"we human beings are not born with prejudices, they are always made for us, made by someone who wants something. Remeber that when you hear this kind of talk, someone's going to get something out of it and it isnt going to be you" Wise words that are as important now as they were then
Remember the last bit. AND its NOT going to be YOU! So before you agree to something what are you getting out of it vs what you will be required to put into it! Are you getting a fair or profitable exchange?
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.” - Eric Hoffer
a better plan would be to take all of the kids out of public schools which are really disinformation indoctrination centers. Even 50 years ago when I was there at best it was a waste of time.
This video is over 75 years old, and the message is more important than ever. I hope it gets everyone thinking very seriously about what's going on in the world today.
There are comments stating that this is still relevant today. Folks, this video is relevant in perpetuity. The time, or year, is meaningless, because people are people, and there will always be evil among us.
@@ramonatyme5595 You clearly dont know history, hence why you and left are trying very very hard to repeat this disaster of a time. Make no mistake, the left are the suckers - always have and always will be.
@@hughass3305 BLM and ANTIFA are nothing but the Brown Shirts in Nazi Germany and are supported by the left. The Nazis took away Germany's citizens guns and the left wants to do the same. Hitler took over Germany even though he lost the 1933 election and Biden does the same in 2020. There are never none so blind as those who will not see, and that would be every Biden supporter. Trump is the only hope America has
@@lamonthamilton667 Worse, the people who need to hear it most will likely think it's talking about anyone themselves. Look at all the chuds claiming with a straight face that the N*zis were Leftist.
@@CrowTR0bot the fact that you had to bring that up showed you and the people like you need to hear it don't you see by saying that your simply causing more division the of the things the video is directly saying not to do
Hits hard especially now. Congress taking censorship to alarmingly new heights. After non state approved speech is effectively outlawed, the right by trial by jury is next because that is the final place you can use free speech to argue your innocence.
@@darkking2001 Oh ok. You must be calling me that because you think I'm Republican. Well, I'm not. I also want to know where exactly in my original comment that made you come to the conclusion that I am a fascist, which is an accusation that often, sadly, takes the place of where a civil conversation should be.
@@DeathToLiberalism Funny, considering to get that opinion, you've had to have Nazi propaganda from a century ago whispered sweetly into your ears. Cultural Marxism is a modern day recreation of Cultural Bolshevism, which was a conspiracy theory originally created by the Nazis in order to link Judaism with Socialism, the two things the Nazis hated the most and wanted others to hate too. Look it up friend. You're being played for a sucker. Education is their enemy, because educated people are less likely to fall for their bullshit. Don't be one of them.
@@TheRedKing247 True education encourages people to think for themselves. Instead, most colleges emphasize transgender rights, feminism and other ideologies that students are NOT allowed to question. If you disagree, the left will ostracize you the same way the Nazis treated the Jews. Education requires less emotion and more critical thinking.
That professor disproving the Aryan Race was actually a Soviet anti-nazi poster, mocking the Nazi higher-ups: "Blonde like Hitler, slim like Goering, tall and Beautiful like Goebbels".
I think it was GK Chesterton who said "all news is just old news happening to new people". The wise King Solomon said "there's nothing new under the sun". This is why I am always surprised at how offended people get about age old issues.
A year later I'm here crying because we ARE suckers now. I listen to this man's words and all I'm reminded of is where we are now and I mourn. This was produced by the government....four generations later and these lessons have all but been forgotten, show by the actions of of us all. And what is endorsed now? Division along economic and racial lines. Harvard has segregated graduation for the first time on the behest of of one racial group wanting to separate from the others. Right or left, we've forgotten to be Americans. Now we are liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Christians, haves, have-nots, Republicans, Democrats. The majority of kids and adults won't date or associate beyond ideologies. We're more than suckers, we've divided ourselves while screaming unity. God, Allah, help us all. We're ripe for the plundering. We're doing our enemy's work for them and no one seems to be the wiser. We're soon to become what we scarified half a generation to stop. Maybe our children, this fifth generation, will learn once again what we knew nearly a century ago. I fear how much blood will be split to pay for our forgetfulness
@@maryqueenofScots2023 You could argue trump and the republican party continually grows more extreme. I think that is strongly the case. But it is not just them, the 'who' is not someone: it is ourselves. We must enrich in our differences, and yet use that to bring us together.
Good. America needs to die. I’m so tired of being called racist, sexist, privileged and every other smear that leftists and BLM can invent. So you know what? I’m on their side now. Burn down this hell hole. Perhaps the human race is only capable of learning amongst mass suffering and death.
This is no mere propaganda. This is a timeless warning against giving in to our built-in human urge towards hatred of The Other, of elevating ourselves over those who are different, and of treating them as being less than human.
Because people are tribal by nature. Native peoples around themselves call themselves real people and their neighbours are the others (whom they may hunt or even eat).
My mom always told us that prejudice is man made...a child does not care about the color or religion of the child coloring next to them,until an adult tells them ppl who don't look or worship like them are 'the other',and subhuman.
