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- [Voiceover] Reality Films.

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- [Voiceover] In the 1930s an
entire nation was brainwashed.

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It was manipulated by
masters of propaganda

and the arcane arts.

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The result was the deaths
of millions of people.

The world was changed in
just a few short years.

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The men behind
this massive scheme

were members of the
most evil and vile of

political parties
ever to have existed.

We know them as the Nazis.

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Their purpose was to
bring about the rise

of a so-called Aryan race.

The race that would
rule the world

for a thousand years.

This would be the Third Reich.

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In order to see the fulfillment
of their grand scheme

they needed to eradicate
certain races from the globe

and subjugate others.

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In order to achieve this,

they needed millions of people

to believe and follow them,

and only them.

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And so they created a messiah,

a god on earth, his
name was Adolf Hitler

and he would become the master

of manipulating the
hearts and souls of man.

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From mass hypnosis to
blatant propaganda,

from control of the media to
eradicating the opposition,

all methods were employed.

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This is the story of
how that incredible goal

was actually brought to fruition

and the methods used to
control the minds of men.

This is the story
of Nazi propaganda.

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There can be very few
people who have not

heard the term Nazi and
yet there are very few

who can pinpoint
the actual meaning.

Yes it brings to mind
terrible atrocities

and evil looking
characters from war films.

We all know that it is a
word with evil connotations.

Their symbol, the swastika,
is banned from public display

in almost all
parts of the world.

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But why is this that
in living memory,

millions of people
followed them.

How did so many
people get drawn into

what became quite possibly,

the darkest period
in human history?

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In this film we look
into the purpose

of the Nazi party,
we explore the power

they had over the
mind and we examine

their methods of
propaganda and hypnosis.

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Who were they?

What did they do?

Why and how?

It's time to get inside
the mind of the Nazis,

the monsters of manipulation.

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The actual term Nazi,
is the shortened version

of the National Socialist
German Workers Party.

The brain child of
one particular man,

who rose from the
ashes of a poverty

stricken Germany, Adolf Hitler.

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As a youth in
Austria, Adolf Hitler

became politically influenced by

radical German Nationalism.

This led him into anti-semitism

as well as hatred for
the Slavs, Habsburgs,

Catholics and more.

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It was this time
he saw the merits

of absolute party leadership,

the title of Fuhrer and
even the greeting of Heil.

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Heil mine Fuhrer, simply
meant "Hail my leader."

Later a chant zeig heil was
created for public occasions

as the Nazis
understood such things

created a harmony
among the followers.

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In fact, Adolf Hitler
himself, studied hypnotism,

when he read the book,
"Psychology of the Masses".

The book describes the
psychology of the crowd

and the techniques that could
be used to control them.

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Using hypnotic suggestions,

a crowd can be manipulated.

Repetition and the use
of movement are key.

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When an animal
walking through a wood

sees a movement,
it stops and looks.

Its attention has been gained.

If a movement happens again,

then the animal will
continue to look,

mesmerized to the spot.

The same applies to us.

Watch as the speaker may
walk up and down the stage

keeping our natural gaze.

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Movement of the body and arms

enforce a strength and
those watching are fixed.

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In this state, whatever
is said by the speaker

has more power.

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Repeat it and it becomes gospel.

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Hitler used repetition,
not just in speeches,

but he repeated the speeches.

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A repeated statement becomes
embedded in the mind.

Hymns in church are sung
for this very reason,

to drive home the propaganda
and message of the church.

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HItler himself said, "What
you say to the people

"collectively, in
that receptive state

"of fanatical abandonment,

"remains in their
mind like an order

"given to someone
under hypnosis,

"which can not be wiped out

"and resists all
logical argument."

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He used all the
techniques known.

Pacing up and down,
pause and action.

Repetition and hand
movements for reinforcement.

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Through such hypnosis,
Hitler could bypass

rationality and logic

and aim straight into
the core of the mind,

without the conscious
knowledge of the viewer.

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Repeated viewing
of the same speaker

has been proven to
reinforce a concept

of admiration and
even of holiness.

Eventually, every word
uttered becomes holy writ.

