Don't be a sucker
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| Original title | Don't be a sucker |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 17 minutes |
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Do not Be a Sucker (translated: "Do not be a jerk") is a 17-minute short film in black and white from the year 1943 , of the United States Department of War was produced and re-released 1947th The educational film has an anti-racist and anti-fascist message and advocates diversity .
After the racist riots in Charlottesville in August 2017, an excerpt from this film was widely shared on the Internet.
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An American gives a inflammatory speech against various minorities in his country (“I'm an American American!”). For Mike, who listens to the racist speaker, the speech initially makes sense until the hate preacher also railed against Freemasons , to which Mike himself belongs. The man next to him, a US naturalized professor from Hungary , explains to Mike how racist demagogy and the exclusion of minorities gave the National Socialists the opportunity to come to power in Germany, and warns him, as an American, not to rely on a similar, to fall for the demagoguery practiced by American racists.
Web links
- Do not Be a Sucker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Do not Be a Sucker as a complete movie in the Internet Archive (English)
- Excerpt from Don't Be a Sucker with German subtitles on tagesschau.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Franziska Hein: After Charlottesville - short film from 1943 becomes an internet hit. RP Online , August 15, 2017, accessed August 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Fedor von Bock: Riots in Charlottesville - Old educational video against racism goes viral. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 15, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2017 .