteers and becomes an orderly in the infantry regiment Liszt.
10:44He is wounded at the Western Front in 1916, but returns in 1917 as a vice corporal.
10:51In 1918, his eyes are injured during a British gas attack, and he is in the hospital when the armistice
10:57puts an end to the war.
11:01Again, he is an unemployed hermit, a man without family and job.
11:04He decides to become a politician and goes to Munich, where the most desperate elements among the Free Corps have
11:10gathered.
11:10Earlier, the Free Corps was organized to defend Germany's eastern frontiers under the supervision of the army,
11:16but now they stand prepared to blow the Republic to bits.
11:19In reply to the question whether there are political murder gangs in Bavaria,
11:23the chief of police in Munich replies, certainly, but not enough.
11:28Officers such as Epp and Röhm consider that allegiance to the fatherland implies disloyalty to the Republic.
11:34Röhm discovers Hitler's talents and employs him to immunize the soldiers against socialistic and pacifist ideas.
11:40On April 1, 1920, Hitler leaves the army to devote himself entirely to his new party.
11:46As a speaker, his theory materializes that a leader is one who can move the masses.
11:52He is aware that violence appeals to many and frightens others.
11:56Battle groups are organized.
11:58Many Free Corps soldiers join Hitler's storm troops, the SA,
12:02and start regular battles with the socialists and communists.
12:05Unemployed officers like Captain Goering and rabid race fanatics like the schoolteacher Streicher join the party.
12:16General Ludendorff is won over by the Nazis.
12:23The confused situation in the country serves Hitler's policy.
12:27The inability of a bankrupt society to meet its obligations to France results in French occupation of the Ruhr district,
12:34which deals a death blow to the currency.
12:40The inflation ruins the middle classes and the workers.
12:43Hitler holds the Republic responsible for the distress and misery.
12:50Consequently, he tries to concentrate all the anti-Republican groups in Catholic Bavaria against Protestant Berlin.
12:58On November 8th, Hitler makes a desperate attempt to get the government of the Federated State of Bavaria and the
13:04army to join him.
13:05He forces his way into a house in Munich where the city leaders are gathered
13:09and proclaims a national government in place of the legal federal government.
13:14The house is surrounded by the SA.
13:16Ludendorff throws his prestige on the scales and Hitler enforces his will.
13:21The Munich government, however, retains its liberty.
13:24The Bavarian army receives orders from Berlin not to participate in the putsch, which is consequently doomed to failure.
13:31On November 9th, to save the situation,
13:33Hitler and Ludendorff, at the head of a few thousand men, march to army headquarters.
13:38Many men later to gain notoriety follow them.
13:42Heinrich Himmler is a color guard.
13:44After a short exchange of fire, 16 Hitlerites and three policemen lie dead or dying.
13:49Hitler escapes and is arrested two days later.
13:54During the subsequent legal proceedings, Ludendorff is acquitted
13:57and Hitler is imprisoned for a few months in the fortress at Landsberg,
14:02where he is given a roomy cell on the first floor with good food
14:05and the privilege of wearing his own clothes.
14:07Full of contempt for an opponent who punishes high treason so leniently,
14:11he dictates his book Mein Kampf, an autobiography which turns into a political platform,
14:17to his faithful friend, Rudolf Hess.
14:24Here, Hitler describes the reuniting of Germany and Austria as his life's mission.
14:31He exclaims that either Germany shall become a world power or be ruined.
14:36He maintains that during the war, poison gas should have been used on tens of thousands of Jews
14:42in order to prevent the collapse.
14:45The book was read by few and made a joke of by many.
14:48A few years later, they no longer laughed.
14:55While Hitler is in Landsberg, the situation improves in Germany.
14:59In February 1925, President Ebert dies.
15:03He is succeeded by Paul von Hindenburg, the Kaiser's field marshal,
15:08who, nominated by the parties of the right, wins the election by a narrow margin.
15:13To begin with, Hindenburg respects the Constitution.
15:16But after a while, his age, his political inexperience, and military philosophy claim their right.
15:23When Hitler leaves Landsberg, he has to reorganize the party.
