reporter: they say they are united even if their home city of dresden is not.se teenagers from the high school to come the challenge of producing a film about how to make dresden more multicultural. in the wake of the migration crisis, it has been a hot bed of anti-immigration tension. >> a lot of people are saying the topic of refugees is old news. but it is still a huge issue. every monday people take to the streets to protest against the fact he is taking in refugees. they are scared, and we want to take a stand against that sort of xenophobia. reporter: to get their message across in the film, they presented their ideas on multiculturalism and acted out seems to confront the negative attitudes towards migrants they have seen. it was the teenager's first film and they say making it was tougher than expected. they worked on it in their free time as well as in their school ethics class. but interviewing a syrian refugee family was the biggest learning experience for the group. they found out first hand the difficulties that migrants face in dresden. >> there a

nashville, dresden. close above the dresden monument. atxander p stewart chattanooga. there are many confederate monuments. most to be found in tennessee towns and cities. , on two of the major battlefields, shiloh and , the union monuments vastly outnumbered the confederate monuments there. on the shiloh battlefield in chattanooga -- let me show you shiloh -- there are 150 orimental gun battle monuments to union forces. backattanooga -- let's go over there -- union battlefield monuments line this narrow bridge and are scattered across of lookoutand crest mountain. look at that up on that hill in the woods. there they are. cravens' house on the terraces. toally it is all donated union soldiers. in fact, there are more union monuments in tennessee than there are confederate monument. at the same time, there are almost no tributes to tennessee union soldiers, just this one at the nashville cemetery and this one at the county courthouse in east tennessee. the tennessee civil war monumentation reflects the same divided tennis -- the divisions that divided tennessee during

were going to bomb dresden. we're going to roll that country, go through there like sherman through georgia, only more and teach them that war is not an option. >> so sometimes, violence makes things worse. by the way, that worked. >> but that violence work, that we can control violence. >> the worst bumper sticker in the world is the one that says war is not the answer because every time i see that sticker i say it depends on what the question was. if the question was should we eradicate the jewish people on the planet, maybe war is the answer. if were going to bomb dresden, maybe war is the answer. >> were succeeded after sherman. >> we have to maintain our humanity. even in thinking, this is where foreign-policy experts do their job, we have to think about things people would rather not think about. >> we have to maintain our humanity doing it. >> you also mention within your question this overreliance on the military dissolved every international problem and i think we can certainly see lots of evidence to s

american consciousness through "slaughterhouse 5" because kurt vonnegut was a prisoner of war in dresden at the time of the bombing in february 1945. he lost several of his comrades as prisoners, which he then talked about in "slaughterhouse 5," using them as fictional characters. but one of these soldiers is still missing today. despite efforts on the part of u.s. government, he has not been recovered yet. in a nutshell, i hope this integrated the humanitarian factors, political, military, and some intelligence in this presentation. thank you very much. [applause] prof. macrakis: how do i put mine on? are you back there? >> i think if you probably just x out of that. and then it should -- prof. macrakis: in the interest of time, i can start before the presentation loads. there we go. i am delighted to be back at the wilson center. i was actually here last year as a fellow. what i'm going to present today is a chapter i completed last year. apropos being here last year, i thought i would start off with an anecdote. i was coming back from a hike, and we were getting on the metro. there wa

so we are going to bomb dresden. we are going to destroy the country. we're going to go there like sherman through georgia, only more, and teach them that war is not an option. sometimes violence makes things worse. and that worked. violence --ntrol that bumpere i see sticker, it depends on what the question is. if the question is, should we eradicate the jewish people from the planet, maybe war is the answer. but we have to maintain our humanity. this is where foreign-policy experts do their job. we have to think about things people would rather not think about and maintain our humanity doing it. >> you also mentioned within your question, this overreliance on the military to solve every international problem. we can certainly see lots of evidence to support that claim. in part that goes back to the fact that most americans are very distant from the military, what it actually means. it is what the opposite of what walter was saying, since we are the ones engaged in the action as a country, but most of the people aren't engaged in it. america went to th

so we're going to bomb dresden. were going to destroy that country. we're going to go through there like sherman through georgia on the more and teach them that war is not an option. so sometimes violence makes things worse. and by the way that worked. >> what did it teach us. >> that we can control violent. >> the worst bumper-stickering world is one says war is not the answer. every time i see that i say it depends on what the question was. if the question is, shall we eradicate the jewish people from the face of the planet? then maybe war isn't the answer. if the question is made we should bomb -- >> georgia didn't secede after sherman. >> i think we are maintain our humanity, even in thinking, i think this is where foreign-policy experts do their jobs and say we had to think about things people would rather not think about and we are to make it our humanity doing it. >> you also though mentioned within your question this overreliance on the military to solve every international problem. >> yes. >> i think we could certainly see lots of evidence to