Transcripts For CSPAN3 Reel America Seeds Of Destiny - 1946 20240711

Millions of dollars for relief efforts. This Academy Award winning film, include scenes that may be disturbing to some viewers. Children. The human raw material of each shattered nations tomorrow. Each nations preview in flesh and blood of its future. Pillars of a brave new world. Pillars of a brave new world ages from 3 to 6 and not even able to stand. Rickets. Age nine, mother tortured, father burned alive. Age 10, lost her senses when shells swept her dutch village. Age eight, mother, father, sister and brother killed all around him in deliberate shell fire because they refused to leave the shelter of a ravine, himself wounded. Age eight, she didnt know her strange new toy was a grenade. Ages 10 to 14. Age 3, stunted and warped by nutritional deficiencies. Pillars of a brave new world separated from parents whose names they dont even remember. Roaming like wolf packs, stealing, begging, education neglected, all normal influence gone. Living in filth. And millions more like them from which will emerge new leaders, new leaders who also will bear the burden of keeping the peace together. For here, too, as well as in more fortunate nations, are makers of tomorrow. Will they be new einsteins, madam currys or new hitlers, muse mussolinis . A legacy designed to drag down neighbor nations and their future into one common ruin, jeopardizing the next generation for the next round. For germany in particular that had long practice at ripping the entire fabric of a nations life, short a state of weakness could be ensured, liberation or not. The liberated lead. A checkzech village was completely wiped off the earth that not even rubble remained. Women were sent to concentration camps of which these are among the surviving few. For all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave. And all the little children sold for 50 marks]sykykym tnapio various german families and perhaps lost forever. The effects of which will linger long after men like these captured men who have been tried and condemned