german chancellor angela merkel recognizes this. message has to get out. ,> as judy dempsey mentioned the chancellor is under considerable pressure within the political elite, including her own sister party, the christian social union. leader has given her an ultimatum saying that if she doesn't come up with limits on immigration by next sunday, there will be trouble. it is unclear what trouble exactly, but does that explain her cave in on this at all? >> at least partially. i think this points towards the porting afghan asylum-seekers. it is part of a strategy to stowe -- show strength. this strategy has been targeting so-called economic migrants from the west balkans, and now it is shifting to afghans as the numbers of asylum seekers from the balkan countries are decreasing. when hehook your head says that partially explains it. judy: explain her shift. german chancellor angela merkel is alone in this crisis. she is alone at the top, not only germany, but alone in europe. so much for european solidarity. german chancellor angela m

we have a german gas tank. germans were running out of gasoline. we are going to not only have to deal with moving mechanical vehicles but also more men,tantly then, troops -- troops. were worn by major carl corbyn. in the end, we will prevail. our lines bulge but they do not break. it comes at a tremendous cost in blood. americans are killed in this fighting that goes on for six weeks. outlast item i would point in this case here is a nazi flag captured by members of the 101st airborne division. airborne members signed their names. you can see a particular sam joule from missouri where they manage to hold out. we are going to push the .ermans back towards germany we are now headed into the heart of the battle of the bowl of bulge. battle of the we have an environment hostile to our forces. 30 degrees below is the weather. snow all over. one of the things that made fighting in the forest rather that the germans which should artillery into the trees. the tree branches would shatter and then come down and if you were unfortunate enough, you would pro

the german jews had their claim and the non-german jews have their claims. tried joining separate departments, and i refused. same in new york. they were on different floors, i said no, they are all not to victims, they are all jews, they will be treated the same. the dichotomy did not last long. >> what happened to the original? mr. ferencz: the one million i i told you il, as signed a document promising to repay it out of restitution moneys when the money came in. it was a fair enough arrangement to avoid getting consent from the russians. and the money was gone. gone --clay was always was also gone. andmmissioned john mccloy explained to him, being honest, that i borrowed the million marks against occupation funds and promised to repay. i said, the money is just beginning to come in, there are other priorities. i'm trying to move the dp's out of the camps in germany into israel. i need the money to buy prefabricated homes that can be shipped. then everything was under strict control. i said, i need the funds to buy these prefabricated houses in israel,nd

german government. the east german government never answered. communications were sent to them, but this only began after germany was restored to its 1951.ignty around before then, there was no government to deal with. the agreement was reached that a negotiation would be entered into on neutral territory. no jewish organization wanted to go into germany. i said there were three parties. a party, of israel was and at the time, the state of israel was a new state and there were a lot of enemies against it. purported to speak for jews who were not in israel. who would speak for them? both jews were not there -- most polishre not there, jews, german jews, russian jews. they had a genius to put this together as a conference on jewish german claims against germany. conference and it kept the name conference, and it consisted of a collection of the leading jewish organizations in the world. it had central british fund, jews of argentina, the jews of france, they all came together and formed a new york operati

the germans had also collected such books, and i mean german universities, german churches, part of theirigious studies, and the nazis had picked those of. there were institutions that have legitimately acquired those books and they were quite valuable. one day, a jewish rabbi, a chaplain, i think his name was bernstein, pulled up with an ambulance to the back of one of these archives and selected some of the most valuable jewish books and filled up the ambulance and put them on a ship smuggling immigrants to israel, palestine as it was known. so these were books which had belonged to legitimate german institutions and they had been lawfully acquired, so it was a case of unlawful confiscation. one day i got a call from general mcclay, and he said, benny, you've got to come up, we've got a problem. i have his captain and i'm about to court-martial him for stealing german jewish property. and he said, we have a restitution program here and we are restoring property to those from whom it was unlawfully taken, so it doesn't mean you can go off and steel property from the germans and i am goin

it's the german barber and hair place for the germans. everybody worked on the camp and raised food and all of, there was ice that came every morning so someone had to bring the isa to the camp, and things like that. everybody worked. when you are in, if you're a citizen of japan or germany or italy or anything and you're in an internment camp, you're allowed to display your own home countries flag. and here are some japanese people doing that. in the camp this caused a great deal of conflict between the german side of camp and the japanese side of camp. the japanese women ran the mattress company, the factory. those of you who are familiar with forward location can't know this happened in more relocation camps as well. but everything was made better, and so everybody was very busy. which was good. there's a story behind this photo, the japanese really like their own kind of food and so they went to o'rourke and said, we need a place to make tofu. they were a long way from tofu in crystal city, so they turned a victory had overturned and

