Transcript: (sorry for the language!)
Speaker: βI see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! Iβll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, whatβs gonna become of us real Americans!β
Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: βIβve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.β
Young man: βThis man seems to know what heβs talking about.β
Speaker: βWhat are us real Americans gonna do about it? Youβll find it right here in this little pamphletβthe truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! Youβll findβ¦β [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]
Hungarian man: βYou believe in that kind of talk?β
Young man: βI dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.β
Speaker: βAnd I tell you, friends, weβll never be able to call this country our own until itβs a country withoutβ¦ without what?β
Other man: βYeah? Without what?β
Speaker: βWithout negroes, without alien foreigners,ββthe young man is nodding, following alongββwithout Catholics, without Freemasons! You know theseβ¦β
Young man: βWhatβs wrong with the Masons, Iβm a Mason.β Looks to European man worriedly, βhey, that fellowβs talking about me!β
Huungarian man: βAnd that makes a difference, doesnβt it.β
Speaker: βThese 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 itβs up to you and me to fight them!β A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like heβs crazy and turn away, βfight them and destroy them before they destroy us!β
Speaker: βThank you.β
One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: βclapsβ
Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*
Hungarian man: βBefore he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.β
Young man: βWell yes but, he was talking aboutβ¦ what about those other people?β *the pair sit down on a park bench*
Hungarian man: βIn this country, we have no βother people.β We are American people, of course.β
Young man: βWhat about you? You arenβt American, are you?β
Hungarian man: βI 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.β
Young man: βWhat were you doing there?β
Hungarian man: βI 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.β