union, russian leader joseph stalin denounced the speech as warmongering and compared comments to adolf hitler♪ >> two world war i historians joined us to farrate the 1920 silent film on the journey of the remains of unknown american world war soldier from france to arlington national cemetery. >> ellison, how did this whole concept of the unknown soldier being honored come about? >> well, it really goes back to the beginning of the machinization of warfare and you get unidentifiable remains. you had a lot in the civil war but people were struggling with the fact that they could not figure out who many of the casualties were so great britain and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries and gate britain it was in westminster abbey and in france, the u.s. decide today do something similar to that. the idea was started by representative hamilton fisch of new york. >> here the cask et is being carried down to the united states capitol, scene that modern americans will see on our time and make its way to the streets of washington and over to arlington cemetery. let's watc

and with that rise of adolf hitler and that accomplished three years later january 1933.hen they get caught up in the essence of the book with the embryonic opposition to hitler is rapidly establishedhi dictatorship. so there is a connection that she has. a special flavor you wouldn't otherwise get but the nature of the opposition grew in which they became active and a leader in yet another know the singularity. which is largely civilian and the domestic resistance has gained by far the most attention with germany's domestic resistance. the french resistance has gotten a lot of that already. we have a lot of biographies but that is important to my view. and then the fact that he had to be american a special interest to american leaders and then to keep in mind the same state that gave us senator joe mccarthy that with those connections with the american equality and it is an american story. but you have a specialist and it is the way in which the story is told and as an accomplished novelist without sacrificing one iota of precision is with the feel of the atmospherics of

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russian leader joseph stalin denounced the speech as war mongering and compared his speech to adolf hitler. >> two world war i historians joined to us narrate a 1921 silent film on the journey of the remains of an unknown american world war i soldier from france to arlington national cemetery. >> allison, how did this whole concept of the unknown soldier being honored come about? >> it really goes back to the beginning of the mechanicization of warfare you see expand during world war i. you get a lot more unidentifiable remains. of course you had a lot in the civil war, but people really were struggling with the fact that they could not figure out who many of these casualties were. so great big and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries. in great big it was in westminster abbey and in france it was under the arc de triomphe. hamilton fish of new york submitted legislation to before an unknown soldier from the u.s. >> here the casket is being carried down the steps of the capitol, a scene modern americans are familiar with similar ceremonies in our time and put

is what they did it so they get caught upet immediately when they moved to berlin, the rise of adolf hitler and the, and he came into power which is accomplished three years later in january of 1933, and they get caught up in essence of the book, initially embryonic opposition to hitler's rapidly going into dictatorship and this connection that she has with mildred harnack, i think this is a special flavor to what we would otherwise get in the nature of the opposition grew in which mildred harnack, became active and leader and it gives this yet another note of similarity in my view anyway, that is because the group was largely civilian. and they domesticate by far give most attention from the historians, the group that m is gained the most attention from historians has been the military and the military intelligence branch is safe to say that is where 80 percent of the attention of the story is gone,e not so much to a civilian assistance. i was a very important to have this emphasis on that aspect of this because ultimately is much more than the military opposition. everybody knows about th

i think that his seasons of the threat posed by adolf hitler and the nazis came from three things. we've already mentioned one, the fact that he was an historian who saw this latest attempt to upset the balance of power in europe in the condition -- in the context of the previous four attempts. he was also a -- he liked jews, he'd grown up with jews. he'd gone on holiday with them, he was completely different from the other upper class people of his age and class and background. and so he had an early warning system when it came to hitler and the nazis. it wasn't -- many other people on his benches. and also he had come up against that gnat if schism in his life -- fanaticism in his life several timeses in his life in sudan. in this sense it was a religious fanaticism, but he recognized the way in which it couldn't be appeased and had to be -- [inaudible] and so he also tended to, unlike the other prime ministers of the 1930s, men like mcdonald and chamberlain and baldwin, you know, he'd actually sort of come up close and personal to a fanaticism and recognized it in the nazis earl