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He was also instructed
in the art of hypnosis,

by an expert.

A British Secret Service
report from 1943,

stated "During the early 1920s,

"Hitler took regular
lessons in speaking

"and in mass
psychology from a man

"named Hamsun, who
was also a practicing

"astrologer and fortune teller."

He was an extremely
clever individual

who taught Hitler a great deal

concerning the importance
of staging meetings

to obtain the greatest
dramatic effect.

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What Hitler was really good at

was the power of suggestion,

repeating a phrase.

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Over time, Hitler's
beliefs changed and grew.

His experience as a corporal
in the first world war

saw him eventually blame
the leaders of Germany

for the loss of the
war and the subsequent

humiliation of the
Treaty of Versailles.

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He also blamed the Jews.

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He learned everything he could.

He gathered information.

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What his intentions were
originally is unknown,

but he molded himself
with his knowledge

and he was intent
on doing something

about the plight of the
German speaking world.

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Over time, and following
hundreds of speeches,

arguments, political maneuvering

and outright bullying,
Hitler found his destiny

as the leader of the Nazi Party.

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So what was Nazi Germany?

Between 1933 and 1945,

the term was interchangeable
with the Third Reich,

a period when the
country was controlled

by Adolf Hitler and
his National Socialist

German Workers Party.

Or Nazi Party.

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Under Hitler's reign,
Germany changed into

a fascist totalitarian
state, whereby almost

all facets of life were
controlled by the government.

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The very moment Hitler took
power as Chancellor in 1933,

all political opponents
were eliminated.

In 1934, the President,
Hindenburg, died

and Hitler became Dictator.

His title was Fuhrer, or leader.

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All power was in his
hands and his word

was above the law.

Gathering around Hitler
were the various factions

all trying desperately
to attract his attention

and gain his favor.

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Nothing was beyond
them in their fight

for the Fuhrer's love.

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It had been a time
of desperation

and poverty was rife
under the Nazis,

the economy grew and stabilized.

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Massive public works
were undertaken.

Germany was being rebuilt

and with it the spirit
of the master race.

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The Nazis enjoyed
massive popularity

through this economic stability

and this allowed them
to begin introducing

some of the more sinister
elements of their policies.

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They had done what they
said they would do,

so they must be right,
was the public perception.

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Education was
targeted, introducing

the concepts of racial
purity into the schools.

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The children were being
prepared on many levels.

Firstly, they were being aligned

to the beliefs of the Fuhrer.

Secondly, the boys were
prepared for military service

and the girls softened
up for motherhood.

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Opportunities for
females were reduced,

so they could concentrate on
being good German mothers.

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Through the Strength
for Joy program,

recreation was organized,

and in 1936, Germany
held the Olympics,

placing the might
of the Third Reich,

in the international spotlight.

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All media and public
gatherings were controlled.

Propaganda was everywhere.

Even art was controlled.

As the power of
Germany grew against

the backdrop of a weak Europe,

the aggression of the Nazis
began to terrify many.

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- [Voiceover] If I Adolf Hitler,

can set the clout
of the German nation

to the head of war without
the smallest ticking

for spilling precious
German blood.

Then surely I have
the right to remove

millions of an inferior race
that breeds like vermin.

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- [Voiceover] When
they made territorial

demands in Czechoslovakia,
Europe buckled.

Russia and Italy aligned
themselves with the Nazis,

Poland was invaded and
war was declared in 1939.

- [Voiceover] This is murder.

Deliberate murder.

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- [Voiceover] By 1940, Germany
controlled most of Europe.

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- [Voiceover]
Defying every written

and unwritten law of man,

not only premeditated,
but carried out

by official decree.

- [Voiceover] Only
Great Britain remained

and until 1942, the
Americans stood back.

- [Voiceover] Here
in utmost secrecy,

the hardening up forces.

Building up Hitler's
army and his industry.

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- [Voiceover] Tell the world
we have no raw materials,

and never let them
see what goes on.

Day after day,
night after night,

month after month,
year after year,

we must have the world's
most powerful club.

Forget hours, forget
working conditions,

forget how to think, forge
the club of blood and iron.

