Alright. I'm here in time. Thanks for showing these films hidden from for so long. Added: FANTASTIC. How did this never became one of the many classic WWII films? Such a shame Kaaren Vrne passed at 49. Thanks, again, Pizza for a fine presentation.
I am just discovering these very old war movies, and am impressed by the standard of acting and story lines. This is the third really good old war movie I've watched this wknd.
Just a lovely workmanlike job by Vincent Sherman, all the cast and crew and technicians. A classic example of Warner Bros quality in the 1940s. Everybody at the top of their form. I'll watch it again to savor the Nazi menace through the eyes of the 1941 audience.
Wow! Excellent movie! I thought I had seen all of the anti-Nazi movies! This one has great storyline, great acting, and I highly recommend it. I rarely watch a movie twice but I will watch it again. Thank you, PizzaFlixs.
Absolute GEM. A film I never knew existed. ANOTHER CLASSIC Warner Brothers war flick right up there with Casablanca. Thanks you, PizzaFlix Man, for another great delivery.
I saw this movie 50 years ago and have waited that long to see it again. I love this movie and have asked others that love ww2 nazi films if the had seen it and none of them knew of it. Today is my lucky day. Thank you.
Thanks for another magnificent movie. Very emotional. That was set in the 1940s, ...One day there may be a "Digital record" of 2023, showing the brave people of the Ukraine, who fought against a giant force, losing thousands of innocent people, who only wanted Peace, while all around them they watched their Country, cities, towns, and villages destroyed. Long Live the Ukraine. Eric in Australia .
A great movie a tribute to the brave men and women who gave up their lives for what the believed in the freedom of speech and to wreck havoc on evil people 😢
A special salute to actor Martin Kosleck, an unsung hero of the anti-Nazi film community. Through his portrayals in "Underground", "Berlin Correspondent", "The Hitler Gang" and countless other films, he gave focus to the unspeakable evil which threatened the world and, in so doing, helped to forge the concensus of Americans to put an end to such evil. Well done, Herr Kosleck.
Martin Kosleck continued his portrayals of anti NAZI figures in his last appearance (I think) when he played Martin Bormann in an episode of "Hogans Heroes." It was cool seeing him play the part.
Unbelievable horror. We can never be thankful enough for the freedom we enjoy but take so lightly. To wake up every morning with a choice of what we wish to do today without it being snatched suddenly away. 😢😢😢
An excellent film! As a plus, in addition to Kaaren Verne, many of the same German ex-pats who played Nazis in this film also played similar parts in "All Through the Night." The great Peter Whitney was an added bonus!
A very brilliant movie. Quite sad, but very well done-thank you for posting. I'm watching this on the six month anniversary of my only brothers passing, and this movie really has pulled the strings of my heart.
Just. A. Splendid. Classic. War. Movie. 🎞 whit. A. Tarific. Script. And. Story. 🎞 a. Absolutely. Movie. Whit. Douts. At. All. To. See. This. Film. 🎞 🎉🎉🎉 💣 👌 💣 👌 💣 many. Thanks. C. C. C. 🎞 😀 👌 👍
What a wonderful film, and I can believe the terrible atrocities those brave people lived and died for the rest of us. Not just a story but near the bare truth. God forgive those whom acted under an insane murderer .🙏🇬🇧
Same horrors are now being done in Ukraine, and their prisoners of war are tortured and starved just like in the days of WWII. So horrible that this movie is not the last one we have to make about insane fascist regimes.
All of your movie postings are a treat....thank you for the fine effort and thoughtful contribution to our lives in both entertainment and human perspective. The quote that is alluded to on the framed wall hanging is from King Henry from "Henry VI, Part II" (3.2.232)
Excellent movie, but had to look away at times; Martin Kosleck, my favorite actor for SS, Gestapo, and all-'round loathesome Nazi, was just too convincing. How ironic that when he fled Germany in 1930s, for speaking harshly against the Nazis, he himself was placed on the Gestapo list of "deplorables"! But Hollywood films became his own "Illegal Radio", allowing him to show over and over how sadistic, deluded and depraved Germany's elite officers could be; all the while getting paid for it, and living to be in his 80s, too! Thanks, Pizza Flix, for finding and presenting this excellent old WWII movie of the underground work, and sacrifices of sane, intelligent, and courageously decent Germans in that era!
