Ben Wilson

Did you do this?

Did you commit treason or no?

And instead, he's expounding the philosophies of national socialism.

Here's why we believe what we believe.

And here's why the government are all criminals.

And here's why they're traitors.

And here's why the Treaty of Versailles was such a betrayal.

All right.

And so he opens, I talked about this in episode one, but he opens with a speech that was by any measure, one of the great speeches of all time, brilliant rhetoric.

He starts off, I said this last episode, but I'll repeat his beginning to the speech.

He says, quote, it seems strange to me that a man who as a soldier became accustomed to blind obedience for nearly six years,

should suddenly come into conflict with the state and its constitution.

To explain this, I must go back to my youth, because there indeed is the seed of the conflict between me and today's constitution and governing bodies.

Okay?

Excellent.

Excellent start.

You know, if you're in the jury and you're looking at this, you're like, oh, guy's a war hero.

He obeyed the government for six years during World War I, so he's not like a treacherous type of personality.

Why did this happen?

That's a good question, Hitler.