Let the democracies
talk about freedom.

No freedom here.

No labor unions.

No overtime.

The Fuhrer tells
you where to work.

When to work, how long to work.

How much your work is worth.

Forge the club of
blood and iron.

We have a sacred mission.

Today we rule Germany.

Tomorrow, the world.

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- [Voiceover] And for
those who don't like it,

you don't eat.

Or you disappear into
a concentration camp.

Or you get this.

(gunshots)

And this is the man
who gives it to you.

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And what of the army?

Before Hitler came into power,

the German Army by
treaty was limited

to one hundred thousand men,

but treaties to the
Germans have always

been something to ignore.

These one hundred thousand men

were in reality a
hundred thousand

highly trained officers.

The men who lead the
Nazi regiments today.

But Hitler didn't merely
ignore the treaty,

he tore it up.

And in 1935 ordered
National Conscription.

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Simultaneously, he
ordered German youth

to become air minded.

Toy gliders filled the air.

But as the boys grew bigger,

so did the gliders.

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Soon these same youths
were trained pilots,

flying the new planes the
factories were producing.

The Luftwaffe was
being assembled.

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The only thing old
about this new army,

was the goose step.

And even Hitler couldn't improve

on that ancient German
form of torture,

designed to make
man stop thinking

and blindly obey.

Goose step them
until they become

as insensible as weapons.

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Everything else was new.

Tanks, motorized equipment

and one of our own inventions,

the dive bomber.

(plane engine screaming)

All this rearmament
was strictly illegal,

according to the
Versailles Treaty

and the next illegal
step Hitler took,

was to march his troops
into the Rhineland,

a strip of land between
Germany and France,

demilitarized after the last war

as a precaution against
future German aggression,

but Hitler's plan
of eastern conquest

demanded a barrier
against democratic

action in the west.

So Hitler re-militarized
the Rhineland

and began building the
formidable Siegfried line,

a chain of forts and
defenses 450 miles long

and in some places,
30 miles wide.

Germany had fought
one two front war

and didn't want another.

(engines whirring)

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As many as half a million men,

worked as much as 20 hours a day

to build 22,000 fortified
positions on land,

where by treaty
no German soldier

was supposed to set foot.

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- [Voiceover] The
Nazis were truly

beginning to believe in
their own propaganda,

that they were destined
to rule the world.

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Most scholars see the Nazi
Party as the far right,

but what does this mean?

They argued through
neo-Darwinism,

that what they called
the Aryan race,

was superior and had the
right to rule all others.

Hitler himself
claimed that Nazism,

was neither left nor
right, and he attacked

both communism and capitalism
as pawns of the Jews.

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He said the Nazis were not
for any class of people,

but the pure from both sides.

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The Nazi's held the
Weimar Republic,

the old system of government

in Germany in contempt.

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It was they who
had brought about

the signing of the
Treaty of Versailles

and the humiliation of Germany.

After World War I, the German
right wing nationalists,

known as the Free Corp,
engaged in political violence

and the Nazis were intrigued
and inspired by their methods.

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- [Voiceover] The symbols
and the leaders change,

but Germany's maniacal
urge to impose

its will on others continues
from generation to generation.

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- [Voiceover] The monarchists
of post-war Germany

were being threatened
by the young generations

who wanted to
create a new state,

based on martial rule.

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The Nazis formed
an alliance with

several other parties
and industrialists

and began to grow in power.

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Hitler's hypnotic
speeches helped

to secure him as the leader.

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Following the 1932 elections,

the alliance broke off.

Kaiser Wilhelm the Second,

was under pressure
and abdicated.

His four sons became
members of the Nazi Party.

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Hitler's top team was
forming with Goering,

Himmler and Goebbels among them.

In 1933, the party
finally gained power.

Hitler had played
the political game.

He had coerced and
cajoled and he succeeded.

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Promises and pressure,
carrot and stick,

Nazism was about
German Nationalism,

about pride and expansion.

Taking back what was
rightfully theirs.

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Millions of people
who had suffered

at the hands of the
Treaty of Versailles

and the Great
Depression, were now

promised jobs,
holidays and more.

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Those who argued were punished.