15:28He sets to work with well-tried means.
15:30In February 1925, the Nazis hold their first large meeting after the Putsch.
15:37Hitler speaks of Germany's future and our movement.
15:40And Jews are not admitted.
15:46Even the prohibition against public speaking, which certain German states have published against him,
15:50is made use of for his propaganda.
15:53The brown shirts began the march to power.
15:56In 1926, the party has 17,000 members.
16:01In 1927, 40,000.
16:03In 1928, 60,000.
16:07They have not yet conquered the streets.
16:09The streetcars still drive through their ranks.
16:13The party days become shows, with essay parades and the veterans Goering, Streicher, and Epp forging their plans.
16:29At cleverly directed meetings, Hitler consecrates the colors and inspires his faithful with violent hate harangues.
16:51In 1926, Hitler finds the man to organize the party fight in Berlin and supervise the party propaganda.
16:58Goebbels.
16:59The political battle is now conducted with all means.
17:04Fights at meetings and in the streets occur daily.
17:07The big parties mobilize semi-military organizations.
17:11The Social Democrats have the Reich banner.
17:14And the communists, the Roth Front Kempverbund.
17:21Under the leadership of Tellmann, the communists hold their position.
17:25When Hitler comes to power, they are the strongest party in Berlin.
17:29No!
17:31No!
17:32No!
17:35No.
17:52No!
18:01Hitler's continued agitation and the hostile demonstrations of the SA are very convenient to the industrialists.
18:08They need someone to mobilize the masses against the communists.
18:12Money begins to flow from industry into the coffers of the party.
18:17In 1930, the number of unemployed rises to three million, and Hitler turns their fear and despair to his own
18:23use.
18:23Hitler gives them faith and promises them work and bread.
18:53This platform gains for Hitler more than six million votes and 106 seats in the Reichstag in the elections of
18:591929.
19:00He is now the leader of the nation's second largest party.
19:04The Chancellor, Brüning, has no parliamentary support for measures against want.
19:09He is forced to govern by means of a paragraph which gives President Hindenburg the right to issue decrees.
19:14Hitler blames Brüning for the distress and declares his government incompetent.
19:20Hitler now changes his tactics.
19:22He will only make his revolution when he has come to power.
19:25Then terror is legally protected.
19:28Thus the police have no excuse to intervene against the SA, and he can win the competence of the army.
19:35In several actions against his sympathizers, Hitler swears he wants to assume power legally.
19:44He is helped by the party lawyer, Hans Frank.
19:52It is senseless to ban the brown uniforms.
19:54Hitler's men put on white shirts instead and march through the towns as usual.
19:58Many unemployed are enticed by the adventurous glamour which Goebbels' propaganda builds up around these processions
20:05and the bloody battles with political opponents.
20:16Industrialists such as Kierkdorf and Thyssen finance Hitler's next election campaign and hope to be able to control him later.
20:26Hitler flies from town to town.
20:29Goebbels has discovered a new slogan, Hitler over Germany.
20:33The election is for President of the Reich.
20:51To become a candidate, Hitler in 1932 becomes a German citizen.
20:56His friend Frick, a minister in the state of Braunschweig,
20:59swears in his Führer as councillor,
21:03which automatically makes him a German citizen.
21:08Hindenburg is nominated by the Social Democrats, Catholics, and Liberals.
21:13Who will save us from Hitler?
21:16Only Hindenburg.
21:21Hindenburg is re-elected and Hitler seems to be on a dead-end street.
21:26He is saved by General Schleicher, who exercises his political power behind the scenes.
21:33He promises Hitler to overthrow Breining and proclaim new elections,
21:37providing Hitler, until further notice, accepts a government under Franz von Poppen,
21:41a conservative politician whom Schleicher wants to use as a puppet.
21:46Schleicher himself is a member of Poppen's cabinet,
21:48which is made up of seven barons, two industrialists, and one lawyer.
21:53The fate of the nation is no longer in the hands of its chosen representatives in the Reichstag,
21:57but depends on the way in which Hindenburg exercises his power,
22:01which in turn is either decided by his son Oscar, a friend of Schleicher,
22:05or at the coffee table at his country estate, Neudeck.
