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An investigation into the way Adolf Hitler created a cult of personality around himself in 1930s Germany. His impassioned speeches mesmerised and wooed a people who had suffered in the 1920s after the First World War.
This film contains segments of his original speeches, and looks at the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls movements, plus the orchestration of massive staged events like the Nuremburg Rallies.
An investigation into the way Adolf Hitler created a cult of personality around himself in 1930s Germany. His impassioned speeches mesmerised and wooed a people who had suffered in the 1920s after the First World War.
This film contains segments of his original speeches, and looks at the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls movements, plus the orchestration of massive staged events like the Nuremburg Rallies.
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00:30We can be happy to know that this future belongs to us without a trace.
00:52He seemed to actually believe in what he was saying.
01:08For many, it was not the arguments he used that made him credible.
01:12It was the fervor of his oratory.
01:19They followed him blindly, straight into disaster.
01:27He could work the masses into a frenzy because he gave them the feeling that their nasty
01:39little prejudices were great and pure.
01:53He did not love the Germans.
01:56They were just a tool for his hate, a public dissent into hell.
02:09He was always surrounded by cameras to ensure the blanket seduction of the masses using
02:14the latest technology, a portable radio transmitter live from Hitler's show.
02:27There was no escape on the street, in the taverns, in the factories.
02:43Domination over the airwaves.
02:46This was ensured by the so-called people's receivers.
02:52This defines the purpose of this army of cheap radios.
03:23Hitler's image building reached its zenith at party rallies.
03:30Massed squads of men formed a backdrop for the high priest of his own cult.
03:38Order in a chaotic world.
03:40That was the fatal promise of images such as these.
03:46The technology of propaganda worked perfectly.
03:50Here, a camera descending between the swastikas films images intended to beguile.
04:05He didn't only want to be stage manager and leading actor.
04:11He saw himself as a redeemer.
04:15Hitler over Germany.
04:17From the sky, he swooped on voters to take power across the Reich, 21 cities in just
04:23seven days.
04:25There had never been a political campaign like it.
04:30On the ground, the demagogue looked a little awkward, but in the provinces, he was a star.
04:41Hundreds of thousands turned out to see this man who seemed to be everywhere.
04:47Hitler knew how to keep his audience in suspense.
04:51He made them wait for hours.
04:54Then he appeared.
04:55The ritual was always the same.
04:58The Badenweiler march, the German greeting.
05:21Even the speeches were always the same.
05:25Hitler declared himself to be an instrument of God, chosen to liberate Germany from the
05:31November criminals, the humiliation of Versailles, unemployment, the whole hated Weimar system
05:42and from the Jews.
06:07Hitler did not have to create the feelings he picked up.
06:10They already existed.
06:15There was a longing for the ecstatic intoxication of August 1914, when all of Germany had gone
06:21enthusiastically to war.
06:25There was the memory of class barriers seemingly overcome in the trenches, despite all the
06:30horror.
06:34There was bitterness that all the sacrifices had been in vain, the myth that the German
06:42army had not been defeated but stabbed in the back, the trauma of the harsh terms imposed
06:59by the Treaty of Versailles, the shock of the 1918 revolution in Bavaria, the collapse
07:09of the old order, the establishment of the unpopular Weimar Republic, the intense middle-class
07:19fear of Bolshevism and chaos, fear of all that was new, unfamiliar and unwanted after
07:26the breakdown of the old order, fear of a collapsing currency and fear of unemployment.
07:39So there was a longing for a strong man who would create order and clear up the mess.
07:45Both fear and longing were focused on the great seducer who promised redemption through
07:49the use of force.
08:02Those who voted for him wanted a strong ruler, not a democratic one.
08:37He was a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man
08:57of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition,
09:06a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition, a man of great ambition.
09:07I was so excited.
09:08Because there was practically nothing in it that changed me while reading it.
09:18After Hitler came to power, Goebbels was the radio reporter at his first major rally.
09:29Hitler now had the aura of a ruler.
09:33The energy in the war of words was refined down to the last detail.
09:39It was to be a high mass of emotion, but coolly calculated and meticulously rehearsed.
09:54In a mass event, all thought must be switched off.
09:58The crowd did not want to hear arguments but longed to be overwhelmed by the power of rhetoric.