The German people were
the superior race.

It was a myth built
around the concept

of the Aryan master race

and it fed into the
Nationalistic swelling of pride

filling the huge void.

It was time to take back
the lung that was stolen.

Time to show the
world that Germans

were a force to
be reckoned with.

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So just what did the Nazi Party

finally end up believing in?

Just what kind of
country had they created?

How did the people live with it?

Were they happy?

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If you were female
in Nazi Germany,

then you were excluded
from political office.

The term children,
kitchen, church

was often applied for
the good German lady.

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Women were ordered to
avoid sexual relations

with foreigners
in order to avoid

having the pure
German blood soiled.

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Himmler said, "Fellow
Germans who engage

"in sexual relations
with male or female

"civil workers of the
Polish nationality,

"commit other immoral acts,

"or engage in love affairs,

"shall be arrested immediately."

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Heydrich later declared
that Russian males

would suffer the death
penalty for such an act.

The women would have
their heads shaved,

be paraded in public or even
sent to concentration camps.

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The method of getting the
message across to women

began early with the
League of the German Girls.

Nazi Nationalism was all
about the German way of life,

the German bloodline,
the special Aryan race,

therefore others who
lived in the Nazi realm

were second rate
citizens or worse.

And with the dogma
of expansionism,

many more millions would soon

find themselves in
similar situations.

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The terror and horror of
the Nazi Aryan elitism

spreading across
Europe was unbearable.

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Aryan's, Nazis said,
were in conflict with all

other races for superiority.

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A set of race laws were
introduced in 1935,

which became known as
the Nuremberg Laws.

In the beginning,
these laws simply

outlawed sexual
relations and marriage

between Germans and Jews,

but it was then
extended to include

Gypsies and Negroes.

In the war, it was
extended further,

to include all other races.

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The Nazis drive was to
maintain racial purity

and so they went
about the systematic

extermination of Jews,
Romanies and the mentally ill

and the physically disabled.

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Others, were called degenerates.

People such as homosexuals,
Jehovah's Witnesses,

blacks and of course,
anybody who didn't agree.

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Another one of
Hitler's grand schemes,

was to exterminate
or enslave the Slavs

of Central and Eastern Europe,

such as the Russians,
Poles, and Ukrainians.

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This, he said, would make
way for German settlers.

The Slavs were to Hitler, a mass

of born slaves
awaiting their master.

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One of the tactics
to purify the race,

was compulsory sterilization.

Or even involuntary
euthanasia of the disabled.

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He used the tales of
Sparta to back his views,

who destroyed all
congenitally deformed infants

to maintain racial purity.

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By 1933, the law
of the prevention

of hereditarily
diseased offspring

included the
sterilization of people

with schizophrenia, epilepsy

and a whole range of conditions,

including alcoholics.

Between 1933 and 1939,

360,000 people were sterilized.

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Today, arguments about what
an Aryan was or is still rage.

But to the Nazis,
true Aryans were

from the Nordic lines,
the Mediterranean,

Dinarics, Alpine and
East Baltic regions.

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Nordics were the
highest on the list.

Jews, were to them, a
mixed race of people

from outside of that
scope and had no right

to live in Europe.

The term anti-Semite
is not strictly true,

because other Semites
who were not Jewish,

did not suffer the same abuse.

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The man behind the
propaganda machine

of Nazi Germany was
Joseph Goebbels.

He said, "The Jew is the enemy

"and destroyer of
the purity of blood.

"The conscious
destroyer of our race.

"Us socialists, we are
opponents of the Jews,

"because we see in the Hebrews,

"the incarnation of capitalism,

"of the misuse of
the nations goods."

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Goebbels became the
Minister of Enlightenment

and he had two main tasks.

Firstly, to ensure that nobody

could read or see anything
against the Nazi Party.

Secondly to make sure
the views of the party

were marketed in as persuasive
a manner as possible.

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He worked with both the S.S.
and Gestapo to make his point,

along with Albert Speer,
he hunted out anything

that was opposed
to the party line

and presented public
displays of propaganda.

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He set up the Reich
Chamber of Commerce,

which dealt with
literature, arts,

radio, music,
newspapers and film.

