en: lorenz-knorr: chapter-4: c: 4 title: "Fascism in childhood and youth" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,05" to: "00:00:02,05" text: "Fascism was a subject," sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:02,05" to: "00:00:06,15" text: "because of the experiences that we picked up from the immigrants." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:06,15" to: "00:00:14,27" text: "In our youth group we invited immigrants from Austria and Germany to tell their story." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:14,27" to: "00:00:19,24" text: "We already knew before the high finance and the generals" sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:19,24" to: "00:00:22,26" text: "pushed the power towards the Nazi leading clique:" sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:22,26" to: "00:00:24,13" text: "Hitler means war." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:24,13" to: "00:00:30,00" text: "We not only grew into the anti-fascist fight," sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:30,00" to: "00:00:34,04" text: "but as well into the fight for peace. It was the same question to us:" sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:34,04" to: "00:00:36,16" text: "the anti-fascist fight and the fight for peace." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:00:36,16" to: "00:00:40,25" text: "That obviously assumed that we threw light on it." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:00:40,25" to: "00:00:49,08" text: "After my youth consecration, when I left school, I took part in my first Marxist seminar." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:00:49,08" to: "00:00:52,29" text: "There, young people who were interested," sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:00:52,29" to: "00:01:01,03" text: "learned all the basics if they wanted to become a functionary of the labour movement." sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:01,03" to: "00:01:06,09" text: "So they were not only practical experiences that were being reflected," sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:06,09" to: "00:01:14,12" text: "but we also had seminars learning to deal with the political opponent." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:14,12" to: "00:01:19,16" text: "For example, it was obligatory for a functionary of the socialist youth" sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:19,16" to: "00:01:22,29" text: "to have read Hitler’s book ‚Mein Kampf’." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:22,29" to: "00:01:31,29" text: "We could tell the Nazi officials, who didn’t know as well as we did, what the real aims were." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:01:31,29" to: "00:01:34,25" text: "They did not believe that Hitler wanted war." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:01:34,25" to: "00:01:36,08" text: ~ sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:01:36,08" to: "00:01:40,16" text: "We kept hearing again and again: „They will not be so stupid to go against the whole world on their own.”" sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:01:40,16" to: "00:01:47,07" text: "But we were able to quote from ‚Mein Kampf’ that the annexation of new living space in the east" sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:01:47,07" to: "00:01:51,05" text: "was one main issue of the Nazis’ fight." sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:01:51,05" to: "00:01:57,25" text: "If we were able to bring the better arguments into discussions with the Nazis," sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:01:57,25" to: "00:02:03,11" text: "in the companies, in the schools or wherever, it would have an effect on the undecided." sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:03,11" to: "00:02:06,05" text: "But still the Nazis became stronger and stronger;" sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:02:06,05" to: "00:02:10,04" text: "for one, because of the social problems and for two," sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:02:10,04" to: "00:02:16,16" text: "because the imperial German broadcasting service had an immense influence." sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:02:16,16" to: "00:02:18,27" text: "Many Germans did not speak Czech," sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:02:18,27" to: "00:02:25,08" text: "but you could hear the broadcast stations Königs Wusterhausen and Seesen, the two Nazi stations, well." sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:02:25,08" to: "00:02:38,04" text: "This influence, in which social problems were misleadingly passed off as national problems, were surely effective."