. >> some students went from coventry out to dresden, where, of course, they had experienced similar, actually greater devastation to what we had in coventry to help build rebuild one of the hospitals in dresden. the fact we were able to reach out to germany with empathy in the cities is a very powerful story. over the decades that story has attracted many people who carry their own wounds of conflict and of division. >> porter leads the myron industry, which today includes some 160 centers in 30 different countries. the mission is to encourage dialogue, justice, and peace. >> at its heart is the challenge to heal the wounds of history, wounds of conflict, wounds of division. that still remains a big part of what many of its partners do. but also it's about learning to live with difference and to celebrate diversity built into our human relationships. >> the work comes out of the angelic an tradition but goes beyond that. >> we say it's about building the kingdom of god. it's not just for people of faith and religion. that's really important. we can all be working for peace, whatever

stuart: this is a color facsimile of the dresden codex -- actual size, real colors. it's made on, like the others, on bark paper sized with lime plaster, on which the images were painted with fine hair brushes and pigment in about, oh, five or six different colors. keach: many of these books were discovered by the sixteenth century spanish. they were said to be filled with genealogies, prophesies and religious beliefs. but to the spanish conquerors, they were blasphemous. in 1562, bishop diego de landa ordered them destroyed. "we found a large number of books in these characters, "and as they contained nothing "in which there were not to be seen "superstition and lies of the devil, "we burned them all, "which caused them much affliction." ironically, a book by bishop landa himself proved crucial to the understanding of maya writing. stuart: and in it is everything that he observed in yucatan about the maya, about their ceremonial cycles, their ritual calendars. he even had pictures of the glyphs drawn to put in the manuscript. and without that, we would know very lit

she is from eastern germany and was living in trenton when the dresden when the wall fell. she has a magnificent view of what used to be the capital of east germany. her apartment building sits directly on the former no man's land. today, the central location makes this area prime real estate. we pay a visit to her and her family. her husband hails from a village in bavaria in what used to be west germany. they have two children. jimmy is the younger one. she says the construction of her new home was a real adventure. she visited the site every day with her older son. as the basement was being dug out, they discover the foundation of the building that once stood on this property. >> it was like an archaeological dig, she says. you can see the water and heating connections and the pipes. that is johnny, she adds. hans and the boys, introduces to the neighbors. they have two children as well. another neighbor, on a bell, is there with their daughters. they moved there about one year ago. goodocals agree it was a idea to breathe new life into the former death strip. they admit

they were based in dresden.hese artists, like schiele, thoroughly disliked the idea of art as like some sort of beautiful curtain. inspired by what they thought of as the directness, the spontaneity of primitive art, they tried to free themselves from the constraints of civilized life. this picture is by one of them. it's by ernst ludwig kirchner. it was begun in around 1909. it shows how they actually tried to live the myth of the primitive, to act it out for themselves, in what amounted to nudist bacchanals here on the shores of the moritzburg lakes. they decorated their studios as if they were the centers of a new tribal culture, one so free of civilized restraint that they could remake art. later, in munich, the artist franz marc would write in a way that kirchner would have understood. "our ideas and ideals must be clad in hair shirts "and fed on locusts and wild honey, "not on history, "if we're ever to escape the exhaustion of our european bad taste." for the brucke artists, it seemed possible to live and

still had served as japan's first prime minister before assuming the post of dresden general in korea. south korean president cochrane and mets chinese state councilor yoon ji ji and thanked him to thank him for china's cooperation in a project to build a monument on in harbin but in tokyo chief cabinet secretary yoshida said to express displeasure over the project. can you let this man. japan has told the south korean government. that's in albion. and his criminal damage. state. i think that putting up a memorial to him will the auction held by left relations with. he can continue on. my mind. south korea sharply reacted on the sand a foreign ministry spokesperson told taylor said and sacrificed his life before independence of korea and peace in the region. we don't win on japanese politician should be aware of the responsibility and be home when reflecting on history. when i make efforts to understand the feelings of people in neighboring countries. really you wouldn't know who wins. in beijing foreign ministry spokesperson always said that on its also respected in china. ong said c

