teams went to germany and three soviet teams came to the american zone and west germany. then the army was very interested. those were all .ounterintelligence agents they collected on what the soviet officers were doing, they had to give in an itinerary. what they saw, what they asked the people about, what they did in the free time they had, from a counterintelligence standpoint, one mission in the army will. here.er >> it is funny what you thought about the english thought, the americans have a lot of money but they weren't critical thinkers or planners. i'm curious what gave you that sort of impression. >> peter was quoted in a book, there is a book by peter stafford on the tunnel beneath berlin. he interviewed a number of people and saw a number of documents. he states quite a critically he was the founder. look at the official history, which is pretty much one of the few things on the web, the official history of the it makes it murky about the origins of the tunnel, they aren't sure what led to its origin. you read on if battleground berlin, it's pretty clear whose

with east germany. by this point the soviets told them if you are to go into east germany you have to go to the government. will there be a military relationship. there were not going to do that. a final note, the aura of grave registration missing. there is a story and the consciousness, carbonic it was a prisoner of war and he was one of the commandos at the time of this. comrades,veral of his in ahe then talked about slaughterhouse five. they are fictional characters. michael, heave seen is missing today. so it kind of in a nutshell created his that humanitarian activities. thank you very much. [applause] >> how do i put mine on? are you back there? >> i think if you probably just x out of that. interest of time i conserved for the presentation loads. there it goes. i am delighted to be back at the wilson center, i was here last year as a fellow. but i am going to present today is what i completed last year year after being here last i thought i would start out with an anecdote. , was coming back fro

teams going to east germany, and soviet teams went to west germany. then the army was very interested in the escort teams. they were driving up through raymond, those were all counterintelligence agents. they were very interested and collected what these officers were doing. they had an itinerary of what was happening. what they saw and asked the people about. what they did and their free time, what will free time they had. from a counterintelligence standpoint, they were very interested in the soviets. >> over here. >> it was funny what you said about the americans, he had a lot of money. not necessarily the critical thinkers or planners. i am curious as to what gave you that impression. >> the literature states that. peter was quoted in a book about a tunnel beneath berlin. he saw a number of documents, he states quite equivocally he found it and they found it very the curious thing when you look at the official history, on the 25-year-old foia on the web with the official history of the berlin tunnel. it makes it very murky about the origin of the

you are joining us from germany via skype. tell us why you wanted to write this story and how you ended up focusing on these two particular refugees. been spending a lot of time in germany over the last couple of years. chancellor merkel opened up the floodgates allowing a million refugees to enter the country in 2015. wholeed to see how that -- how would would unfold given the power level, what's going on in the united states right now. i've been following it on and off for a couple of years. death was looking for a new way to approach the story and i talked to my editor and said, what about the refugees who didn't make it? what about the ones who went back? i took a bit of research and found a particular character in it ando couldn't hack returned back and discovered his best friend had come with him, they have grown up together, traveled together on the refugee route to germany and this guy managed to make it. the other one bailed out and returned to baghdad. it's a gradual unfolding of the story. it ended up becoming a par

let's also talk about germany. you introduce that earlier andi germany.ier and i would like to return to it. it seems to me that you feel fearful, still, of your own country and your own people. today. 72 years after the liberation of auschwitz. why? you don't know my people as i do. i do not trust them. nobody spoke, a normal german family never really spoke about what our fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers have really seen. whether they work how words, whether they were actively involved in the system. they are silent. this is like a swamp. that swamp was never drained. so he ran dairy in germany you find nowadays —— so here and there in germany you find these poison flowers coming up. meadows full of them. but when you say there is suddenly a meadow full of poison flowers that is where i wonder whether that is fair this interview is being filmed by three young german men in their 20s and 30s. why should they have to bear any sense of guilt or shame or responsibility. no. no guilt, no shame. acknowledge. really acknowledge. if you talk to thes