10:09He made them wait for the onslaught.
10:13Thank you for your attention and for your attention.
10:26On January 30, this year, the new government of the National Socialist Government was formed.
10:39The first tentative words, then the rousing.
11:09Bravo!
11:14I went there and sat maybe three meters away from him.
11:20He was on the podium and was so terrible, so very emotional.
11:27Arguments seemed completely stupid to me.
11:30The audience was terrible and he was whistling around.
11:33And then I said to myself, I never want to have anything to do with those people.
11:39I never believe in foreign aid.
11:45Never in aid that lies outside our own nation, our own people.
11:53The future of the German people lies in ourselves alone.
12:01If we ourselves, this German people, perform through our own work,
12:08through our own diligence, our own flexibility, our own courage, our own perseverance,
12:14then we will once again step forward.
12:17Just as the fathers once did not keep Germany as a gift, but had to create it themselves.
12:24Hitler in London
12:28Boys, go to the cinema.
12:30Listen to Hitler.
12:32Listen to the screaming.
12:34And listen to the crowd around him.
12:38And then close your eyes and imagine how it looks in London.
12:42We closed our eyes.
12:44Horrible.
12:45From then on, you could no longer bear Hitler.
12:51A moment of alienation was enough to show this man who he was.
12:58I never believe in foreign aid.
13:06Never in aid that lies outside our own nation, our own people.
13:20The future of the German people lies in ourselves alone.
13:43Every gesture, every facial expression was carefully rehearsed, as in the theatre.
13:50To many listeners, he seemed like a fabulous being, so seductive, yet not of this world.
14:09This man observed the contemporary, kills with words, so far only with words.
14:35It was the time of this most terrible crime against the German people.
14:41The eternal expulsion, the eternal plundering, the eternal oppression.
14:46One must not forget that behind his rhetoric was a whip and a gun.
14:52No one could object to that.
14:54The speech was a violent monologue.
15:00If someone had stood up and said, Mr. Hitler, you should not think this and that,
15:08then he would have been shot on the same day.
15:11So his rhetoric was violent in the literal sense.
15:16I will not depart from the love for this people.
15:21And I will raise a rock.
15:24The conviction that an hour will come when the millions who curse us today
15:31will stand behind us and greet us.
15:37The common created, the tired fought, the bitter acquired,
15:42the new German Reich, the greatness and the honour and the strength
15:47and the glory and the justice, amen.
15:54What was actually the most seductive moment in all of this,
15:59because this world-like vacuum in Germany,
16:03we no longer had an emperor, we had our national supreme leader,
16:06who was far removed from religion by a large part of the population.
16:12And I think that this was a substitute religion for many,
16:17which aroused a very deep enthusiasm and also released such sources of power.
16:24Very naive in the sense of making us live better and so on.
16:30That it was a spook, that it had a very dark back, you knew that.
16:47Rhetoric doesn't fill stomachs.
16:50The seducer also needed success.
16:55If the Germans were to stick with him for the long haul,
16:59he had to solve one problem, unemployment.
17:08In January 1933, 7 million Germans were on the streets,
17:13with their families about one third of the entire population.
17:17Anyone with a job feared losing it.
17:22My father was employed in a rather large factory.
17:28As an employee, he always received the money at the end of the month.
17:32My mother was very excited on that day,
17:35because the dismissals had been announced.
17:38And the first thing my mother said when my father came home was,
17:41Are you dismissed? Are you dismissed?
17:43We will not achieve anything,
17:45because we do not count the pieces together.
17:48We must always concentrate our strength on one thing.
17:52This one thing, which fed the illusion of unlimited work,
17:57had yet to be built.
17:59From the spring of 1933, the fairy tale of Hitler the Builder persisted.
18:06This was the man who had given the German people
18:09a network of long-distance highways,
18:12the German Autobahns.
18:18But like so much else, they were a myth.
18:21They weren't Hitler's roads.
18:23The dictator proudly passed off as his own,
18:26with the Germans drawn up during the hated Weimar Republic.
18:43Soon there were very few out of work.
18:50Those who couldn't find it were ordered into it.
18:56We fight for a peaceful state for Germany.
19:05Work is the first commandment.
19:09Most jobs were not created on dams,
19:12but in the arms industry.