she was spying on the germans. so here we have a german typewriter that she used to write notes to send information to the allies as well as a crystal radio receiver next to it. which she used to send out messages -- i should say listen to the bbc, legal radio broadcast. legal under the nazi machine. we have an interesting piece in here as well. you may notice this ping and -- pink and red liberation sash. there was given to an american lieutenant in september of 1944 on the back is written liberation. it symbolizes the outpouring of joy that the french people had at the allies began to move through their country and liberate them from nazi rule. but, down here on the end is a special artifact that we have. it is the medal of honor that was awarded to walter eelers. he passed away by a year ago. he was the last, at the time medal of honor recipient from the normandy landing. he received his medal of honor for actions that took place about three days after the initial landings. then besides the medal of honor is a p

allies razede about 1000 german cities and the germans refused to give up. germany formally surrendered to the allies. silverwaree, we have and the teapot with adolf hitler's initials on them that were captured by american troops in munich, where hitler had begun his political career found , in nazi headquarters buildings nazi administration , buildings there in munich. basically, with the elimination of adolph hitler, we then have the opportunity to try and sum up what this war in europe meant. we do so with a film that tells what the entire cost, summation of hitler's nazi germany meant , to the world. in terms of death, it was something that had never been seen before. in terms of destruction, culture , entire communities, the holocaust jews as well as others, political prisoners, so on. many others perished in hitler's concentration camp system. we try and give people what a sense of what the allied troops were fighting for. what it meant to extinguish that from the world. the end of the road to berlin , after we try and summarize the costs of the war fo

the luftwaffe of the germans, the german air force, had trained pilots where this is going to be a keylement of what is eventually going to happen with the air war where it is ultimately about replacing pilots and planes. however, by late 1943, what we want people to understand, we had to have control of the air in order to launch the d-day invasion of normandy. we don't have it in late 1943. in fact, we are getting beaten rather badly in the air. so we tell the story in this video here. and then we are going to bring our visitors into life at the airfield in england, where you are going to have the 8 air force stationed -- the 8th air force stationed. one of the features in this gallery, we do suspend reality a little bit here. you can see up top the animation, which depicts a file fly-over of thousands of the 17 bombers, b-24s, other aircraft, the massive air force we eventually build up in england. but what we try to tell people about in this story here is the turning point in that air war. what is going to happen in early 1944 is a huge shift. we tell the story of the berlin raid o

includetims are said to polls, frenchmen, german jews and german political prisoners. a day before the nazis is it the camp some of the burger meister was forced to view the horrors. he and his wife were later found dead in their home, apparently suicides. american officers arrive at a nazi institution under the guise of an insane asylum, this has been the headquarters or the systematic order of 35,000 poles, russians and jews sent for clinical considerations. townspeople called this place the house of shutters. meanwhile, at the graveyard attached to the institution, bodies are exhumed for autopsy. 20,000 are buried here. 15,000 have died in the gas chamber or cremated and their ashes interred. death looks found hidden in the wine cellar revealed part of the story of the mass killings. the volumes contain thousands of death certificates. profession unknown, nationality unknown was written after each frame. -- after each name. the corpses are lined up pending the arrival of wc i.t. officers. major voelker performs the autopsy and a detailed listing is made of all clini

german woman guards were ordered to bury the dead. sanitary conditions were so appalling that heavy equipment had to be brought into speed up the work. war crimes trials began in germany for major nazi figures. laterials lasted until 1946. c-span's american history tv is airing a history interview with a former chief prosecutor for the united states. he was born in transylvania to a jewish family. he immigrated to america when he was an infant. he was assigned to set up a work crimes branch to investigate nazi atrocities. he talks about the mi semitism he faced and the wartime memories of your. this is the first of the three conductedview and was the holocaust museum in washington. it is about two hours. >> what was the name you are given as an infant? >> it was a jewish name. they decided that was not a suitable name. i was called betty.