you received me back and i think we're good wine, keith adolf hitler and stalin would be so proud of you. you guys are pathetic. you are a waste of the oxygen i breathe. it's just too bad that you, people were a star from the nipple, or maybe you guys would have all your brain cells. lynching is an extra judicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake and signs. in oregon, pro gun ad with kids are intimidating law may goes with threatening e mails and video surveillance. joining me loud oregon state senator jenny bird, dick, you cancelled the town hall meeting. and in order to do i did, and i, when i cancelled the town hall meeting, i didn't want to say anything inflammatory. so i just said this standard scheduling conflict. well, they showed up at my house and they stayed. they stayed in front of my house for 2 and a half hours taping. everything i did and then they put it on the web. and their point was that i didn't in fact have a scheduling conflict. but they ran my address and they ran very threatening comments about it. does that all

. >> i wonder if your time in the service, is that the root of your fascination with adolf hitler?ood word. you know. first of all, they attacked us. we had no choice. but we were fighting for something good. we were fighting to preserve something wonderful. america. ♪ springtime for hitler ♪ >> the original title of "the producers," "springtime for hitler"? >> that was the original title. couldn't have a better title. except joseph e. levine said, a lot of the exhibiters are jewish and they've called me and said they're simply not going to put hitler on the marquee. you've got to come up with another title. >> how can a producer make more money with a flop than with a hit? >> it's simple simply a matter of creative accounting. let's assume, just for the moment, that you are a dishonst man. >> assume away. >> where did that idea come from? a hit that's made out of a flop? >> i worked for a guy -- you know, there were many producers that kind of hedged their bets. for a play. costs $10,000 to produce, he would raise $11,000. their only problem was they had to be careful. if they rai

but adolf hitler did something similar in germany obviously. no one thought anyone could open up such evil in a country like germany. all you need is a charisma attic, studied evil actor and that is what trump did. he is successful and continues to be successful. he gave people something to do and be what they already are and what to do. monopole from another question. there is the ideal principal of separation of church and state has just dissolved into man and god. even only added one nation under god to the pledge of allegiance, i think what the question is kind of getting at, is a good way you know the founding fathers they were concerned about the state consuming the church or was it the other way around? it was not some kind of a radical principle they were depositing. number two, you cannot take god out of anything. you cannot take god out of the classroom. if you believe in an omnipresent god god is everywhere. in the pluralistic democracy. we just do not have the right to force any particular religious belief on another. and not all ch

there was a study conducted in the 1960s that looks at how many americans believe that adolf hitler was right to do what he did and this is a national opinion poll was about 7%. 7% in the 1960s. if you take that number and say the difference is that a 7% are all in the same chat rooms and same social media platforms so that's why social media can kind of exacerbate things. they've been around forever. what is new is our access to it in some ways and that puts an emphasis on number one, to sort of watch what we like and where we are spending time. my son is in the audience tonight teaching young people to make sure they understand what they are consuming online and perhaps the lies out there are notth what they say they are soo speak. then it is about holding companies accountable because the social media platforms are platforms but at the same time having an editorial right that makes them like publishers and others questions about how you hold those places accountable and in a way where we can take back some of the power so we've got a little bit about that in the book about the need t

. >> my assumption the reporter, the way the article reads is the reporter has interviewed adolf hitler. and so my assumption that he must have interviewed him in german or through an interpreter. and hitler would have called for heinrich, because heinrich is henry in german. to give you the timeline, that was march of 1923. november of 1923 hitler staged the bierhall push and tried to ever throw and government and. he's not achieved the kind of attention he would have received after the bierhall push. >> i know throughout his reign hitler playsed henry ford. do we know any type of response henry ford had throughout the years. >> that is a really good question. off the top of my head, i don't. but i do know that before the war broke out, they began building ford cars and motor trucks in germany. and so clearly ford had, not directly with hitler, he had a business relationship with germans who would have had to have been approved by the nazis in order to establish those plants. so when american soldiers hit germany, you know, hit europe during the war, they are like stunned that some of