19:16I know, many will say,
19:19you have not been able to accommodate all the unemployed.
19:22I said that from the beginning.
19:26I said, you have to give me four years.
19:29It's easy to say, all the speeches are silent,
19:32if our poor people want it.
19:35But it's hard to get the speeches that are silent
19:38back in motion.
19:41He curried favour using the myth that he himself had once been a worker.
19:48I grew out of you.
19:52I stood among you.
19:55In four and a half years, I was among you again.
19:59Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
20:03Not the intellectual classes gave me the courage
20:06to start this gigantic work.
20:09But I can say that I only had the courage
20:12because I knew two classes, the farmer and the German worker.
20:19I only had the courage
20:23because I knew two classes, the farmer and the German worker.
20:29He didn't need to promise work to the farmers.
20:33They already had plenty.
20:37What appealed to them was folklore.
20:43It was the same ritual at the Bükerberg near Hamelin every year.
20:48Hundreds of thousands of farmers brought together from all over the Reich.
20:53For the Brownshirts Harvest Festival.
20:56Hitler's message went down well.
21:00You're all important. And they felt important too.
21:05He didn't come up with anything original.
21:09He was reinventing the wheel.
21:12The formula had been around for a while.
21:18German farmers and German soil,
21:21German marches and German sounds.
21:29At Hamelin, taking in the locals.
21:33For all the pomp, one thing remained clear.
21:36Anyone who did not fit into his world was eliminated.
21:41Tens of thousands of dissidents disappeared
21:44into the new punishment and torture centers, the concentration camps.
21:49The neighbors told each other that this man was a communist.
21:54I didn't know what a communist was back then.
21:58Something that obviously did not suit the National Socialists.
22:02As I said, he was always picked up when Hitler came.
22:06I don't know if it was just before the end of the war or at the beginning of the war.
22:11The man was picked up again and then he never came back.
22:15But those who did come back kept quiet for fear of reprisals.
22:22The regime governed with a carrot and stick,
22:25with seduction and violence.
22:29I always thought that the combination of terror and success
22:33was the one thing you couldn't do anything about.
22:37It was an unbeatable combination.
22:41Violence and seduction.
22:45The concentration camp and Kraft durch Freude, strength through joy,
22:50which provided holidays for national comrades
22:54who, before Hitler, had not been able to afford a vacation.
22:59My sister was there.
23:03Normally the trip cost 60 marks.
23:07I don't know if the ship didn't pass.
23:11Anyway, she went for 40 marks.
23:14That was at least eight days.
23:17And every day they played the Badkapelle,
23:20Freude euch des Lebens, and it was a huge thing.
23:23And whoever was there was very enthusiastic.
23:28Even under a dictatorship, people need to take a break.
23:32From dictatorship.
23:37Preferably in a group under the supervision of the party.
23:46These holidays were planned, administered and carried through
23:50by an organisation controlled by the state.
23:53Are these deserving national comrades
23:56cruising on the Wilhelm Gustloff finding strength through joy?
24:07The dictator needs a well-rested people.
24:29The people would certainly need strong nerves,
24:32as Hitler still had great plans for them.
24:37Relaxation is good.
24:40Control is better.
24:43Even on the high seas there was strict monitoring.
24:47German ladies on holiday flirting with Sicilians? Outrageous.
24:52The reputation of German womanhood is at stake.
24:55Report to Berlin.
25:00Wayward national comrades changing money on the black market?
25:03Report to Berlin with names, addresses, amounts.
25:06The long arm of the Reich stretched as far as the beaches of Tenerife.
25:20The informers' reports reveal another secret.
25:23Only one in six holidaymakers on a strength through joy steamer
25:27was a worker, contrary to the myth.
25:30And the young?
25:33They were the stock from which to breed the master race,
25:36obedient as a dog.
25:39Then a new German youth will come
25:42and we'll dress her from a very small hand
25:45for this new state.
25:48We'll bring her here.
25:53The new German youth will come
25:56and we'll dress her from a very small hand
25:58for this new state.
26:01We'll bring her here.
26:04Then we'll take her straight to the party,
26:07to the working class, to the USA, to the SS,
26:10to the NSKK and so on.
26:13And she will not be free her whole life.
26:19Freedom was not important to the seducer or the seduced.
