Anti-Nazi film

Interesante video (video anti-nazi) sobre la libertad, o la falta de ella, el que vemos aquí. Y un mensaje: los nazis dividieron a la sociedad alemana y se aprovecharon de los prejuicios para adueñarse del poder. ¡Ojo!

El actor que personifica al que grita las consignas racistas: Ernest Borgnine.

Al final encontramos el significado de: suckers y buscamos la pronunciación de minority (en el video se pronuncia /minóriti/); y una aclaración sobre el Charlottesville Rally

 

… pensaba que los nazis eran locos, estúpidos fanáticos. Como no eran lo suficientemente fuertes para conquistar un país unificado dividieron a Alemania en pequeños grupos. Usaron el prejuicio como arma para dividir…

 

1940’s Anti-Nazi Film Goes Viral After Charlottesville Rally

-Now friends. I´m just an average American. But I´m an American American. And some of the things I see in this country of ours make my blood boil.

 

(This anti-nazi film is going viral in wake of the Charllotesville white supremacist rally.)

 

-Now I ask you, if we allow these things to go on, what´s going to become of us real Americans?

 

-I´ve heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to hear it in America.

 

In Germany we don´t have a place for secret societies. There may be only one society.

 

(One by one he attacked each minority. And he split them off, one from the other.)

 

-I don´t know, it makes pretty good sense to me.

 

-And I tell you, friends, we´ll never be able to call this country our own until it´s a country without. Without what?

 

-Yeah, without what?

 

-Without Negroes, without alien foreigners, without Catholics, without Freemasons. These are our enemies. These are the people who are trying to get over our country. Now you know them. You know what they stand for and it´s up to you and me to fight them.

 

–I was born in Hungary but now I’m an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.

–What were you doing there?

–I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we had heard today. But I was a fool then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.

We must never let ourselves be divided by race or color or religion, because in this country we all belong to minority groups. You´re right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing. You have a right to be what you are and say what you think because here we have personal freedom. We have liberty. And these are not just fancy words. This is a practical and priceless way of living. But we must work it. We must guard everyone´s liberty or we can lose our own. If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice we are threatening are own freedom. And this is not simply an idea. This is good, hard, common sense. You see, here in America it´s not a question whether we tolerate minorities. America is minorities. And that means you and me.

So let´s not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any man to be threatened by any act or word. Let´s be selfish about it. Let´s forget about We and They. Let´s think about Us. (Don´t be a sucker. US War Department, 1943)

 

Aclaración

El Unite the Right rally fue un rally de los supremacistas blancos que tuvo lugar en Charlottesville, Virginia, del 11 al 12 de Agosto, del 2017.

Los objetivos de los organizadores incluían la unificación del movimiento nacionalista norteamericano y oponerse a la propuesta de quitar la estatua del general Robert E. Lee del parque.

Alrededor de las 1:45 p.m., James Alex Fields Jr., auto identificado como supremacista blanco deliberadamente manejó su auto contra la multitud de contra protestantes que estaban a 800 metros del sitio del rally, matando a Heather Heyer e hiriendo a 35 personas más.

 

Vocabulario

Suckers: (Informal) a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon.

Minority: /mʌɪˈnɒrɪti, mɪˈnɒrɪti/

 

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