This is an exceptional movie which is very engrossing. The writers did a great job. The character of the underground brother is especially well drawn and happily so-well played by the actor. Oh, a critque can be made of a few things, but not necessary here.
Nobody wins a war. The father was right. We are in the same situation today and we carry around personal spy devices. Expect the worst, thank God for mercy.
.markallen yes we win but when it comes to remaining free, you have to fight for it. This shows that not all Germans were with Hitler. They spoke out against paid with their lives,but not in vain.
Great film, and probably pretty accurate. Hopefully we are not moving into such times. Brother against brother, families town apart, with the State in total control.
Filmed Feb. -April 1941. The stars fled Germany for Hollywood. Well done story about the anti-Nazi underground in Germany. The irony is the reality was far worse than depicted here.
An excellent comment. Even if some of the German Jews working in Hollywood did know, they chose not to show the full horrors, as they would not have been believed. Even when solid evidence of the Holocaust was given to the editorial board of the New York Times, they still could not believe it and under reported it.
Great movie! Thank God for the brave men and women who worked for the underground unordered to defeat such evil regiemes as the Nazi's!! Such brave individuals who were willing to die to keep their country free.God bless them all ! Great cast of actors,great story line.Thank you for sharing this video with us!
That's what is happening right now in Russia. Brother against brother. The lieing state to it's people. Wè see all the signs. Putin get rid of anyone who speaks out against him and his party line. Great movie. I remember seeing this when I was a young boy on late night tv. Ut even touched me then.
Keen insight, Tim; the fascist-minded people here in the US are keeping their eyes on Putin, hoping to employ his methods of absolute power, removal, and control over anyone they don't happen to like.
Great flick.......I don't think I ever saw this one with Jeffrey Lynne as a German soldier, and I've watched many old Warner Bro. (WW2) flicks.,....I remember him in "The Roaring Twenties" with Cagney.
Another wonderful 1940's Nazi picture that featured the same Gastapo cast and office setting as another picture around the same time. Martin Kosleck, Mona Maris, Hans Schumm. Kosleck was always a great Gastapo Chief.
This movie is excellent for preparation for war. We shouldn’t be foolish to think war is another’s life and not for our generation. Ask yourself, “is America worth dying for now?” I have made peace with Jesus and I have made myself ready eternally. Yes I am ready for war…
Your's is the only comment here that even remotely suggests a contrary opinion. Yes something is happening in America but it's not National Socialism. It's far worse than that. There's simply not enough space here to list the numerous things Americans have been taught about WW II that are just not true. Underground was a masterful bit of propaganda...well designed and acted, even enjoyable to an extent...but it propounded a viewpoint intended to be the Only Way to view Germany. Clue: this film was made 'out of' Hollywood.
You can try to connect the dots to somehow complete your image of insecurities but you can't hide the picture of your evil ways. Democrats have the joy of explaining the how,why,who and when they began corrupting the hearts and minds of of the innocent. It's a shame we didn't have such transparency.....no matter at least we can see and hear who you are...thank you for marching and being so open about how your true feelings are. It makes it so much easier for our sons and daughters from contaminated gene pools....cheers
You are absolutely correct.Our underground is known as the "white hats" who actually do exist! They have been working secretly for years to bring down the cabal.Thank God for everyone of them.I pray they have great success in destroying the evil powers in our government! Especially our current corrupt leadership!! I believe,with God's help,they will succeed.