26:23In the end, the seduced were to become seducers themselves.
26:27In the end, the seduced were to become seducers themselves.
26:32They seduced us for their purposes,
26:35but we gladly took part.
26:38Many like me have not resisted at all,
26:41have not had a handle,
26:44have not seen a reason to resist
26:47and are then again,
26:50by being leaders,
26:53seducers of others.
26:55And who, like me,
26:58for a time, two, three years,
27:01was a very popular leader,
27:04has now seduced the other boys again
27:07to take part in this.
27:10It's a chain that started at the top
27:13and went down.
27:16We want to be one people
27:19and you, my youth,
27:22should now become this people.
27:25We want to see no more enemies
27:28and you will not let them become great in you.
27:31We want to see one empire
27:34and you have to prepare for it.
27:37We want this people
27:40to be obedient
27:43and you have to practice obedience.
27:46We want this people
27:49to live in peace
27:52but also to be brave
27:55and to be ready for peace.
28:03And when the leader spoke
28:06and put his hope on the youth
28:09then you felt personally involved.
28:12Then you thought,
28:15yes, we will pack the future
28:18and I will also help there.
28:21We had the feeling,
28:24and I was not alone
28:27to live in a great time
28:30and to belong to a special people.
28:33We were told
28:36that everything is just a prelude
28:39and you will create the right Germany.
28:42And of course we liked to believe that.
28:45Hitler did not invent youth camps
28:48but he exploited the concept.
28:51They offered competitions,
28:54adventures, sports and games
28:57far from the family home.
29:01The desire for blood brotherhood
29:04and the longing for refuge
29:07by the light of the campfire
29:10served the regime well.
29:12We went on trips,
29:15we played in the fields,
29:18we sang, we played music,
29:21we did sports,
29:24we sat by the campfire.
29:27All this community experience
29:30was in the foreground.
29:33And what we called Hitler Youth
29:36became more and more clear
29:39in the course of ideological education.
29:42Hitler Youth
29:45Hitler Youth
29:48There were two shifts,
29:51Wednesday and Saturday.
29:54And because I was soon a leader,
29:57there was a leader's shift on Mondays.
30:00And on Sundays there was shooting
30:03or we went somewhere by bike
30:06or we had a march there and there.
30:09So four days, five days a week
30:12we marched through the streets
30:15with the flag of youth for freedom and good.
30:18And it was really not the case
30:21that we had time
30:24to think about the whole thing,
30:27what we were actually doing.
30:30Then the next thing came,
30:33it was a breakless actionism.
30:36This flag flutters in front of us
30:39Our flag is the new time
30:42And the flag leads us
30:45into eternity
30:48Yes, the flag is more than death
30:51This seduction to death,
30:54to look down on death,
30:57our flag is more than death
31:00and Germany is more than death
31:03and the leader is more than death
31:06This seduction was the worst.
31:09Just like the Pied Piper of Hamelin
31:12You can be proud
31:15to see this new German youth
31:18Germany lies in front of us
31:21Germany marches into us
31:24You are blood of us
31:27flesh of us
31:30Nothing is possible
31:33if not one will
31:36of the many
31:39if always
31:42the others have to obey
31:45German boys and German girls
31:48one is obedient
31:51and you must obey
31:54With this they could hammer
31:57all the theses into our heads
32:00that we as Germans
32:03as German youth
32:06are the best youth in the world
32:09and that we are healthier
32:12than all the others
32:15and a young man likes to hear that
32:18and needs a corrective
32:21and that was not there
32:24and where the corrective was
32:27in many parents' homes
32:30there the boys could
32:33with the state power
32:36in their necks
32:39play a part
32:42in Hitler's war
32:57Map reading had to be learned
33:00for the war that so far
33:03existed only in song
33:05The world before the great war
33:09We felt like
33:12little soldiers
33:15we played as soldiers
33:18we marched, we camped
33:21we had rifles, first air rifles
33:24and then small caliber rifles
33:27and one step after the other
33:30until we were soldiers
33:33For us it was a great victory
33:37We will continue to march
33:40because everything is in sharp danger
33:45because today Germany belongs to us
33:48and tomorrow the whole world
33:57We sang songs back then
34:00how the bones of the world tremble
34:03how the bones of the world tremble
34:06the old people
34:09who spoke of the first world war
34:12and how bad the end was
34:15we could not imagine that
34:18let the old bones tremble
34:21we the youth
34:24we will continue to march
34:27until everything falls into pieces
34:30when everything fell into pieces
34:33we will demand from Germany's future
34:36that we demand the boys and girls
34:39for you
34:49The master of the master race
34:52imposed two duties on women
34:55to obey and to give birth
34:58A men's joke from those days
35:00was banned on the abbreviation for the League of German Girls
35:03turning it into German Mothers to Be
35:12Affected by the spirit of the times
35:15many fell into step with the crowd
35:18They gave us ideals
35:21that we should stay healthy
35:24so that we could give healthy children to the Fuehrer
35:27That was not negative
35:30that we have today
35:33They wanted us to become
35:36obedient and not thinking living beings
35:39we should either shut up
35:42or we should follow these ideals with full enthusiasm
35:45This is how they should be
35:48ordered, compliant, graceful
35:56and at arm's length
35:59But they press forward
36:02to come close to him
36:07Is it the longing to be touched
36:11or something more?