how significant is this change in german policy?eporter: germany has participated in the fight against international terrorism in a small way, or rather, a reticent way, one might say, by supplying arms to the peshmerga, kurdish fighters in northern iraq, for instance, but always been reluctant to put boots on the ground, to put german military equipment into war zone -- into a war zone situation. the fact that this is being done now is quite significant. germany has only done this three times since the end of the second world war. the first time was in the kosovo conflict after the end of the former yugoslavia in the early 1990's. the second such mission was in afghanistan. that is still going on in some sense. this is the third time in 60 years that germany is sending its troops into a mission into a fighting zone. sarah: germany very much a country that is cautious before it gets involved militarily. when we discuss this military involvement and compare it to the french and russian involvement, u.s. involvement, how big is this?

and german industry, and the germans themselves did not know. we had 300 or 400. the so-called small camps had a couple hundred people in them, they existed everywhere and they were similar. people were dying, they were killed, they were lying around. >> were you told to not feed the prisoners or did you learn this? it.e learned there was no time to sit down and have briefings. it was a very mobile and hectic atmosphere, tension and movement and trauma. if you gave somebody some food, you gave it to them and saw them choke and drop, you did not give it to them anymore. it was pretty well known that the medical men that came in, they began with intravenous feeding and tea and a little soup and that was it. we saw what was going on. >> how would you describe the mental state going through these camps? you were blocking yourself from feeling anything? benjamin: it was interesting, as i look back on it. the human body has a capacity for survival which enables it to mechanismssulating to prevent yourself from going mad. not recall feelings of rage. i

that is why german german last -- german journalists who found out about the 6.7 billion euros were paid for the world cup. one person said that was to give to fifa so that fee for would give them 170 million euros in return as organizational support. it's all very strange. but he says they should not have agreed to fifa's offer. fifa keeps denying they are a part of this. for someone innocent, their name keeps popping up. sarah: thank you for breaking it all down for us. now to the new developments in germany's struggle over how to deal with the migration crisis. two of the parties in the governing coalition have now agreed on a key issue of the country's refugee policy. after intense discussions, angela merkel dropped her opposition to the establishment of so-called transit zones to process asylum seekers near the country's borders. the head of the csu party says the unprecedented influx of migrants means that the government must distinguish between people escaping persecution and those coming for economic reasons. there is still tension with the other party in the coalition, which opp

fire to comemortar down on his position in the mist of a german -- midst of a german attack where, frankly, the germans were about to break a line. was fox was discovered, he found amongst hundreds of dead germans. he was awarded posthumously the medal of honor. in this case over here, we have a congressional gold medal that , a member ofo -- the 442nd regimental combat team, which was a segregated unit of japanese-americans who fought in italy in world war ii. interned atlly been a cap in arizona before he was allowed to fight for his country. 442nd put up the most impressive record of combat of virtually any unit in world war ii. they were eventually awarded 21 medals of honor, including one that went to daniel, who later became the longtime senator from hawaii. starts to become a well-known figure back in the united states with his column detailing what life was like for the average american soldier, the dogs -- dog faces, as he calls them. i wanted to point out this artifact in between the books. you can see his zippo lighter. this lighter was given to a young g.i. from ernie pyle. it'

germans were about to break our lines. when fox was discovered a couple days later, he was surrounded by over a hundred dead germans. and so in 1998, he was eventually awarded posthumously the medal of honor. in this case over here, we have a congressional gold medal that was awarded to kuji dasha hashy, a member of the 4 frond regimental combat team, who were japanese americans who fought in world war ii in italy. he had actually been interned at a camp in arizona before he was allowed to fight for his country. 442nd put up the most impressive record of combat of virtually any unit in world war ii. they were eventually awarded 21 medals of honor, including one that went to daniel inouye, who later became the long-time center from hawaii. ernie pyle starts to become a well known figure back in the united states with his columns detailing what life was like for the average american soldier, the dog faces, as he called them. here you can see a couple of his books from the war. "here and your war" and "brave men." i wanted to

sarah: we are joined now by the german government representative for africa at the summit. you very much for joining us this evening. we have heard now what europe once from africa. -- wants from africa. what does africa want? gunter: it was to not except a false return of those people belonging to their own population, and on the other hand, to get more openness from the european side for legal migration. that was a tough issue in the negotiations last night. sarah: yes, it is certainly an issue that they are concerned about, these forced migrations. the president of senegal said it is difficult taking these actions against people who have braved theean. how do you respond to that? could we see forced deportations of such people? gunter: no, it is not about deportation. it is about an offer that the european countries and that we offer with this new trust fund that we will spend money for those and willing to cooperate with the countries, and we will finance the immigration and the skills initiatives. that means the african countries but, of course, all among the refugees

