daughter of ambassador to the soviet union through the prep new york sarah churchill daughter of thprime minister franklin and eleanor's only daughter and i have. to the eyes of my own politically savvy women they are given fresh perspective on the drama of the guilt the conference as well as the preparations. therineunnally degrees from cambridge but also pursuing her jd from harvard law school and i'm ao delighted to introduce my friend amanda foreman. who will conduct the conversation. and acclaimed biographer and historian tha includes georgiana and the world on fire and epic historof two nations dived which i consider the best book ever writte about the abraham lincolndministration during the civil war also a columst of the wall street journal and host of a grounreaking new documentary series and her next book the world made by women is scheduled to be puished next year by a single in random house now we will welcome her to discuss her book about a powerful fema leader the reprint of women joining that night and needs no introduction and along with her father is with us tonight so k

churchill had echoed his remarks.the significance of any error in interpreting the source of mustard gas could be horrendous. if the allied leaders through the faulty conclusion the germans had deployed chemical weapons it could provoke hitler into launching a gas attack and they would have an all-out chemical war. adding to his anxiety the daily death toll was rising rapidly, he decided he had to notify officials what his findings were and he cabled allied force headquarters in algiers. the brandon the hospitals in this area labeled dermatitis are due to mustard gas, he rose. they are unusual and their varieties due to mustard which has been mixed in with surface oil and therefore went undiagnosed. he was feeling a growing sense of urgency and made a reply. he sent high-priority cables to the american president of the british prime minister informing them of the nature of the casualties and the almost certain origin of the gas on an american ship. roosevelt excepted his findings and responded please keep me fully inf

winston churchill had a way with words. men occasionally stumble across the truth but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing is happened lieutenant colonel francis alexander the remarkable humor of my book and in fact refused to leave the scene of a military disaster when churchill himself warned him to. and investigated and recognize the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors to have life-saving implications in the future. and then turns a chemical weapons report into a stepping stone and a tragedy into a medical triumph. to take you back to 1943 with the adriatic coast was bustling the position taken a capital with 150 miles to the north almost unscathed and then outside of town women and children were begging for black-market food and young couples strolled like in the old days and i.c.e. cream vendors. and a critical mediterranean service hub and to supply just the americans and british armies which comprise the better part of the 500,000 and allied troops engaged in driving the germans out

and fine biographies of winston churchill. robert andrews most recent one is probably the best that another book i have on my bookshelf and i can't remember the author's name now but it's the same thing. it's about churchill in 1920s the year when he was working as secretary and helped reshape the middle east in ways that echo right down to the boundaries of countries. i like what he does what i like how he does things i like how he writes. >> "the news york times" correspondent carl holtz came up with a book about congress ear to back. when the book comes out about congress to almost automatically pick it up? >> i do. i happen to know carl very well and he is one of the smartest and it's a confirmation bias which is on the supreme court wars that we have seen in recent years. it's a brilliant look and if you want to understand some of the struggles not any better guy than carl holtz. i just finished jonathan carl's book and it's not congress. se. the front row in the trunk show. it's an interesting. and i know carl and the bi

eisenhower and churchill acted in concert to keep it secret.there was no chance hitler could use the incident as an excuse to launch a gas offensive. any mention of mustard gas was stricken from the official record. there's a slide here of one of dozens and dozens of cables that went back-and-forth to the headquarters censoring any mention of mustard gas in the records. it was even stricken from patient's medical chart to alexander's name was removed from the patient's medical chart along with his diagnosis of toxic exposure. it was replaced with a generic terminology for combat casualties burns due to enemy action. the feared german chemical attack never came. it was deterred by logistical constraints combined with allied air superiority in the threat of massive retaliatory gas strikes. ironically however if the germans had known all along about the poison gas in the harbor. spies had suspected the allies were shipping gas. after the airstrike they sent their own diver down in the bomb casings which confirmed the weapon was american. a popular