36:14The first ones were already at the tribune
36:17and I came to the front
36:20and had the Fuehrer at my arm
36:23and I held him tight for a long time
36:26and that was something like
36:29a magical power
36:32We could give the Fuehrer the hand
36:35or I didn't have the hand
36:38I just had the arm
36:41You can see on the pictures
36:44how touched the girls were
36:47It was a big event for them
36:54These ecstatic art pourings
36:56represent Hitler's Reich
37:01They aren't meant to think
37:04just to feel
37:15Germany after four years
37:18of the cult of the Fuehrer
37:21Such scenes strengthen Hitler's conviction
37:24of his chosen one
37:31Hysteria
37:36and the anticipation of salvation
37:39Did other feelings play a part?
37:42As a man, Adolf Hitler
37:45didn't play a role for all of us
37:48He was like a superman
37:51He had no gender
37:54He was Adolf Hitler
37:57He was the Fuehrer
38:00I can imagine how people
38:03looked up to Jesus
38:06It was something
38:09you couldn't grasp
38:12It was a different person
38:15But this person was far from God
38:21He made himself the idol of his cult
38:24The great and the honor
38:27and the strength
38:30and the glory
38:33and the justice
38:36Amen
38:39Especially on women
38:42He had a great appeal
38:45My mother-in-law lived with her husband
38:48in Charlottenburg
38:51There were pictures of Hitler
38:54She stood in front of the picture
38:57and prayed
39:00She said, Hitler is the saviour
39:08The great and the honor
39:11and the strength
39:14and the glory
39:17and the justice
39:20Amen
39:23There was a man
39:26who listened to this speech
39:29Who is this?
39:32What is this?
39:35My father said
39:38Yes, this is the Fuehrer
39:41But if he is himself
39:44that is the question
39:47Maybe he is just the medium
39:50of another
39:53power
39:57The cult of the Fuehrer
40:00had disastrous effects on everyday life
40:03Many a German was disturbed
40:06at the little nastinesses of the regime
40:09But only the little Hitlers were hated
40:12Spies, bigwigs and informers met with anger from the people
40:15But Hitler's reputation remained untarnished
40:18And so a deep sigh went through the land
40:20If only the Fuehrer knew
40:43But the Fuehrer knew exactly what was going on
40:46Many little Fuehrers saw to everything else
40:51Community spirit on order
40:54A show of equality
40:58The myth of the perfect Fuehrer
41:05On the evening of the school
41:08it started with
41:11On the son of the Fuehrer
41:13On the son of the Fuehrer
41:16Our Fuehrer was born
41:19And what a fabulous man he was
41:22And that he only drank milk in Vienna
41:25And the research knows that this is not true
41:28But this fairy tale was repeated and repeated
41:31Repeated like the myth of the bonds of Versailles
41:34Which had to be broken
41:37Using blackmail and deceit
41:40He seized the Rhineland, Austria and the Sudetenland
41:43Success was a psychotropic drug
41:46For all those who had always believed this was how politics should be conducted
41:52Yet there was a huge misunderstanding
41:57Hitler led the Germans to believe he wanted nothing more than they did
42:01A Reich with honour satisfied
42:04We are the people of the Reich
42:07So be devoted
42:11But he wanted more than just this Reich
42:19For him the German people were just an instrument
42:22And these bloodless coups simply a prelude to greater predatory acts
42:31It wasn't only the Germans he fooled
42:34Too many people believed him
42:45The climax of the deception was the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
42:49Here the whole world was dazzled
43:08The backdrop for a performance
43:11About keeping up appearances
43:14I declare the Games of Berlin
43:17To the celebration of the 11th Olympics of the new era
43:21Opened
43:24He'd have liked to say more