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In order to work
in these fields,

you had to be a
Reich Chamber member.

Anybody outside the Chamber
was banned from publishing.

How was it that a whole nation

followed such insanity?

The answers are actually
relatively simple.

For decades, the Germans had
suffered intense poverty,

high unemployment,
starvation, disease

and death were commonplace.

On top of this, was
a national shame

placed upon them by the
international community,

for World War I.

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They had lost land,
welfare and prestige.

Along comes a political solution

that promises to save the
nation on every level.

A savior rises in
the form of one man

who can spell bind the poor
and desperate peasants.

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The blame is placed elsewhere.

The people are called "Chosen
Ones", "Special", "Superior".

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It is a trick used
over the millennia

and will no doubt be used again.

In small ways it is utilized
in every political campaign.

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Year after year this goes on,

and the crowds grow ever larger.

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In the streets, the S.A.
offered a hard stick

to those who argued.

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Eventually a tipping
point arrives,

where the few have
become the majority

and the rest must
follow like sheep.

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Through fear of being swept up

in the crashing wave,
leaders always like to have

somebody else to blame,
it keeps the public

gaze in another direction,
other than at them.

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Hitler and his
Nazis used everybody

that was of no
use to their plan.

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The Jews had been a
long standing target,

even before Hitler had
ever thought of it.

Ever since they
arrived in Europe,

their stay had been troubled.

It was therefore no
great new message

the Nazis were delivering,

instead, they simply
reinforced the message

and brought it up to date.

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Much of what we see
today as horrible,

does, in fact, have a
certain amount of logic,

but that's where it says,
as logic of madness.

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Sterilizing mentally
ill patients, or worse,

removed a cost
burden on society.

Enslaving entire races
brought a ready workforce

to arm, cloth and
feed the pure Aryans.

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Because there appears to be a
logical sense to such things,

it becomes something
that can be stated

and re-stated.

Doing so reinforces the message

and allows additions.

Nobody argues with additions,

when they have shamed themselves

into agreeing in
the first place.

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Once crowds of
people are convinced,

it is a simple process
of nature that follows.

We all want to
sing the same hymn,

to be in harmony
with those around us,

to march with our
brothers and sisters,

to feel part of something.

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But what better to feel part
of than something powerful.

Everybody wants to be accepted,

and to be accepted
meant joining in.

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Add into the mix,
incredible iconography.

Learning from the religions,

and empires of the
past, the genius

of the Nazi Party and
its propaganda machine,

was to emulate the
very best bits.

The power and might of
Rome was stolen and used.

The zeal of the
religious was copied.

The strength of classical
buildings was recreated.

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The people started to get jobs,

to feel part of a community

and to look around them and see

the images of what
they were being

told they were, a master race.

Drip, drip, this sunk in.

Slowly, the crowds
grew in numbers.

A master race born to lead.

Born to enslave.

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Forgotten was the
fact that Jews,

Poles and homosexuals
were humans too.

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Along with the many methods
of positive reinforcement,

came the negative side.

Destroy opposition,
book burnings,

banishments, and
concentrations camps

for politically
outspoken activists.

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Once done it became a
self creating device.

People followed the lead
and in their own districts,

did the same.

The purging of Germany
was in full swing.

Nazi Party politics was
the new way of the world

and the savior was nothing
less than a god himself,

Heil Fuhrer.

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As part of this,
Hitler did not go down

the path of social divide
within his Aryan race concept.

He rejected the Marxist
idea of an international

class draw against
the rich and royal.

The Nazi Party,
was really a party

of the middle classes,
who had suffered

badly during the depression,

and wanted their status back.

For the lower classes,
Hitler provided

food and shelter
and recruited them

into his "Brown Shirt Brigade",
or S.A. Storm Detachment.

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Every class was
welcomed in some form,

as long as they
were racially pure.

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A singular aid to the
Nazis aims was religion.

Hitler bent it according
to his desires.

Germany, has always
had a distinct

pagan history and tradition

and mixing myths was no problem.

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Freedom of religion was
guaranteed in the 1920

Nazi Party Program,

Positive Christianity
was endorsed,

to oppose the Jewish
materialistic spirit.

