this is auschwitz birkenau, the nazi concentration camp in southern poland.came the largest center in the world for the extermination of jews. more than a million men, women and children died here. for those who passed through this entrance, known as the "gate of death," these tracks were a path to genocide and terror. after they disembarked from cattle cars, most were sent directly to their deaths in the gas chambers. the sounds of the camp included during the holocaust, an entire generation of virtuosos parish. 75 years later, franchesco lotoro is breathing life into their work. >> lotoro ( translated ): in some cases, we are in front of masterpieces that could have changed the path of musical language in europe if they had been written in a free world. >> wertheim: francesco lotoro's work may culminate in stirring musical performances, but that's just the last measure, so to speak. his rescue missions, largely self-financed, begin the old fashioned way: with lots of hard work, knocking on doors, and face-to-face meetings with survivors and their relatives.

a major focus of the berlin exhibition is auschwitz a topic which dominated her thoughts in a t.v. interview she talked about how she found out about the extermination camps. that's right but if that's it it works if i went in it was as if an abyss had opened up i just had to you always doubt that everything else could somehow be made better just like in politics when things could somehow be made better imo we don't come up with it but not this kind was decent this should never have happened and need to share. at the end of the 1940 s. he wrote her 1st big work the origins of totalitarianism which became a central theme for her her most controversial book was in jerusalem a report on the banality of evil she followed the 1961 trial of the senior s.s. leader who had been one of the architects of the only cost she count he was a mere technocrat a few for which she was heavily criticized. if you like to evoke incident all it is to evoke a mix it but no it is this. i had once said no one has the right to own a motto she certainly lived up to. it watching t.v. news from berlin don't for

dear husband said, after going into surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, i looked like a survivor of auschwitzhe said, "you must do something to build yourself up. get a personal trainer." and that's when i started, in 1999. sometimes i get so absorbed in my work, i just don't want to let go. but when it comes time to meet my trainer, i drop everything. and as tired as i may be in the beginning, i always feel much better when we finish. david: did marty's mother ever give you any advice when you met her, about how to be happily married? justice ginsburg: she gave me some wonderful advice. we were married in her home. and she said, "dear, i'd like to tell you the secret of a happy marriage." ♪ david: ok, so you met your husband, marty. you were married for 56 years. justice ginsburg: yes. david: you met him at cornell. is that right? justice ginsburg: yes, we met when i was 17 and he was 18. david: and what is the likelihood of a woman at cornell meeting somebody they marry, and that person wants to take care of child-rearing, and also cooking, as well as sharing all the other burdens of being

a major focus of the berlin exhibition is auschwitz, a topic which dominated her thoughts.n a tv interview, she talked about how she found out about the extermination camps. >> [translating] it was as if an abyss had opened up. you always felt that things could somehow be made better, just as in politics when things can somehow be made better, but not this. this should never have happened. >> at the end of the 1940's, she wrote her first big work, the origins of totalitarianism. which became a central theme for her. her most controversial book was a report on the banality of evil. she followed the trial of a senior ss leader who had been one of the architect of the holocaust. she ft he was a mere technocrcrat, a view for which e was heavily criticized. >> it is this phenomenon that i have called the banality of evil . >> arendt once said no one has the right to obey, a motto she certainly lived up to. brent: you're watching "dw news" from berlin. after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." stick around. we will be right back. ♪ . d. d. d. d. d. x. eig

separated between east and west and it's unclear if this auschwitz arse will continue the operation and if them the general help them might be supported even more militarily by egypt and even by by russia. there are so many international players in this mess one wonders if it still isn't on the verge of just sliding into another syria. yes sir. and all these extra players from russia over united arab emirates to turkey all have been. at this school bellini be a conference in generally all of them signed up to stop internal. interference in the war in libya and they said they would stop the sending of weapons but they did not and and here we are and this is still the high risk and it isn't and there is also a risk that now turkey after its release really surprising military. success in libya on site of the prime minister saraj and russia are going to find some way of understanding how to separate the power over libya and there will be no influence for europe with its interests a militant talked about european interest let's talk about france because its position there in libya does seem

a major focus of the berlin exhibition is auschwitz a topic which dominate in her thoughts in a t.v. interview she talked about how she found out about the extermination camps. that's right it's at a. critical moment and it was as if an abyss had opened up i just had to you always doubt that everything else could somehow be made better just like in politics when things could somehow be made better imo if you don't come up with it but not this current most decent. this should never have happened in. you're watching the news just a reminder of our top story george floyd has been laid to rest in a mostly i'm outside houston texas at his funeral family members called for an end to police violence lloyd's death and police custody of minneapolis 2 weeks ago sparked global protests against racial. watching t.w. news thanks for being with us. man never before have there been so many illegals in mumbai. they benefit not only from a colona buyers like alice but also from pollution. how can that be. we need one apologists to. be cool to the. next d.w.i. . drug to be. defined convention shopped.

