those exceptions are really few and far between. we believe that people's right to live in accordance with their conscience includes the right to .se religious thought we have been critical of other democratic countries as well as nondemocratic countries, that puts such restrictions, and we hope in the future things will loosen up and they will be seen thatnew perspective religious freedom will be allowed straight away. >> thank you, all. appreciate it. thank you, ambassador. >> many news reports and public officials refer to the current refugee crisis in the european union as the worst since the end of world war ii. next on american history tv,

's on american history tv's "reel america," a look back to 1946 with "seeds of destiny," a 20-minute war department film depicting the situation faced by millions of orphaned and homeless children. the graphic scenes of traumatized, hungry, and partly thed children recorded by the u.s. signal corps helped raise millions of dollars relief efforts. this academy award-winning film includes scenes that may be disturbing to some viewers. ♪

♪ >> children, the human raw material of each chapter nation's tomorrow. each nation's preview of flesh and blood of its future. ♪

pillars of the brave new world, pillars of the brave new world ages from three to six and not even able to stand, rickets, age nine, mother tortured, father burned alive. age 10, lost her senses when shells swept her dutch village. age eight, mother, father, sister, and brother killed in all around him in deliberate shell fire because they refused to leave the shelter of a ravine, himself wounded. age eight, she did not know her strange new toy was a grenade.

ages 10 to 14, age three, stunted and warped by nutritional deficiency. orphans of the world separated from their parents whose names i they do not remember. roaming like wolf packs, stealing, begging, education neglected, all normal influence gone, living in filth, and millions more like them from which will emerge new leaders, new leaders who also bear the burden of keeping the peace together. for here, too, as well and more fortunate nations are makers of tomorrow.

will there be new einstein's, madame currys, or new hitler's, mussolini's tojo's, for the access had carefully contrived a legacy, a legacy designed to drive down nations into one common ruling, jeopardizing the next generation for the next round. for germany in particular, of ripping thece entire fabric of a nation's life , so the state of enduring weakness could be assured, liberation or not. the czech village that once filled this valley, then was wiped so completely off the face of the earth so that not even rubble remained.

for all the women were sent to concentration camps, of which these are among the surviving few. for all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave. and all the little children sold for 50 marks of peace to various german families, and perhaps lost forever. the effects of which will linger long after men like these, captured ss men, have been tried and condemned. and their bigshot counterparts who created to a greater degree a design for destruction that made him an ominous miniature of the designed will of all civilization, a design detail by hitler himself in the last days of the third reich.

as he stated in essence -- >> we shall leave an inheritance of ruins, stone heaps, rats, epidemics, hunger and death, and thereby western civilization shall decline. >> rebirth through ruins, twisting whole countries into economic cripples, weakness that will last for decades, rebirth through stone heaps. ♪ reducing human living to animal

level. ♪ rebirth through rats, epidemics. ♪ nothing reduces population like plague. ♪ rebirth through hunger. ♪ a starved nation cannot be as

sturdy one, and malnutrition leaves a lingering mark, rebirth through death. ♪ reducing and withering the mass population of all countries within reach, so that the germans and japanese would remain the strongest physically and mentally, come what may, and thereby civilized nation shall civilization shall decline. nor was this final strategy of rebirth through common ruin something special born of adult hitler only. the german general staff, like the japanese general staff, were old hands at it. these were the words of one general talking before the berlin military enemy at the academy at the war's outset.

>> we germans must number twice the population of our neighbors. therefore we shall be compelled to destroy one third of the population of all adjacent territories. we can best achieve this through systematic malnutrition -- in the end far superior to machine guns. starvation works efficiently, especially among the young. >> starvation works more effectively, especially among the young. ♪

unquestionably, of all the victims in the program against whole populations, the most pitiful have been the most precious, the young. ♪ even after liberation, the heirs to the access of the legacy of fear, hunger, and hate could be nourished in an atmosphere of desperation, a destiny of despair, calculated to supply the new tools, the new hitler's, tojo's, and mussolini's, of an even bloodier tomorrow. but with the lesson of two world wars to learn from, if any of us among the united nations give fascism its cunningly-planned road to revival by being fooled into neglecting this, or this, the access legacy in action as the true terms of tomorrow begins to show itself,