Theologians were
brought in aboard,

to ensure that the party message

was incorporated into the

German Positive
Christianity Movement.

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Get the people in their pockets,

stomachs, hearts and spirit
and you've got them for life.

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Jesus was not a Jew they stated,

but a good Aryan and Adolf
Hitler was the new messiah.

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The Jewish Old
Testament was denounced

as Satan's Bible.

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The Catholic Church
had opposed the Nazis,

and so they were outlawed,

unless they declared
lauder to the state.

Many elements of
the Catholic Church,

were stolen for Nazi propaganda.

The Catholic Order of
the Teutonic Knights

and the Knights
Rallies of the Nazis

which mirrored the Catholic
mass are two examples.

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Eventually, the two
sides signed a deal

and peace between
them was found.

It was a necessary
evil for Hitler.

To join forces
with the Italians.

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There cannot be any doubt,

that the certain amount
of occult influence

existed within the higher
levels of the Nazi Party.

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Rosenberg and Himmler
were Neo-Pagan

and the S.S. certainly
went down the road

toward the Holy Grail.

Myth and mystery
are an aura created

in the main to attract.

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Lightly hide a secret and people

will want to be a part of it.

It is a very clever device
and one used by others,

such as the Freemasons.

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To be allowed entry and
to be part of a secret

makes an individual
feel special.

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Being part of the Nazi
movement as a whole,

was to be part of something big,

old and iconic.

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Others who claimed to have
spiritual secrets were outlawed.

Freemasons included.

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One of the prime things that any

political party needs
to come to grips with

is the economy.

Hitler had little
interest in economics

and so left the
running to others.

He did believe that
private ownership

should be encouraged
for technical

innovation and growth.

If the private company did not

meet the goals of the party,

then it would be nationalized.

Under the Nazi regime,

free competition
reduced, but Hitler

and his Darwinian approach
allowed a certain amount.

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The selling of land by farmers

was prohibited to enable
agriculture to grow.

A marketing board was set
up to control production

and prices in a
great many areas.

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In the propaganda arena,

the German worker was
held in high esteem.

They were honored by the state,

giving the positive
reinforcement

to the working
mindset in creating a
loyalty to the regime.

Songs were written
that praised the

good German workers,

and Hitler called
them "Patriots"

who were building Germany's

industrial might.

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There were good social
welfare policies,

and volunteers were
mobilized to aid

the impoverished, as long as
they were of the racially pure.

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The National Socialist
People's Welfare Charity,

would become the
largest civilian
organization in Germany.

Putting people into work,

reducing the effects of poverty.

Bringing social
classes together,

giving people hope
and constantly

reinforcing all
of this and more,

through news reels, music,

newspapers and radio fostered
the feel good factor.

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Germans were swelling in pride

and the economy naturally
grew from the effort.

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It was not capitalism
that Germany was under.

Indeed, the very word
was hated by the Nazis.

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They argued that capitalism
damaged a nation,

because of the
international finance

that was needed to
grow the system.

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This left a nation
open wide to external

control from big
businesses and the Jews.

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As one propaganda poster stated,

"The maintenance of a
rotten industrial system,

"has nothing to do
with Nationalism.

"I can love Germany,
and hate capitalism."

If a nation was to be strong,

then it would be
strong without the aid

of international capitalism.

It was a method that
sought only profit

and that was not loyal to
the national interests.

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Hitler said, "We are socialists,

"we are enemies of
today's capitalistic,

"economic system.

"For the exploitation of
the economically weak,

"with its unfair salaries,
with its unseemly evaluation

"of a human being according
to wealth and property,

"instead of responsibility
and performance.

"And we are determined
to destroy this system,

"under all conditions."

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It was a Jewish
creation, he said,

and had run its course.

The ruling elite of the
previous Weimar Republic,

were, according to
Hitler, "cowardly shits."

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Hitler believed that
territories with

valuable resources
should be taken by force

for the good of the nation.

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Having direct control
over such lands,

was the only method
of economic security.

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One of the main strengths
of the Nazi Party,

was the use of propaganda.