22:14These men also intrigue against one another.
22:17Schleicher overthrows Poppen and becomes chancellor.
22:20In order to overthrow Schleicher, Poppen suggests a Hitler government to Hindenburg,
22:24in which the Nazis are to be in a minority among the conservative ministers,
22:28with Poppen as vice-chancellor and real leader.
22:33Thus Hitler becomes chancellor.
22:38The Social Democrats lose their last position
22:41when the Prussian Prime Minister Brown
22:43allows himself to be deposed without opposition by Poppen.
23:22The new government meets.
23:34The vice-chancellor sits next to Hitler and Göring
23:37and the belief that he can control them.
24:11That same night, the S.A. pay homage to Hindenburg and Hitler
24:14with a torchlight procession.
24:16In the darkness, the terror begins against defenseless anti-fascists
24:20who are dragged from their homes and beaten up in the cellars of the S.A.
24:37The first public appearance of the new regime in Berlin
24:40is at the state funeral of an S.A. man and a policeman
24:44killed during one of the nightly battles.
24:46The ex-crown prince is also present.
24:49Ich-Franci против
24:56The Chalcoat
24:56The Chalcoat
24:58The Chalcoat
25:11The End
25:34The End
26:03Vor einem Sturm macht hier ein junger deutscher Arbeiter aufrecht stolz.
26:15Der Kamerad seiner Kameraden und der Führer seiner Gefolgschaft, wie all die anderen, die Hunderttausende,
26:25geht er vorbei an dem kreisenden Reichspräsidenten und dem jungen Reichskanzler.
26:32Das, was er geträumt hatte, das ist unwilligkeit, das junge und das alte Deutschland reichen wie Gende.
26:40On February 10th, Hitler makes his first speech as Chancellor in Berlin.
26:56Unser Führer, der Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler hat das Wort.
27:13Unser Führer, der Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler hat das Volk gelassen.
27:26Am 30. Januar dieses Jahres wurde die neue Regierung der nationalen Konzentration gewählt.
27:42Ich und damit die Nationalsozialistische Bewegung raten in die Einigkeit.
27:51Ich glaube, dass nunmehr die Voraussetzungen erreicht sind, um die ich das vergangenen Jahr gekämpft habe.
28:16Ich habe deshalb es abgelehnt, jemals vor dieses Volk hinzutreten und billige Versprechungen zu geben.
28:26In uns selbst allein liegt die Zukunft des deutschen Volkes.
28:34Wenn wir selbst dieses deutsche Volk ein Vorführung durch eigene Arbeit,
28:42durch eigenen Fleiß, eigenen Schlossheit, eigenen Trotz, eigene Beharrlichkeit,
28:47dann werden wir wieder ein Vorstein, genau wie die Väter einst aus Deutschland nicht geschenkt erhielten, sondern uns selbst nicht
28:57schlappen mussten.
29:10Deutsches Volk, die nutzt vier Jahre.
29:14Und ich schwöre dir, so wie wir und so wie ich, die dieses Amt eintragen, so will ich dank Ihnen.
29:33In this way, an election campaign starts under the sign of terror.
29:38Göring appoints 40,000 S.A. and S.S. men as auxiliary policemen, and the terror is legal.
29:52On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag burns down.
29:57After the war, Göring admits that already before the fire,
30:00he had made up lists of communists and others who were to be arrested.
30:04The Nazi propaganda blames the communists for the fire,
30:07which becomes the excuse for a law outlawing Hitler's opponents.
30:14The Dutchman, Wanderlobe, was arrested in the Reichstag on the night of the fire,
30:18and four communists are brought to court.
30:21The proceedings, however, only show that the Dutchman must have had accomplices,
30:25and that the communists are innocent.
30:30The accused Bulgarian, Dmitrov, says straight out that only the Nazis
30:34had the opportunity of setting fire to the Reichstag and gaining advantage from it.
30:38His pointed questions make Göring furious.
