and then, of course, the battle of stalingrad down in the south.d yet he failed to coordinate with japan, um, largely because even though back in 1937 at the time of the pact, he claimed that the japanese were another aryan people. he got his anthropologists out, and they got call per out and -- cally pers out and measured the size of japanese skulls to try and prove the japanese were aryans. completely absurd, and none of them believed it either. nonetheless, when it came to the war, they basically fought two completely separate wars. they didn't even go so far as to exchange information on antitank guns. and then, of course, we come to the holocaust, and i don't need to explain how that was ideologically driven, but it was, again, a classic error by adolf hitler to try to wipe out the jews whilst he was also trying to fight a war on two fronts. and when one doesn't look through the statistics, between 1939 and 1944 the thurm of people working -- the number of people working in if german factories collapsed from 39 million to 29 million, a drop of

and then, of course, the battle of stalingrad down in the south.nd yet he failed to coordinate with japan. largely because even though back in 1937 at the time of the anti-common term fact he claimed that the japanese were another area and people. he got his anthropologist out, and they get calpers out and measured the size of japanese scrolls to prove that the japanese were aryans. when it came to the work, they thought basically two separate wars. they didn't even get so far as to exchange is nation on antitank guns. and then, of course, we come to the holocaust. it was again a concept error by adolf hitler to try to wipe out the jews what is also trying to fight a war on two fronts. when one looks at the statistics between 1939 and 1944, the number of people working in german factories collapsed from 39 million to 29 million, a drop of over 25%. at exactly the same time he was wiping a six minus most intelligent hard-working, productive and well educated people. it made actually no strategic sense whatsoever in terms of ideology. the jews would

of course, had that not happened, would have been able to be used in the east against moscow and stalingrad and the battle by kurst, but we have to acknowledge the fact for every american who died in the world war, 90 russians died. >> sir, you may have, of course, have a number of ide loming call -- ideological elements that entered into major episodes and may jr. themes, -- major themes. i'm wondering whether it was really, really close. in other words, he didn't have to do all of these and were there one or two that in the absence of them, he would have won the war, thinking in particular, of course, not just of the russian escapade, but the north african campaign and perhaps a different way of approaching or good luck in stead of bad luck on the beaches of normandy in 1944. >> very good question. i think had he devoted a fraction of the 3 million men that he unleashed against the russians in june 1941, he had sent a fraction of those down to north africa, he would have flung britain off the srb certainly out of egypt. we had skeleton forces in iran and iraq at that time, and he would ha

northeast philadelphia working class, very interesting dinner conversations about the king david, stalingrad, alexander the great. he was the most well read man i've ever met. he was brilliant. he schooled me on these topics like passion from a young age. >> host: excuse me. well schooled but not an intellectual, right? >> guest: know. my father was actually a high school dropout. self-taught intellectually. ferocious intellectual, a voracious reader. self-made, self taught, an electrician and a factor in philadelphia. but he would come home, read, converse. he lived and breathed this stuff. when 9/11 rolled around i was covering sports on the next basketball player, i was covering the nba. i was living in new york a few months before 9/11. long story short, sportswriting didn't do it for me. i was kind of searching. i had a passion for the subject matter, 9/11 happened and long story short, i threw everything i could on 9/12. i bought a car wrong. first rules of war, know you're in the. our and no citing the crime for their action. i wish more minutes of our political class on both sides of