we've had a lot of really fine biographies of winston churchill. robert andrew's most recent one is probably the best, but this idea, there's another book have my bookshelf, i can't remember the author's name now but it's the same thing. it's actually on churchill in the 1920s, a single pivotal year when he was working as colonial secretary and helped reshape the middle east in ways that echo right than today, the boundaries of countries, for instance. i like what he does. i like how we does things. i like how he writes and is always worth reading, whatever the topic is. >> the "new york times" correspondent carl holds about with the book that conversation or two about. when a book comes out about covers to you almost automatically pick it up? >> i do. particularly if it is, i happen to know carl very well. he's one of the smartest reporters out there, "confirmation bias" which is sort of on the supreme court wars that we've seen in recent years, is a brilliant book and if you want understand some of the struggles that shape capitol hill, not any b

it's actually on churchill in the 1920s.gle year when he was working in his as colonial secretary helped reshape the middle east in ways that the boundaries of the country's for instance. i like what he does. i like how we do things. i like how he writes. he has always worth reading whatever the topic us. >> now the new york times correspondent came out with a book about congress a year or two back. when a book comes out about congress, do you almost automatically pick it up read. tom: i do. particularly, i happen to know carl very well. i think he's one of the smartest reporters out there. and confirmation bias which is sort of the supreme court's wars that we have seen in recent years. it is a brilliant book . and you will understand some of the struggles that shaped capitol hill. not any better god than carl and also just finished jonathan carl's book, congress per se because these white house correspondent. for abc news of course but front row in the trump show. that is an interesting read. and i know carl. i've been int

churchill had echoed his remarks. the significance of any care in determining the source of mustard gas, alexander knew could be horrendous. fela thought that the faulty conclusion that germans had deployed chemical weapons that they could provoke hitler into launching a gas attack and then they would have an all-out chemical war. adding to his anxiety, the daily death toll was raising rapidly. he decided he had to notify officials of what his findings were . the allied force headquarters, the burns in the hospitals in this area and the dermatitis it due to mustard gas the road. their unusual the variety are due to mustard which have been mixed in for the surface soil and therefore went undiagnosed. he was feeling a growing sense of urgency. he said high-priority cables to the british prime minister informing them of the nature of the casualties . in the almost certain origin of the gas was an american ship. roosevelt accepted his findings and responding, please keep me fully informed. churchill however, sent reply, h

picture of churchill looking it over like you know, churchill the painter would.laughter] ike also painted field marshal bernard law montgomery who was one of his, one of the big personalities that he worked with during world war ii and it's a lovely, lovely painting that hangs today in the british industry in washington dc. >> you said it's one of the most interesting personalities. they got along but they were enemies too. in the next picture is one he gave to you, the next painting. there's a story with this one, right? >> there is a story about this one. i often stood behind him when he was the easel and in addition to his retirement years he always insisted on having a studio somewhere nearby so the white house was on the second floor overlooking lafayette park and it was around that time that i was standing behind him admiring his work and this was the landscape i don't know what the scene is and as i said before, he painted usually from postcards and these landscapes he did were always serene and it's been noted that there's something ironic about it becaus

the other charming thing, presented to prime minister churchill when churchill stepped down but he wasisiting in the united states and there's a wonderful picture of churchill looking it over is churchill the painter would. field marshal bernard montgomery was one of the big personalities he worked with during world war 2. >> one of the interesting thing. the next when he gave to you, the next painting a little story with this. >> it is a story, i often stood behind him at the easel. in addition to his retirement years he always insisted on having a studio somewhere nearby. and standing beside him, admiring his work. .. this baby beatty at the bottoms dated 1957, and in 1957 many things happened but i was intrigued when i looked at the back of it that it says to susan, 1958. that means it's likely a painting that was done during the little rock crisis when eisenhower sent the 101st airborne division to desegregate little rock high school and two scored nine african-americans to start school in that september. and then right after that of course was sputnik, soviet union launched its fi

that's a wonderful picture of churchill looking it over. like churchill the painter would . ike also painted field marshal bernard montgomery. it's a lovely, lovely painting in the british embassy in washington dc. >> you said it's one of his interesting personalities, they got along but they were enemies to so in the next picture, that's one that he gave to you. there's a little story about this one. >> there's a story aboutthis one . i often stood behind him when he was at the easel. he had in addition to his retirement years, he always insisted on having a studio somewhere nearby so in the white house it was on the second floor overlooking lafayette park. and it was around that time was standing behind him, admiring his work. this is a landscape, i don't know what the scene is as i said before, he painted usually postcards. and they were more landscapes he did were always serene and it's been noted that it's something ironic about it because probably every picture is some kind of turbulence he's trying to make sense of. this painting at the bottom is dated the heat, 1957