could jesse owens winning gold medals in front of adolf hitler. go take the gold. and these athletes is how i was saying they have a narrow window of opportunity and their athletic career a 2 year for year span of not competing in the that's your last olympics for many of these athletes. they do need our stuff, they need our money to buy their stuff. i'm still not sure why. we've got empty store sales for kellogg's cornflakes because we're not getting those from. so there's other things going on in that process, but we've got to keep the heat on trying to economically and it is having an impact on them internally. it just doesn't get any media play here in the u. s. well, it does a little bit on this station, you know, everybody needs a villain. and right now it's gone from russia to china, but they're still that the limitation of russia were china is actually the one that could be the real threat to this country. when you look at the goods that are coming out of china right now, and you talk about sports on that, you still have the sponsorships of nike. you still

>> guest: yes, i think the threat posed by adolf hitler came from three things. we've already mentioned one the fact that he was a historian who saw the latest upset to balance of power in europe in the context of the previous four attempts. he was also -- he liked jews, he had grown up with jews. he'd gone on holiday with them. he was completely different from the other upper-class people of his age and class and background. and so he had an early warning system when it came to hitler. many other people on his benches. he'd also come up with in his life. in this sense it was a religious event a schism, but he recognized the way in which it couldn't be a a peas and had to be bought. and so he tended to, unlike the other prime ministers of the 1930s, unlike chamberlain and never change them for it he actually sort of come up close and personal. and then recognized it. he had this sort of -- again they come from a different life. they helped him enormously at the time, you know, doubt and struggle. >> host: i had a professor i greatly admired when i was in law scho

adolf hitler and donald trump were also named person of the year. "time" is basically your dad watching a bad super bowl commercial, saying, "hey, love him or hate him, we're all talking about him!" "time" also revealed their "heroes of the year," and that is an honor it went to the scientists who developed the covid vaccine. you know, this weekend, saturday marks one year since the fda authorized the pfizer vaccine. still, only 60% of americans are fully vaccinated and that is nuts. if this were a shot that made us lose 20 pounds, we'd be at 99%. i hate to say it, but it might be time to start fighting misinformation with more misinformation. like if a dozen of you went on social media and posted, "after i got vaccinated, i fit right back into my old jeans!," we would probably be done with this, right? walking around in our gloria vanderbilts without a care in the world! you know dr. oz is running for senate in pennsylvania. and he's really trying to incite the republican base. dr. oz says dr. fauci should resign and be "held accountable" for misle

they get caught up immediately and the rise of adolf hitler and the nazis. then i get caught up in the essence of the book in a nationally embryonic opposition to hitler's rapidly established dictatorship so the first thing is this connection that she has with mildred which gives a special addition to which you otherwise wouldn't get and the opposition group in which mildred harnack became active and a leader indeed is another note of singularity in my view anyway. a group of largely civilian and hitler has gained the most attention from the story and the group that is gained the most attention has been a military and military intelligence. that's where 80% of the attention of historians has gone not so much to the civilians so it's very important to have this emphasis on that aspect. it's more broad than the military opposition. everybody knows about the military intelligence people. but much less so is the civilian component which is the focus really up this book. another issue is she's a woman and it's noteworthy that she was by no means the only female t

correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of jews who were murdered or the way adolf hitler came to power, these are multiple-choice questions but the point is based on these poles and what we've been discussing the to do a better job educating everyone about history. i put myself in that list. and it is hard. and this climate it is difficult. holocaust in american history. most americans are not aware of what is communicated in the us holocaust museum which is most americans in the 1930s thought that americans knew what the nazis were doing, that is well documented in the exhibition. most americans thought it was horrible and jews were suffering and what was going on was unconscionable and they also were opposed. the polls show they were opposed to letting jews into this country. that is a stain on american history. that's an uncomfortable aspect of our history and this is not a question of one side or the other. these are facts. materials that are on exhibits at the holocaust museum in a straightforward way, these should make us uncomfortable and that is part of what is go

