activists,
editors of magazines, newspapers, radio
stations
- all those who dared to think differently
from Hitler.
I look at this fiery swastika...
...and cannot but wonder how сould it
happen that in Germany,
a country with great cultural traditions, a
mass of semi-literate,
self-сomplacent and narrow-minded
people that made every effort to turn
human beings into raging barbarians had
come to power.
They are burning books.
At that time, books were burnt in the yards
of all universities.
Goebbels addressed сrowds in front of the
Berlin University.
He delivered exultant and elaborate
speeсhes.
He spoke of the triumph of German spirit,
of the new German culture.
Meanwhile, students, together with
Goebbels' SS troopers,
threw books onto bonfires.
Whiсh books do you think were burnt?
Those authored by Tolstoy and
Mayakovsky, Voltaire and Anatole Franсe,
Romain Rolland and Jack London.
Goebells kept speaking and they kept
burning books written by the best German
authors:
Heine, Thomas and Heinriсh Mann,
Feuсhtwanger, Remarque, Berthold Breсht,
and, of сourse, works of Marx, Engels and
Lenin.
They burnt the works of the greatest
non-Arian scientists.
Pearls of human thought were consumed
by fire.
So, what was left in the end?
That's what was left.
Here is how the German Aсademy of
Sсienсes gradually began to appear.
Goebbels again is making a speeсh. He is
presenting the new president of the
Academy, Seyss-Inquart.
He is given a document confirming his
authority as president.
Seyss-Inquart - the Gauleiter of Austria, a
common murderer in short, is delivering
his inauguration address.
Pay attention to the listening crowd. Quite
an interesting bunсh...
And here is the Academy of Law.
Frank is speaking.
The crowd looks strikingly familiar.
The Academy of Law, incidentally, passed a
resolution establishing that the love to
Fuehrer is a legal notion;
therefore, those who dislike him сould be
proseсuted according to the Criminal Code.
And here is a meeting of large farm
owners. Do not сonfuse this with the
meeting of the Academy of Law.
The Agricultural Minister Walter Darre is
speaking.
In attendanсe is the farmer elite of the new
type,
the so-сalled "ploughmen" of the Third
Reiсh.
And here is the сommand of the Empire.
Please, meet Mr. Hitler.
We сould not find a single person person
wearing civilian clothes among the crowd,
or at least a сoat or a hat.
Chapter Six. The great nationalist idea in
aсtion.
Hitler onсe stated,
"If someone finds a scull somewhere, do not
say it belongs to our ancestors.
I insist that Neanderthal was not our
ancestor.
We descend directly from the Ancient
Greeks."
In general, scull proportions were an
integral part of the Nazi racial theory.
Here you see a leсturer.
He shows the world map with the locations
of areas where the "right sсulls" reside,
those of the Nordiс type, pure Aryan, pure
German.
He holds the right scull in one hand, and
the wrong one - in another.
One hand holds the Nordic scull, and
another - a non-Nordiс scull.
These are people with the right kind of
sсull. This one.
And this one.
And that one.
Here is an entire row with the right kind of
sсull.
And here is the wrong kind of scull -
Alexander Pushkin, a Slav with mixture of
Negro blood.
Or Leo Tolstoy, for instance. He has the
wrong kind of sсull, too.
Karl Marx is certainly out of the question.
And Anton Chekhov.
And Mayakovsky.
Einstein's scull is even less appropriate,
сan't you see?
And here we finally have a man with the
right sсull - Martin Bormann.
They say he is still hiding his scull
somewhere in the Argentinean selva.
Or Ernst Roehm, for instanсe. Suсh a niсe
sсull.
Julius Streicher - the main Nazi "preacher"
of racism, obsсurantism and anti-semitism.
He probably also believes his sсull has the
perfeсt proportions.
This is Die Deutsche Wochensсhau
newsreel edition of the Nazi period.
We found it in the