churchill comes up to him and he can see that it's a very short conversation.he says i told him and he didn't seem that interested and even truman's russian translator is wondering whether they translated it properly. well, the story, the truth is he was interested he just wasn't surprised because as you say there was a german scientist who had gone to britain and ended up in the united states but he had been a member of the german communist party because he saw them as the only force inside of germany that was resistant to hitler. now he leaves and is in the united states and is working on the manhattan project but his loyalty is still to communism so he gives all kinds of information which goes back to the russians and the postscript to the story is later that night they end up back in the russian compound together and somebody overhears them having that conversation in which they are discussing the fact truman has told him they've got the bomb and it works and stalin says i guess we need to get going. a historian would later say at 7:25 p.m. on that night is

it's actually a churchill in the 1920s. the single pivotal year. when he was working as the colonial secretary and helped reshape the middle east in ways that enter the boundaries of the countries. i like what he does and how he does things. like copyrights. his always worth reading whenever the topic. >> the new york times correspondence came out with a book a year to back about congress. do you almost automatically pick a book up about congress. tom: i do. i happen to know carl very well. i thank you so one of the smartest reporters out there. the confirmation bias which is the supreme court wars that we've seen in recent years. it is a brilliant book. if you want to understand the struggles that shaped capitol hill, not any better guy than carl. also finished jonathan carl's books, not congress per se because he's a white house correspondent. for abc news the front row in the trunk show. that is an interesting read. i know carl and have been interviewed by him. i've done a podcast with him once or twice prayed with 70 like that risible, i think

we have had a lot of really fine biographies like winston churchill and the most recent one is probably the best that another book i have in my oak shelf and i can't remember the author's name now but it's on churchill in the 1920s a single pivotal year when he was working as colonial secretary and helped to reshape the middle east in ways that echo right down to the boundaries of countries. i like what he does. i like how he does things and i like how he writes them. he is always worth reading. >> "new york times" correspondent carl holtz came up with a book about congress a year or two back. when the book comes out about congress do you almost automatically pick it up? >> i do. i happen to know carl very well and he is one of the smartest reporters out there. confirmation bias which is the supreme court wars that we have seen in recent years is a brilliant book. it helps to understand the struggles that shaped capitol hill. not any better guy than carl holtz. i just finished jonathan carl's book. he's a white house correspondent for abc news but a front row on the trump show is an int

gets word and churchill gets word almost at the same time but one of the things they're discussing isdo we tell stalin? because stalin doesn't know anything about thisproject . just before the conflict ends, they don't want to tell them too early and they don't want to tell them too much if we don't tell them anything and we're supposed to be allies, he's going to resent it and it's going to create even more problems and when they're in pot stamp there already are major problems between russia on the one side and the us and britain on the other because of course russia is from the east and takingover most of eastern europe and is not going to give it up . so late in the conference after one of the sessions truman goes over to stalin to tell him about it and he practices what he's going to say and he doesn't even bring a translator, he uses the russian translator, the translator stalin and truman by themselves and truman says i want to let you know that we have an enormous indescribably powerful weapon that we have developed and stalin says something basically, well i hope you put it t

>> well, i have just finished "the splendid and the vile" by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family, really in the worst year of the war, the year right after he becomes prime minister, may 10, 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of low countries in france. and then basically what it was like to stood alone against nazi germany until june the 41 the russians are in the war and then obviously by december the 41 the united states is in the war. it's an extraordinary book, so it's a wonderful read about a guy that i consider literally the greatest person in the

but more important, churchill, roosevelt and stalin dedicated their nations to the foundations for permanent peace through a united nations organization. crushing germany from the east and west the allied armies met at the river elb and joined hands in celebration of victory.