31:04In the election, Hitler obtains 43.9% of all votes.
31:13He still needs the army and the German nationalists.
31:16Consequently, the new regime is to appear as the inheritor of the Prussian tradition,
31:21and the new Reichstag is opened at Potsdam, the city of Frederick the Great.
31:30Army and S.A. gather in the old garrison church.
31:33The old and the new Germany salute one another.
31:35The Kaiser's field marshal in pre-war dress uniform,
31:38and the unknown soldier from the Western Front in correct mourning coat.
31:44The Soviet Union is arranged in pre-war dress uniform,
31:47although theщ tuvo awaited all the Nashville Youth следует alone.
32:08The years since the northern government have acquired it,
32:12the which have been established,
32:13of the German people, to complete the election of the German people.
32:17Today, we are looking forward to the German Reichstag,
32:21with a hot wish to find a support for the implementation of their mission.
32:43A, who in chorus threaten terror if the law is not passed.
32:48Providing the 81 communist votes are declared invalid,
32:52and Hitler is supported by the German nationalists and the Catholics,
32:55his law will be passed.
32:58Most of the communists and a dozen social democrats have already been arrested.
33:02The remaining social democrats alone vote against the law.
33:13It is not only about the positive mission of the German government
33:18for the nationalists.
33:24The Reichsregierung is not allowed to do this legislation,
33:29but the country will not have the rights.
33:30However, they will meet the measures,
33:34which will now up and forever
33:36have the same power of political intentions in the world and in the countries.
33:57In order to assume power in all Germany, however, Hitler did not await the passing of this law.
34:03Already on March the 9th, Epp and Röhm were allowed free hands for a coup in Bavaria.
34:10They overthrow Heldt's government and take over the key positions in Munich without interference from the army.
34:16Old scores from 1923 are settled.
34:19Similar coups are carried out in other states.
34:36In Prussia, Göring holds the reins.
34:39He presides over the Prussian Senate.
34:41As the revolution, in a few months, broke through the whole Germany,
34:47it began that it was the terrible system of the past, the system of parliamentarianism, of patriotism, destroyed and destroyed.
34:58The army also set us to our places in Prussia.
35:02We have been obliged to that every time in Prussia, he will take his attention to it.
35:06The Prussian Senate Senate is opened.
35:09And he is opened with the call of our leader of Hitler, the German Reich of the Kanzler.
35:15A three-way victory.
35:17Victory.
35:19Victory.
35:20Some months after assuming power, Hitler has prohibited all parties except his own.
35:26The Veterans Association, the Steel Helmets, is absorbed by the S.A.
35:31Their representatives in the government become party members.
35:35The unions are abolished and taken over by the Workers' Front.
35:48The newly appointed minister of propaganda, Goebbels, organizes the fight against free speech.
35:54Heinrich Heine once wrote that where books are burned, people are burned.
35:58Now, his books are being burned, and his Lorelei suddenly becomes a poem by an anonymous author.
36:05A German may no longer read Marx and Freud, Barbus and Brecht, Mann and Remark, Zweig and Fortwanger.
36:14That not even the purity of his race holds his race, goes to the ground.
36:24On April 1st, 1933, a boycott of Jewish businessmen, doctors and lawyers is started.
36:39Those so suddenly outlawed began to leave the country.
36:43Soon, Europe is accustomed to the sight of human beings freighted like parcels from country to country.
36:51Sie sind Deutschland.
36:54Wenn Sie handeln, handelt die Nation.
36:58Wenn Sie richten, richtet das Volk.
37:16Whosoever stands in Hitler's way is outlawed.
37:19This, Röhm, is to learn.
37:21In order to succeed Hindenburg, Hitler needs the support of the army.
37:26The essay of Röhm is a threat to the ancient privileges of the army.
37:29Consequently, in 1934, Hitler has Röhm and other party veterans executed without trial,
37:36on the excuse that they are planning a coup.
37:39This action is carried out by the SS.
37:42Its chief, Himmler, starts out on the road to the highest post in the police.
37:50On the party day, Hitler receives the oath of allegiance from the new SA chief, Lutze.