this, there was a survey conducted in the 1960s which looks at how many americans by the belief adolf hitler did in fact a national itopinion poll representative of the country, about 7%. 7% of americans, this was in the 1960s they thought that. if you take that 70% number and say the same today, the difference is the 7% can now meet each other a online, all in the same chat room promote the same social media platform so that's why social media can exacerbate things because it's not necessarily about the views are new, they've been around forever, hate is around us. hate what is new is the access to it and it puts the emphasis number one, on the individuals to watch what we like and retweet and where he spent time and my son is in the audience tonight, it means literacy, teaching young people to make sure they understand what they are consuming online and perhaps those out there are not what they say they are so to speak. and it's holding them accountable because social media platforms at the end of the day, they are platforms at the same time, they have editorial rights makes them a bit lik

attempting to expand their rule to greater territory while at the same time, you know, there was adolf hitlerral in japan said he feared this attack would awaken the sleeping giant, meaning the united states, and it did just that. four years later, world war ii came to an end, chuck. >> yeah, we didn't start it. but the united states certainly finished it. kerry sanders at pearl harbor for us, kerry, thank you. >>> thank you all for being with us this hour on this day that still lives in infamy. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." firefighter maggie gronewald knows how to handle dry weather... ...and dry, cracked skin. new gold bond advanced healing ointment. restore healthy skin, with no sticky feeling. gold bond. champion your skin. ♪ ♪ with noamazing...eling. jerry, you've got to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks ...it gets a little old. [thud] [clunk] [ding] ugh... do i need to pretreat my laundry? nope! with tide pods, you don't need to worry. the pre-treaters are built in. tide pods dissolve even when the water is freezing. nice! if it's got to be clean, i

"the washington post" reports that that included casting one student as adolf hitler. leave. jean casarez is following the story. tell us the details here. what exactly were students asked to do? >> first of all, the d.c. schools has told cnn this was not an approved project at all in any way. it did involve third-graders, we're understanding, at watkins elementary school. now "the new york post" is saying that the students were cast in different roles. one student was cast as adolph hitler. other students were cast as actually shooting, simulating shooting their fellow classmates. other students were cast as simulating digging mass graves. now, there are alleges allegations that hate speech was said during this project allegedly by the instructor. we're also hearing that the instructor said, now, don't tell anybody about this to the students, but the students went and told their home room teacher and that's how this became public and the parents got to know. now, we have some statements that have come in. we want to read one in part by the d.c. schools that says this

correctly answer multiple choice questions about the number of jews who were murdered or the way adolf hitler came into power. i think the point is, based on these polls, based on what we've been discussing, we need to do a better job educating everyone about history, not just students. i'll put myself in that list. >> it's hard. >> in this climate, it's difficult to -- >> it is. let's stick with, for a second, the holocaust in american history. most americans are not aware of what is basically communicated very straightforwardly in a current exhibit at the u.s. holocaust museum, which is that most americans in the 1930s thought that americans knew what the nazis were doing. that's well documented in the exhibition. most americans thought it was horrible and that jews were suffering and that what was going on was unconscionable, and they also were opposed. the polls showed they were opposed to letting jews into this country. so that's a stain on our american history, isn't it? >> absolutely. >> that's an uncomfortable aspect of our history. this is not a question of one side or the other. the

know for sure, my assumption is -- the way that article reads is the reporter has interviewed adolf hitler. so my assumption is he must have interviewed him in german or through an interpreter. hitler would have called ford heinrich because heinrich is henry in german. to give you the timeline, that was march of 1923. in november of 1923 he staged the beer hall and over threw the government and went to jail. he's not achieved the kind of level of attention that he will have achieved after that. zoe. >> i know throughout his sort of reign, hitler praised henry ford. do we know any type of response that henry ford had throughout the years? >> that's a really good question. off the top of my head i don't, but i do know before the war broke out, they began building ford cars and motor trucks in germany. so clearly had -- not directly with hitler, he had a business relationship with germans who would have had to have been approved by the nazis to establish those plants. when american soldiers hit europe during the war, they're stunned that some of their german enemies are driving ford cars and