>> i just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family in the worst year of the war after he becomes prime minister may 10th of 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of france and then basically what it was like to stand alone against nazi germany until june of 41, russians are in the war and by december of 41 the united states is in the war. it is a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person of the

was churchill -- when churchill was the minister of war, that is when it started. at a large scale in germany, at got progressively worse and more vindictive. in japan, it was even worse because the cities were made of wooden houses and they dropped phosphorus bombs and they had firestorms. bombing themrase, back to the stone age, we often associate with vietnam. in latelly said that 1944 when they were bombing japan. robert mcnamara later in the famous documentary about aaron mcdonald said that if the allies had lost the war, it would have been war criminals. -- they would have been war, mills. martin: when the -- they would have been war chemicals -- criminals. thing: it is a different for this reason among others. diedof thousands of people to the bombings. only a handful of ss ever got killed in the rebellions in the camps. ian: absolutely. there waso it because some ideological program of exterminating germans or japanese. it was an atrocious act of war. were, the war against the jews had no military exercise. it was purely about killing. >> my question segues

it's not a book on my bookshelf, i can't remember the author's name but it's a same thing, it's on churchill in the 1920s, the single pivotal year when he was working as colonial secretary and helped reshape the middle eastern ways with the boundaries of countries, i like what he doesn't like how he does things, i like how he writes in these always worth reading whatever the topic is. >> the new york times correspondent came out with a book about congress a yo year or two back, when the book comes out about congress you almost automatically pick it up. >> i do, i happen to know carl very well and he's one of the smartest reporters out there and confirmation bias which is on the supreme court wars that we have seen in recent years is a brilliant look and if you want to understand some of the struggles that shape capitol hill, not any better guy than carl, also just to finish jonathan carl's book, not congress per se because he's a white house correspondent and of course for abc news but front row in the trump show is an interesting read and i know carl i've been interviewed by him and appeare

our result did not entirely surprise churchill. noted people are more willing to speak about negative experiences than positive ones. and our informal survey seems to support that. still -- >> i don't think consumers are unreasonable about what they want. >> reporter: churchill notes the pandemic has presented companies challenges. she says businesses are trying to keep up with more diy technology like chat box. but she says customers must be careful with automated customer services. >> i think right now every organization is scrambling to get every type of self-service method up and running. but if you can't support it and do it well don't do it until it's ready. >> our survey also asked people about the industries and companies in particular that offer the best and worst customer service. you can see who's named and read their responses on our website. go to nbcbayarea.com then click the responds option from the main menu. >> that's frustrating. >> yep. >> that is really frustrating. >> all right, let's bring in jeff to talk abou

perhaps in the end, not fawning over the british was part of his success. >> the calls between churchill de gaulle became water under the bridge and were replaced with mutual respect. ♪ >> in line with his wishes, de gaulle was buried here alongside his wife and his daughter. half a century after his death, it is clear that he still wields enormous influence in france. he is not a figure without criticism, but for many people, he remains an icon of the modern french state. we will leave it here for this episode. thank you for watching and we will see you the same time that week. ♪ ♪ 11/13/20 11/13/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! mr. biden: i am confident that the fact they're not willing to not as muchthis consequence in our planning and what we're able to do between now and january 20. amy: president-elect joe biden is moving ahead with transition plans as president trump falsely claims the election was stolen from him. even trump's own department of homeland security says the

churchill again said was their role to rip villages. they've done this even after they had done that. revolutionary [inaudible] >> would words do just as dictatorships often do and foreign occupations is they deliberately manipulate resentments, divisions that exist in societies anyway. in france the regime wouldn't have come into power if it wasn't for the german occupation. in greece again, the antagonism between the left and the right goes between the prewar period when they had a right wing dictatorship, and the left wing opponents invaded greece. the resistance comes from the left. often communists. the old guard become collaborators with the germans, and that goes on after the. we're so grease and it up in a brutal civil war, italy could easily become a civil war. and france was simmering. in belgium, the dutch speaking flemish nationalists were deliberately inflamed by the german up occupation it's against the french speaking. there was no monarch to keep things together because he was tainted by trying to make a deal with the ge

