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that mesmerized Germany
mesmerized the world.
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We found ourselves
with sudden, powerful allies.
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Things that had been denied to us
as a democracy...
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were open to us now.
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The world said, "Go ahead, take it.
2:18:16
"Take it.
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"Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland,
remilitarize it.
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"Take all of Austria. Take it. "
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And then, one day, we looked around...
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and found that we were
in an even more terrible danger.
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The ritual began in this courtroom...
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swept over the land like a raging,
roaring disease.
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What was going to be a passing phase...
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had become the way of life.
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Your Honor...
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I was content to sit silent during this trial.
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I was content to tend my roses.
2:19:08
I was even content...
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to let counsel try to save my name.
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Until I realized...
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that in order to save it,
he would have to raise the specter again.
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You have seen him do it.
He has done it here in this courtroom.
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He has suggested that the Third Reich
worked for the benefit of people.
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He has suggested that we sterilized men
for the welfare of the country.
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He has suggested that perhaps...
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the old Jew did sleep
with the 16-year-old girl, after all.
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Once more, it is being done...
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for love of country.
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It is not easy to tell the truth.