today i'm in rural northern germany. stable, prosperous, 21st century germany. i'm here to talk about the past and its relationship to the present. my guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank. now, his father was appointed by hitler to be the governor general of nazi—occupied poland. he was intimately involved in the murder of millions of people. so, how has this german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father? niklas, i'm wondering why you have chosen to make your life in the very far north of germany. is it because you wanted to get as far away as possible from yourfamily background in bavaria? no, i still love bavaria. and every year we have about many weeks in bavaria, in the same village where i grew up. but it was my profession as a journalist at stern magazine, which i worked for 23 years, was based in hamburg. so, i had to lure my wife, she was attached to munich, because she is a big gardener, to her house with a big garden, so we've lived here for 33 years. this place where you now live is extraordinarily peaceful. yes, it is. woul

also in the media a lot of about germany trying to why this exit of germany is so complete.n the other hand, there is also tried tong that merkel dominate europe, which was it that the case during the refugee , by not consulting european partners, which would underhave happened records, for example, so there is another kind of relationship with merkel with her european partners. i think this is something that she tries to change because she is also part of -- she has a risensibility also in the of these anti-european movements. so this is -- i don't know if this answers your question, but this is more or less the ambiguous relationship between france and germany. i would say most of the working job giver -- peter: employers. geraldine: employers are of course hoping macron will do reforms like schroeder did, which are very useful. probably the first supporters of macron are the employers. peter: who can win this election, and will strengthen or weaken europe? burkhard: macron will win if he advice anddine's support him all the way. peter: you think le pen has not got a chanc

on migrants coming to germany from the middle east. we saw comments from the german finance minister who said muslims who migrate to europe should understand that are better places to live if they want to live under islamic law. we are seeing a tougher line perhaps from government. >> the tone has completely changed in germany since late 2015 already because these authorities now have to deal with their own administration, which cannot follow with the quantity of people that have come in. it's about 500,000 people that are unaccounted for in germany. so it's very difficult on one side to say that you want to give a silent to people and then have to admit that half of these people almost are unaccounted for. they cannot be located easily, simply because they do not report regularly to the authorities. so i think there is a lot of explaining to do on the home front with regard to this immigration policy, with regard to demonstrating the strategy and clear lines towards the german administration and german public, and there's also, as i m

the trigger to change europe is in germany and it has to be pulled in germany and not elsewhere.ld you do to make that change? how could it happen? a zero output gap, germany does not have significant wage inflation. how do you make that happen? >> that is exactly the problem. that is what i am complaining about in germany all the time. i criticize the german opinion for not even talking about that. this is the main problem. the currency union can only survive if you have symmetry between wage cuts on one hand in happens, andif it then there has to be wage increases to compensate for the wage cuts in the past. this is not happening. and so the desperate attempt of france and italy to do it deflationary will end up nowhere. because if we destroy domestic demand and in greece, spain, and portugal, this will not be politically feasible to the democracies in these countries. so we will see right-wing governments sooner or later if in in 2017 in france, then 2022. and these right-wing governments will then destroy the euro. guy: i think we are on a long road. particularly how the busi

germany could have after the war. one of the really interesting things they did was try to avoid writing things down for security purposes but when they did, and they took them to the estate on the german countryside and they had a special compartment in the beehive, which i was a great place and imagine police come in around. dulles learned something really working for both these groups that map is that they really wanted american health in deposing hitler. not so much in trying to kill him or in a secret operation, that they wanted to promise from the americans that they would treat germany well after hitler had been replaced. they remembered how horrible it ended world war i, how they felt the allies had been towards germany. and they were going to risk their necks because it would be the same thing all over again. dulles was unable to offer assurances and so the resistance did everything they could to commit the americans of their sincerity. they started initially by playing to the well known hatred of the soviet

and stefanie bolzen, from germany's die welt. welcome to you all.et's begin with britain's exit from the european union. last summer, by a margin of 52% to a8, people here voted to leave. theresa may wanted to stay in the eu, but now she has the task of negotiating notjust brexit, as it's become known, but also a trade deal with europe. since 1973, britain's laws have absorbed growing quantities of regulations devised between the 28 member countries, on which a court in luxembourg has the final say. those who want to stay argue this pooling of sovereignty has made it easier to trade and has created new protections in areas like employment or consumer rights. supporters of brexit say it's simply a case of taking back control. michael gove, you were a supporter of brexit, a big advocate during last year's campaign. on wednesday, the tone was sadness on all sides. by friday it had become steely. michael gove, should we be preparing for a long and bloody war between the two sides before the deal is reached? i think we should be preparing for a professio