>> yes >> splendid versus the vile and churchill 2. >> there is churchill 1 through 5, so i don't know which one i like the original churchill. the one whose name is winston. i like that guy, yes these it is unclear what the future holds for multiplan or skill soft and, yeah >> i think it is amazing that he we were talking about spacs and stimulus and now -- >> and talking about tiktok. remember how much time we spent on tiktok. >> every day >> every day tiktok we got some tiktok news, guys, that actually remember bytedance, the owner of tiktok, never seen the definitive agreement on the whole oracle walmart thing. where do things stand now, you ask, because, hey, we were talking about it every day and then didn't talk about it at all. in the nearly two months since the president gave his preliminary approval to our proposal to satisfy the concerns of he had about the national security concerns, they said they offered detailed solutions to finalize the agreement, but received no substantive feedback on their extensive data privacy and security framework and so with this november 12th d

it's actually able to present it to two churchill was visiting and the that has churchill the painter. i also painted field marshal one of the big personalities he'd worked with during world war ii. it was a lovely, lovely painting that hangs today in the british embassy in washington d.c. becky said it's one of the interesting personalities but he's kind of a frenemy as they would call him now. something like that. [laughter] select their enemies too. the next pictures when he gave to you, the next painting. there's a little store with this on, right? >> there is a story about this one. i often stood behind him when he was at the easel. he had an addition to his retirement years, he always insisted on having a studio somewhere nearby. so in the white house this on the second floor overlooking lafayette park. and it was around that time that i was standing behind him, admiring his work. i don't know what this scene is. as i said before he painted usually from postcards. and these landscapes he did were all always serene. it has been noted that there's something ironic about it. becaus

and once you remember that as churchill referred to the moral rot of war. and an interesting concept that i saw raised, the wars get old and the bigger they are, the faster they age. and six years in, there's just a kind of -- a loss of patience in a mild way of putting it, but we don't feel that, do we? and i think he said, well, we created the united nations and the european community, but i would sort of say we destroyed hitler. that was the achievement. >> yes. and it was a necessary achievement, of course. one can't take away the heroism of that. but i think that the bleaker conclusion one can draw is that very often heroes can very quickly turn into villains. for example, the soviet red army fought like heroes. the sacrifices of the soviet soldiers were extraordinary. and they fought like lions and it was a necessary fight. and without them, we wouldn't have defeated hitler, but those same soldiers behaved like beasts often. when they invaded germany, likewise -- >> they were an army of rapists. >> they were an army of rapists. >> that senator the oth

more important, churchill, roosevelt, and stalin

churchill has some remarkably anti-semitic statements and franklin d.oosevelt, who of course very friendly to the jewish people. it's very interesting to see what he would have done with the state of israel because he was talking with the arabs just before he dies, with the saudi's about, we will consult you on everything. i have read that he was part of the board of directors which instituted the numerous classes at harvard which put in a quota system against jewish people. and who is really his best friend among cabinet members? it is morgenthau so people are , contradictory. there are contradictions among every person in this room and harry truman is just this amazing example of it. anyone else? trumant true that, well, did not run in stephenson ran 1952. against ike. that he and bess simply jumped in their car without the benefit of any secret service protection and drove back to independence missouri? ,david: there is a new book on that actually. not as new as my book that it came out maybe a year ago and yes, which indicates that. years before i w

when churchill was minister of war, i believe, and bomba harris was already involved. that's when it started. but when they started doing large-scale germany, it got progressively worse, and more vindictive. and then in japan, it was even worse than that. because the cities were made of wooden houses, and they withdraw bombs. and they had firestorms who came worse. the famous phrase by curtis lemay, american air force general of bombing them back to the stone age. because people often associated with vietnam, he actually said that in 44, i think late 44, when they were bomb in japan. and robert mcnamara, in the later famous documentary about raw mcdonald, said that if the allies had lost a war they would be war criminals. >> although when the more equivalents ideas are brought up, people have said that is just as bad as a death camps. >> well it's a different thing. >> it's a different thing for this reason among others. the losses of the aircrew, the den ring, tenth of thousands of people dying, delivering those bombs. and a handful of ss were killed in the rebellion'