This is so true. Thats why we NEED mixed ethnicity neighborhoods it helps so much with combating racism, it is actualy insane. I am from germany and famously after the nazis threw most german men into allied machineguns (with the volkssturm even the children and the elder) we had a massive shortage of workers to rebuild and work in germany after the war. So the government made very very loose regulations on imigration to fill the labour pool. Today only around 13% of people living in germany are ethnicaly german and we have alot of skin color variaty on the streets. This results in incredibly low racism. I also have family in Poland and we visit them very frequently. As the polish population was not completely wiped out during world war 2 (although the nazis were trying, trust me) they didnt have the same need for migrant workers and as a result the population is as white as a fresh bed sheet. And the result? Incredible, absolutely indescribable racism. Since the the majority of people have never meet a black person before they hold the most wild, most unbelivable racist steriotypes. Everything from "monkey people" to "blacks are canibals". Yes I am not joking. It is crazy. Racism decreases with mixed ethnicity population. It is an undeniable fact.
@@jakobc.2558 Wow..Poland? I went to college for a year there 50 years ago. They weren't racist. They didn't care if someone was colored or Viet Namese or a (dot) Indian (those were considered "exotic"), or even if they were Lutheran or Presbyterian or Calvinist. The J question was never discussed tho'..
@@mikezylstra7514 there are alot of asian imigrants in Poland because of the vietnam war but they are still considered white. Go to Poland as a brown skinned person from a muslim country and I guarantee you that your experience will be very different. I mean, f**k me, just listen to the PIS partys rethoric about imigrants during the 2016 migrant chrisis, they are very very open about all that.
What a powerful and thoughtful film. It is amazing that the US War Department produced this in 1947, with such clear examples and explanations of what can happen, in a society, and the consequences of this. I would say, its relevant to every and any country.
If you are saying this applies today because Donald Trump and his supporters want to kick ILLEGAL immigrants out of the country, you are as stupid as the next Democrat.
No, I think she's saying it applies today because Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists, refers to shithole countries and said there was wrong doing on both sides when an Arian Nationalist ran his car into a bunch of people protesting white supremacy. So, there's that.
How about "fellow American" Maurice Hendrix? I'm tired of being referred to as the "other" when I am as American as you are. Pay attention to the movie, Sucker.
@@Igaluit Amazed how soon the psychological operation to brain wash the population started so quickly after the war and still trying to pounded on the daily for 80 years after.
This reminds me of reading the book "All Quiet On the Western Front" in high school. It shook me. They all start out regular kids at the beginning, yearning for the wild freedom we all do at that age. And in the end, he dies just a miserable nobody in a trench, and the highlight of the news that day is "all quiet over here."
On the opposite token, it doesn't matter how blunt you're being. There will always be someone saying "He's clearly talking about everyone but me!" Just look at all the butthurt Trumpers in this comment section.
The problem is in the past, they'd be the village crank, ignored by most. But now, the village cranks have the internet to communicate and share ideas. They're not so alone now
@@HeroesNights well sort of. Societal pressures don't force people into a train of thought that is consistent with their environment anymore because they can go online and find support for whatever it is they think is reality.
What this planet needs is more disciplined, conscious and honest people and less problematic people. "Because remember that evil does not discriminate color, race, culture or religion. "
More like 2021. Since Jan. 6th, things have been getting scarier and scarier. I read an article today that a couple of Dem Congressman are coming after FOX News, OANN, and Newsmax to get them shutdown. Reason? What happened on Jan. 6th and the ridiculous claim they somehow had a part in it.
@@youpeopleareinsane1285 500 people are being held in solitary right now in DC. Solitary confinement means no human contact for 23 hours per day. Amnesty International likens this to psychological torture. I've also heard they recieve routine beatings from the prison guards. Regardless of whether or not you think that the government can be toppled by a bunch of unarmed trespassers, my point that we live in scary times still stands. I mean look at the news that recently broke that the NSA spied on Fox News with the explicit intent to get Mr. Carlson's show removed off the air. Things like that would've been unheard of 15 years ago. If that story is proven to be true, the NSA just violated the law.
@@HK--nf1sc Guess what. That story was on *Fox News* However every other article there is reported to be no such claim. In fact the man who reported on the story Tucker Carlson is furious because no one believes his ridiculous story. Yeah you've got to read more sources
Great lesson... this is why history is so important and should not be destroyed. This is why we should not be putting labels on groups as victims or oppressors. This is why we need more free thought and speech instead of censorship under the guise of misinformation. This is why we need freedom of religion and to keep faith a part of our nation. If we allow big government to own and control our lives, elections, health, schools, jobs, food and energy supplies instead of the people, small business, churches, local communities - then we will fail. We are not a nation of any political party, ruling class, dictator or activist bullies. We are a Republic ruled by a US Constituion which allows for representation of the majority while protecting the inalienable rights of the minority!