you were born in east germany. during the beginning of the cold war when there really wasn't a lot of creature comforts. during the second world war and after they have stripped most of what mattered inside east germany. >> that was the world you are born into. i consider myself as a result of world war ii because my parents met because towards the end of the war people would flee the oncoming russian army and they would go west. they wound up in the same space and that's how i got created a 1949. without that were i would not be here. and without and i round up the soviet occupied part of germany that then became the dimmitt craddock republic without communism i would not had signed up with the kgb. and without that i would not had been here and i would not be an american citizen today. this is a bit bizarre but there's a whole lot more to my story that you shake ahead and say that really happens. you would not had been in this position. they may not understand in east germany during that time the war was still ve

such as muervet -- she's also from germany's turkish community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. but she's increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. that's because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. that would undermine turkey's democracy, says muervet. the activist and green party politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkish-german community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. ms. ozturk: if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i can't look away. i'm getting involved because i want to support people here who'd rather vote no. damien: ozturk was born in germany. her parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of freedom in turkey. today, she's worried that turkey is headed in the wrong direction. and she worries that people in germany's turkish comm

[inaudible] that turned open in germany. i lived in germany for 33 years and never saw one of them.[laughter] >> then, i just told you a life. i didn't know that. interesting. >> as a historian, in the 50s and early 60s, you basically had a lot of influx in the marshall plan of america into west germany. maybe there were. >> that's my story and i'm sticking to it. >> were you handed off to the kgb because you are potentially so good? >> i'm not sure that even my first contact. i thought, but in hindsight, the kgb worked was pretty welled off . their speaker which was a german news magazine did some research and they were looking for anything about me in the archives. there's no trace of it. i'm one of the few germans that doesn't have a record in their. i'm guessing that somehow the russians got to me first and told the stasi to stay away from the sky. i don't know what the mcaninch mechanics were, how they could take some people, stasi got most of them. they had a couple thousand of agents and west germany. you wonder why the russians wanted to have somebody else and west germany b

these men must defend their country against attackers from nazi germany. at an amusement park near moscow, hundreds of extras reenact one of the most romantic scenes from world war ii -- the most dramatic scenes from world war ii, storming of the reichstag. >> it was at the government who was for this militarization. he moved to the idea that military force is the most effective military force in foreign policy. >> in the so-called patriot park, muscovites can also marvel at russia's newest weapons. it is a show of force and that seems to be visiting president putin. polls show he is especially marked for raising military preparedness. >> he embodies our country. he is the one who is showing everyone just how strong russia really is. >> and the profile of the armed forces continues to grow. >> here is a no other sign of the rising militarization in russia. a company started selling clothing branded russian army. there are six stores of this kind in russia. this one in moscow is located just across from the u.s. embassy. there are classics to go along with

acknowledging germany and israel would never have a simple relationship. it is calling off the planned meeting with a german foreign minister. she speculated that israel's internal politics are more to blame. >> it is very regrettable to me and i would like to say openly that we should not be allowed to become a political football in israel's domestic politics. there will be other opportunities. i don't see it as a catastrophe. you have to be aware that you are not immune from surprises. the office later released its own reason for the meeting. diplomats are welcome to meet with representatives of civil society. prime minister netanyahu will not meet with those that lend legitimacy to organizations that call for the criminalization of israeli soldiers. relations with germany are very important and they will not be affected by this. both sides are playing down the dispute. tensions have been on the rise. intergovernmental talks planned for may have been postponed. get real decision to ignore an ultimatum issued by netanyahu and meet with israeli groups has

