mr. chamberlain. very much. -- i would book on the subject that mr. chamberlain did not like very much and we didn't like mr. cheney and very much, either. >> there is a story of the infamous day on the 10 of november, 1938 when the nazis turned their goon squads loose and smashed jewish -- windows of jewish businesses. crystal night, it got to be called. it was terrible. it was awful. people chose to ignore it. >> what happened to him when he was in germany and how long was he there during that period from 1923 up to the war? >> he came in the 1930's. he was a young man and i don't remember exactly which year he came in, but he was there for i think about two, three years, first as a student and then working as a wire service reporter. >> he could speak german? >> yes. he studied german. and most of these reporters spent any amount of time there did speak german and were quite proficient. and schultz, who was a "chicago tribune" correspondent was completely fluent in german. she had actually studied at a german university for a while long before hitle

mr. chamberlain did not like much. we did not like mr. chamberlain much either. [applause] >> there is the story of the infamous day, the 10th of november, 1938, when the nazis turned their goons on jewish businesses and smashed their windows. it was called crystal night. it was there and it was presented to people. it was terrible. it was awful. it is perfectly plain. people chose to ignore it. >> what happened to him when he was in germany? how long was he there? >> he came in the 1930's. he was a young man. i do not remember exactly which your he came in. he was there for three years qaeda first as a student, then working as a wire service -- he was there for two years as a student, then working as a wire report. >> he spoke german? >> most of the students there spoke german and were quite low wind. -- fluent. what happened to him was, he was picked up by the gestapo. he was the only american correspondent who was imprisoned by the gestapo for several months in 1940. world war ii had already started, but america was not in the war. things are beginning to get

mr. chamberlain, he could not imagine hitler breaking his word. he bears very made in a particular way.e was a very good chance or the exchequer, but he was if you like the edwardian mustache and umbrella. the gleaming ruthlessness of the nazi regime. c-span: by the way if you had to pick one human being out of this book that you can write a book about who would it be? >> guest: . [inaudible] c-span: who would be your first choice? >> guest: too many people have already written about churchill and therefore it would i would not have attempted to do that and in many ways also a didn't see myself necessarily as a biographer of that. not. i have been fascinated by eisenhower by his qualities and one or two of his weaknesses as well. patton is a fascinating character and obviously that together is a huge temptation but one sees these various limitations on the leaders of that particular time. i have always been rather struck by the way that many of these commanders particularly on the allied side, not in the armies or the totalitarian regimes but the allied commander has spent most of their