Democratizing and Christianizing America in This Generation

I am discussing with you this evening a rather strange, peculiar subject: Democratizing and Christianizing America in This Generation. If people can be changed for the worse, it is reasonable to suppose that they can be changed for the better. If men can be educated for evil purposes, it is safe to assume that they can be educated for good purposes. If human nature is essentially the same the world over, it is fair to presume that the German people are by nature no better and no worse than other human beings. No better and no worse than Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Africans, or Asiatics. The Germans have simply had bad training and bad upbringing. And what happened to the German people might happen to any people; and does happen to some people right here in the United States. In approximately seven short years, the youths of Germany were completely Hitlerized and thoroughly Nazified. If one doubts the seven years, he cannot doubt that Germany was almost completely Nazified within less than a generation-between 1918 and 1939, a period of twenty-one years. Many of the adults of Germany were not Hitlerized as the occupants in the concentration camps prove. But it is true that the vast majority of the adults of Germany either adopted Hitler's program outright or accepted it be

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