we profile the men and women who continue to hunt down nazi war criminals after the nuremberg and dachau trials. on "after words" at 9 p.m. eastern, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on his memoir, "the long game," with senator lamar alexander. and at ten, meg jacobs describes the energy crisis of the 1970s following opec's decision to ban the export of oil to the united states in 1973. we wrap up booktv in prime time at 11 with '60 minutes' correspondent leslie stahl. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> during booktv's recent visit to las vegas, we toured the private book collection of beverly rogers and discussed 19th century printing practices with her. >> i started collecting about 15 years ago. took a break to go back to school and get a master or's degree. i have been collecting seriously now for ten years. i collect books about books, which is a really interesting genre, because it includes everything from anecdotal stories from librarians and booksellers to bib lo graphical minutiae about paper andty position my, and i love it all --ty position my, and i love it

nuremberg, dachau and so forth.and it was unprecedented, but every step of the way it's been controversial right up to today's. >> uh-huh. and what did they, i mean, what were the reasons they opted to go for the trials? were there particular goals besides just holding people accountable? >> yeah. aside from just holding people accountable and the obvious one is somebody has to be punished for all the horrors, there was -- the educational element was there very early. and president truman said at one point what these trials are meant to do is to make it impossible for someone to say now or anytime in the future that these things didn't happen. and that's why immediately you had at the trials documents, film, witnesses -- in some cases witnesses, in some cases documentation. but it was to set the record straight, because so many people were in denial about what had happened, of course, especially in germany and austria, but elsewhere in the world people were only beginning to grasp the magnitude of what had happened.

army prosecutor was in charge of the dachau trials to get those who were actually there carried out theorst work of killing and torturing prisoners. and he espoused a theory called a common design that if you were part of the machinery were guilty whether or not if you killed person x y or z. this is a complete contradiction to the of their case of that controversy was set up. his chiles were overshadowed by one case of the widow of the longest serving commander in was known for going around and flaunting her sexuality and then to respond in any way. will also to have prisoners with tattoos with the lamp shades made of their skin. a lot of this became dubious and later this sentence was reduced and they were furious in washington but even when west germany wanted to end a triose but committed suicide in prison. >> after 1948 the allies' war crime program petered out. and by 1958 everyone who was convicted but not executed was free. so the reasons for the change that we have accomplished. >> there are three and answers. one is the cold war the second is the cold for the third is the cold

they liberated places like dachau and or concentration camps where the nazis sent june speakable numbersf jews to forced labor, and many to their death. they also discovered hidden away in churches and underground mines countless works of art and other valuable cultural property that the nazis had taken from their victims. these stolen treasures were not simply the spoils of war. they were the fruits of a policy that stretched back well before the war to 1933, when hitler and the nazi party took power. this policy called for the systemic discrimination and oppression of jews and other grooms whom the nazis regarded as unacceptable according to their eviliology. the nazis enacted laws denying them citizenship, segregating them from society, banning marriages and ex-appropriating their property. the goal of course was to de-humanize the jewish people, a process that led to the so-called final solution, the nazi phaneuf mitchell for the policy of sternum nation. after all, if a regime is willing to strip people of their citizenship, their homes, their businesses, their precious belongings,

they liberated places like dachau, concentration camps where the nazis sent unspeakable number of jews to forced labor and many to their death. they also discovered hidden away in churches and underground mines countless works of art and other valuable cultural property the nazis had taken from their victims. they were not simply the spoils of war, they were the fruits of a policy that stretched before the war in 1933 when hitler and the nazi party took power. this policy called for the systematic discrimination and oppression of jews and other groups whom the nazis regarded as unacceptable. according to their evil ideology. the nazis enacted laws denying citizenship to jews. segregating them from jaugerman society. banning marriages between them and germans and taking their property. the goal was to dehumanize the jewish people. a process that led to the so-called final solution. the nazi euphemism for the policy of extermation. if a regime is willing to strip people of their citizenship, homes, their businesses, their pressure precious belongings, it is not much further of a step to