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Don't Be a Sucker
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Wikipedia article
'Don't Be a Sucker' is a short film produced by the United States Department of War released in 1943, and adapted as a slightly shorter version in 1947. It has anti-racist and anti-fascist themes, and was made to educate viewers about prejudice and discrimination. The film was also made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. It is held for preservation by the U.S. National Archives.
Plot
An American Freemason who has been listening to a racist and bigoted rabble-rouser, who is preaching hate speech against ethnic and religious minorities and immigrants, is warned off by a naturalized Hungarian immigrant, possibly a Holocaust survivor or escapee, who explains to him how such rhetoric and demagoguery allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Weimar Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagoguery propagated by American racists and bigots.
In popular culture
In August 2017 the short film went viral on the internet in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and various copies have been uploaded to video sharing sites since then.
Cast
* Paul Lukas as the Hungarian Refugee
* Richard Lane as the Soapbox Orator
* Felix Bressart as the Anti Nazi Teacher
* Bob Bailey as Mike
* Robert Adler as a Listener
* Chick Chandler as a Con artist
* George Chandler as Sucker
* Kurt Kreuger as Hans
* Frank O'Connor as a Listener
Gallery
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See also
* 'The House I Live In'
* Suppression of Freemasonry Nazi Germany and occupied Europe
References
Other sources
* ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170212233238/http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=18874 PDF])
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