instability. i'll see you guys on thursday. expense of a hungarian american to want against the dangers of persecuting minorities, reacting to a hate filled speech in a .ity this is about 20 minutes.

>> bits looks like a fake doesn't it? is willingather who to bet his hard-earned money on it. he got on the train with $200. he couldn't see any harm in a friendly game of cards. what if the other men were strangers? collins. he has a nice wife at home. he met this girl at home and she looked kind of cute, after the first couple of drinks.

♪ >> there is a good old-fashioned word for people like this. we call them suckers. peoplere other people, who stay up at nights figuring out how to take away what they have. there are all kinds of games and all kinds of suckers. instance, he has everything you might say. he is young, he is healthy, he has a job, and he has a country called america. it is a wonderful thing to have. america. lots of room.

room enough for plenty of food and big factories to make things a man can use. big cities can do the things of a big country people and lots of people, enough to work the farm and build factories take the business witha 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. he has america.

there are guys who stay up night figuring out how to take that a way from them. truth,nt to give you the folks. the truth about america. i know you have a lot of questions. do you want to know why you're not getting the breaks you deserve, i am not a politician i have made it my business to study these things and i happen to know the facts. friends, i'm just an average american. and some of the things i see in this country of ours make my blood boil. i see people with foreign accents making all the money. i see negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. i ask you if we allow this thing to go on, what will become of us real americans? i never expected to get it in america. what is the answer?

you will find it in this pamphlet. andtruth about negroes foreigners. the truth about the catholic church. these books are free. paid for by real americans want to know the truth. it all makes pretty good sense to me. >> i am speaking to as an american american. will never be able to call this country are own until it is a what?y without athout negroes and without million foreigners and without free nations.

these are your enemies. these are the people who are trying to take over our country. whatnow them and you know they stand for. it is up to you and me to destroy them before they destroy us. >> he was talking what about those other people? >> in this country we have no other people. we are american people, all of us. 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. >> what were you doing there? >> i was a professor in a university. i heard the same words we heard today. i was a fool then.

i thought nazis were crazy people and stupid fanatics. unfortunately, that is not true. they split germany into small groups. not easy to do. they had to work hard to do it. beings are not born with prejudice. they are made for us, made by someone who wants something. remember this when you hear this kind of talk. somebody is going to get something out of it, and it isn't going to be you. theory.not classroom i saw it happen. in 1932 first in berlin . five young men that i knew were standing in the car listening to the nazi speaker. eric was a catholic. jew.dent of mine was a

a guy was a farmer. hunt was an unemployed metalworker. >> to our two arian germans, i say it is time you as a nation which right bill of long's to you and you alone belongs the glorious destiny of germany. the nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the worker, and profits for the small businessman. who is getting these things now? the jew. the jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright. who makes all the money and takes all of our jobs? the jews. he must be shunned. he must be ostracized. he must be eliminated. the catholics, we don't want our great nation run by a foreign church. we germans know what to do with these people when the time comes.

they and their faith must be destroyed. the freemasons, in germany we have no place for secret societies. there is only one society and that is the nazi party. there will be no secrecy about .hat one by one text each minority and to split them off one by another. now they are speaking to rival groups. suspicious of each other and hating each other. they were are being swindlers, all of them. the man who was really being full was hunt. he was here german. to him, they punish everything and he fell for it. germans,ur true arian they share the glory of destiny of our fatherland. you are the pure blooded the the nazi party

stands ready to put you in the it is for you to command all germany and someday the entire world. >> that is how hunt came. he pumped up his ego. he was not just a little fellow out for work anymore, he was a member of the master race. his wife could not quite understand, even though he was a superman, there wasn't any food in the house. stupid woman. didn't she realized the nazis were going to make jobs for ?verybody there would be plenty of food and clothing. everything they wanted. the glorious future of germany would be theirs. the children will someday rule the world. but his wife wondered where the next meal was coming from.

that kind ofe talk. it was dangerous. for that kind of job -- talk, people should be put in jail. he swallowed the bait all right, and these were the men who painted the hook. why? so that he could come to power? of course not. if so they could come to power. they would merely use him to have him get there. he would do the dirty work for them. liked thousands of others 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. fiddler needed these people. there was lots of work to be done. there were trade at unions to be smashed because he were organized and might offer resistance. there were many political parties in germany.

