Watch this US anti fascist educational film from 1945 - Don't Be a Sucker
2 minutes ... short version. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_a_Sucker
full version on YouTube 22 minutes "Don't be a Sucker" not linked.
transcript from link
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I've heard this kind of talk before but
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I never expected to hear it in
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America this seems to know what he's
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talking prot yes he knows all right away
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from us what's the answer what are we
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Real Americans going to do about it
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you'll find it right here in this little
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pamplet excuse me young man but are you
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actually going to read that stuff sure
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why not you heard what he said going on
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in this country yes I heard find do you
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believe in that kind of talk and you'll
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find out who makes pretty good sense to
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me I'm speaking to you as an American am
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and I tell you friends we'll never be
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able to call this country our own until
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it's a country
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without without what yeah without what
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without
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Negroes without alien foreigners without
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Catholics without
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Freemasons you know these people what's
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wrong with the Masons I'm a Mason time
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for to get together and hey that F's
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talking about me and that makes a
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difference doesn't it these are your
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enemies I was born in Hungary but now I
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am an American citizen and I have seen
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what this kind of talk can do I saw it
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in Berlin what were you doing there I
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was a professor at the University I
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heard the same words we have heard today
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but I was a fool then I thought Nazis
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were crazy people stupid
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fanatics but unfortunately it was not
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so you see they knew that they were not
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strong enough to conquer a unified
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country so they split Germany into small
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groups they use Prejudice as a practical
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weapon to the
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nation of course that was not easy to do
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they had to work hard to do it you see
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we human beings are not born with
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prejudices always they are made for us
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made by someone who wants something
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remember that when you hear this kind of
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talk somebody is going to get something
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out of it and it isn't going to be us oh"
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"Citizenship in a democracy is more than a ballot dropped in a box on Election Day. It's a 365-daysa-year job requiring the active participation and best judgment of every citizen in the affairs of his community, his nation, and his country's relations with the world...
Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance. It makes headway when people are apathetic or cynical about their government — when they think of it as something far removed from them and beyond their personal concern....
Freedom, like peace and security, cannot be maintained in isolation. It involves being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.
What is true of America is true of the world. The germ of fascism cannot be quarantined in a Munich Brown House or a balcony in Rome. If we want to make certain that fascism does not come to America, we must make certain that it does not thrive anywhere in the world...