dresden the pain director cox has also been accused of intimidating journalists and stamping it descends in the years since the war the court ruling is set to be handed down on one of the biggest environmental disasters in your app. three people are currently on trial for their role in the sinking of the proceeds of oil tanker eleven years ago. that prompted fifty thousand tonnes of fuel to pour out onto the spanish custody can see that as latest pictures coming out of madrid of the judges starting to read out to a decision in this case. one of europe's worst environmental disaster areas over the course of an eight month trial hundreds of experts witnesses and trinkets to be inherits defendants include the ship's captain and still is trying to arrest his first officer and former head of spain's merchant navy. no politician has faced trial on this panel the ship's captain and blames the spanish authorities. they are good so i can see after it sent a distress call during a storm of course the aircraft in its hall. a sign there six days late and nine dear said gordon caused it to break up a

and i'm not talking about what evil powers did, what the british did in dresden or what was done to the czeches, that is much worse than lida. and yet other people in europe and elsewhere have overcome it they did not just keep on lingering on that. so i say to the palestinians, yes, i acknowledge that. i recognize that. i feel for you. i think there is a moral obligation for me to establish your independent state but you please move on. don't be stuck with that painful past. because that's part of the palestinian, the problem with the palestinian political, the culture that the victims, the addiction to victimhood is very dangerous. so yes, i understand you, i have empathy i want the dialogue to be based on the past, not ignoring but let's move on. >> you have interviewed and know well benjamin netanyahu. >> i do. >> rose: has he read the book? >> not that i know of. but he was given advice recently to read the book. so i hope will. >> rose: but freedman in the column and probably by other people. my point is though because you know him, does he believe what you have come to believe he

they say, one, her seem ma -- hiroshima; two, dresden bombing, the return of the ethnic germans where i think the figure you come to is of ten million people turfed out of poland, czechoslovakia, etc., ethnic germans, half a million dead, perhaps a bit more. yalta, where we agreed to return russian p.o.w.s to certain enslavement, if not certain death. and the way we revived colonial ism. the same resistance in france. but certainly, i mean, that's become the myth. but the truth was manager like collaboration -- something like collaboration, not resistance. but i find myself very much reacting against that in a sort of visceral way. and there is no equivalence. and one should remember as churchill referred to the moral rot of war, an interesting concept that i saw raised that wars get old. and the bigger they are, the faster they age. and six years in a kind of a loss of patience is 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 just sort of say we destroyed hitler. that was the a

doctorow politely informed her that she probably had kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse five and the dresdenlly there was little reason for anyone else to try. the point here is doctorow's attitude. it leaves one only original territory to explore which is what he is done with all of his work. he has been asked if he has a reader in mind when he sits down to write and he has replied no, it's just a matter of language, of living in sentences. there is no room for a reader in your mind. you don't think of anything but the language you are in. well, edgar i have news for you. you may not have us in mind that you are in a roomful of your grateful readers. edgar. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> before coming here this evening, i thought to say something about what was lately on my mind and what is on all our minds whether we know it or not. something that has swept through our lives and taken us up in ways that are useful and even spectacular but also worrisome. and so ubiquitous and looming lee present in everything we do. the way we communicate and take care of ourselves and find things out and loo

her first question for docotorow from the floor was what made you write about the firestorm at dresdenheard kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse five and -- it been done so beautifully there was little reason for anyone else to try. the point here is docotorow's attitude. it leaves one only original territory to explore which is what he has done with all of his work. he has been asked if he has a reader in mind when he sits down to write and he has replied no, it's just a matter of language, of living in sentences. there is no room for the reader in your mind. you don't think of anything but the language you are in. edgar, i have news for you. you may not have us in mind that you are in a roomful of your grateful readers. edgar. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> before coming here this evening, i thought to say something about what was lately on my mind and what is on all of our minds whether we know it or not. something that has swept your lives and take us up in ways that are useful and even spec secular but also worrisome. and so ubiquitous and looming lee present in everything we do. the way we

that the ordinary german didn't know -- [inaudible] >> we know from diaries like the diary of the dresden-- were starting to find entries and batteries even in the fall of 41 he mentions bobby. so the information is circulating. unlike the allied army, for instance, the germany army. they can't really, the communications are cut off in that regard. people are actually moving back and forth. so yeah, the knowledge was definitely circulating. >> i listened to your book yesterday. i wanted to say first of all, after all this happened -- [inaudible] after listening to the book there are so many women that were involved. after you met some of these people, did anybody ever get prosecuted for what they did? did you ever find somebody who, because of what they did, reported them or something and they got in trouble? >> okay. so most of the women slipped back into society postwar is what you mean. kind of are able to remain inconspicuous, including some of the worst perpetrators. but, of course, the perpetrators i have, thank you i have in the book, i know about them because of the document i sho