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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.
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What about those of us who knew better?
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We who knew the words were lies,
and worse than lies?
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Why did we sit silent?
Why did we take part?
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Because we loved our country.
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What difference does it make...
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if a few political extremists
lose their rights?
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What difference does it make
if a few racial minorities lose their rights?
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It is only a passing phase.
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It is only a stage we are going through.
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It will be discarded sooner or later.
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Hitler himself
will be discarded sooner or later.
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The country is in danger.
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We will march out of the shadows.
We will go forward.
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Forward is the great password.
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And history tells
how well we succeeded, Your Honor.
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We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
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The very elements of hate and power
about Hitler...
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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.
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"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.