37:56Mein Führer, genau wie in früheren Zeiten, wir unser Dienst und unsere Pflicht getan haben,
38:06werden wir auch künftig nur auf Ihre Befehle warten.
38:12Und wir Kameraden kennen nichts anderes, als die Befehle unseres Führers auszuführen
38:21und zu beweisen, dass wir die Alten geblieben sind.
38:29Unser Führer, Adolf Hitler,
38:41Meine Kameraden, wir stehen fest zusammen für unser Deutschland.
38:51Ich gebe euch dann die neuen Feldzeichen in der Überzeugung dass ich sie in die treuesten Hände gebe.
39:03The new colors are dedicated by touching the so-called blood standard
39:07from the November coup in Munich in 1923.
39:11The party is welded together.
39:13The army has been given its guarantees.
39:16The generals little know that soon Himmler's SS are going to realize Röhm's dream of the one-party army.
39:27On the death of Hindenburg on August 2nd, 1934,
39:31the government immediately passes a law uniting the functions of chancellor and president.
39:36On the very same day, officers and men swear the oath of allegiance
39:40not to Germany or the Constitution,
39:43but to Hitler personally.
39:46In 18 months, Hitler has assumed absolute power
39:49and crushed the opposition.
39:51The Nazi revolution is a fact.
39:57All preparations for the next step have been made.
40:01To transform the whole people
40:02into a single great column of march
40:04which will follow its leader to the end.
40:08Under Hitler's guidance, the new state emerges.
40:11A state of mass meetings and banners
40:13in which the individual is engulfed by the mass
40:15and everyone is gripped by a propaganda
40:17which aims at every class and generation.
40:20He begins with the youth.
40:22The German youth, the future, is something different than what the past year has wished.
40:31We have to have a new person to see.
40:35Because it has been to us, the German people to give a new idea
40:39and to give a new life.
40:49This is the greatest task of this year for our people.
40:55In our eyes, there has to be a German young in the future
40:59to be strong and strong,
41:03strong like windhounds,
41:06heavy and hard like Kruppstahl.
41:08Labor becomes compulsory.
41:11Youth is educated in a daily Nazi routine.
41:13I have been in the world with 190 Führers
41:15for Flaggenhissing.
41:17Thank you very much.
41:20Hei Ritter!
41:22Hei Ritter!
41:23Kennwort, mein Kampf.
41:26Am 18. Juli 1925
41:28erschien der erste Band des Führers
41:31durch mein Kampf.
41:33In diesem Buch
41:34gibt der Führer dem deutschen Volke
41:36einen Abriss
41:37seines schicksalshaften Lebensweges
41:40und gibt uns verpflichtend
41:43die grundsätzlichen Erkenntnisse
41:45des politischen Lebens.
41:48Als Leitspruch des Tages
41:50ein Wort des Führers
41:52über den Wert der Arbeit.
41:55Der völkische Staat wird,
41:58wenn notwendig,
41:59selbst durch jahrhundertelange Erziehung
42:01mit dem Unfug
42:02körperliche Tätigkeit zu missachten,
42:05brechen müssen.
42:07Hei Adonais Werder!
42:09Hei Ritter!
42:10Hei Führer!
42:13Warten!
42:16Immer!
42:17Warten!
42:19Ab!
42:29We are here.
42:32We are ready.
42:35We are going to bring new people to the world.
42:40Germany!
42:42My friend, where are you from?
42:45You are from Friesenland.
42:50And you, Kamerad?
42:52From Bayern.
42:53And you?
42:55From Kaiserstuhl.
42:57And you?
42:58From Poland.
43:00And from Königsberg.
43:02From Schlesien.
43:03From the Apakant.
43:05From Schwarzwald.
43:08From Dresden.
43:10From the Rhein.
43:10From the Rhein.
43:12And from the Saar.
43:15A people.
43:16A leader.
43:18A Reich.
43:20Germany!
43:22We stood not in the grave.
43:25And not in the cannon fire of the grenades.
43:29We are still soldiers!