Many of these British films were not shown in the United States at all because the u.s. considered it propaganda and there are some that even go deep into the German propaganda as well as the kidnapping of non German citizens who were of German descent who were visiting their grandparents were visiting the country as young youth and a boy one of those movies was just heartbreaking because I know it happened. My aunt married a German citizen who crossed into United States illegally to escape being forced to go to war. Well unfortunately he was turned in by someone who thought he should go back to Germany and fight for the Germans. He had children and a wife here in the United States who were put into basically government housing and monitored while he was deported to Germany he served jail time in Germany and then was forced into the military for 2 years he survived the war and then had to stay in Germany until he had served up a certain amount of time and was able to come back to the United States to his family. What a horrible situation he had never wanted to fight Hitler's war and he was forced to go back. Many people found their children trapped in Germany visiting grandparents or great-grandparents who had possibly taking them there for a vacation or lived there and they couldn't get them out of Germany. They were forced into the military if they were boys and they were forced into the wound I think it was where they created the babies for the officers if they were girls. There is a movie based on that and that is a very very well-kept secret. There's a lot of crimes that she has got shoved into the table just like the Japanese stuff because I guess everybody was just so tired of the war in the fighting they really did not want to admit how horrible things had been even for the German citizens themselves. When you allow yourself to be governed by a totalitarian military government that is not run by the people for the people with says everyone has to follow all the same exact rules no one has freedom of choice you will rout live this way it's not equity or equality it's everybody's at cookie-cutter copy then you've got a serious problem and unfortunately that's what's happening in the US democracy does not equal Republic we are a republic not a democracy.
Nothing really has changed even when our Lord walked this Earth , man has welcomed bombs and all sorts of gadgets to rid human beings off this Earth. Cruelty atrocities that no human should be put through. And yet we never learn. What will happen too this world of ours. God help us and forgive us all.🙏🇬🇧
These war-time propaganda films have terrific scripts because we know the events they depict were happening during the filming in Europe. It also helps when real German actors fleeing the madness end up portraying- and betraying- the mad men they left behind.
Oh my Gosh ! started crying so great .... such all great actress and actors Martin Kosleck so perfect as Nazi .....he and His secretary " in movie i watched last nite w Dana Andrews"Berlin. Correspondant " so great too !! On Ytube
The beautiful Kaaren Verne was a German refugee whose next film was my favorite Warners anti-Nazi film, "All Through the Night," with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre (her future husband!).
WOW! Great movie! The only thing missing is my pizza to watch during this film. Thank you for this great upload movie.
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"The Greatest Movie You've Never Seen" Man that got me.... love those old spy films!
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Outstanding flick seen 6 times will watch again hope everyone enjoys the movie
Alright. I'm here in time. Thanks for showing these films hidden from for so long.
Added: FANTASTIC. How did this never became one of the many classic WWII films? Such a shame Kaaren Vrne passed at 49. Thanks, again, Pizza for a fine presentation.
If it had the cast of Casablanca it would have been a big hit.
I am just discovering these very old war movies, and am impressed by the standard of acting and story lines. This is the third really good old war movie I've watched this wknd.
What a great film…., although very heartbreaking, it shows the power of good over evil at all costs
Both sides did wrong things. Encouraging suicide for example.
Just a lovely workmanlike job by Vincent Sherman, all the cast and crew and technicians. A classic example of Warner Bros quality in the 1940s. Everybody at the top of their form. I'll watch it again to savor the Nazi menace through the eyes of the 1941 audience.
I really in joyed this movie tonight. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while.
Wow! Excellent movie! I thought I had seen all of the anti-Nazi movies! This one has great storyline, great acting, and I highly recommend it. I rarely watch a movie twice but I will watch it again. Thank you, PizzaFlixs.
Excellent film that is very appropriate to contemporary times. Thank you for posting this.
This indeed was a great movie. Thank you for sharing it. Freedom is not truly free, it comes at a great cost.❤
Absolute GEM. A film I never knew existed. ANOTHER CLASSIC Warner Brothers war flick right up there with Casablanca. Thanks you, PizzaFlix Man, for another great delivery.
That was an amazing movie I cried at the end some of it was very like into what’s going on in America today
I saw this movie 50 years ago and have waited that long to see it again. I love this movie and have asked others that love ww2 nazi films if the had seen it and none of them knew of it. Today is my lucky day. Thank you.
Yes I also saw it first about that long ago, and was very moved by it, esp Philip Dorn, but yes the whole cast! Excellent film!
One of the best movies you have posted. Thank You!
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Great movie. I saw this on TCM a year or so ago. It was worth watching again.
Excellent movie!
Thanks for another magnificent movie.