-- dissension, distress, despair, doubt, defeated, fertile soil for the seeds of world war iii and signs of access success in this, the last battle, and if we permit this to be the face of the future, then truly there will be only one place in which to rest the full burden of the blame, on ourselves, ourselves, including those of us strolling in the shaded streets of nations whose trees have not been stripped by shrapnel, and whose homes have suffered neither burn nor blast, our lush land bearing no scar of the scorched earth, and the shops where shortage represents not death, but temporary discomfort. walking by schools and grounds where they only screams heard

are those of children at play, and whose steeples stretched towards god unshattered by the bomber's wing, in this atmosphere, the information and no matter how vivid cannot convey the full meaning of what others endured and still endure. theto those homes of which fateful telegrams have been delivered, and the blue stars have given way to gold stars, has come the evidence that geography is no bar to tragedy, . justice to all homes has been given the warning of people who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it. too many men and nations has come the conviction that the world simply cannot survive another war, thus even as they meet in the hope of ending war forever, the united nations look to the first organization

created in their name, unrra, united nations relief and rehabilitation administration, much criticized and much praised, but still the only major source to which the united nations are the veins and arteries of stricken people throughout the years, the emergency items of relief and rotation service the plasma of peace. ♪ items from six continents and seven seas. an outpouring from each nation's heart to reach war stricken friend and neighbor. hundreds of private relief and welfare organizations blend their efforts through unrra, along with the contributions of the governments themselves. as all other ravaged areas, the tired heart of liberated nations fight to regain strength and vigor.

and the strong part of the united nations working hand in hand to help, a welfare specialist from australia, a doctor from cuba, and a nurse from belgium, a child expert from england, a therapeutist from ohio, from canada, norway, south africa, china, operating despite the handicaps of varied languages, and learning constructed new lessons in international teamwork, for it very wisely has been said that nations will learn to work together only by actually working together. and by providing treatment of artificial limbs for the crippled and disabled, a

nd teaching occupations that will allow the men to stand on their own feet again, even though the feet themselves may be artificial. and with a donated shoes, learning to be shoemakers so that they may later serve their own villages. and so the post of rehabilitation begins to beat again in the areas warped and withered by war. it is a pulse that beats feebly at first while little men labor and strike with whatever is at hand or can be brought to hand, and the mounds of supplies seen in the docks and warehouses are melted down to minute portions, carefully measured out so that all may share and survive and work. ♪

and homes are remade wherever a roof is to be found that will provide shelter, part of a glider wing helps to repair one house, discarded gun covers keep the elements out of another, so also on the farm is restoration sought, despite the toll exacted daily by war's lethal leftovers, for the food supply itself is a matter of life and death, and wherever and whenever fuel can be obtained, the smoke rises once more from family stoves and firesides. the return to normalcy takes on many forms, even though it be a nightmare kind of normalcy. unrra is able to report progress, but small in compared to need, for each nail driven, 100,000 more are needed.

for each blanket given, a thousand more must be given. and the same with plows, and seed, and trucks, and medicine, and livestock, and vitamins and food and turn rickety bodies into rugged bodies and turn frustrated populations once more into prowd and prolific peoples, and all the hundreds of items straining and exhausting, straining and exhausting an initial unrra budget of $2 billion, made up of 1% of each contributing nations annual income, $2 billion, less than the cost of five days of war, . five days a war without shattered bodies or pain or lost

arms, legs, minds, five days without a single soldier having to give his life, the cut-rate price of peace, a peace purchased at a much higher price by men in whose hearts are the words of thomas payne, "if there be trouble, but it be in my time, that my child may have peace." peace, too, for those children maimed in one war, who must never experience or symbolize another. ♪ what seeds of destiny will sprout from within these ravaged ranks and lands where the fact specter of famine stalks, new

or new lovers of liberty? the answer -- it will hang in the balance to the months and years, for there is still a long way to go in the last battle, a long way. while men of goodwill everywhere face the challenge to shape a world in which each nation's upcoming generation can walk with hope and confidence, the paths of peace and strive to meet the responsibilities and preserve the victories won by fighting men of the united nations, the hard way, and establish once and for all that even stronger than the atomic bomb is the human heart. ♪