:56:01
Hitler himself
will be discarded sooner or later.
:56:05
The country is in danger.
:56:07
We will march out of the shadows.
We will go forward.
:56:09
Forward is the great password.
:56:15
And history tells
how well we succeeded, Your Honor.
:56:21
We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
:56:25
The very elements of hate and power
about Hitler...
:56:28
that mesmerized Germany
mesmerized the world.
:56:32
We found ourselves
with sudden, powerful allies.
:56:36
Things that had been denied to us
as a democracy...
:56:39
were open to us now.
:56:41
The world said, "Go ahead, take it.
:56:44
"Take it.
:56:46
"Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland,
remilitarize it.
:56:49
"Take all of Austria. Take it. "
:56:55
And then, one day, we looked around...
:56:59
and found that we were
in an even more terrible danger.
:57:02
The ritual began in this courtroom...
:57:05
swept over the land like a raging,
roaring disease.
:57:09
What was going to be a passing phase...
:57:14
had become the way of life.
:57:22
Your Honor...
:57:25
I was content to sit silent during this trial.
:57:31
I was content to tend my roses.
:57:36
I was even content...
:57:39
to let counsel try to save my name.
:57:43
Until I realized...
:57:46
that in order to save it,
he would have to raise the specter again.
:57:54
You have seen him do it.
He has done it here in this courtroom.
:57:59
He has suggested that the Third Reich
worked for the benefit of people.