Don't Be a Sucker!

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.

Because what if the other men were strangers?

And take Joe Collins.

He's got a nice wife at home.

But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked kind

of cute after the first couple of drinks.

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, 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 the factories, dig the mines

and 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, all right.

He's got America.

But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to

take that away from him.

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.

But I've made it my business to study these things and I

happen to know the facts.

Now, 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 that belong to me and you.

Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on,

what's going to become of us real Americans?

I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to

hear it in America.

This fellow seems to know what he's talking about.

Yes, he knows all right.

What's the answer?

What are we real Americans going to do about it?

You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet.

The truth about Negroes and foreigners.

The truth about the Catholic Church.

Now, friends, these books are free.

Paid for by real Americans who want others to know the truth.

Excuse me, young man, but are you actually going to read that

stuff?

Sure, why not?

You heard what he said, didn't you?

Yes, I heard.

Do you believe in that kind of talk?

I don't know.

It makes pretty good sense to me.

I'm speaking to you as an American American.

And I tell you, friends, we'll 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.

Without Freemasons.

What's wrong with the Masons?

I'm a Mason.

Hey, that fellow's talking about me.

And that makes a difference, doesn't it?

These are 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 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.

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 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 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 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 a small hardware store.

Karl was a farmer.

And Hans was an unemployed metal worker.

To our true Aryan Germans, I say it is time you inherited

the nation which rightfully belongs to you.

To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany.

The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the

worker, and profits for the small businessman.

Who is getting these things now?

The Jew.

The Jew 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 foreign church.

We Germans will know what to do with these people when the

time comes.

They and their faith must be destroyed.

Then there are the Freemasons.

In Germany we have no place for secret societies.

There will be only one society, and that is the Nazi party.

There will 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 man who was really being fooled was Hans.

He was pure German according to Nazi standards.

To him they promised everything, and he fell for it.

You who are true Aryan Germans will 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.

That's how Hans became a superman.

They gave him a uniform and it pumped up his ego.

He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore.

He was a member of the master race.

His wife couldn't quite understand.

Even though he was a superman, there wasn't any food in the

house.

Stupid woman.

Didn't she realize that the Nazis were going to make jobs for

everybody?

There would be plenty of food and clothing and a 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.

Hans didn't like that kind of talk.

It was dangerous.

For that kind of talk, people should be put in jail.

Hans had swallowed the bait all right.