43:27About protocol for Begut
43:44He'd have liked to say more
43:47About protocol for Begut
43:50He'd have liked to say more
43:53About protocol for Begut
43:56He'd have liked to say more
43:59About protocol for Begut
44:02He'd have liked to say more
44:05He'd have liked to say more
44:08He'd have liked to say more
44:11He'd have liked to say more
44:14He'd have liked to say more
44:17Before Hitler's very eyes black people ran like the wind
44:20To beat the Aryans
44:23The dictator made a show of sportsmanship
44:26And somewhat sullenly granted
44:31Of course he preferred to see this
44:39The Berlin Olympics
44:41This is how to seduce the world
44:44When the world goes along with it
44:54During this time the Chancellor of Peace
44:57Issued a directive that the German army
45:00Was to be ready for war in four years
45:11The anti-aircraft searchlights were already rehearsing
45:14In the legendary Light Dome
45:25Two years later the mask was dropped
45:30Kristallnacht
45:33On the 9th of November the Nazi state showed its true face
45:36Sie sollen sich lieben
45:39Einmal wird unsere Geduld zu Ende sein
45:42Und dann wird den Juden das breche Lügenmaul geschlafen werden
45:51A German day
45:54The 9th of November
45:57On the anniversary of Hitler's failed Kutsch
46:00Begun in a Munich beer hall
46:03The old soldiers commemorate their dead
46:09The regime that despised life now glorified death
46:17In the middle of this cult of death
46:20The unchanging protagonist
46:39Herrgott im Himmel
46:42Der sie mein Führer ungesandt hat
46:47Damit sie Deutschland befreien
46:50Das trauen wir mein Führer
46:53Amid all this madness
46:56Only the outward show mattered
46:59Only the fluttering flags and leaping flames
47:09The magic of these night settings
47:12Gave a distorted view of the reality
47:15Which was as banal as it was evil
47:18Hitler, the one who
47:21The most beautiful feature
47:24Of a person after Fontane
47:27Was self-irony
47:30Unthinkable, in everything the opposite
47:33To know who Hitler was
47:36One should consider
47:39What he was not
47:42And what qualities
47:45He had none
47:48Esprit, grazie, parlando
47:51Urban society, etc.
47:54Indisputable
47:57You must stand before the world today
48:00With me and behind me
48:03And you must celebrate
48:06You want nothing but peace
48:09You want nothing but peace
48:12You want nothing but peace
48:15Tonight, for the first time
48:18In our own territory
48:21Regular soldiers have been shot
48:24Since 5.45 a.m.
48:27The German people have been shot
48:30The German people have been shot
48:33The German people have been shot
48:36He warns of every German
48:39That he fulfills his duty to the utmost
48:42That he will take every sacrifice
48:45That is demanded of him
48:48And must be made on time
48:52The German people
48:54Have become strong
48:57Lord, bless our fight
49:00And thus our German people and homeland
49:07If my own people would break at such a test
49:10I could not shed a tear over it
49:13It would have earned nothing else
49:19The Germany of once
49:22Has laid down 12,000,000 soldiers
49:25I only listened to him for 5 minutes after midnight
49:35We have chosen a target
49:38And we are going to destroy it
49:41In this ditch
49:49It is basically a seduction
49:52Against everything
49:55That was imposed on us
49:58By ethical and human education
50:01I think this seduction is more important
50:04Than a mere seduction
50:07And that is what has
50:10Disgraced us so much
50:13Our sensibility
50:16Our attachment to sympathy
50:19That was one of the first
50:22Potences that were destroyed
50:25In us Germans
50:28Also in the adults
50:31But probably even more in the boys
50:34The ability to sympathize
50:52The German people
50:55Have become strong
50:58Lord, bless our fight
51:01And thus our German people and homeland