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While nobody's trying
to influence your decision...
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it's important that you realize this,
because it's a fact of life.
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Let's face it, gentlemen.
The handwriting is on the wall.
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We're going to need all the help we can get.
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We're going to need the support
of the German people.
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More strudel, gentlemen?
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Herr Janning, you may proceed.
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I wish to testify
about the Feldenstein case...
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because it was the most significant trial
of the period.
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It is important not only for the tribunal
to understand it...
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but for the whole German people.
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But in order to understand it...
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one must understand the period
in which it happened.
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There was a fever over the land.
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A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger.
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We had a democracy, yes.
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But it was torn by elements within.
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Above all, there was fear:
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Fear of today, fear of tomorrow...
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fear of our neighbors...
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and fear of ourselves.
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Only when you understand that...
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can you understand what Hitler meant to us.
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Because he said to us:
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"Lift your heads.
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"Be proud to be German.
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"There are devils among us:
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"Communists, liberals, Jews, Gypsies.
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"Once these devils will be destroyed,
your misery will be destroyed. "
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It was the old story of the sacrificial lamb.