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Disclaimer: This video has not the best audio (especially when I pause and unpause each sentence), I have not the best ears, and it's 17 minutes long. But I promise I'm not as bad as the auto captions.



*party music*

Narrator: Henry here got on the train with 200 dollars. He couldn't see any harm in a friendly game of cards. So what if the other men were strangers?

And take [Joe Collins]. He's got a nice wife at home. But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked [0] after the first couple of drinks.

*after the mugging scene ends*

*lively music (different than party IDK)*

Narrator: There's a good old fashioned word for people [like this]. We call them suckers. And there are other people, people who stay up nights figuring out how to take away what they've got.

*on the train*

There are all kinds of games- [0]

[Take] Mike here for instance. He's got everything [0]. He's young, he's healthy, he's got a job. And he's got a [0] plenty of food.

Big factories to make things a man can use. Big cities to do the business of a big com[pany]. And people. Lots of people. Enough to work the farm and build the factories, dig the mines, run the businesses [0]

All kinds of people. People from different countries with different religions. Different colored skins. Free people. They can live together and work together and build America together because they are free. Free to vote, to say what they please. Go to their own churches. To pick their own jobs.

Yeah, Mike's got something alright. He's got America.

*transition off the train, where the crowd is gathered*

Narrator: But there are guys who stay up nights, figuring out how to take that away from him.

Fascist: I happen to know the facts. Now friends, I'm just an average American. But I'm an American American. And some of the things I see in this country of ours make my blood boil. I see people with foreign [0]! I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you!

Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what's gonna become of us real Americans?

*his speech fades into the background*

Hungarian Immigrant: I've heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to hear it in America.

Freemason: [This fella] seems to know what he's talking about.

Fascist: What are we real Americans going to do about it? You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet. The truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic church!

*he fades out again*

Hungarian: [Are you believing] that kind of talk?

Freemason: I dunno...it makes pretty good sense to me.

Fascist: And I tell you, friends, we'll never be able to call this country our own!!! Until it's a country without. Without what?

Crowd Guy: Yeah, without what?

Fascist: Without Negroes. Without alien foreigners. Without Catholics. Without Freemasons! You know these people...

*fades out*

Freemason: Masons? What's wrong with the masons? I'm a mason! Hey, that fella's talking about me!

Hungarian: And that makes a difference, doesn't it?

Fascist: These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it's up to you and me to fight them! Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us! [Thank you.]

*scattered applause as he steps down*

*no more music*

Hungarian: Before he said masons, you were ready to agree with him.

Freemason: Well, yes, but he was talking about...what about those other people?

Hungarian: [0] In this country, we have no "other people." We are American people.

Freemason: What about you- you aren't American, are you?

Hungarian: I was born in Hungary but now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.

Freemason: *quickly, somewhat suspiciously* What were you doing there?

Hungarian: I was a professor at the university. I have heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately, it was not so.

You see, they know that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country. So they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to [cripple] the nation.

Of course, that was not easy to do. They had to work hard to do it.

You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. [Always] they are made for us. Made by someone who [wants] something. Remember that, when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody's going to get something out of it, and it isn't going to be you.

This is not classroom theory. I saw it happen.

*ww2 scene*

I saw it first in Berlin in 1942. 5 young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening to the Nazis speak. Eric was a catholic. Anton, a student of mine, was a Jew. Heinrich owned a small hardware store. [Carl] was a farmer. And Hanz was an unemployed metal worker.

*war-like music*

Nazi: To [all] Aryan Germans, I say [it's time] you inherited the nation which rightfully belongs to you. To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the Greater Germany. The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the worker, and profits for the small business man. Who is getting these things now? *nastily* The Jew. The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright!

*screams at some points* Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs? The JEW!!! He must be shunned! He must be ostracized! He must be eliminated!

*much calmer* And the Catholics. We don't want our Great Nation run by a fallen church! We Germans will know what to do with these people when the time comes! They and their [faith] must be destroyed!

*calm again* Then there are the Freemasons. In Germany, we have no place for secret societies. There will be only one society! And that is the Nazi party. There will be no secrecy about that. [In] the new, Greater Germany.

Hungarian: One by one, he attacked each minority and he split them off, one from the other. These men were all fellow Germans when they came here today. Now they were split into rival groups. Suspicious of each other. Hating each other. They were being swindled. All of them.

But the man who was really being fooled was Hanz. He was pure German, according to Nazi standards. To him they promised everything. And he fell for it.

That's how Hanz became a superman. They gave him a uniform and [they pumped up] his ego. He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore; he was a member of the master race.