reporter: ozturk was born in germany.er parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of freedom in turkey. today, she's worried that turkey is headed in the wrong direction. and she worries that people in germany's turkish community can no longer express opposition without fear. ms. ozturk: it would be terrible if people were to take revenge after the referendum. in the sense of, they voted no, so let's get them. that would be very dangerous. let's give the taxi driver a flyer. can i give you this? >> it's better if you don't. ms. ozturk: why? >> because you're turkey's enemies. ms. ozturk: we just want people to be able to express their opinions freely. reporter: ozturk finds more support at an event to raise awareness about her "no" campaign among the local kurdish and alevi communities. they are generally more critical of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan and his plans. ozturk knows that every vote from germany will count. ms. ozturk: let's not forget deniz yucel. that he's in jail in turke

reaching germany, seized american ships.roduced a new weapon of war, the u-boat. it can strike without warning. in 1915 or menu boats sank over 90 ships, leading up to the election of 1916. many americans favored the allies in the war and embraced president wilson urging to remain impartial in thought as well as in action. at this time, one third of u.s. citizens were either born in europe or descendents of european immigrants. sympathy for both countries on both sides of the conflict ran high. the descendents of german immigrants found themselves torn, on the one hand identifying firstly as americans yet on the others sympathizing with their relatives abroad. when the u.s. entered the war german-americans were labeled alien enemies and faced severe restrictions on their civil liberties. irish-americans preferred neutrality as well at the prospect of the u.s. entering the war on the side of the british, in an enactment to irish nationalist sentiment. lusitania led the many americans to call for an immediate reprisal against

and 10,000 times stronger than the real thing — we take a look at an artificial sun in germany and whatergy supply. welcome to world business report. i'm sally bundock. also in the programme, the euro has spiked in value following the outcome of sundays vote in france. rico will have the latest in a moment. but first, as you've been hearing, the french have voted on who will go though to the final run—off for the presidency on may 7th. as widely expected, centrist emmanuel macron and far—right marine le pen are through. it's been the most unpredictable presidential election in france's history but there are some constants — namely, the economic problems and challenges that remain whoever walks into the elysee palace. a key issue is unemployment, currently at 10% in france. almost three million people are out of work. not as bad as some eurozone neighbours, but above average for the region and far worse than, for example, germany, where it is below 4% and the uk it's 4.7%. deep—rooted structural problems make its labour market inflexible. one example, companies find it it harder and less

germany was associated in my mind with atrocity and terrible crimes, i didn't want to go back to germanyrror glorified. nothing heroic about it at all. it shows how human beings can be debased in times of war. so you did go back to germany and you scoured nazi offices and archives and trying to find evidence of the nazi atrocities by german doctors, officers, lawyers, judges and generals. it was quite all pervasive, wasn't it, the people that were involved in the atrocities. the united states in particularfelt the international military tribunal trial against hermann goring was just a camera shot of a small sampling, and in order to really understand how a civilised country like germany could commit and tolerate the kind of atrocities that were committed, you should understand the position that doctors who perform medical experiments, the lawyers and judges that perverted the law, the ss murderers of course that did the killings, the industrialists that were working people to death. all of these were specific groups. so the united states said let us take a sampling from each of these gro

returned to germany.he threat of renewed blockade on their food supply or invasion by the allied armies, the germans sent the small delegation back to paris to sign. on june 28, 1919, these new german representatives and all the 27 allied delegations convened in the hall of mirrors at versailles to witness the signing of the treaty. many of our american colleagues witnessed the glittering ceremonies with sinking hearts for the future of the world. all of the allied statesman left paris. the doors close, the alienating president came home. , a senator from idaho said it took george washington seven years to gain independence from george the third and now my friends, they want to give it back to george the fifth. and senator hiram johnson added, he is asking us to hand of american destiny over to the secret counsels of europe. it is the duty of senators of this nation to keep america american. a few democratic senators said it was the end of american independence. the league was in mortal danger. woodrow wi

