This looks like a fake doesnt it . It is a fake. But, heres a fellow willing to bet his hard earned money on it. Henry got on the train with 200. He couldnt see anymore harm in a friendly game of cards. What if the other men were strangers. And take jill collins. Hes got a nice wife at home. He met this girl at the bar and she looked kind of cute. After the first couple drinks. Theres a good old fashion 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 theyve got. Theyre all kind of games, and all kind of suckers. Take my kid for for instance. Hes got everything you might say. Hes young, hes healthy. Hes got a job. And hes got a country called america. A wonderful thing to have. America. 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 a factory. And dig the mines. And run the business. All kind 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 theyre free. Free to vote. To say what they please. Go to their own churches. To pick their own jobs. Yep, mikes got something all right. Hes got america. But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out to take that away from him. I want to give you the truth. The truth about america. I know you have a lot of questions. You want to know why youre not getting the break you deserve. Im in the a politician but i have made it my business to study these things and i happen to know the facts. Friends, im just an average american. Im an american american. And some of the things i see in the country of ours make my blood boil. I see people with foreign accents. Making all the money. I see Negros Holding jobs that belong to me and you. I ask you if we thats going to become of us real americans . I have heard this before. I never expect it to be with an american. He knows all right. Whats the answer . What are we going to do about it . Youll find it here in this participate l pamphlet. The truth about negros and foreigners. The truth about catholics. These are free. Paid for by real americans who want to know the truth. Are you going to read that stuff . Sure, why not. You heard what he said . I heard. You believing that kind of talk. I dont know it makes sense to me. Im speaking to you as an american american. I tell you friend, well never be able to call this country our own until its a country without what . Negros. Without foreigners. Without catholics. Without free masons. Whats wrong with the masons . Im a mason. That fellow is talking about me. That makes a difference, doesnt it . These are your enemies. Now owe know them. What they stand for. Its up to you sdp me to fight them. Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us. Thank you. Before he said masons, you were ready to agree with him. He was talking about the other people. This country we have no other people. We american people. All of us. What about you . I have born in hungry. Now im an american citizen. And i have seen what this talk can do. I have seen it in berlin. 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 craze siz people. Stupid fanatics. It was no not so. You see, they knew they were not strong muff to conquer a unified country. They spread germany into small groups and used prejudice. 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 prejudice. Always they are made for us. Made by someone who wants something. Remember when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody is going to get something out of it. And it isnt 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. A student of mine was a jew. He owned a small store. And a farmer. And hunts was a unemployed medal worker. To our true germans i saw it is time you inherit td the nation which rightfully belongs to you. To you alone. Belongs the destiny of the germany. Land for the farmer work for the worker and profit for the small businessman. Who is getting thee things now . The jew. The jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright. Who makes all the money and takes all the jobs . The jew. He must be shunned. He must be os ter sized. He must be eliminated. And the catholics, we dont want our great nation run by a foreign church. We germans will know what to do with the people when the time comes. They and their faith must be destroyed. And the free masons. In germany we have to place for secret society. There maybe one society. And that is the nazi party. There maybe no secrecy about that. In the new greater germany. One by one the each minority and split them off one from the other. These men were all fellow germans when they came. Now they were splitting to 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 to nazi standard. To him they promised everything. And he fell for it. You who are true germans they share the glorious destiny. You are the pure blooded. The master race. It is your define right to rule. And the nazi party stands ready to put you into power. If r you fo command our germany and some day the entire world. Thats how hunts became a superman. They gave him a uniform and pumped up his ego. He wasnt a fellow out of work anymore. He was a member of the master race. His wife couldnt understand. Everyone though he was a superman, there wasnt any food in the house. Stupid woman. Didnt she realize that the nazis were going to make jobs for everybody . That would be plen it of food and clothing. And the new house. Everything they wanted. The glorious future of germany was to be theirs and the children would some day rule the world. His wife silly woman still wondered where the next meal was coming from. Hunts didnt like that kind of talk. It was dangerous. For that kind of talk, people should be put in jail. Hunts had swallowed the bait, all right. And these were the men who baited the hook. Why . So hunts koultd come to power . Of course not. So they could come to power. They would merely use him to help them get there. He would do the dirty work. Hunts and thousands of others like him all playing a suckers game. They gambled with other peoples liberty. And of course they lost their own. And a nation of sacrifice. Hitler needed these people. There was lots of work to be done. There were three unions to be smashed because unions were organized and might offer resis tense. There were Many Political party in germany. These the nazis destroyed. They were determined to smash every organization where people might ban together and resist them. There were jews to be beaten and killed. They were conveniently accused for the nation ills. And besides the nazi member could not take over