these the nazis destroyed. they were determined to smash every organize nation where people might stand together and resist them. they refused to be beaten and killed. the jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient excuse for all the nations ills. member, a nazi party could take over this man's store. putreds of catholics were in jail because the catholic church had strength and could resist the nazis rise to power. they had to split the nation into 100 pieces, and then one by one they had destroyed the pieces. these broken pieces, the nazis rode into power, one party, one nation, one religion. these men had won their struggle for power. but now will all of germany still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy, the truth. not found that truth does

die easily, and so they decided to abolish truth. one great source of truth is literature, so they burned books. 20 million of them. brave men and germany were jailed or driven from their country. teachers, writers, scientists. education was discouraged. in five years, college attendance dropped 53%. forbidden to listen to a british radio program or read an american newspaper. in nazi germany, you had to get .ur information from dr. they couldn't listen to music. you couldn't watch the fight because the champion had black skin. it proved hitler's very of

nordic supremacy. albert einstein, one of the world great scientists disprove the theory. he was non-arian, so he had to leave germany. his mind was dedicated to search for truth came a nazis having sold a lie, most afraid of truth. no doubt it is possible that christians are in a great battle stands of faith out of blood. range fromsignals cold repudiation to hate filled causes. weapons are used that centuries have doled. to aim of this battle is

erase christianity from our fatherland. this catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality. the partisan church also continued -- the protestant church also continue to try to fight for truth. >> he who desires liberty for himself cannot deny to others, lest he lose what he has gained. this is the great lesson the world can learn from germany. the nazis that this man in a concentration camp. there were others who spoke for truth, and i'm proud to say that educators were among them. >> and what matt ask is an arian? know myself. but let us see what our present so-called authorities have to say about it. , slender,e is tall

and blonde. race and moreian important, there is no master race. there are people who may find bute ideas convenience science cannot support. there is no sign to fake truth that there is any correlation between's a man's race and characteristics and his native ability or character. in all racial groups, find the same range. , weind idiots and geniuses find criminals and philanthropists. we must judge each man as an

individual, and not by the color of his skin or his eyes. or by the length of his nose. >> come in gentlemen, make yourselves comfortable. there are many differences and we eachviduals have different capabilities, different backgrounds, different views about what is right and what is wrong. like the difference between being and these gentlemen who have just arrived. that is not the difference in race. it is a difference in the way we think. that and remember that there is no master race that is a scientific truth.

anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in germany. a lot of my german friends wondered how it happened and where did it start. it started right here and this is where it could have been stopped. if those people had stood together and protected each other, they could have it the nazi threat. together they would have been strong, 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 gamma and with other people's freedom. -- of gambling with other people's freedom. everybody lost out. they made the stake.

let's see how those paid off. he was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce because now they were preparing for war. the band will the hardware store did not pay off later. 104,000 small businesses were closed within two years. conditions had not improved any. he had a job in a fact to read, but he worked long hours for little pay. working conditions grew increasingly bad. and even though he did not like the job, he wasn't committed -- permitted to leave. there still wasn't enough food in his house. hitler's said you cannot have a butter and cannons. so hans couldn't have butter. hitler's decided the time was right and germany went to war, not by declaring war, but by a

carefully prepared sneak attack. once again kittler needed hans to do his dirty work. at brutality by this time and hit her head decided to use hans and his brutality against other people, the czechs, the polls, the russians. in the crucial test of war, history is racist theories did not pay off. his brotherhood supermen were defeated by the mongol armies he despised. british atish -- alamein and by the russians at stalingrad. and then on d-day by a 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, peer area and bodies. carl the farmer was left in the snow outside of moscow. heinrich stayed in italy. and hans, who was going to roll the world, only got a little patch of normandy that he could call his own. we must never let what happened to us to our country. willis never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion because we all belong to minority groups. i was born in hungary. you are a mason. these are minorities. you belong to other minority groups. you are a farmer, you go to a methodist church. you are right to belong to these

minorities. 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. we must work at it. we must guard everyone's liberties or we will lose our own. lose allow any minorities its freedom by persecution or by prejudice, where threatening our own a freedom. this is not simply an idea. this is good card common sense. here in america is not a question of whether we tolerate minorities, america is minorities, and that means you and me. ♪ let us not be suckered. we must not allow the freedom of dignity of any man to be threatened by any act or word.

let's be selfish about it. they.forget about we and let's think about us. >> each week american history's real america brings archival films that provide context for today's public affairs issues. up next, from 1953, let us live. it tells the story of german refugees fleeing the soviet occupied zone through lynn to west germany. estimated 20,000 germans were crossing the border each month. this u.s. army film is about 20 minutes.