police later told german media that he was not alone the three. there was a man amongst them, but we were told by german media that this was not him. the police operation did go on throughout the day. it is apparently still going on. police then raided a residential area where the people have rented an apartment. they are apparently still in that area. we are told that all of them have non-german, foreign passports. we also told that the suspect was in germany two months ago. that he passed through germany on his way to austria. bryan: this vigilance showing how people are paying attention to the story as germany remains on very high alert. can we expect the high security members -- measures to continue? >> certainly high security was what into place here in germany immediately on saturday following word of the attacks. germany's interior minister said that he would be sending additional police and special arsons units to all logistical centers, to airports, to train centers, and along the german border with france. he also offered friends all pos

did you see germans? those were the ones hunting down. right away went to jewish homes had we lost all sense of decency? they went into homes ripped open the food in their winter home with bundles and then come back with an empty sack. what about the children? people were lining up. i don't know where god was. but then after the massacre he had to marry her was the way to save her. so they came to see the priest to arrange the baptism and the wedding. i went to the presbytery to the table. the priest asked our you going to pay me? i said we don't have anything father. he replied it can be any bold. i that it had been complete the plant the priest said we have time when there would put a knife to his throat and then found a priest but it was not a good idea because for the germans you are a jew even if a catholic you are age you. -- jew it was worse because they had to hide and the family in some places that somebody announce them and then the polish police came and they were sent to the get-go. the same night and then managed to escape wi

the germans on hand were few. this next photo is a very rare photo that came from one of my interviewees, and it's actually post war, young men who came back after the war, many of them had been serving the soviet soviet union on fronts as far away as japan, and came home to find their entire families killed, and they're holding a box of remains, and trying to, with some dignity, rebury them. and the first man on the left is the husband of my interviewee, a very brave woman who gave me this photograph for the book. so, of course, was desperate to learn if my grandfather had a role in this massacre. you might say, well, of course he did. he is chief of security police. he is seven kilometers away from this. how could he not? one thing i was very careful of in my research was to double and triple source every piece of information, so proximity for me was never enough. in order to really substantiate the narrative of with wartime life. i'm going to read a small passage, the last one i'll read -- the second to the las

they talk to you have three days to kill the jews, the germans, the germans, the germans told the poles. you have three days to kill the jews. so, it was encouraged by germans , but the germans didn't take an active path of the killing. it was orchestrated by poles. >> by the polish police? >> by the police. yes by kind of police police. some people in the town. >> was there a general call? did they get ringleaders or go knocking on doors? >> and they knocked on the doors and they told people to come to kill jews. there were some people who didn't do it and that's what happened to them. but, guess, it was quite organized because it's not so easy to kill somebody people, but what is horrible is that it was like a whole pound picnic, but all the people came to see. a 15-year old boy came to the field and catch the 12-year old boy in the 10-year old boy cut the five years old boy. so, it was really, it was really the town who did it. >> thank you. [applause]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> but tv is on facebook. like us to get publishing ne

the germans that we were going to go someplace else. we succeeded partly because of our secrecy policies. host: we are getting comments on twitter at c-span history and facebook as a continue our coverage, commemorating the end of world war ii, 70 years ago in 1945. keith huxon is joining us. on the question of u.s. preparedness, do you have a comment on the u.s. civilian conservation corps in helping prepare reserve officers and civilian and will ease for wartime service between 1933 and 1942? keith: i don't have much of a comment on the civilian court in particular, but i will say that civilians were not deeply involved in the war effort. the truth of the matter is is that world war ii was a total effort and there were a lot of different jobs. it was not just our 60 million in uniform who are -- are 16 million in uniform who are fighting this war. a big challenge we had to overcome strategically was preparing ourselves in terms of military resources. i am talking about the airplanes, tanks, weapons, food. all those things it takes to

here is his german prisoner of war i.d. tack. it looks very similar to the german dog tag. and then we also have a spoon that he used during the camp. he tells the story that a fork let's all of the food slip through. and in the prison camp, every morsel, every scrap of food was important. the spoon became the essential tool that he used. he said that after the war, after he was liberated and returned home his mom had to , show him how to use a fork again because he didn't want to use a fork. but he had to return to civilized life and learn how to use a fork again. these items that you see on display, they are really the crown jewels of this exhibit. we have five medals of honor here, our nation's highest military award, highest military decoration. and this is the largest grouping of medals of honor awarded to african americans since the awarding in 1987. 1997 was not so long ago, it took until 1997 to recognize the achievements of these very unique individuals. so the stories that are associated with these awards read like something superhuman. they are really unbelievabl