43:34Those who refuse to be educated into good Nazis are subjected to terror, of which the principal
43:40instruments are the Death's Head Battalions under Himmler.
43:56But that the party will continue to live.
43:59I know that.
44:00And that all the people, the strong and strong will not be able to become successful in the
44:04future of German nation.
44:07That I believe.
44:08And that I know that.
44:09For those who do not believe and know this, there are concentration camps.
44:28The poet Erich Milsam murdered in Oranienburg in 1934.
44:46Nein, die Bewegung, sie lebt und sie steht heldenfest begründet und solange auch nur einer von uns atmen kann,
45:05dann wird er diese Bewegung, seine Kräste leihen und für sie eintreten, so wie in den Jahren, die hinter uns
45:16liegen.
45:18Dann wird zur Trommel die Trommel kommen, zur Fahne die Fahne, dann wird zur Gruppe die Gruppe stoßen, zum Gau
45:28der Gau
45:29und dann wird endlich diese gewaltige Kolonne, die einde Nation, nachfolgen das früher zerrissene Volk.
45:46In 1935, Hitler introduces compulsory military service and begins to create an army of 36 divisions and a modern air
45:54force.
45:57Foreign countries react with lame protests, but Hitler loves European diplomacy.
46:03Thus he makes a non-aggression pact with the Poland, which he is too weak to attack.
46:08In this way he proves his love of peace and drives a wedge into the French system of alliances.
46:15The French speak of the need for old enemies to become friends.
46:19They remain inactive when Hitler marches into the Rhineland in March 1936.
46:23The occupation is carried out by three German battalions.
46:28If France had opposed him with only a few divisions, Hitler would have been forced to withdraw.
46:33Now he is triumphant and offers France and Belgium a 25-year non-aggression pact.
46:39Hitler also takes advantage of the strained relations between Mussolini and the League of Nations after Italy's attack on Abyssinia.
46:47Britain and France are satisfied with symbolic sanctions against Mussolini,
46:51which do not bring him to his knees but drive Italy into the arms of Germany.
46:55In July 1936, General Franco starts an insurrection against the legal Spanish government.
47:02Hitler and Mussolini decide to help him.
47:04For three years, Germany secretly sends soldiers, technicians, and war supplies to Franco.
47:10Mussolini supports him openly.
47:13The Spanish Civil War is the brutal prelude to the Second World conflagration.
47:17It cements the alliance between Hitler and Mussolini.
47:21There is discord in the camp of the Western powers.
47:30This indecision throws a light on the Austrian question.
47:33In 1934, Hitler began to threaten Austrian independence.
47:37The country was ruled by Dolphus.
47:40In the spring of 1934, Dolphus very brutally smashed a socialist insurrection against his scarcely democratic regime
47:47and thereby eliminated the very forces which were his natural allies in his fight against Hitler.
47:55Simultaneously, he tries to encourage the nation to resist Hitler.
48:04On the anniversary of the liberation of Vienna from the Turks,
48:08he compares this enemy of old with Hitler.
48:32The Nazis in Vienna cause unrest in the streets and organized mass meetings,
48:37which culminate in a visit to Vienna of the German ministers Frank and Kev.
48:48The Nazis in Vienna
48:49The Nazis in Vienna
48:51The Nazis in Vienna
49:03The Nazis in Vienna
49:04The Nazis in Vienna
49:07The Nazis in Vienna
49:18The Nazis in Vienna
49:19The Nazis in Vienna
49:23THE Nazis in Vienna
49:52In July 1934, the Nazis attempt a coup.
49:56Dolphus is murdered, but order is quickly restored
49:58and the Nazis flee in thousands to Germany.
50:02Mussolini still promises to support Austria
50:04and draws up Italian troops on the frontier.
50:07The Minister of Education, Schussnig, succeeds Dolphus.
50:11The situation is stabilized.
50:13But Poppen is appointed ambassador to Vienna
50:16and begins to undermine the country from within.
50:21In September 1937, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich.
50:25The demonstration of Germany's military might
50:28makes a deep impression on Mussolini
50:29so that a few months later,
50:31he joins the anti-commontern pact
50:33between Germany and Japan.