Very emotional. That was set in the 1940s, ...One day there may be a "Digital record" of 2023, showing the brave people of the Ukraine, who fought against a giant force, losing thousands of innocent people, who only wanted Peace, while all around them they watched their Country, cities, towns, and villages destroyed.
Long Live the Ukraine.
Eric in Australia .
Appreciate quality !!! have an excellent night
A great movie a tribute to the brave men and women who gave up their lives for what the believed in the freedom of speech and to wreck havoc on evil people 😢
A special salute to actor Martin Kosleck, an unsung hero of the anti-Nazi film community.
Through his portrayals in "Underground", "Berlin Correspondent", "The Hitler Gang" and countless other films, he gave focus to the unspeakable evil which threatened the world and, in so doing, helped to forge the concensus of Americans to put an end to such evil.
Well done, Herr Kosleck.
Yes I read that to about Martin Kosleck German actor
Martin Kosleck continued his portrayals of anti NAZI figures in his last appearance (I think) when he played Martin Bormann in an episode of "Hogans Heroes."
It was cool seeing him play the part.
This film really touched my soul and heart.
Unbelievable horror. We can never be thankful enough for the freedom we enjoy but take so lightly. To wake up every morning with a choice of what we wish to do today without it being snatched suddenly away. 😢😢😢
An excellent film! As a plus, in addition to Kaaren Verne, many of the same German ex-pats who played Nazis in this film also played similar parts in "All Through the Night." The great Peter Whitney was an added bonus!
Great movie. Films like these showed me I don't need cable.
WONDERFUL MOVIE 🎥 💞🍿
Absolutely powerful, beyond excellent. Extraordinary and moving👍
Excellent
A very brilliant movie. Quite sad, but very well done-thank you for posting. I'm watching this on the six month anniversary of my only brothers passing, and this movie really has pulled the strings of my heart.
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Classic picture!
I'm flabbergasted , such a very good movie . Thank god the good will always prevail . Freedom of opinion , a sacred right !!!
Just. A. Splendid. Classic. War. Movie. 🎞 whit. A. Tarific. Script. And. Story. 🎞 a. Absolutely. Movie. Whit. Douts. At. All. To. See. This. Film. 🎞 🎉🎉🎉 💣 👌 💣 👌 💣 many. Thanks. C. C. C. 🎞 😀 👌 👍
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What a wonderful film, and I can believe the terrible atrocities those brave people lived and died for the rest of us.
Not just a story but near the bare truth.
God forgive those whom acted under an insane murderer .🙏🇬🇧
Same horrors are now being done in Ukraine, and their prisoners of war are tortured and starved just like in the days of WWII. So horrible that this movie is not the last one we have to make about insane fascist regimes.
Outstanding!!! Thank you for posting.
Another movie. Thanks!
All of your movie postings are a treat....thank you for the fine effort and thoughtful contribution to our lives in both entertainment and human perspective. The quote that is alluded to on the framed wall hanging is from King Henry from "Henry VI, Part II" (3.2.232)
Very good movie. Thanks.
Excellent movie, but had to look away at times; Martin Kosleck, my favorite actor for SS, Gestapo, and all-'round loathesome Nazi, was just too convincing. How ironic that when he fled Germany in 1930s, for speaking harshly against the Nazis, he himself was placed on the Gestapo list of "deplorables"!
But Hollywood films became his own "Illegal Radio", allowing him to show over and over how sadistic, deluded and depraved Germany's elite officers could be; all the while getting paid for it, and living to be in his 80s, too!
Thanks, Pizza Flix, for finding and presenting this excellent old WWII movie of the underground work, and sacrifices of sane, intelligent, and courageously decent Germans in that era!
Great comments!
@@robertbruce6750 Thank you, Robert; it was a great movie!
Kosleck was so effective as a Nazi that he got to play Dr. Goebbles flve times!
@@davidsigalow7349 Thanks for the interesting fact! He really was an excellent, mesmerizing actor.
This is an exceptional movie which is very engrossing. The writers did a great job. The character of the underground brother is especially well drawn and happily so-well played by the actor. Oh, a critque can be made of a few things, but not necessary here.