germany had invaded but refused to take responsibility for feeding the populous.ade prevented ships from entering belgian ports. on october 22nd, 1914, herbert hoover established an organization to procure and deliver food to the starving belgian population, rescuing a nation from certain ruin. >> there was no former human experience to turn for guidance. it would require that we find the major food supply for a whole nation, raise the money to pay for it, get it passed navies at see and occupy on land. set up an agency of distribution of supplies for everybody justly and see that the enemy took none of it. it was not relief in any known sense. it was the feeding of a nation. ♪ the nation is sad as can be a message came over the sea ♪ a thousand or more who sent from ashore have gone to eternity ♪ the statue of liberty high must now have a tear in her eye ♪ i think it's a shame someone is to blame, but all we can do is just sigh ♪ some of us lost a true sweetheart, some of us lost a dear dad ♪ some lost their mother, sisters and brothers, some lost the best friend

reportrter: ozturk was born nn germany. her parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of frfreedom in turke. today,y, she's worried that tury is headed in the wrong direction. and she worries that people in germany's turkish community can no longer express opposition without fear. ms. ozturk: it would be terrible if people were to take revenge after the referendum. in the sense of, they voted no, so let's get them. that would be very dangerous. let's give the taxi driver a flyer. can i give you this? >> it's better if you don't. ms. ozturk: why? >> because you're turkey's enemies. ms. ozturk: we just want people to be able to express their opinions freely. reporter: ozturk finds more support at an event to raise awareness about her "no" campaign among the local kurdish and alevi communities. ththey are generally more crcril of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan and his plans. ozturk knows that every vote fromom germany w will count. ms. ozturkrk: let's not forgrt tayyip edeniz yucel.is plans.

. -- as a pawn to put pressure on germany. there is a glimmer of hope that his situation will improve. brent: the former south african president, who helped end apartheid come has called for action against cultural religious and ethnic discrimination. the era of mono-ethnic societies are over as societies because -- become more heterogeneous. the church, rebuilt after was destroyed in world war ii, has set up a program to teach local children to think about ways to make the city more multicultural. our reporter has been speaking to one of the school teams. reporter: they say they are united even if their home city of dresden is not. these 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.

it would be far easier for germany to create jobs for refugees injordan than it is in germany. they'd have a job, yeah. even now, you'd send them back? i'm not in the business of sending people back. the german government... but that is the logic of your position. the german government, i would remind you, is actually sending people back, that's the model now. i believe it's sensible for europe to take some. one of our principles is solidarity, everybody, every country has a duty of rescue, and that duty of rescue is partly to provide haven. you talk about politicians acting as headless chickens, you also talked about an international system that was broken — in part, because it's dependent on the unhcr, which you say is effectively working to laws that were devised just after 1950. we have a situation now where the president, the new american president, is talking about cutting funding, a 28% budget cut to diplomacy and foreign aid, and that would include the money that goes to the unhcr, and america funds more than a quarter of the unhcr. given how critical you are of it, do

here in germany was up one arrest for many years here in germany was up one arrest was for many yearsin connection with those three explosions targeting the team bus yesterday. this is the latest on the investigation. a narrow escape from a targeted attack on the borussia dortmund football team. three roadside explosions triggered at the same time last night as the coach left its hotel in the south of dortmund. the spanish international marc bartra was sitting close to the window. he is being treated for a broken wrist. translation: marc bartra is being operated on right now for a broken bone in his right hand. and he has various glass shards that had been blasted into his arm. the team through their captain marcel schmelzer just rang me. they are still very shocked and thinking about marc. we hope he recovers quickly. also injured was a police officer escorting the team to the stadium. federal investigators have detained one man, suspected of links to islamist terrorism. one of two suspects whose apartments were raided this morning. authorities are attempting to verify a letter left

is germany trying to do that? >> not in the slightest and they can't because the mosques and the cultural centers are telling them not to assimilate. the saudis offered to fund mosques. it's like a jihadist kit. there's no assimilation. there's no dealing with the culture of germany in any meaningful way and have a lot of young males who are a problem on a good day. >> tucker: so germany is the economic engine of europe. why would they do that? >> it's the pc mentality that says let's make the world a better place. i share that. i didn't mean you should bring all of them to a country where they don't have the ability to fit in. have you right now 50% of german women say they're scared to go out at night alone. that's a problem. even the 50% crime stats is a artificially lows because the police republic told to under report the crimes. the bureaucrats don't want the results of their policies exposed. >> tucker: what you're describing is masochism. you're describing a country that wants to hurt itself. >> or feels g

