# Don't Be a Sucker (high resolution 35mm transfer)

National Archives Identifier: 24376

Local Identifier: 111-EF-6 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376

Creator(s): Department of Defense.\[* 1\] Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (9/18/1947 - 3/1/1964) (Most Recent)

From: Series: Educational Films, 1942 - 1947

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

This item was produced or created: 1945

Other Title(s):Educational Film, no. 6

Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and "crooked" gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler's Schutzstaffel. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher debunks Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM) National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540

Email: mopix@nara.gov

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1945
- Runtime: 22 min
- By: US National Archives
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don%27t_Be_a_Sucker_(high_resolution_35mm_transfer).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: US National Archives
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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