Nobody wins a war. The father was right. We are in the same situation today and we carry around personal spy devices. Expect the worst, thank God for mercy.
.markallen yes we win but when it comes to remaining free, you have to fight for it. This shows that not all Germans were with Hitler. They spoke out against paid with their lives,but not in vain.
No, but we can try stop the wars. Good people with weapons stopped the bad people with weapons...it might come to that again, sadly. Hopefully not.
Great film, and probably pretty accurate. Hopefully we are not moving into such times. Brother against brother, families town apart, with the State in total control.
Filmed Feb. -April 1941. The stars fled Germany for Hollywood. Well done story about the anti-Nazi underground in Germany. The irony is the reality was far worse than depicted here.
An excellent comment. Even if some of the German Jews working in Hollywood did know, they chose not to show the full horrors, as they would not have been believed. Even when solid evidence of the Holocaust was given to the editorial board of the New York Times, they still could not believe it and under reported it.
Wow what an amazing movie well done well done!
This one made my cry (again).
I have no words it was fantastic!
Love & love of family is a very very powerful Emotion. & that can't b measured.
Thank you, Pizza Flix. A great film, worth seeing. As timely today as when it was first made.
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AWESOME MOVIE REMINDING ME ORWELL'S 1984
Great film!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful film with us. ❤🎉😊
Great movie. They don't make them like this anymore. Very suspenseful.
Thank you for posting
This excellent performances
Classic movie
What a terrific well done intense flick! The photography, story line and acting was superb. This movie deserved some Oscars. Tku for post.
Fantastic film! A true classic. It is the greatest movie that I had never seen until now.
Great movie! Thank God for the brave men and women who worked for the underground unordered to defeat such evil regiemes as the Nazi's!! Such brave individuals who were willing to die to keep their country free.God bless them all ! Great cast of actors,great story line.Thank you for sharing this video with us!
Glad to have lived long enough to watch this movie 😎
We are living the sequel
Wow this was a great movie. Thank you!
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INSPIRING PLOT AND GREAT ACTING!👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
Great film, I’m loving it. Thank you.🇬🇧
Thanks for sharing this fantastic film.
Amazing movie. Superb acting and directing. Suspense all the way through.
Profoundly riveting! 🥲
That's what is happening right now in Russia. Brother against brother. The lieing state to it's people. Wè see all the signs. Putin get rid of anyone who speaks out against him and his party line. Great movie. I remember seeing this when I was a young boy on late night tv. Ut even touched me then.
Keen insight, Tim; the fascist-minded people here in the US are keeping their eyes on Putin, hoping to employ his methods of absolute power, removal, and control over anyone they don't happen to like.
The light of one candle pushes back much darkness ~
It sounds like today! Do we not learn from History?
Precisely.
Bravo! Great movie that made me cry
Salute to those who give their lives for freedom and many who still do ❤🌍🙏
A true masterpiece! Many, many thanks.
Phillip Dorn was adorable in I Remember Mamma, and also Random Harvest.
Thanks Flix! Watching now!
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Great flick.......I don't think I ever saw this one with Jeffrey Lynne as a German soldier, and I've watched many old Warner Bro. (WW2) flicks.,....I remember him in "The Roaring Twenties" with Cagney.
Excelente filme. Ótima qualidade. Parabéns mais uma vez pela Qualidade
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Another wonderful 1940's Nazi picture that featured the same Gastapo cast and office setting as another picture around the same time. Martin Kosleck, Mona Maris, Hans Schumm. Kosleck was always a great Gastapo Chief.
Such a powerful and inspiring movie! 😮
10 Minutes in and im HOOKED❗💯% 😎
Thanks for the great movie! Jeffrey Lynn as Nazi is interesting.
Great movie, thank you.
This movie is excellent for preparation for war. We shouldn’t be foolish to think war is another’s life and not for our generation. Ask yourself, “is America worth dying for now?” I have made peace with Jesus and I have made myself ready eternally. Yes I am ready for war…
The Pizza Flix narrator is pretty cool.
For those of you not paying attention, this is happening in America right now.