It's not as though no actual victims and oppressors exist either though gaslighting is part of propaganda too telling you things didn't happen that did etc. Critical thinking is scarce now.
First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out- because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
Except this time the street corners are not public property open to all, they are owned by private businesses with political biases driven by corporate greed, and *they* get to decide who is allowed to speak. Democracy and freedom have never been at so much risk.
newslit.org/ offers some great techniques of how to determine the veracity of news sources. If one has questions about something specific, Mediabiasfactcheck.org or Snopes.com are good resources. And this video from the 40s encourages us do disbelieve news couched in terms of separating groups of people from other groups of people. Are they emphasizing racial or religious differences or are they just reporting the facts? Are they making generalizations to an entire group based on the actions of one person, or are they just reporting what that one person did? Speakers trying to separate us with the use of divisive or overly generalizing language are usually not to be trusted.
This is the first one of these I’ve watched that showed black people. That guy said “F’? That surprised me but I would have used much stronger terms. Reminds me of Wallace who ran for president when I was very young. He was a prejudice bastard. This was filmed so shortly after the Nazis. This guy perpetuated that horrific tragedy. People forget about the persecution of Catholics and other groups who were not the main targets in number anyhow. Does this remind anyone of the current CCP? This is a very important film.
It is, just look at all the Trump supporters in this comment section who think this video is describing anyone but themselves. Newsflash: Leftists are the ones following the narrator's advice.
@@CrowTR0bot America needs to have a conversation with itself, and it refuses to do so, sigh. The amount of MAGAts in this comment section is a little disheartening 🙄
@@wil7228 Common sense isn't very common anymore. It's becoming endangered as a matter of fact. People need lots of reminding or they're going to lose it.
I, too, was caught unaware! How perfectly timeless. I believe this should be required viewing, and included in Common Core. I must say that, as this is put out by the War Dept., this film is anticommunist. That's not very tolerant. Or, is tolerance only for "our" way of life (get the whiners below decks)?
@@MomMom4Cubs I don't believe the film was anti-communist. The only mention they made of communists was when they talked about how the Nazis used them as scapegoats.
I make it a point to watch this a few times a year. We as a collection of various minorities make up the sweeping majority and thrive....or we die separately in the shame of having fallen for the divisive speech of those who would conquer us with our own hands. Respect needs to make a comeback soon. Let it not be in style to tear someone down and shame them for differences of opinion: you will never reach someone in need of wisdom by attacking them.
This went in an amazing direction. I thought the whole thing would be about not being taken advantage of by scammers or low level criminals. And instead I got a tutorial on how not to become Nazi Germany.
Incredible watch and something all interested in history/politics should view. I wish our gov/country could’ve been fully practicing what they preached at this time in regards to equality but the past can’t be changed now. Still a great message and time in history we should never forget or misinterpret as we traverse our future.
I wish I was as articulate as the person here. It’s so hard for me to argue my points without getting emotional. Because the topic is very serious to me, and it’s terrifying thinking of the implications if we don’t keep it under control
This is tremendous Tim, thank you so much for uploading. My grandparents, now deceased, had many stories of escaping at the age of nine, from what was then known as Prussia. I can’t begin to imagine what was going through their young minds.Their travels eventually brought them to, where they homesteaded, North Dakota. Thanks again.(am also on SL)
@@tiernanwearen8096 Prussia was a major power in the former German Empire and many of its aristocracy were major backers of the fascists leading up to and during WWII
@@nemluka he was realy clear about what he wanted to do with the jews since 1933. If you read mein kampf you will find that he was very very clear about his plans long before that. But a big portion of the population ran with it because they were so radicalized with nationalistic hatred and prejudice that they also wanted the jews to be removed.
@@lotrofan5 The fascist parties were defense movement's, the communists were the ones who started it and started the war, when they tried to take over Germany with a coup and terrorist attacks in the 20's. Germany had just helped Spain crush the communist coup attempt. That's what lead to ww2, plus the allies inflicting misery on German people and siding with the communists Many other people's also depended on Germany for help against the red army and the bolsheviks including my own people, who helped defend Königsberg from the communists The fascist parties are called the 3rd movement, because they rejected both the depraved communist ideals and plans, and the jewish international debt based capitalist system that was enslaving European people's. They were the only ones fighting for Europe
These were our grandparents, old and feeble now, but were those who did the hard work of defeating those who would divide us, they deserve the title of the greatest generation.
I could post this every day on my facebook page. The most patriotic film out there. And the most truthful. Too bad that these things are happening all over again in this country. Division....purposely committed by a certain group and their "aryan" leader.
Fun fact: this was the inspiration for the 1963 episode of twilight zone "he's alive" where hitlers ghost guides Dennis hoppers character, an American nazi, on how to spread his hateful rhetoric to Americans while an old man speaks of how it sounds too familiar to what he heard in nazi Germany as a younger man and how dangerous it can be. This film and the twilight zone episode or eerily very similar in plot, characters and tone (without the ghost of Hitler lol)
