>> you said the predominant name was adolf and hitler. what happened to those names? did they disappear? >> what happened to the arabs and muslims who decided to name their kids adolf? most of them thought that this was not the best name to have in a postwar period and they dressed up those names. anyone can change their name like that. most of the did but some of them didn't. the one that didn't you can find decades later. i will read to you if i have a moment a very unfortunate letter. this is an imaginary letter written to adolf hitler after reed died. in this letter, it says as follows. it says deer adolf hitler, i wish that you had triumphed. i wish that you had triumphed. you are the greatest thing that ever happened and one day you will come back and i wish the arab world would have a hitler too. that was written to any egyptian newspaper and the man who wrote that letter was anwar sadat. i have pictures of him coming to jerusalem at this time covered with swastikas. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. thank you. >> edwin black is the author of several bo

ask your question. >> you had said that the prominent name was adolf and hitler in the past. what happened to those names? did it disappear or are the adolf junior's, hitler junior's? >> what happened altogether and all the muslims who decided to name their kids adolph? well, most of them thought that this is not the best name to have any postwar period, and they cast off those names that anyone can change their name like that. and most of them did that some of them didn't. the ones that didn't, you can find -- in fact, i will read to you if i have a moment, a very unfortunate letter. and this is an imaginary letter written to adolph hitler after he died. and this letter says as follows, it says dear adolph hitler, i wish that you had triumphed. i had the exact text you. i wish you had triumphed. you are the greatest thing that ever happened, and one day you'll come back and i wish the arab world and have a hitler, too. and that was written to an egyptian newspaper. and the men who wrote the letter was anwar sadat. in fact, i have pictures of anwar sadat come to jerusalem and

they theorized in arabic henry ford's -- [inaudible] which was a fundamental turning point for adolf hitler in his war against the jews. and this treatise today, this fake protocol, this forgery is still the best-selling book in the arab world. in addition, the nazis didn' t want to up set the apple cart with the british. the british had palestine, the british had control over german debt, and the nazis wanted to keep palestine open for jews. now, you remember i wrote the book about the transfer agreement, the deal between the zionists and the nazis that brought some 60,000jews to palestine and millions and millions of their money. well, that was actually based upon the deal in 1903 with the czar which was actually based on the mosaic deal with the pharoah to let my people go with the cattle and sheep and goats to come with. the nazis wanted palestine to remain a jewish settlement so they could force the jews out of europe, force the jews out of germany and into this one place. and then when they were all in this one tiny tract of land, they would execute the final solution to the jews whic

he was oscar-nominated for the story of the last days of adolf hitler. he suffered a heart attack on monday night. four months after the afghanistan elections, the country's parliament was finally open again by president karzai. he had wanted to allow more investigation of september's disputed coal. but under pressure internationally and other politicians, he backed down. newly elected parliamentarians were arguing any more delay would be unconstitutional. we were at the inauguration. >> it was a stony faced karzai, who arrived. he tried to stop this. the afghan leader had wanted at least another month for his special election court to investigate allegations of fraud. the parliamentarians said that was just a means for the president to disqualify some of his opponents. >> a democratic position. to raise their voices. a very happy day for us. >> in his speech, mr. karzai blamed unspecified foreign forces for exacerbating the route between presidents and parliament. -- exacerbating the row. "they set us against eachother, " he said. >> the danger was the

no, he is not adolf hitler. >> eleanor. >> overrated, the surge of democratic voters in '08. they didn't show up for the mid- term. >> monica. >> most overrated, hillary clinton as secretary of state. in every major foreign policy issue she's either been a failure or awol. russia, china, iran, north korea, the middle east peace process and afghanistan. >> you don't agree with that, mort. >> no, i don't. the two million students in pharris who rioted when the social security system will be broke by the time they get to the age they're worried about. >> the most overrated, the democratic party boasts that it has the edge in social media to build political strength. namely, using networking websites like facebook or twitter or my space, or four square, et cetera. the tea party and the gop has clearly caught up and surpassed so therefore their claim -- the democrats' claim is widely overrated. the most underrated, pat. >> the anti-war conservative movement which is battling the know 0 cons to prevent a new war with iran. >> underrated, i'm tempted to give to the hillary clinton j

opened the door for lenin and the bolsheviks, was the breakdown of liberalism that some of it up adolf hitler and was the breakdown of the centrist liberal establishment in the former yugoslavia, which recovered for "the new york times" that gave us the repugnant figures slobodan milosevic and travon. the class has grave political and social consequences because that rage, when it has nowhere else to go, is expressed through mechanisms that make war on the traditional liberal establishment and are easily calotte to devotee -- tea party that is and has been the force that create destruction and that's why the way the last remnants of liberalism. and so the question obviously is what do we do. what must be done, to quote when -- lenin. daniel brennan, one of my great heroes, i come out of the religious left, my father was a presbyterian minister who sort of had a habit of being thrown out of one church after another. [laughter] first for his stance is on the civil rights movement and the entire war movement and finally the gay rights movement. my uncle was gay and lived with his partner in gree