It was utilized from day one,

and grew in scope and
imagination over time.

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It is, in fact, a
study in itself,

but crucial to
understanding how millions

of normal people were hooked

into the party line.

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In his book, "Mein
Kampf", Adolf Hitler,

devoted three chapters
to the subject.

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In fact, the book
itself was a powerful

propaganda tool and
furnished Hitler

with an income of a millionaire.

He never actually drew on
his income as the Fuhrer.

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It was in the first world
war, that Hitler had learned

the power of propaganda
when, he claims,

he was exposed to
the excellent British

and the poor German versions.

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Germany, he said,
lost the war because

of poor propaganda.

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None of this was true.

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Hitler stated that
propaganda must

address itself to the masses

and be presented
in popular form.

It was not to be above the heads

of the ordinary people

and must appeal to
the imagination,

to the emotions and
hearts of the crowd.

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This crowd was made
up of human children

who moved from one
idea to the next.

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They must be told what to think.

They are ruled by
sentiment and not logic

and so good propaganda
must be simple

and play on sentiment.

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Good propaganda, he
said, does not give

objective opinions,
it gives the one

truth of the party line.

The people were feeble minded,

and quickly forget.

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So the message
must be reinforced,

again and again.

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Keep the message
simple, sentimental

and repeat in until
the very last person

has come to grips
with the message.

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The one message must be repeated

and illustrated
in different ways,

to attract the majority.

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The daily newspaper
of the Nazi Party,

would become a prime method
of using these tactics

and Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels,

would take on the role.

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In the beginning,
it had been Hitler

speaking again and again
at public meetings,

but as the power
of the party grew,

more and more media
outlets were used.

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In the run up to the war,
the propaganda machine

established the so-called
facts of external aggression.

They used the Treaty of
Versailles as the lynchpin.

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They also picked on the
international threats

of Jews, Romanies,
Bolsheviks, and homosexuals.

(dramatic music)

All of this is nothing new.

All governments
prefer their people

to worry about others,
because it stops

them worrying about
the government.

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Hatred against the Jews,

instead of hatred
against the politicians.

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It is also useful to hang
negatives on these areas.

Calling the Jews bad
workers had two elements.

Firstly, it blamed
them for any negative

economic impacts and secondly,

it introduced a feeling of guilt

for those who were
not working hard.

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A good German, is a
hard working German.

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Lies were created and spread.

Jews need the blood
of a Christian child

was one such lie.

Jews kidnap children
was another.

The lies were
reinforced with imagery,

making the Jew ugly and evil.

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As Hitler himself had said,

It's credibility
does not matter.

The victor would not be asked

whether he told the truth.

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Strong visual imagery,
bold and direct statements,

sentimental evocations,
stirring nationalism,

targeted hatred,
lies and repetition,

all worked together and in unity

with the improving economy

and sense of
collective superiority.

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All of these things
have been used before,

and will be used again.

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In small parts, they
still are by all nations.

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Should the right
circumstances rise again,

then it is quite
possible the Nazi method

will rise again.

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During the war propaganda
was used extensively,

the might of the German Army,

the prowess of its
soldiers, the strength

of industry were all
positively reinforced.

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On the negative side, the
enemy came under fire.

Allied bombers were
shown as cowards

who bombed civilians.

Americans were
portrayed as gangsters.

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Germany was imagined as the sole

defender of Western Europe,

against the Bolshevik hordes.

(dramatic music)

In 1944, the Red
Cross were invited

to visit concentration camps,

to dispel rumors of
the final solution.

(dramatic music)

The event was used
as a propaganda tool,

and yet the actual
camp was, in fact,

transit camp, where Jews
lived in relative comfort.

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Afterwards, most of the cast,

and even the film maker himself,

were deported to Auschwitz,
where they were murdered.

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The Nazis used every
means at their disposal.

Newspapers were
always controlled,

both in Germany and
captured territories.

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Public speaking was a very
large part, as was radio.

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Films were very popular,
with such classics

as the 1935 "Triumph of the
World", being seen by millions.

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A great many books were
written and published,

with textbooks being aligned
to the party belief system.