50:36He now informs the Germans
50:38that he no longer intends to be
50:40the guardian of Austrian independence.
50:44Hitler only needs an excuse
50:46to march into Austria.
51:13In March 1938, the unemployed painter
51:16from the flophouse on Meldemannstrasse
51:19marches into Vienna.
51:21He is received by Himmler,
51:23who the previous night has had 67,000 people arrested.
51:51Christian Martin Lutheran, the
52:01The conqueror, acknowledging the ovations in the ancient city of the emperors, is not satisfied with this triumph.
52:08His eye is directed toward the next goal, Czechoslovakia.
52:13His antagonist there, President Benesh, is an ally of France.
52:17He has the promise of Russia that if attacked by Germany, it will come to the help of Prague, providing
52:21the French comply with their obligations.
52:23The Czechs are strong enough to withstand the first assault.
52:26When the Sudeten German Nazi organizations cause an acute crisis in the districts inhabited by Germans, Prague mobilizes.
52:50We now know that a number of German generals had planned to overthrow Hitler as soon as he had started
52:54the war against the Czechs.
52:56And that Hitler would not have dared to bring matters to a head by being forced to fight against France
53:00and Britain in the west, and Russia and Czechoslovakia in the east.
53:05In this dilemma, Hitler is saved by British Prime Minister Chamberlain.
53:10He is convinced that it is possible to reason with dictators.
53:13When the war clouds gather over Europe, he visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden.
53:17And also acts as spokesman for France, whose foreign minister, Bonnet, wants peace at any price.
53:25Chamberlain's action leads to the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, between Germany, France, Great Britain, and Italy.
53:33The Sudetenland becomes German.
53:36The fate of Czechoslovakia is sealed.
53:39Benesh is forced to obey Hitler.
53:41The Western powers have betrayed their most faithful ally in the heart of Europe and have isolated Russia.
53:49The Soviet Union now changes the course of her foreign policy.
53:53Without firing a shot, Hitler captures Czech fortresses, guns, munitions, and machine guns to a value of two billion.
54:01In the spring of 1940, they will be used in the Blitzkrieg against France.
54:18The German generals in opposition drop their plans of a coup.
54:21It is not possible to arrest a man as a war criminal just when he is winning a bloodless victory.
54:39Hitler is already hatching new plans of conquest, while Chamberlain believes that Hitler's signature to a scrap of paper means
54:45peace in our time.
54:55After the Munich Agreement, the lot of the Jews in Germany deteriorates.
54:59One week after Munich, all Jews must have the letter J stamped in their papers.
55:03Himmler's right-hand man, Reinhard Heydrich, gets the idea of deporting 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany to Poland.
55:15On November 17th, the 17-year-old son of one of these exiles shoots a German diplomat in Paris
55:21in order to focus the attention of the world on the Jewish tragedy.
55:27The victim is buried with every honor, and the deed is used as an excuse for the Night of Crystal,
55:32a pogrom reaching into every corner of Germany.
55:40Hundreds of synagogues are burned down, 7,500 Jewish shops plundered,
55:4520,000 Jews arrested, and 10,000 of them taken to the concentration camp Buchenwald.
55:51The Jews are ordered to pay the damages themselves, and a collectively fined $1 billion.
55:57The last act of the Jewish drama has begun.
56:09After Munich, Hitler becomes surer and surer of himself.
56:12In March 1939, he occupies the independent part of Czechoslovakia.
56:18The Czechs are the first non-German nation within the Greater German Reich.
56:23At last, even Chamberlain understands that the Germans abroad were only an excuse for Hitler's power politics,
56:29which threatened both Eastern and Western Europe.
56:38Hitler's storm troops continue to march.
56:40Hitler's stormtrooper.
56:56Hitler's stormtrooper.
56:59Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:01Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:03Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:05Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:05Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:07Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:08Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:10Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:10Hitler's stormtrooper.
57:22On his 50th birthday, on April 20th, 1939,
57:26Hitler receives homage from his party
57:28and Germans from all parts of the country.
57:46To be continued...
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