how many germans did you see the at the barn, asked adam? three. did any poles take part in this crime? no, none. and saying that there were 1600 jews in there is a lie and a joke. and how many of them do you think there were, i interject. a thousand, no more, he replies. i look at adam and see his face go i'll. at the end, he asks us again, please don't mention my name. september 5, 2000. the jewish historical institute in warsaw. i hold five little pages written in a sprawling hand with certain words crossed out. it's jedwabne testimony translated from yiddish. infants were murdered at their mother's breast be, people were brutally beaten. bloody and maimed, they were all herded into the barn, then gas was poured on the barn, and it was set afire. after it, thugs went by jewish homes looking for the sick and the children left behind. the sick they carried to the barns themselves, the children they hung in pairs by their little legs and dragged them there on their backs, then lifted them with pitchforks and heaved them onto the embers. november 24

when the euro is weaker, it is good for german exports.roducts of german companies are cheaper to buy for foreign buyers. >> that is the third boom, the euro against the dollar falling dramatically? >> yes, that has fond discussions on whether we will see parity between the u.s. dollar and the euro. the u.s. federal reserve is increasing interest rates. here they are weakening the euro . >> bringing us up to date, keeping us up-to-date. enjoy your weekend. >> relations between taiwan and china have been sour for decades. on saturday, the heads of both countries will meet for the first time in singapore. the announcement sparked fierce protests in taiwan. china has claimed sovereignty over taiwan since 1949. there have been no formal diplomatic bonds since then, economic ties have been strengthening. there will be no agreement or joint statement issued this weekend. i asked our correspondent in singapore about the challenges of this meeting. >> the main challenges of this meeting will be the different sentiments and china and taiwan. china

did you see germans? one policeman. poles were the one hunting down and rounding up the jews, and right away they went to jewish homes to take what they could find. had they lost all sense of decency? people went crazy. they went into homes, ripped open -- [inaudible] flying around, the wind blew them in all dereks, and they went -- in all directions, and they went home with -- [inaudible] on their backs only to come straight back with an empty sack. men mostly, but i saw women too, only few of them. what about children? those who could carry things were eager enough. there were crowds of people lining up for them. i don't know where god was at that moment. [speaking in native tongue] managed to hide all the finkelstein family in the field, and then after the massacre, some of the -- [inaudible] told him to marry the girl, that it would be the way to save her. so they decided to marry, and he came to see priest to arrange the baptism and the wedding. she told me, i went to -- [inaudible] a big table, five stove burners

former german chancellor helmut schmidt has died at the age of 96.between 1974 and 1982, credited for advocating for an unified voice in the international community and for helping to establish the euro. aung san suu kyi's party waiting to see if they had a landslide win. they have more than 80% of the seats so far. in business news, another day of loop times a -- of lufthansa grounding. reporter: yes, there is a temporary victory on tuesday in the bid to hold a weeklong strike, and a labor court ruled that the strike was unlawful, but only at the local airport, and only on tuesday. the court did not prohibit other strikes later in the week and at other locations. loose tons of -- lufthansa has canceled flights tomorrow. it is the longest in their history, and the cost to german industry are mounting. reporter: thousands were left stranded as an strike entered into its fourth day. parrish goals like fish and vegetables, spare parts for high-tech applications and other products second only be transported by air had to be removed from the cargo warehou

the lithuanians largely saw the germans initially, the first first few weeks of the german occupationa ticket to lithuanian autonomy which is what the germans promised them. as soon as they reneged on their promise, many of the lithuanian collaborators, including my grandmother began working underground against the germans. this is not the same as working on behalf of the jewish population. it is very important to make that distinction. so in addition to that, the germans were allies with the lithuanians and their hatred of what they called the bolshevik jews. i'm sure many of you have heard of this. it was a conflation of communism in judaism that the statistics in lithuania proof were utterly untrue. in fact, right before the beginning of the war statistically on paper, the number of non-jewish lithuanians were members of the communist party is far greater than the number of jews who were in the communist party. so as one of the survivors of the ghetto i interviewed over several years said to me, even as a child child growing up she was familiar with the phrase, tillage use save rus