comparison, they were quite humane, right, in terms of comparisons to our general image of, say, auschwitz or buchenwald. so they could wear their own clothing, they could have packages sent to them. but by any other measure, they were pretty notoriously miserable places where both italian jews and foreign jews were kept after 1938. >> one more question here. >> you partially answered part of my question in relation to somebody else, but i wanted to know how italy regarded itself as a colonial power both in relation to the french with arab north africa, and the british and the germans and the french and black africa. dr. mclean: so, pre-1936 -- well, throughout, they think of themselves as more humane. they think of themselves like the french, as sort of catholic colonizers and think of themselves as people more than -- and therefore they think of them more as people more than the germans or the british do, that they are there to civilize these populations and they're there just to help them realize the great riches of their lands, right? a.k.a., take them. but the reality is much more sta

they didn't tweet pictures of auschwitz, they didn't call him mussolini. by the code of military conduct that says retired officers should not disparage a sitting president. suddenly this president comes, he -- mueller found no constitutional abuse, no russian hoax, he was not convicted after this crazy impeachment. they can't cite any constitutional transgression, and yet they're all coming out, and the result of it is, lou, that it looks highly partisan, and it's really reduced the status of the retired military. these were our most iconic, decorated officers, and it's a bad precedent because, as i'm speaking, there are six or seven articles in major journals that are talking about the possibility of the coup. i'm 66, i've never heard of that before. and when you have these people of this stature and they say things and write things that they do and it's not even behavior from administration to administration, then it's quite scary. even the chairman of the joint chiefs said he couldn't to a photo op. if i were to go back and show you all the pictures of

winning the war, bombing auschwitz -- i won't get into that, but their idea of -- but they would do it only if it helped when the war. all these were political though, in the end. >> got a question in front and one more in the back. >> could you discuss the victory parade and the polish participation in 1945? to addi could be so rude two anecdotes concerning that situation. mr. olson: the british held a victory parade in 1946, i believe. they advised all the allies who participated in the efforts, and there were dozens of them -- brazil and all sorts of places, and they had a huge parade, and ,hey did not invite the poles who had actually fought. in the meantime, the polish government in exile was basically -- accreditation was taken away from them by the british and france. they took the recognition of the polish government in exile away and awarded it to the communist government that had been set up by stalin. they -- the government at that time did not invite the poles who had actually flown those planes in the battle of britain and had fought at monte cassino -- they were not allow

what they could also tell me number them being on the in foreign affairs bureau in auschwitz.the americans because the state department didn't know that nixon and kissinger with the opening to china in the official american reaction to china beginning open relations with china they said we were she wouldn't do it. what a couple of them could tell was in beijing he gave me an eyewitness account he also knows chinese so he could tell me he told me a wonderful story the night nixon arrived the chinese give a very cool reception because they didn't want to look excited by it. they also didn't know what yet know whether mao would give his approval and the night that the nixon party arrived in beijing along news broadcast john brazier from said it was all about it did really well and woman workers one province hit a new high in the last item on the news he said was by the way, president nixon paid us a visit today. i thought some really nice colors from the canadian. >> the book paris 1919 which i also have here is a bigger book you tell us that it sold well. there's a lot in there

but their idea of winning the war, for example, the jews, bombing auschwitz -- i won't get into that, but their idea of -- we are not going to do it, because it will not help us win the war. no, it would not help us win the war as quickly as we want to. all these were political decisions, though, in the end. have got a question in the front and then one more in the back. in 1945,rticipation and if i can be so rude to add two anecdotes concerning that situation -- lynne: yes, they held the victory parade i believe in 1946, and they invited all who participated in the efforts, and it was brazil and all sorts of places, and they had a huge parade, but they did not invite the poles, who had actually fought. because, in the meantime, the polish government in exile was basically -- accreditation was taken away from them by the british and france. they took the recognition of the polish government in exile away and awarded it to the communist government that had been set up by stalin. in poland. and as a result, they refused -- the government -- churchill was out at that time, -- the allied

a polish courier who got the message about what was happening in auschwitz out to the roosevelt administration his papers are at the hoover institution, and he was acquainted with hoover and had a position at the hoover institution for a time. i want to put that into the equation. hoover was not a xenophobe. at the same time, he saw a problem as president, and he is sometimes now criticized, especially by people who think it was an unfair effort to deport, i guess several hundred thousand people. the figures are in dispute. >> from the southwest, who were essentially of mexican origin, because of economic conditions. >> with that, we are at the end of our time. if we would all thank our panelists again. [applause] >> and i hope you will join us at the reception to talk some more with the panelists and take advantage of a drink and some food. thank you for coming. safe travels. wednesday night on american history tv, the beginning at 8 pm eastern, a look at the great depression, founded in 1933 during the great compression the tennessee valley authorities mission was to address environmental en

hitler's was not thinking about auschwitz in the 1920's and clearly, there was a strong ideological drive and genocidal mindset that predates the genocide, so i am not exactly on the extreme side of the three of them but for me, this book, to usshows the debates all of were so heavily engaged in, not necessarily the most important story and certainly not the whole story. much of the story is a completely different story. it is a story of what happens in those places where most of the people were actually killed. what is the mechanism that brings about? as i said about the germans doing the killing there, they are nazis in some way or another , they served in nazi organizations, but they are basically having the best times of their lives. they are not doing it under compulsion. they are doing it and remember it 20 years later. they still talk about it as a wonderful time. to me, that is important because if we want to learn anything about what happened there, we -- there is not going to be a third reich, but what we do have our communities and these are communities in this country and othe

the camps -- trump holding a rally in tulsa on juneteenth is like holding a rally at the gates of auschwitz>> yeah. i would agree. i mean, i think this is -- this is kind of what we've wrought as a nation, though, is really sanitizing the history violence in this country, sanitizing the history of the black experience. so this is why we're having arguments right now about whether we should still maintain statues and military bases to traitorous arm that fought to preserve slavery. in some ways, it's not shocking. we just now are deciding this year that maybe we shouldn't be doing these things. and i think -- i don't like to make comparisons to the oppression of other groups. but certainly that is true. and it has to have been kind of so egregious that he was going to hold this rally on juneteenth in tulsa, the site of the racial massacre, that even black surrogates who normally defend him pushed back. that's -- that tells you hoe egregious this actually was. >> yeah, you brought up the point of our history and the fact that few americans know our history. a lot of that has to do with how we