this mens store. Hundreds of catholics were put in jail. The churnl had strength and could resist. They had split the nation into one hundred pieces. And one by one, they had destroyed the pieces. They road into power. One Party One Nation one religion. These men had won the struggle for power. They now ruled all of germany. But still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy the truth. The truth does not die easily. So they decided to abolish truth. One great source of truth is literature. So they burned books, 20 million of them. Many great many germany spoe spokesman were jailed or drifren from the country. Teach, writers and. Education was discouraged. It was forbidden to listen to a british radio program. Or read american newspaper. You had to get your information from the doctor. He knew what was best for you. You couldnt see this movie. Or listen to this music. And you couldnt watch the fight. Because the champion had black skin. It is proved hitlers theory of supremacy. Albert einstein wasnt of the worlds great scientists disproved the theory too. He had to leave germany. His mind fts dedicated to the search for truth. And the nazis having sold a lie were afraid of truth. The church was a force Strong Enough to proclaim the truth in public. No doubt is possible that we questions are in a grave battle. Against us stand a faith out of blood. The battle singles rage from cool reputation to hate filled causes. Weapons are have dulled. The aim of this battle is to dislodge christianity from your 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 it to others, lest he lose what he has gained. This is the great lesson the world can learn from germany. The nazis put these men in a concentration camp. There were others who spoke for truth. Im proud to say that educators were among them. And what may i ask is an arianne . I dont know myself. But let us see what our socalled authorities have to say about it. They say he is tall, slender, blue eyes, 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 them. There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation between a mans 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 on whats right and whats 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 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 the first minority lost out, everybody lost out. They made the mistake of gambling with other peoples freedom. Lets see how those bets paid off. Karl was gambling on a better life for himself. What he got was extra hours of back breaking work, as much as 100 hours a week. He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he was told to produce. It was now hitler was preparing for war. For heinrich, the bet didnt pay off either. 104,000 Small Businesses were closed in two years. And for hans, conditions hadnt 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 didnt like the job, he wasnt permitted to leave it. There still wasnt enough food in his house. Hitler said you couldnt have butter and cannon, so hans couldnt have butter. 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 hans to do his dirty work. He was an expert by this time and hitler had decided to use his brutality against other people. The czechs, the poles, the fins, the russians. But in the crucial test of war, hitlers race theory didnt pay off. His pure blooded supermen were defeated by the mongrel parties, armies he despised. By the british at alalamein. By the russians at stalingrad. Then on d day by american soldiers of every color and rerigs who smashed across the normandy beaches and drove on through the heart of germany. For the misguided germans who had swallowed the nazi bait, it 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. And hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of normandy that he could call his own. You must never let that happen to us or our country. We must never be divided by race or color or religion. In this country we all belong to minority groups. I was born in hungary. You are a mason. These are minorities. And you belong to other minority groups too. You are a farmer, you go to the methodist church. You have blue eyes. Your right to belong is a precious thing. You have a right to be what you are and say what you think because here we have personal freedom, liberty and these are not just fancy words. This is a practical and can priceless way of living, but we must work at it. We must guard everyones liberty or lose our own. If we allow anyone to lose their freedom by persecution we risk our own freedom. This is not simply an idea. This is good, hard common sense. Here in america its not the question whether we tolerate minorities, america is minorities, that means you and me. So lets not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any men to be threatened by any act or word. Lets be selfish about it. Lets forget about we and they. Lets think about us. American history tv on cspan3, primetime. Tuesday night u. S. Army special forces detachment in berlin, germany, in the cold war. Two teams remain in the city just to give the russians and east germans a hard time. Destroy critical targets. Other guys would cross over the walls to hit targets. Wednesday night, black Voter Suppression in 1940s. During debate, quote, what a travesty, were sending negros by the multiple thousands to the firing line to die and fight for freedom while telling them they shall have no part or parcel of freedom at home. Thursday night, Andrew Jacksons legal challenge against powerful bank of the united states. June of 1929, president for three months, jackson is writing friends that only thing to prevent liberties to be crushed by bank and influence would be to kill the bank itself. Friday night an interview on senator john mccain on vietnam wars impact on his life and the country. I dont hold a grudge against the north vietnamese. I dont like them, theres some i would never want to see again. But at the same time, i was part of a conflict okay . I thought they were some of the meanest people ive ever met in my life and i never want to see again. But there were several that were good people and that were kind to me. Thats why it was much easier for me to support along with president clinton and others, the normalization of relations with our two countries, to heal the wounds of war. American history tv, this week in primetime on cspan3. Earlier this Year American history tv was live from inside the National Museum of africanamerican history and