Your's is the only comment here that even remotely suggests a contrary opinion. Yes something is happening in America but it's not National Socialism. It's far worse than that. There's simply not enough space here to list the numerous things Americans have been taught about WW II that are just not true. Underground was a masterful bit of propaganda...well designed and acted, even enjoyable to an extent...but it propounded a viewpoint intended to be the Only Way to view Germany. Clue: this film was made 'out of' Hollywood.
You can try to connect the dots to somehow complete your image of insecurities but you can't hide the picture of your evil ways. Democrats have the joy of explaining the how,why,who and when they began corrupting the hearts and minds of of the innocent. It's a shame we didn't have such transparency.....no matter at least we can see and hear who you are...thank you for marching and being so open about how your true feelings are. It makes it so much easier for our sons and daughters from contaminated gene pools....cheers
No it's not
Again, it is not. Glory to Ukraine!
You are absolutely correct.Our underground is known as the "white hats" who actually do exist! They have been working secretly for years to bring down the cabal.Thank God for everyone of them.I pray they have great success in destroying the evil powers in our government! Especially our current corrupt leadership!! I believe,with God's help,they will succeed.
Many of these British films were not shown in the United States at all because the u.s. considered it propaganda and there are some that even go deep into the German propaganda as well as the kidnapping of non German citizens who were of German descent who were visiting their grandparents were visiting the country as young youth and a boy one of those movies was just heartbreaking because I know it happened. My aunt married a German citizen who crossed into United States illegally to escape being forced to go to war. Well unfortunately he was turned in by someone who thought he should go back to Germany and fight for the Germans. He had children and a wife here in the United States who were put into basically government housing and monitored while he was deported to Germany he served jail time in Germany and then was forced into the military for 2 years he survived the war and then had to stay in Germany until he had served up a certain amount of time and was able to come back to the United States to his family. What a horrible situation he had never wanted to fight Hitler's war and he was forced to go back. Many people found their children trapped in Germany visiting grandparents or great-grandparents who had possibly taking them there for a vacation or lived there and they couldn't get them out of Germany. They were forced into the military if they were boys and they were forced into the wound I think it was where they created the babies for the officers if they were girls. There is a movie based on that and that is a very very well-kept secret. There's a lot of crimes that she has got shoved into the table just like the Japanese stuff because I guess everybody was just so tired of the war in the fighting they really did not want to admit how horrible things had been even for the German citizens themselves. When you allow yourself to be governed by a totalitarian military government that is not run by the people for the people with says everyone has to follow all the same exact rules no one has freedom of choice you will rout live this way it's not equity or equality it's everybody's at cookie-cutter copy then you've got a serious problem and unfortunately that's what's happening in the US democracy does not equal Republic we are a republic not a democracy.
Really enjoyed this movie.
What an excellent noir film
ONE OF THE WAR SPY FLICKS I'VE EVER SEEN.
This is a fantastic movie
Great intro by Mr. PIZZA
It's chilling to think this could be starting to happen all over again.
2020 is 1934
Nothing really has changed even when our Lord walked this Earth , man has welcomed bombs and all sorts of gadgets to rid human beings off this Earth.
Cruelty atrocities that no human should be put through.
And yet we never learn.
What will happen too this world of ours.
God help us and forgive us all.🙏🇬🇧
These war-time propaganda films have terrific scripts because we know the events they depict were happening during the filming in Europe. It also helps when real German actors fleeing the madness end up portraying- and betraying- the mad men they left behind.
It has always been and will always be fear as the primary tool to get everyone to comply.
Excellent movie.
I always cry.
...and to think that Jeffrey Lynn would go on to form one of the greatest rock bands of the 70s, The Electric Light Orchestra.
One of the best anti-nazi films.
Oh my Gosh ! started crying so great .... such all great actress and actors Martin Kosleck so perfect as Nazi .....he and His secretary " in movie i watched last nite w Dana Andrews"Berlin. Correspondant " so great too !! On Ytube
great oldie movie
The beautiful Kaaren Verne was a German refugee whose next film was my favorite Warners anti-Nazi film, "All Through the Night," with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre (her future husband!).
They don’t make movies like this anymore…. This is very similar to what is happening in this country!
The parallels to the incoming dictator is to gut wrenching.