Transcript: (sorry for the language!)
Speaker: âI see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! Iâll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, whatâs gonna become of us real Americans!â
Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: âIâve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.â
Young man: âThis man seems to know what heâs talking about.â
Speaker: âWhat are us real Americans gonna do about it? Youâll find it right here in this little pamphletâthe truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! Youâll findâŠâ [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]
Hungarian man: âYou believe in that kind of talk?â
Young man: âI dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.â
Speaker: âAnd I tell you, friends, weâll never be able to call this country our own until itâs a country without⊠without what?â
Other man: âYeah? Without what?â
Speaker: âWithout negroes, without alien foreigners,ââthe young man is nodding, following alongââwithout Catholics, without Freemasons! You know theseâŠâ
Young man: âWhatâs wrong with the Masons, Iâm a Mason.â Looks to European man worriedly, âhey, that fellowâs talking about me!â
Huungarian man: âAnd that makes a difference, doesnât it.â
Speaker: âThese are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And itâs up to you and me to fight them!â A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like heâs crazy and turn away, âfight them and destroy them before they destroy us!â
Speaker: âThank you.â
One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: âclapsâ
Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*
Hungarian man: âBefore he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.â
Young man: âWell yes but, he was talking about⊠what about those other people?â *the pair sit down on a park bench*
Hungarian man: âIn this country, we have no âother people.â We are American people, of course.â
Young man: âWhat about you? You arenât American, are you?â
Hungarian man: âI was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.â
Young man: âWhat were you doing there?â
Hungarian man: âI was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have 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 that 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.â