Don't Be a Sucker

[Music] [Applause] Oh [Applause] this looks like a fake doesn't it well it is a fake but here's a fellow who's willing to bet his hard-earned money on it Henry here 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 and take Jill Collins he's got a nice wife at home but he met this girl at the bar and she looks kinda cute after the first couple of drinks [Music] [Music] 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 there are all kinds of games and all kinds of suckers take Mike here for instance he's got everything you might say he's young he's healthy he's got a job and he's got a country called America it's a wonderful thing to have lots of room room enough to raise plenty of food big factories to make things a man can use big cities to do the business of a big country and people lots of people enough to work the farm and build the factories dig the mines run the business 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're free free to vote to say what they please go to their own churches to pick their own jobs yeah Mike's got something on he's got America but there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to take that away from them I want to give you the truth folks the truth about America I know you've got a lot of questions you want to know why you're not getting the breaks you deserve well I'm not a politician I've made it my business to study these things and I happen to know the facts my 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 accents making all the money I see Negroes holding jobs are belong to me and you I ask you we allow this thing to go on it's going to become about reenactors I've heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to hear it in American as well the same to know he's talking about yes he knows all right what's the answer why are we real matters when they do that you'll find it right here in this little pamphlet the truth of money grows and foreigners the truths about the Catholic Church my friends these books are free paid for my real Americans want others to know the truth excuse me young man but are you actually going to read that stuff sure why not you're already said it yes I heard you leaving that kind of talk we don't always pretty good sense to me I'm speaking to you as an American an act and I tell you friends will never be able to call this country our own until it's a country without without what yeah without what without Negroes without alien foreigners without Catholics well freemasons you know what's wrong with the Masons I'm amazing hey that's I was talking about me and that makes a difference doesn't it this is for 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 that fighter I can destroy them before they destroy us thank you before he said Mason you were ready to agree with him yes but he was talking about what about those other people but in this country we have no other people we are American people all of us what about sure you on American Idol 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 or we're doing this I was a professor at the University I heard the same words we have heard today but there was a fool then I thought Nazis were crazy people stupid fanatics but unfortunately it was not so you see they knew 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 prepare 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 tragedy sister always they are made for us made by someone who wants something remember that when you hear this kind of talk - somebody is going to get something out of it and it isn't going to be you this is not classroom theory I saw it happen I saw it first in Berlin in 1932 five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening to the Nazi speaker Eric was a Catholic Anton a student of mine was a Jew Heinrich owned the small hardware store Carl was a farmer and hunt was an unemployed metal worker to our true alien German I'd say at this time Jew inherited the nation which rightfully belongs to you to you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany the Nazi Party that provides land for the farmer work for the worker and profits for the small businessman who is getting these things now the Jew there - who has stolen our nation and our birthright who makes all the money and takes all our jobs the Jew he must be shunned he must be ostracized he must be eliminated 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 and the time comes they enter faith must be Detroit then they are the freemason in Germany we have no place for secret societies there may be only one Society and that is a nasty party there may be no secrecy about that in the new greater Germany 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 men who was really being fooled was hunts he was pure German according to Nazi standards to him they promised everything and she fell for it you who are true Aryan German they share the glorious destiny of our fatherland you are the pure blooded the master race it is your divine right to rule and the Nazi Party stands ready to put you into power it is for you to command all Germany and someday the entire world [Music] that's how Hans became a super man they gave him a uniform and it pumped up his ego he wasn't just a little fellow r2 work anymore it was a member of the master race his wife couldn't quite understand even though he was a super man there wasn't any food in the house stupid woman didn't she realize that the notches were going to make jobs for everybody that would be plenty of food and clothing and the new house everything they wanted the glorious future of Germany was to be theirs and the children would someday rule the world but his wife silly woman still wondered where the next meal was coming from uncie don't like that plan inform it was dangerous for that kind of talk people should be put in jail [Applause] concept swallowed the beta all right and these were the men who baited the hook why where the funds could come to power of course not so they could come to power they would merely use hands to have them get there he would do the dirty work for tons and thousands of others like all playing a sucker's game they gambled with other people's liberty and of course they lost their own a nation of sacrifice 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 every organization where people might bend together and resist them they reduced 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 not take over this man stole hundreds of catholics were put in jail because the Catholic Church has strengths and could resist the Nazi Drive of power they had split the nation into a hundred pieces and then one by one they had destroyed the piece over these broken pieces the knot is rode into power one party one nation one religion 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 they 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 spokesman for truth for jailed or driven from the country teachers writer scientists education was discouraged in five 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 you information from dr. girdles he knew what was best you couldn't see this movie or listen to this music [Music] and you couldn't watch Toulouse fight because the champion had black skin he disproved Hitler's theory of Nordic supremacy Albert Einstein one of the world's great scientists disproved that theory too he was non alien so he had to leave Germany his mind was dedicated to the search for truth and the Nazis having sold a lie the most afraid of truth the church was one force in German is still strong enough to proclaim the truth in public no doubt is possible the three Christians are in a grave battle against us stands a faith out of blood the battle signals range from cool repudiation to hate-filled causes weapons are used that centuries have dulled the aim of this better is to this large Christianity from our fatherland this Catholic priest was arrested the following day on charges of immorality the Protestant church also continued to try and 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 put this men in the concentration camp there were others who spoke for truth and I am proud to say that educators were among them and what may I ask is an area I don't know myself but let us see what our present so-called authorities have to say about it they say he is tall slender blue-eyed and blonde 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 them there is no scientific proof that there's any correlation between a man's racial characteristics 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 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 between individuals we each have different capabilities different backgrounds different views about what's right and what's wrong like the difference between me and these gentlemen who have just arrived but that is not the difference in race it is a difference in the way we think remember that and to remember that there is no master race that is a scientific truth anyone who tells you otherwise is lying 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 was 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 they made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom now let's see how those bets paid off Karl the farmer was gambling on a better life for himself what he got one extra hours of back-breaking work as much as a hundred hours 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 owned the hardware store that that didn't pay off either 104,000 small businesses were closed in two years and for hunts conditions hadn't improved any he had a job now in the munitions factory but he worked long hours for little paid the working conditions grew increasingly bad and even though he didn't like the job he wasn't permitted to leave it there still wasn't enough food in his house Hitler said you couldn't have butter and cannon so Hans couldn't have button 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 hunts to do his dirty work once was an expert at brutality by this time and Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other people the Czechs the poles the French the Russians but in the crucial test of war Hitler's raised theories didn't pay off his pure blooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel army he despised by the British of El Alamein by the Russians at Solyndra and then on d-day by American soldiers of every color and religion who smashed across the Normandy beaches and drove untrue to the heart of German 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 pure Aryan bodies Karl the farmer was left in the snow outside of Moscow Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno and Hans who was going to rule the world got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own we must never let that happen to us or to our country you 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 amazing these are minorities and then you belong to other minority groups too you are a farmer you have blue eyes you go to the Methodist Church you're 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 everyone'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 freedoms and this is not simply an idea this is good hard common-sense you see here in America it's not a question whether it's tolerate minorities America is minorities and that means you and me 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 pay let's think about us [Music]

