1 00:00:01,101 --> 00:00:04,588 An imposing sight, the Scientology building in Berlin. 2 00:00:04,688 --> 00:00:09,145 However, the number of members of the controversial organisation is stagnating. 3 00:00:09,245 --> 00:00:13,983 Now, the psycho-corporation is fishing on the Internet, sneaking into social networks. 4 00:00:14,083 --> 00:00:16,992 For example on Facebook private persons offer help, 5 00:00:17,092 --> 00:00:22,685 it is very late only that the recipient learns the friendly user tries to lure him to Scientology. 6 00:00:22,785 --> 00:00:25,546 That is precisely what they discovered, 7 00:00:25,646 --> 00:00:30,827 concerning film and video they have discovered it for a long time much better than we'd believe. 8 00:00:30,927 --> 00:00:36,108 They're so adept at it that it seems natural they use the internet intensively. 9 00:00:36,208 --> 00:00:39,087 Most certainly they are doing that. 10 00:00:39,187 --> 00:00:44,545 Thus adolescents quickly come across Scientology web pages for keywords like "Human Rights". 11 00:00:44,645 --> 00:00:48,675 Noone recognizes at a first glance who is really disguised behind these laudable goals. 12 00:00:48,775 --> 00:00:52,451 Only the small print uncloaks the psycho-cult. 13 00:00:52,628 --> 00:00:56,905 Obscuring their actual purposes is the strategy on the streets as well. 14 00:00:57,005 --> 00:01:01,802 There's hardly a clue to the controversial organisation at the Scientologist's booths. 15 00:01:01,902 --> 00:01:04,192 Mainly youths are approached here, 16 00:01:04,292 --> 00:01:08,587 Journalists on the other hand, are no welcome guests. 17 00:01:08,687 --> 00:01:10,623 And who are you? - ZDF 18 00:01:10,723 --> 00:01:13,189 Education is all the more important. 19 00:01:13,289 --> 00:01:17,231 Stefan Bartel regularly visits schools and informs about Scientology. 20 00:01:17,331 --> 00:01:22,187 He shows how they bait teenagers with videos, mostly on the net. 21 00:01:22,287 --> 00:01:28,382 Highly modern, brilliantly executed, tailored to the viewing customs of teenagers, 22 00:01:28,482 --> 00:01:33,751 they're perfect. And I'll show you one of those advertising flicks now. 23 00:01:33,851 --> 00:01:36,317 Young, insecure, searching. 24 00:01:36,417 --> 00:01:40,300 Facebook, a good place to learn about their hardships. 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,701 It does make sense because many people are becoming more open to the whole world due to the internet, 26 00:01:46,801 --> 00:01:50,772 and are writing how they're feeling - often bad. 27 00:01:50,872 --> 00:01:56,023 So those cults have a lot more opportunities to approach these people. 28 00:01:56,123 --> 00:01:58,973 There are cliques at school... 29 00:01:59,073 --> 00:02:05,257 And pupils not well integrated into class companionship - there's always someone... 30 00:02:05,357 --> 00:02:09,681 I believe it's exactly these persons that are vulnerable to fall for it, 31 00:02:09,781 --> 00:02:14,313 because these cults offer just this belonging that they're missing at school. 32 00:02:14,413 --> 00:02:18,963 Stefan Schweigert got into Scientology's clutches, because he was simply curious. 33 00:02:19,063 --> 00:02:21,777 A disastrous mistake, as he says today. 34 00:02:21,877 --> 00:02:27,175 They hook you by promising you experiences you want to have, 35 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:30,479 or should have, according to their doctrine. 36 00:02:30,579 --> 00:02:35,347 And you believe in it so you only have this one thing and don't do anything else in life, 37 00:02:35,447 --> 00:02:38,533 except for Scientology. And that's what is dangerous. 38 00:02:38,633 --> 00:02:41,719 You only see that, it's like a universe in a universe. 39 00:02:41,819 --> 00:02:44,167 Scientology isolates you, it is addictive, 40 00:02:44,267 --> 00:02:47,147 One of the reasons for the surveillance of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. 41 00:02:47,247 --> 00:02:51,424 Dangerous for everyone is how clandestinely the cult is hunting for souls, 42 00:02:51,524 --> 00:02:55,702 as of late increasingly on the net.