The 17-minute clip was released by the US War Department in 1943 and re-released in 1947 to denounce racism and fascism.
It features an American who is listening to a man railing against African-Americans and complaining about foreigners taking jobs that “belong to me”.
“What’s going to become of real Americans?” the man on the soap box complains, before proclaiming the US will never “truly” be theirs until it’s without “enemies” like black people, foreigners, Catholics, Freemasons, and so on.
The man watching at first nods in approval before realising he’s a Freemason.
“Hey, that fella is talking about me,” he complains to a man wearing glasses next to him.
“And that makes a difference, doesn’t it,” the bystander, who reveals himself to be an American born in Hungary.
“I’ve heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to hear it in America,” the Hungarian-born man adds, explaining how the same rhetoric was adopted by Nazis.
“I thought Nazis were crazy, stupid fanatics but unfortunately it was not so,” he continues.
“They split Germany in two. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.
“We human beings are not born with prejudice, always they are made for us made by someone who wants something. Somebody is going to get something out of it and it’s not going to be you.”
The short clip was shared by Michael Oman-Reagan of the Memorial University of Newfoundland on Twitter after the Charlottesvile rally, and has since been shared more than 140,000 times.
“1947 anti-fascist video made by US military to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump is relevant again,” he tweeted.