Hundreds, and thousands of others like him, all playing a sucker's game. They gambled with other people's liberty, and [of course they lost their own.] A nation of suckers. Hitler needed these people. There was lots of work to be done. [There were] trade unions to be smashed. Because unions [were organized and might] offer resistance. There were many political parties in Germany. These, the Nazis destroyed. They were determined to smash any organization where people might band together and resist them.

There were Jews to be beaten and killed. The Jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient excuse for all the nation's ills. And besides, a Nazi party member could [now] take over this man's store. Hundreds of Catholics were put in jail. Because the Catholic church had strength and could resist the Nazi [drive] for power. They had [split] the nation into a hundred pieces. And then one by one, they had destroyed the pieces. Over these broken pieces, the Nazis [rode] into power. One [party], one nation, one village.

These men had won their struggle for power. They now ruled all of Germany. But still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy: the truth. The found that truth does not die easily. And so they decided to abolish truth.

One great source of truth is literature. So they burned books. [20 million] of them. Many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed, or driven from their country. Teachers, writers, scientists. Education was discouraged. In 5 years, college attendance dropped [53%]. It was forbidden to listen to a British radio program. Or read an American newspaper. In Nazi Germany, you had to get your information from Dr. Goebbels. He knew what was best for you.

The church was one force in Germany still strong enough to proclaim the truth in public. This Catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality. The protestant church also tried to continue and fight for truth. The Nazis put this man in a concentration camp.

There were others who spoke for truth, and I am proud to say that educators were among them.

Teacher: And what my I ask, is an Aryan? I don't know, myself. But let us see, what our [present], so-called authorities have to say about it.

*he points to pictures that disprove what he's saying- pointing to a brown hair when saying "blond," etc.*

Teacher: They say he is tall...slender...blue eyed...and blond. There is no Aryan race. And more important, there is no Master Race. There are people, who may find these ideas convenient. But science cannot support. There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation between a man's racial characteristic, and his native ability or character. In all racial groups, we find the same range of potentialities. We find idiots and geniuses, we find criminals and philanthropists. We must judge each man as individual, and not by the color of his skin or his eyes. Or by the length of his nose.

*Nazis come in to drag him away*

Teacher: Come in gentlemen, [0] comfortable. And remember that there is no master race! That is a scientific truth. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. *gets dragged away*

Hungarian: And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany. A lot of my German friends wondered what had hit them. How did it happen? Where did it start?

It started right here. And this is where it could have been stopped. If those people had stood together. If they had protected each other, they could have resisted the Nazi threat. Together they would have been strong, but once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless. When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out. They made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom. Now let's see how those bets paid off.

Carl the farmer was gambling on a better life for himself. What he got was extra hours of back breaking work. As much as a 100 hour a week. He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce. Because now Hitler was preparing for war.

For Heinrich, who owned the hardware store, the bet didn't pay off either. [104] thousand small businesses were closed in 2 years.

And for Hanz, conditions hadn't improved any. He had a job now, in the munitions factory. But he worked long hours for little pay. The working conditions grew increasingly bad. And even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permitted to leave it! And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war. Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack. Once again, Hitler needed Hanz to do his dirty work. Hanz was an expert at brutality [this time.] And Hitler had decided to use Hanz and his brutality against other peoples- the Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians.

But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. His pureblooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel armies he despised.

By the British of [El Alamein]. By the Russians at [Stalingrad]. [Then on D Day] by American soldiers of every color and religion, who [smashed] across the Normandy beaches and drove on through to the heart of Germany.

For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi game did not pay off. The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies. *somewhat mockingly* Pure, Aryan bodies. Carl the farmer was left in the snow outside of Moscow. Heinrich stayed in Italy at [Sorenlo]. And Hanz, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own. *grave*

[We] must never let that happen to us or our country! We must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion! Because in this country, [we all] belong to minority groups. I was born in Hungary, you are a mason. These are minorities. And then you belong to other minority groups, too! You are a farmer, you are [0]. You go to the Methodist church.

Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing. You have a right to be what you are, and say what you think, because here, we have personal freedom. We have liberty. And these are not just fancy words- this is a practical and priceless way of living. But we must work at it! We must guard everybody's liberty! Or we can lose our own. If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice, we are threatening our own freedom. And this is not simply an idea. This is good, hard, common sense. You see, here in America it is not a question whether we tolerate minorities. America IS minorities. And that means you, and me.

Narrator: So let's not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any men to be threatened by any act or word. Let's be selfish about it! Let's forget about "we" and "they."

Let's think about us!

*uplifting outtro*

- June 23, 2020Captioned This for the d/Deaf and HOH