that the holocaust never happened. i knew what he was saying was wrong, but i had to play that game of, please teach me more because i felt that if i accepted what he believed he would love me. i said, okay, dad, let s go to a movie. it was a jam packed theater. opening credits rolled. and every time a producer s name would pop up, he would stand up and shout, jew! jew! that guy is a jew! the whole theater just turned around and looked at me. i m just like this. i wanted a father. but he wanted a desipple. eric shows me a 400-page document warning the world of the threat he believed was posed by black, liberals and jews.
you re going to be. okay? you weren t born hating anyone. if you do hate somebody, why do you hate them? who told you to hate them? those questions are going to help you identify who you are inside. only you guys can make the right choice. so that s all i m going to say. that s my story. i m not a professional psychologist. i m an ex-nazi who for the last 20 years has tried to stop other people from making the same mistakes that i made. but when i saw eric telling his story up there, made me really proud. you re very brave. oh, thank you. thank you. i wish you the best. thank you very much. nazi germany was defeated in 1945. but today s neo-nazi movement is flooding our world with
if that s not being a good person, i don t know what else to tell you. extremism leaves all different kinds of casualties. eric s story is really interesting because he s still battling the scars of what his father did to him. but also what his father did to special officer johns. he holds that inside as if it was his responsibility. he s got a lot of damage that he needs to repair. eric sees his life story the way i used to see mine, as a source of sadness and shame. i have an idea how i can help him. but for a prominent neo-nazi like jeff scoop, the path forward is far less certain. buckle up for some insurance themed fun
of zion was a fraudulent document released in 1903 by the russian czar. this was a way to demonize the jews, but putting out this document that claimed a secret group of powerful jews were conspireing to control the finances of the world and the entertainment and the media and things like that. through the roaring 20s and the crash that followed, the protocols were held up as proof that economic suffering was caused by a jewish conspiracy. half a million copies for printed by henry ford, complimentary with every car sold. eric tells me he defied his father s indoctrination and endured years of emotional and physical abuse. this is it, right? yes, sir. but a lifetime of resistance took its toll.
for most of his life, eric von brunn agonized over what his violent, white supremacist father might do. when he became an adult, eric asked his father to move in with him. he wanted to keep a close eye on the old man. but when james asked his only son to carry out a suicide attack in washington, d.c., eric reached his breaking point. when the man asked me to kill myself for something he knew i didn t believe in, that pretty much ended our father-son relationship. you wanted out right at that point? yeah. eric had graduated from the university of maryland and was eager to put as much distance between him and his father as possible. he decided to move to florida for a fresh start. but the night before he left, as they said their good-byes, eric