Channel: US National Archives

Views: 607,971

Rating: 4.9206042 out of 5

Keywords: US National Archives, NARA

Id: vGAqYNFQdZ4

Length: 22min 49sec (1369 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Kyoh21]

"But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked kinda cute... after the first couple of drinks."

The 40's had some savage narrations.

[u/sokoteur]

Before he said Masons, you were ready to agree with him?

Well yes, but he was talking about - what about those other people.

But in this country, we have no ‘other people’, we are American people, all of us.

What about you, you aren't American, are you?

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.

What were you doing there?

I was a professor at the university. I 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 knew they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany in to 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 is going to get something out of it, and it’s not going to be you.

(edits thanks to /u/butnotexactly & /u/Daveed84)

[u/joecooool418]

He may not be a sucker, but he sure as fuck is a litterbug.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait...we’ve known Wrestling is fake since 1947 😳

[u/Yeffstopherson]

You've got to appreciate the bit about the young German soldiers being swindled out of their lives and futures for a cause they got caught up in, its just a really poignant statement done in a really brutal way. "Hans was told he'd be getting a farm in the new territory but the only farm he got was a 3x6 grave on the Eastern Front (paraphrased).

[u/GrowleyTheBear]

It should be noted that #1 in the playbook that they mention 70 years ago is formenting racial divisions between Americans. Thought that this would be a good watch for pretty much anyone, independent of nationality as it makes particularly salient points w.r.t divide and conquer political tactics which are relevant in almost every nation on the planet right now. (Resubmitted with a better quality source)

tl;dw: Don't let anyone convince you to hate. Hate makes you blind to political power grabs.

[u/McSquee14]

This video freaked me the fuck out

[u/sharkethic86]

Not enough people have watched this, or understand that some of their most basic interactions with people are helping to cause the division that is destroying society.

[u/55redditor55]

Jesus....we need to stop hating each other so much...