one student was allegedly casted as adolf hitler.y would be digging the mass graves. and so that's the scene that is being really shown to us at this point. now we do have a full screen because a letter was sent to the families from the d.c. schools. we want to read a portion of that. cnn received this. and it says students should never be tasked with acting out any atrocity, especially genocide and war. additionally, there were allegations of a staff member using hate speech during the lesson, which is unacceptable and not tolerated at our school. and pamela, what we do know is that the students are meeting with a mental health team. the teacher is on leave of absence. >> right. and do we know anything more about the teacher? i know details are really hard to come by, but do we know any more about this teacher? >> we don't at all. nothing at all. no comment, no statement. her state of mind critical. do we know nthat? we don't unless she allegedly said that the school is saying that there were words of hate as part of this project fr

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painter from vienna was stirring everything up, and he put his whole thing towards the future of adolf hitlere from a certain point of view and arrived at a pretty hideous point of view and i think that's life. that's what happens. >> seth: i'm reading your book, which is fantastic we were talking about it backstage. and you said something about being an actor which stuck with me you said, "every day is a school day. is that something that, obviously you've been doing this for a long time, started onstage, been doing film and television now for a great many years, do you feel like you're learning something new every day? >> all the time. you never stop learning. >> seth: and are you learning it from your own trial and error, or from the people you work with >> it's basically from one's own trial and error, but you also learn from the struggles of others as well, that you see around you and you see why is there a problem there, and then you examine their relationship to that problem and how they solved that problem, and that's great that's a wonderful thing to be part of. you know, 'cause they

that included students portraying participants from the holocaust like adolf hitler, digging ditches simulated shootings. and he says the staff member leading the lesson is accused of making anti semitic statements. what do you think about the impact on your child? i think it's traumatic. i think it's a terrible corruption of historical trauma. that was inappropriate for eight and nine year olds to learn about it this way, and i'm outraged, she says . she's talked to other parents of kids in the class. one parent said that their child was worried. the teacher in question was hiding at their house. children are having nightmares and generally having a very hard time there was a child that had to play hitler, right, that's right. do you know how that child is doing? to my knowledge that child is not doing well at all. it allegedly happened during library time, and i spoke to the staff member in question by phone. she denied the reenactment saying, i think somebody's misquoting what happened in the library that day. she would provide no details on what did happen. the district says that

this is a stadium filled with men and women giving the nazi salute as adolf hitler watched on.gime had started carrying out the racist genocide policies, they had persecuted jewish communities, and lgbtk and had nondesirables, who just weeks before the start of the games were locked away in a camp outside the city. but the world chose to look away from that unfolding horror. for two weeks during the games, the nazis took down their anti-semitic signs, the propaganda ministry eased up on hateful rhetoric and the world praised the german government with disarming -- put germany back in the fold of nations. the world allowed itself to be beguiled by the nazi facade. behind that facade stood a violent, racist regime. behind that facade was a government controlled that the people living within its power could do and what they could say. behind that facade was a regime that had no belief in anyone's basic human rights and that within three years was seeking to conquer the world while simultaneously murdering six million jewish individuals and millions of other nonjewish men, women, a

churchill was -- and britain was hanging on just by a thread, saving western civilization from adolf hitlery got launched onto a mission to save the world. >> yes. >> yes, we did. i think -- by the way, hi, michael, how are you and, mika, good morning, everybody. i think the most significant element of world war ii is we changed radically as a nation from an isolationist country to forever an internationalist country. after a prolonged look at america -- the saying going wrong, [ inaudible ] . we passed an act signed by a democratic congress and president and everybody as of december 6th, 1941, everybody, republicans and democrats, was an isolationist. in fact, in the 1940 camp fdr said he would never send american boys to a european war. another significant development too is after december 7th, the declaration of war, although there was discussion in the roosevelt white house to declare war on germany and italy and also make it one fell swoop, they decided against that and we only declared war on japan on december 8th and we didn't declare war on germany until december 11th, after you men