and that will mean that he and others in germany's jewish community can rest at ease. >> u.s.sident donald trump has told the german chancellor, angela merkel, that the world must find a solution to the problems posed by north korea. now, their phone conversation followed earlier remarks to ambassadors from the united nations security council at the white house. trump called for additional and stronger sanctions against north korea. he said its nuclear and ballistic missile programs pose a real threat to the world and that it is finally time, he said, to solve the problem. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. defense secretary jim mattis is in afghanistan on an unannounced visit, as the trump administration seeks to craft a new strategy in the country. now, he met afghan president, ashraf ghani, and u.s. commanders. they arrived just hours after his afghan counterpart resigned, following the deadliest taliban attack on security forces to date. anti-government protests in venezuela have entered their fourth week with demonstrators b

that intended to undermine germany. >> narrator: hitler believed germany lost world war i because ofews. >> therefore, if germany was to become powerful again, if it was to rise from the defeat of 1918 and maybe have another war, it could only be successful if the jews were driven out from behind the german lines. >> narrator: at the time, jews were less than one percent of the german population. >> the other nations would not accept them fast enough. he could drive out some but not all. the nazis realized as time passed, not only could they not drive out their own jews, but as they expanded they would keep acquiring more jews. and this became the central dilemma between 1938 and 1941. >> narrator: hayes says one of the most frequently asked questions is why did the jews not fight back? >> they would have had to have been clairvoyant to understand what was coming and to overcome all their internal disagreements, and then no one could have anticipated the diabolical nature in which the germans divided the jewish community in order to rule it, because they gave privileges to some peopl

is germany trying to do that? >> not the slightest and they can't. they have a difficulty because the mosques and cultural centers are telling them not to assimilate. the saudi's offered to fund a 200 mosques for the syrian refugees there. that's like a jihadist starter kit. they have the most extreme preachers and mosques in the world so there a problem. there is no assimilation. there is no basically any dealing with the culture of germany in a meaningful way, and they've got a lot of young males who are problem on a good day. >> tucker: germany is one of the richest countries in the world, the economic engine of europe, what would they do this? >> if the euro kratz. it's that pc mentality that says we want to make the world a better place. i share that. i want to help people who are in trouble. if that doesn't mean you should uproot them, but the move and bring all of them to a country where they don't have the ability to fit in. right now, you got 50% of german women saying they're scared to go out at night alone. that's a problem. even the 50% r

the problem is, we have france, germany and italy refusing to take action.y dragged their feet over economic sanctions over crimea. what happens if russia marks —— marches troops into an allied country? they are happy for innocent children to be gassed and they will do nothing. they should be ashamed. this is a collective failure of british diplomacy. it is a failure of germany, france and italy. the point is we have to persuade. if we have to persuade western democracies to ta ke to persuade western democracies to take action against a man who is it a tottering demagogue supporting a mass murderer, i'm not sure i want those people to be my allies. president obama didn't do anything. he has blood on his hands. i think president obama has a lot to answer for. a failure to take any action. that is the one blot on his presidency. we are not going to analyse the legacy of president obama. i would have voted for him but i don't think he was a great president. sometimes you don't get to choose your allies, sometimes you have to say what is the objective we all wan

however, the appeal for more spending was rejected by germany.ere is the german foreign minister. >> to present would mean that germany would put 70 billion euros into the military. i do not know any politician in germany that would claim that this is achievable or even desirable. anchor: the president of the european council, donald tusk, has unveiled a blueprint on how great britain will separate from the eu. he said the talks on issues like trade between the eu and britain would not begin until progress is made on the terms of the divorce. also, the fate of eu citizens in britain and those brits in the eu will be a priority, and britain must fulfill all financial obligations to the eu. scotland's first minister has sent a letter to the british premise or theresa may -- prime minister theresa may, demanding that the government in london allow a second referendum with scottish independence. the letter says that the people of scotland who had chosen to remain part of the eu must be allowed to choose their own future and exercise their right to se