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8.
This is Ley (pronounced „Lie“) Chief of Hitler’s ‚Labour Front‘. A drunkard day and
night – on behalf of the German workers he says. It was he who smashed the Trade
Unions and stole their funds, millions saved penny by penny. What does he say?
„The German workers have taken a solemn oath“. I wouldn’t like to be Herr Ley, the
day the solemn oath of the German workers becomes reality.
9.
Frank, Nazi Minister of Justice. Not many weeks ago he enjoyed the supreme
moment of his kind of justice – the justice that smiled on the Nazis’ Midsummer
Festival when Hitler got rid of those who know too much by killing them wholesale,
his own men, his own accomplices and fellow gangsters, in the night of the long
knives June 30th, 1934.
This is the Minister of Justice at the great rally a few weeks later, explaining, justifying
Nazi justice.
10.
Now the comic relief. This is Dietrich the fuehrer of the daily press. Hitler’s own
publicity agent. He says „Truth is indeed the foundation with which the Nazi press
stands or falls.“
11.
Want to see someone applauding?
12.
And here you have him taking the fleer [Hess] himself. Goebbels: „May the shining
flame of our enthusiasm never come to be extinguished. It’s in the hearts of the
people that we seek our roots and find our strength.“
He sought with a bit too much enthusiasm only a few days before this speech. What
he found was not strength but a good hiding in public by the husband of the lady.
Goering personally arranged for the beating-up.
13.
Where is Goering? Here, mute. You see him just for a few seconds. It is Goebbels’
revenge. He had to cut this film. He cut him out. There. Just allowing the fat man
to do a bit of goose-stepping. That’s all.
14.
Baldur von Schirach, the Reich Youth leader. It was like Hitler to appoint a pervert
to lead a perverted youth movement.
15.
And here is the other educator Hitler let loose [sic] on German youth. Julius
Streicher. Jew baiter. Jail bird. Twice inside for the embezzlement. Editor of the
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