1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Henry here got on the train with $200. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 He couldn't see any harm in a friendly game of cards. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 What if the other men were strangers? 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 And take Joe Collins. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 He's not a nice wife at home. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,000 But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked after the first couple of drinks. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,000 There's a good old fashioned way to get a drink. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 You can't just sit there and drink. 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 There's a good old fashioned word for people like us. 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 We call them suckers. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And there are other people. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 People who stay up nights figuring out how to take away what they've got. 20 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 There are all kinds of games. 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Mike here for instance. 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 He's got everything in me. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 He's young. 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 He's healthy. 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Got a job. 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And he's got a county of food. 27 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Big factories to make things a man can use. 28 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Big cities to do the business of a big company. 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And people. 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Lots of people. 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Enough to work the farm and build the factories. 32 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Dig the mines. 33 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Run the business. 34 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 All kinds of people. 35 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 People from different countries with different religions. 36 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Different colored skins. 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Free people. 38 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,000 They can live together and work together and build America together because they're free. 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Free to vote. 40 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 To say what they please. 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Go to their own churches. 42 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 To pick their own jobs. 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 You know, Mike's got something, all right. 44 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 He's got America. 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:19,000 But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to take that away from him. 46 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 I happen to know the facts. 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Now friends, I'm just an average American. 48 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 But I'm an American, American. 49 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 And some of the things I see in this country of ours make my blood boil. 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 I see people with foreign equity. 51 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. 52 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, 53 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 what's going to become of us real Americans? 54 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America. 55 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 This fellow seems to know what he's talking about. 56 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 What are we real Americans going to do about it? 57 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet. 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 The truth about Negroes and foreigners. 59 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 The truth about the Catholic Church. 60 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Do you believe in that kind of talk? 61 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 I don't know. It makes pretty good sense to me. 62 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,000 And I tell you friends, we'll never be able to call this country our own 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 until it's a country without. 64 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Without what? 65 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Yeah, without what? 66 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Without Negroes. 67 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Without alien foreigners. 68 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Without Catholics. 69 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Without Freemasons. 70 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 What's wrong with the Masons? I'm a Mason. 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Hey, that fellow's talking about me. 72 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 And that makes a difference, doesn't it? 73 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 These are your enemies. 74 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 These are the people who are trying to take over our country. 75 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Now you know them, you know what they stand for. 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 And it's up to you and me to fight them. 77 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us. 78 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Thank you. 79 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Before he said Masons, you were ready to agree with him. 80 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Well, yes, but he was talking about... 81 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 What about those other people? 82 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 But in this country, we have no other people. 83 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 We are American people. 84 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 What about you? You weren't American, right? 85 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen. 86 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. 87 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I saw it in Berlin. 88 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 What were you doing there? 89 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I was a professor at the university. 90 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I heard the same words we have heard today. 91 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 But I was a fool then. 92 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. 93 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 But unfortunately, it was not so. 94 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country. 95 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So they split Germany into small groups. 96 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation. 97 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Of course, that was not easy to do. 98 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 They had to work hard to do it. 99 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:00,000 You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. 100 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Always they are made for us. 101 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Made by someone who wants something. 102 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Remember that when you hear this kind of talk, 103 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 somebody is going to get something out of it. 104 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 And it isn't going to be you. 105 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 This is not classroom theory. 106 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 I saw it happen. 107 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 I saw it first in Berlin in 1932. 108 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening to the Nazi speaker. 109 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Eric was a Catholic. 110 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Anton, a student of mine, was a Jew. 111 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Heinrich owned a small hardware store. 112 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Karl was a farmer. 113 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 And Hans was an unemployed metalworker. 114 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:49,000 To our poor Aryan Germans, I say at this time you inherited the nation which rightfully... 115 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany. 116 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the workers, 117 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 and profits for the small businessmen. 118 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Who is getting these things now? 119 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 The Jew. 120 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright. 121 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs? 122 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 The Jew! 123 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 He must be shunned! 124 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 He must be ostracized! 125 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 He must be eliminated! 126 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 And the Catholics. 127 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 We don't want our great nation to be destroyed. 128 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 We don't want our great nation run by a foreign church. 129 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 We Germans will know what to do with these people when the time comes. 130 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 They and their faith must be destroyed! 131 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Then there are the Freemasons. 132 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 In Germany we have no place for secret societies. 133 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 There may be only one society, and that is the Nazi party. 134 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,000 There may be no secrecy about that in the new, greater Germany. 135 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 One by one he attacked each minority and he split them off one from the other. 136 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 These men were all fellow Germans when they came here today. 137 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Now they were split into rival groups, suspicious of each other, hating each other. 138 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,000 They were being swindled, all of them. 139 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 But the man who was really being fooled was Hans. 140 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 He was pure German, according to Nazi standards. 141 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 To him they promised everything, and he fell for it. 142 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 That's how Hans became a Superman. 143 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 They gave him a uniform and they pumped up his ego. 144 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore. 145 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 He was a member of the master race. 146 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Hans and thousands of others like him, all playing a sucker's game. 147 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,000 They gambled with other people's liberty, and of course they lost their own. 148 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 A nation of suckers. 