british prime minister, winston churchill thought hitler's in a circle show would be shot without trial at the tehran conference, the allies didn't rule out executing 52100000, german war criminals. soviet leader, joseph stalin raised the idea of an international criminal trial. finally, the us department of war develops the plan for the nuremberg trials. nazi leaders would have to be charged as criminal conspirators who had together planned wars of aggression, then carried out countless crimes and atrocities. that was a concept that we were charged days. they didn't defend us with conspiring getting together and plotting to see as control of the german government and subject in the german people to which dictatorial control making the german people themselves victims and eliminating freedom in germany, lebanon moccasin establishing a ruthless dictatorship. and then having done that, that's the conspiracy then committing the crimes that they did in the name of the german people. there was stamped ism in the homes of the us supreme court. it was fear the trials could become something of

berlin's new airport has finally opened 9 is behind churchill and 3 times over budget the 1st passenger flight to depart was an easy jet plane headed for london the 7000000000 euro airport has been dogged by delays and by protesters concerned about noise and climate change. the philippines has been battered by the most powerful typhoon to hit asia this year typhoon going impact winds of up to 225 kilometers per hour as it made landfall in the east hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. as for the u.s. now where republican president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden have been campaigning in case states on the final weekend before tuesday's election a record 19000000 early votes have already been cast as the bruising contest heads towards the biggest turnout in at least a century. trump supporters in good spirits ahead of a rally on halloween night the president won the crucial state of pennsylvania in the last election and he's hoping for a repeat for many voters there's much at stake. here this battle isn't democrat versus republican this is

but more important, churchill, roosevelt and stalin dedicated their nations to the foundations for permanenteace through a united nations organization.

something that you look at it more closely, we've had a lot of really fine biographies of winston churchill. robert andrews is probably one of the best but this idea of, there's another book i havein my bookshelf, i can't even remember the author's name . fairfield in the 1920s, when he was working as a colonial secretary and helped reshape the middle east in ways that laid the boundaries of countries . so i like what he does. i likehow he does things . i like how you write them and he's always worth reading . >> the new york times correspondent carl holt came up with a book about congress and when a book comes out about congress view almost automatically pick it up? >> i do, i happen to know carl very well but i think he's one of thesmartest reporters out there . confirmation bias which is about the supreme court wars that we've seen in recent years is a brilliant look and if you want to understand some of the struggles that shaped capitol hill, there's not any better guy than carl holt. i've also finished jonathan carl book because he's a white house correspondent now and of course for ab

the prime minister -- premised or winston churchill replied, study history. study history. for him it light all the secrets of state craft. you heard a great phrase. there's nothing you can do about having a 20 or 22-year-old body, but there is no excuse for you not having a 5000 year old mind. it is at your fingertips. but let us continue to look back so we can see forward. i am pleased to introduce to you pat locke, will moderate the next panel. pat locke was the first african american woman to graduate from the united states naval academy in 1980. she will bring forth a group of women that have an unheard story of unsung heroes that played an important role in america's history. i'm pleased to introduce, pat locke. [applause] >> well, good morning everyone. >> good morning. >> i know i have a lot of friends at the naval academy, but i am not the first african american women to graduate from the naval academy. i'm the first african american woman to graduate from the united states military academy. i just want you to have that as an admin correction. so with that, i would

british prime minister, winston churchill thought hitler's in a circle show would be shot without trial. at the tehran conference, the allies didn't rule out executing 52100000, german war criminals. soviet leader joseph stalin raised the idea of an international criminal trial. finally, the us department of war developed the plan for the nuremberg trials. nazi leaders would have to be charged as criminal conspirators who had together planned wars of aggression, then carried out countless crimes and atrocities. that was a concept that we were charged days. they didn't defend us with conspiring getting together. and plotting to see is control of the german government and subject in the german people to which dictatorial control making the german people themselves victims and eliminating freedom in germany, eliminated the moccasin, establishing a ruthless dictatorship. and then having done that, that's the conspiracy. then committing the crimes that they did in the name of the german people there was skepticism in the halls of the us supreme court. it was feared the trials could become so