great leaders, woodrow wilson, and that really started world war ii quite as much as, i said, adolf hitler. well, this, of course, was nonsense. worldworld war ii, it was certay necessary for frank lin roosevelt to -- franklin roosevelt to support stalin in 1941, but it was most certainly foolish for him to maintain that support after the battles of stalin grad and coursing in 1943. after those battles had changed the equation of power in the world. this led, of course, not to the peace that america's arms had won, but rather to half a century of very, very dangerous cold war. thereafter, you're all familiar with the surplus of power that the united states brought against the soviet union, against the, against communist portions in the vietnam and how that surplus of power was translated to loss after loss. how come? well, because of a whole variety of ideas in which the, in which all of the schools of foreign policy establishment occurred. it purports to be divided into three international school, nationalists, realists and neoconservatives. in fact, these schools have far more in common

it was the breakdown of liberalism that vomited of adolf hitler.nd it was the breakdown of the centrist liberal establishment in the former yugoslavia which i covered for the "new york times" that gave us the repugnant figures of slobodan milosevic and others. the failure of the liberal class has grave political and social consequences because that rage when it has nowhere else to go is expressed through mechanisms that make war on the traditional liberal establishment and are easily co-opted that the tea party is and has been by the very forces that create a destruction and that seek to wipe away the last remnants of liberalism. and so the question obviously is what do we do? what must be done? to quote lenin. there's an interview in the book with daniel berrigan, one of my great heroes, i come out of the religious left. my father was a presbyterian minister, he sort of had a habit of being thrown out of one church after another. first for his stances on the civil rights movement, many antiwar movement, and finally the gay-rights movement. my uncl

sadly enough, you know, i guess it can be agreed that a lot of people said that adolf hitler was a really powerful communicator, and i was wondering you, as experts, if you knew whether or not he wrote all of his speeches -- >> i don't know, and i'm not going there. [laughter] >> okay. yeah, i -- >> we'll leave that one alone. >> that was off. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thanks for your questions. >> hi. i have to say that i'm so glad to actually meet some of the speech writers because there was so much talk at least this my circle at the time -- in my circle at the time that really we were hearing kind of a return to oratory that i don't think we'd seen maybe since jfk or maybe that ability to sort of enthrall and, you know, inspire a group. it's good to kind of meet the people, some of the people who are behind that with barham. barack. i'm wondering if in some way this has less to do with speech writing and more how his presidency is evolving. but maybe you'd know some of this behind the scenes. i think that jumping on health care when, in fact, it was very prominent, i but what he was

famously, adolf hitler set in 1939 on the eve of the invasion of poland, "we are not sure we want to do that. we are afraid we will be held accountable." look get world war i. nobody has ever been held accountable for that. "due to remembers the fate of the armenians?" those days are gone. we are in an era where you see inseminate kinds of trials and discussion of criminal liability, you are seeing it in television shows. last week, "the simpsons" had an episode where crusty the clown was hauled before a criminal court. this may be one of the ingredients that fights against the human instinct and the human compulsion to always go to war. >> in might clash of cultures, education is really the best hope that's a bullish -- that civilization has. i encourage all of the young people to consider that one of the great things about military life is i have been able to do that. i was i civilian clothes with a bunch of army cadets who were doing an exchange program. i have travelled to the ukraine and evaluated their training system so they could have a chance to join nato, which they have no

the principal figure, adolf hitler had written in the 1920's of what his objectives were.to rule germany, to kill the jews and onquuro. eoplvey exlit dvryeat didn't bac him orote or h, the plurality did, driven in part by history of germany and ancient and noble people, feeling as if they had been badly teated by particularly the french and british in the aftermath oforld war i with the debt that were levied and the rest. hitler began a very substantial military buildup. some of it was hit in, some of it was known but he began immediately as an effort to enhance his ability to deal with his neighbors and the outside world. in the eante, two paramilitary organizations, the ss and sa can to be e instrument of the nazi state owning much of the property and dominating much of the government decision making under hitler's cui orders. it can easily be said and often said that hitler was a totalitarian maniac, but maniac misconstrued something because most americans viewf my lol ersality assomeon reing an otrtional. hitler was far more a sociopath, objectives. because once object