149 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Hitler needed these people. 150 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 There was lots of work to be done. 151 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000 There were trade unions to be smashed, because unions were organized and might of... 152 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 There were many political parties in Germany. 153 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 These the Nazis destroyed. 154 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:12,000 They were determined to smash every organization where people might band toget... 155 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 There were Jews to be beaten and killed. 156 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,000 The Jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient excuse for all the nation's ills. 157 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 And besides, a Nazi party member could not take over this man's store. 158 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Hundreds of Catholics were put in jail, because the Catholic Church had strength a... 159 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:42,000 They had split the nation into a hundred pieces, and then one by one they had... 160 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Over these broken pieces the Nazis rode into power. 161 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,000 One party, one nation, one religion. 162 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,000 These men had won their struggle for power. 163 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 They now ruled all of Germany. 164 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,000 But still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy, the truth. 165 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:11,000 They found that truth does not die easily, and so they decided to abolish truth. 166 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 One great source of truth is literature. 167 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 So they burned books, 20 million of them. 168 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed or driven from their... 169 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Teachers, writers, scientists. 170 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Education was discouraged. 171 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:35,000 In five years, college attendance dropped 53%. 172 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:41,000 It was forbidden to listen to a British radio program or read an American newspaper. 173 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,000 In Nazi Germany you had to get your information from Dr. Goebbels. 174 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 He knew what was best for you. 175 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,000 The Church was one force in Germany still strong enough to proclaim the truth in... 176 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:01,000 This Catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality. 177 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 The Protestant Church also continued to try and fight for truth. 178 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 The Nazis put this man in a concentration camp. 179 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:15,000 There were others who spoke for truth, and I am proud to say that educators were among... 180 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And what, may I ask, is an Aryan? 181 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 I don't know, my son. 182 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:28,000 But let us see what our present so-called authorities have to say about him. 183 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,000 They say he is tall, 184 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,000 slender, 185 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 blue-eyed, 186 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 and blond. 187 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 There is no Aryan race. 188 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,000 And more important, there is no master race. 189 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 There are people who may find these ideas convenient, 190 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 but science cannot support them. 191 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,000 There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation 192 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 between a man's racial characteristics and his native ability or character. 193 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:28,000 In all racial groups, we find the same range of potentialities. 194 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 We find idiots and geniuses. 195 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 We find criminals and philanthropists. 196 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:41,000 We must judge each man as an individual, 197 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:48,000 and not by the color of his skin or his eyes or by the length of his nose. 198 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Come in, gentlemen. It's comfortable. 199 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 And remember that there is no master race. 200 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 That is a scientific truth. 201 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. 202 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany. 203 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 A lot of my German friends wondered what had hit them. 204 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 How did it happen? Where did it start? 205 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 It started right here. 206 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 And this was where it could have been stopped. 207 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other, 208 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 they could have resisted the Nazi threat. 209 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Together they would have been strong, 210 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 but once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless. 211 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,000 When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out. 212 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 They made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom. 213 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Now let's see how those bets paid off. 214 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Karl the farmer was gambling on a better life for himself. 215 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:13,000 What he got was extra hours of backbreaking work, as much as a hundred hours a week. 216 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce, 217 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 because now Hitler was preparing for war. 218 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,000 For Heinrich, who owned the hardware store, the bet didn't pay off either. 219 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000 104,000 small businesses were closed in two years. 220 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 And for Hans, conditions hadn't improved any. 221 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:41,000 He had a job now in the munitions factory, but he worked long hours for little pay. 222 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 The working conditions grew increasingly bad. 223 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,000 And even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permitted to leave it. 224 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,000 And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war. 225 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack. 226 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Once again, Hitler needed Hans to do his dirty work. 227 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Hans was an expert at brutality this time, 228 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,000 and Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other peoples, 229 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 the Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians. 230 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. 231 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,000 His pure-blooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel armies he despised, 232 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 by the British of El Alamein, 233 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 by the Russians at Stalingrad. 234 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Then, indeed, they by American soldiers of every color and religion, 235 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:01,000 who smashed across the Normandy beaches and drove on through to the heart of Germany. 236 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:08,000 For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi game did not pay off. 237 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:16,000 The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies, pure Aryan bodies. 238 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Karl, the farmer, was left in the snow outside of Moscow. 239 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno. 240 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,000 And Hans, who was going to rule the world, 241 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000 got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own. 242 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 We must never let that happen to us or to our country. 243 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,000 We must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion, 244 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 because in this country we all belong to minority groups. 245 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I was born in Hungary. You are a Mason. These are minorities. 246 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And then you belong to other minority groups, too. 247 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 You are a farmer. You have blues. You go to the Methodist church. 248 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing. 249 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 You have a right to be what you are and say what you think, 250 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 because here we have personal freedom. We have liberty. 251 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:12,000 And these are not just fancy words. This is a practical and priceless way of living. 252 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:17,000 But we must work at it. We must guard everyone's liberty, or we can lose our own. 253 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,000 If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice, 254 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 we are threatening our own freedom. 255 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,000 And this is not simply an idea. This is good hard common sense. 256 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000 You see, here in America it's not a question whether we tolerate minorities. 257 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,000 America is minorities. And that means you and me. 258 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 So let's not be suckers. 259 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:57,000 We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any men to be threatened by any act or word. 260 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Let's be selfish about it. Let's forget about we and they. 261 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Let's think about us.