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Control of the paper
supply, allowed the Nazis

to control what was and
what was not printed.

Books by Jews were banned.

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In addition to all
of this, there were

comics for the
children and magazines

in various genres.

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Radios were made
at a limited range

and allowed only
local transmissions.

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70% of the German
population had these sets

and so, 70% were subject
to party propaganda,

on a daily basis.

(dramatic music)

Goebbels himself said,

that it would not
have been possible

to take power without
the use of the radio.

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Nazi propaganda
demonized the enemy,

whether Britain, America,
Jew or homosexual.

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It positively reinforced
the messages of the party,

the values of being
a good German.

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The heroic dead
and great leaders

were constantly pushed
across as ideals.

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Pride in the master
race, in the messiah

that was Adolf Hitler

and in the goal of annexing
German speaking lands.

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There would be only one
victor, Nazi Germany,

and to win, it meant total war.

(dramatic music)

Time and again,
history throws up

unique individuals,
Napoleon, Caesar,

Alexander the Great,
Muhammad, Jesus,

Genghis Khan, Stalin and
of course, Adolf Hitler.

(dramatic music)

In each period there are
different circumstances,

but there are also similar ones.

It begins with a
disappointed mass.

People who feel they
have suffered enough.

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They look around for a savior,

for one who will show the way

and have the bravery
to stand up for them.

(dramatic music)

People are like sheep,
they like to follow,

they want to follow.

Very few want to lead.

(dramatic music)

When the leaders have finished

fighting between
themselves for power,

the strongest emerges in a truly

Darwinian way.

(dramatic music)

"This must be the
chosen one!" people cry.

(dramatic music)

They are predisposed to listen

to his words and
counsel, after all,

it was they who sought him out.

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He begins by making sense,

by agreeing with the masses,

by telling them
how they have been

abused for too long.

The crowd rejoices.

They like what they hear.

(dramatic music)

He then shows them why
they have been suffering,

who and what is to blame.

(dramatic music)

It's the Romans, it's the
royals, it's the Jews.

It doesn't matter who,
as long as there's

a seed of truth in it somewhere.

(dramatic music)

That seed is grown slowly,

and evidence is
found or created.

(dramatic music)

The anger of the
mob turns towards

those taking the blame.

"But what do we do?"
shouts the crowd.

The messiah responds.

"Come to me, we will take back

"what is rightfully ours.

"The Holy Land, the
Grail, the power."

(dramatic music)

Drip, drip, the
propaganda builds up

the concepts of a chosen people,

and a hatred towards the enemy.

(dramatic music)

A tipping point
emerges, when all

must follow the leader.

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At this point there is
no stopping the movement.

It is now a massive
organic machine.

(dramatic music)

If it is a religion, then it
may continue for millennia.

If it is nationalism,
then it will eventually

fall as all empires do.

(dramatic music)

Could it happen again?

The question is
simply answered, yes,

and it will.

(dramatic music)

Society and civilizations
repeat history

again and again and have done
so for thousands of years.

(grating music)

We create the circumstances,

on a cyclical basis.

Rise and fall,
riches and poverty,

financial growth
and ultimate crash.

(fast paced electronic music)

Once we are in the
time of crash, beware,

for the masses become
hungry and angry.

Right wing and
nationalistic fascism rise.

(fast paced electronic music)

Before the second world war,

a great many such
groups emerged,

not just in Nazi Germany,

but across the globe.

(fast paced electronic music)

Unless the crash is
quickly turned around,

then somebody,
somewhere, may just get

an idea in his head.

(fast paced electronic music)

He may just start to come
out into the public gaze

and he may just
be able to utilize

his power of
mesmerism upon them.

(fast paced electronic music)

Adolf Hitler learned well.

He understood the
mind of the crowd.

He practiced the art
of the hypnotic speech.

(fast paced electronic music)

He had his finger on
the pulse of the people.

(fast paced electronic music)

He was a man of his time.

(fast paced electronic music)

Is there another Adolf
Hitler out there now?

Is he waiting in the wings,
unaware of his destiny?

(fast paced electronic music)

And what will we do?

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(quite peaceful music)

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