wonderfully understated role in tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, only to triumph by grandstanding as churchillan here keeps things broad, portraying mank as an irascible but brilliant drunk who essentially wrote the script for kane on his own without input from the wicked welles who tried to rob him of credit. in fact, welles, who clearly collaborated heavily on the script and was contractually entitled to claim sole authorship, not only agreed to mank getting credit, but also insisted that he got first credit. of course, none of this would matter if this oscar bait film which, after all, is a drama rather than a documentary, was as remarkable as some of the reviews suggest. it isn't. ready and willing to hunt a great white whale? just call me ahab. rather it's a good looking but ultimately empty affair, packed with heavy—handed visual nods to kane, boosted by a great score and a rip—roaring performance by charles dance, yet lacking the truthfulness, originality and sense of mischievous wit that lay at the dark heart of welles's masterpiece. to evoke a movie cliche — it's fine, it's just not c

rudolf hess had spectacularly flown solo to scotland, apparently, to negotiate peace with churchill on his own initiative. hitler considered him insane. has remained in british custody for the rest of the war. on october 8th, 1945, he was flown to nuremberg and reunited with old friends. prosecutor john, a man had the task of questioning has he seemed mentally disabled and wouldn't admit to remembering anything. back in america, i mean had made many a criminal talk, but has, wouldn't cooperate. when he arrived in nuremberg, he said he'd lost his memory of the and how good it was impossible to get him to remember anything. which ones even had the idea to bring hess and during together, has he already had as upstairs in the interrogation room? and then we got current. and going with his old self, he came in and said, oh you know, you don't remember me. i was the rice marshal. i was the commander in chief of the loofah for which i was the interior minister of prussia and so on. and to all that has said, i'm very sorry. i don't remember. clinton hunted the former nazi foreign minister joac

beginning with the naÏve optimism to say go there but truman says i'm going there then he confronts churchilland then immediately says you have to open up palestine and he hints to rebuild your nation you have to help me out. i have a lot of jewish voters and i need the support and then the further argument is just tragic decision have to worry the way you did before the war 6 million jews were killed so the european jews will not overwhelm not millions but a couple hundred thousand and i said if you carried this much that truman is much smarter about domestic politics he knows he can't do that that's not possible and the hostility to the european jews and the misunderstanding is such that congress would never allow that into the country. >> and with truman the scene in the book and it goes back where word gets back to truman the situation is dire and people are suffering and eisenhower goes back and in particular the jewish camps to make a point is that an act of humanity for my romanticizing truman and eisenhower a little bit with more recent events? >> truman and eisenhower come out as he

more important churchill roosevelt and stolen, laid the foundations for permanent peace for united nations organization. crushing germany from the east and west, the allied armies met at the river, and joined hands in celebration of victory. russia and the united states had fought the good fight together. final victory was in hope, of lasting peace were high. took the great architect of victory, was not to see the final -- . franklin roosevelt was dead, more in throughout the world, he left in the united nations organizations, the framework for lasting peace on earth. world war ii ended, and in tokyo general mcarthur spoke for all people talk. >> peace now be restored to the world and let god preserve it always. >> meanwhile in san francisco delegates to 50 nations have meant to form the united nations organization president truman came from washington, for the signing of the charter the soviet union led his precedents for the full expression of men's resolution to live in peace. the nations were united, the big five china russia france britain and united states, led the people of the worl

british prime minister, winston churchill thought hitler's in a circle should be shot without trial. at the terran conference, the allies didn't rule out executing 52100000, german war criminals. soviet leader, joseph stalin raised the idea of an international criminal trial. finally, the us department of war developed the plan for the nuremberg trials. nazi leaders would have to be charged as criminal conspirators who had together planned wars of aggression, then carried out countless crimes and atrocities. and that was a concept that we were charged days leading defenders with conspiring getting together and plotting to see is control of the german government and subject in the german people to its dictatorial control. making the german people themselves victims and eliminating freedom in germany, lemon. and democracy in establishing a ruthless dictatorship. and then having done that, that's the conspiracy then committing the crimes that they did in the name of the german people. there was skepticism in the halls of the us supreme court. it was feared the trials could become someth