2:26:01
Where is the responsibility
of the Soviet Union...
2:26:04
who signed in 1939 the pact with Hitler...
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enabled him to make war?
2:26:11
Are we now to find Russia guilty?
2:26:15
Where is the responsibility of the Vatican...
2:26:18
who signed in 1933 the concordat
with Hitler...
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giving him his first tremendous prestige?
2:26:26
Are we now to find the Vatican guilty?
2:26:30
Where is the responsibility
of the world leader Winston Churchill...
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who said in an open letter
to the London Times in 1938:
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"Were England to suffer a national disaster,
I should pray to God...
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"to send a man of the strength of mind
and will of an Adolf Hitler. "
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Are we now
to find Winston Churchill guilty?
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Where is the responsibility
of those American industrialists...
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who helped Hitler to rebuild his armaments,
and profited by that rebuilding?
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Are we now to find
the American industrialists guilty?
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No, Your Honor.
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Germany alone is not guilty.
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The whole world is as responsible for Hitler
as Germany.
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It is an easy thing
to condemn one man in the dock.
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It's easy to condemn the German people...
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to speak of the basic flaw
in the German character...
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that allowed Hitler to rise to power,
but also...
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comfortably ignore
the basic flaw of character...
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that made the Russians sign pacts with him,
Winston Churchill praise him...
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American industrialists profit by him.
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Ernst Janning said he is guilty.
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If he is...
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Ernst Janning's guilt is the world's guilt.
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No more, no less.