famously, adolf hitler set in 1939 on the eve of the invasion of poland, "we are not sure we want to do that. we are afraid we will be held accountable." look get world war i. nobody has ever been held accountable for that. "due to remembers the fate of the armenians?" those days are gone. we are in an era where you see inseminate kinds of trials and discussion of criminal liability, you are seeing it in television shows. last week, "the simpsons" had an episode where crusty the clown was hauled before a criminal court. this may be one of the ingredients that fights against the human instinct and the human compulsion to always go to war. >> in might clash of cultures, education is really the best hope that's a bullish -- that civilization has. i encourage all of the young people to consider that one of the great things about military life is i have been able to do that. i was in civilian clothes with a bunch of army cadets who were doing an exchange program. i have travelled to the ukraine and evaluated their training system so they could have a chance to join nato, which they have n

so famously adolf hitler said in 1939 on the eve of the invasion of poland when he was going to ask his troops to commit total war and they were saying we are not sure we want to do that, we are afraid we will be held a candle. he said what are you talking about? let's look at world war i to look at what the turks and armenians, about a million of them were massacred. nobody has ever been held accountable for that and he said the famous quote who after all today remembers the fate of the armenians? and, therefore, his troops could launch their total war with impunity. those days are gone. we are now in an era where you see so many kinds of trials and so much discussion of international criminal accountability, an and parliames producing been into tv shows. just last week that simpson, the cartoons are shown in every country in work and every language in the world had an episode where crusty the clown, one of the characters, was hauled before the international criminal court not for crimes because he many, but crimes against human. the idea is that everybody is learning about internation

the principal figure, adolf hitler had written in the 1920's of what his objectives were.to rule germany, to kill the jews and conquer europe. he was very explicit and very clear. when he came to power, the majority of the german people didn't back him or vote for him, the plurality did, driven in part by history of germany and ancient and noble people, feeling as if they had been badly treated by particularly the french and british in the aftermath of world war i with the debt that were levied and the rest. hitler began a very substantial military buildup. some of it was hit in, some of it was known but he began immediately as an effort to enhance his ability to deal with his neighbors and the outside world. in the meantime, two paramilitary organizations, the ss and sa can to be the instrument of the nazi state owning much of the property and dominating much of the government decision making under hitler's cui orders. it can easily be said and often said that hitler was a totalitarian maniac, but maniac misconstrued something because most americans view of a my local per

the principal figure, adolf hitler had written in the 1920's of what his objectives were.o rule germany, to kill the jews and conquer europe. he was very explicit and very clear. when he came to powe, the majority of the german people didn't back him or vote for him, the plurality did, driven in part by history of germany and ancient and noble people, feeling as if they had been badly treated by particularly the french and british in the aftermath of world war i with the debt that were levied and the rest. hitler began a very substantial military buildup. some of it was hit in, some of it was known but he began immediately as an effort to enhance his ability to deal with his neighbors and the outside world. in the meantime, two paramilitary oganizations, the ss and sa can to be the instrument of the nazi state owning much of the property and dominating much of the government decision making under hitler's cui orders. it can easily be said and often said that hitler was a totalitarian maniac, but maniac misconstrued something because most americans view of a my local person

likelihood that people will be prosecutorred for these crimes that there is deterrence, so famously adolf hitlere want to do that. we'll be held accountable. he said, what are you talking about. let's look at world world war i. about a million of them were maskerred. nobody was health accountable for that. who after all today remembers the fate, and therefore, his troops could launch their total war with impunity. those days are gone. we're now in an era where you see so many kinds of trials and so much discussion of international criminal accountability in parliaments, you're seeing them in tv shows just last week, "the simpsons" had an episode where crusty the clown was hauled against the court for crimes against humor. . [laughter] the idea is that everybody is learning about international criminal law. it's becoming pervasive, and this may be one of the ingredients that fights against the human instinct and the human compulsion to always go to war. >> i'll give it a stab. in many clash of civilizations or class of cultures, education is really the best hope that civilizations have to learn a

the principal figure, adolf hitler had written in the 1920's of what his objectives were.te for him, the plurality did, driven in part by history of germany and ancient and noble people, feeling as if they had been badly treated by particularly the french and british in the aftermath of world war i with the debt that were levied and the rest. hitler began a very substantial military buildup. some of it was hit in, some of it was known but he began immediately as an effort to enhance his ability to deal with his neighbors and the outside world. in the meantime, two paramilitary organizations, the ss and sa can to be the instrument of the nazi state owning much of the property and dominating much of the government decision making under hitler's cui orders. it can easily be said and often said that hitler was a totalitarian maniac, but maniac misconstrued something because most americans view of a my local personality as someone reading and not rational. hitler was far more a sociopath, someone who is shrewd, calculating, successful, and with horrible objectives. because once