the german automaker regulator has approved its plans.fit in europe won't take more than an hour. here's how it works reporter:. volkswagen's 1.6 liter engine changes to the air filter system. this new flow transformer is the key components and will be fixed in front of the air mask sensor. >> this component stabilizes the airflow. it helps to determine the current air mass more effectively. it determines precisely how much fuel has to be injected. this will reduce admissions. volkswagen says it will take less than an hour to bring each one point six liter diesel engine in europe in line with a mission rules. it is a relatively simple and inexpensive change great experts say the flow transformer costs around 10 euros each. the solution for the two liter engine is even easier, it just needs a software update. these changes will be carried out on all volkswagen brands, including audi and scoda. more than 8 million cars in europe will be refitted. the german carmaker did not say if the alterations will affect the vehicle hospira format's. vo

he was a graduate of the german equivalent of west point. goering proved very clever and adaptive. >> the drama in nuremberg would be repeated in japan. when "war stories" continues, the courtroom erupts in tokyo as one department physically attacks another. >> that's next on "war stories". at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. is it keeps the food out. for me before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. super poligrip is part of my life now. it begins from the the second we're born.er. because, healthier doesn't happen all by itself. it needs to be earned every day. using wellness to keep away illness. and believing a single life can be made better by millions of others. as a health services and innovation company optum powers modern healthcare by connecting every part of it. so while the world keep

huxen: at the end of 1943, we are having a terrible time fighting the germans in the air. whereve a number of raids we are getting shot out of the sky. 1943 is going to be a point where we have to gain control of the air, and do it soon. it is executed to take place in 1944. this was the big turning point because we knew, in 1944, we were going to invade normandy. to do that, you had to have control of the air over those beaches before any invasion could succeed. host: we will learn more about the origins of the world war ii museum, located in new orleans, 'sd stephen ambrose influence there. with usxen will be back in about half an hour. we will continue with the road to berlin exhibit on display in new orleans. mr. huxen: we are actually in the normandy landings gallery. a very special gallery for us here. because our museum was originally founded back in the 1990's as the national d-day museum. by a congressional charter, we

yet german flight carrier lufthansa has also suspended flights. berlin has not put flights on hold, but says it is following developments closely. brent: the british government says it is more likely than not that the plane was brought down by a bomb. earlier we spoke with maximilian hess, in international security risk analyst. we asked who could have carried out a bomb attack? >> the most likely groups that would have carried it out would have been i.s. or one of the other terrorist groups or islamist groups operating, where there is a very large chechen contingent operating under i.s., and other groups that also have significant numbers of chechens, who have made very clear threats against russia very openly. brent: let's pick up on russia. how is that playing out there? is blood and mere putin coming under pressure for his involvement in syria -- is vladimir putin coming under pressure for his involvement in syria? >> i think the russians have been not necessarily supportive, but at least apathetic to russian involvement in syria. there have n

it has been a chaotic week in german politics. we've been getting mixed messages coming from the chancellor and her cabinet. erik, is this just a case of communication breakdown inside chancellor merkel's cabinet, or something more serious? erik: much more serious. thomas de maiziere is an ally of merkel. he's a powerful figure in the cabinet. he and the finance minister are both staging a small rebellion, letting merkel no it is not ok what's going on. a lot of people in germany are upset with the loss of control of the borders. riftthe seeds of a serious in the government that could be a problem for merkel. terry: corinna, thomas de maiziere, he announced further restrictions on refugees coming into germany and the families of refugees, that seemed to catch the rest of the covenant offguard. is there a strategy behind this or is it really that the rest of the cabinet didn't know what the interior minister was up to? corinna: i would believe that they didn't know it. i think de maiziere wants to show his opinion. he has been weak

the germans are mentioned in the german wolves, the lithuanians positions. copy to take home will be ready in a week. i can read it but i stay. and suddenly there is a girl and there is my grandfather. the girl is the cousin of one of those whose testimonies is recorded on april 30, 1948 at the camp. the same region of germany where in the remote hilltop village by grandfather and his children have left lithuania waited for the war to end to watch the allied bombers headed to munich using the church steeple as accordance. the girl's name is mira. she's very pretty and doesn't look jewish and she spoke lithuanian perfectly which was very rare for the young jewish population. she's rounded up and taken to roughly 13 miles from her village town to polygon with her family with everyone she knows. on wednesday october 8 when the shooting began, the lithuanian policemen she can plead to in his own language. who perhaps remembers her lovely features and he's seen her, and maybe even notice her name and covers her with branches and a pic of the earth and different f