he would have done better that a german nationalist would have done better than hitler because hitler when faced with going down the best nazi route or rman route would choose the former. >> charlie: why? >> because he was a one-horse pony. that's all he had. >> charlie: a j.j. abrams mie and a book about the second world war when we continue. >> funding was provided by the followin pass every time a storefront opens. for a real hero, support small business. shop small. >> charlie: additional funding provided by these funders. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: j.j. abrams is here and written and direct and produced some of the most successful television shows and films in recent memory. [♪] >> i can't believe it. i' officially become a cheater. i am a cheater. i cheated on ben and now the paper. >> fine, don't get caught this time. >> it's getting published. >> a ten people that read the uny journal. >> i don't need any of that. >> how far are they coming. >> are you listening to me? the only way you're goi

hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through a bridge that used to be right here what hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him but even took a stone lying amongst the ruins with them. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor of the third reich. church in breast fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside. it was from here that the defenders of breast fortress launched their first counterattack. scores of german and soviet soldiers died here.

the writer was adolph hitler and the letter his first written call for killing of jews. >> reporter:it is a four page letter adolph hitler wrote when he was a young soldier in the army, he writes in one paragraph calls on his government to have the courage to remove all jews from its midst. >> before he ever heard of the nazi party hitler had a plan for the jews, he had a deep seeded hatred and anti-semitism that burned within him. >> reporter: the original document known as the gimlic letter was revealed for the first time in new york's simon weizenthal letter, it purchased the letter from a private dealer in california for $auto 150,000. the letter was reportedly found in the final months of world war i, scattered among the papers on the floor. the letter will be the centerpiece of the holocaust exhibit of the museum of tolerance in los angeles. >> it's very important for future generations to see this was one man's hatred. >> reporter: the museum's trustees are comfortable with the decision to pay thousands of dollars for hitler's work, because they feel it is too important to sta

after nine days of fierce fighting hitler's forces captured most of the fortress but their losses amounted to almost nine thousand there were reports that isolated defenders remain resisting the nazis as late as august one hitler and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler picked up from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war. i'm often asked why. it was the biggest award for you the one most valued from that was the most precious award for me was that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived but what could i understand of four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself that i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how one human being can do violence to another i've lived my life never doing any harm to anybody.

today let's start from the beginning of operation barbarossa why did hitler decide to invade. to look always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one slight underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism of bolshevism and that was what he really put out to your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads my hitler's book it's clear that he always wanted to carve out a living space. and do so expansive the people he regarded as racially inferior and when he announced operation barbarossa he told his staff that it was a war of annihilation didn't he he he thought in terms of a war of survival. it was going to be the survival of the fittest and it didn't take einstein to realize the consequences and thought that there would be horrific losses. and that was and. how unexpect

and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler beaked up from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war. i'm often asked what was the biggest award for you the one most valued from. the most precious award for me was that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived but you know what could i understand it four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself that i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how one human being can do violence to another i've lived my life never doing any harm to anybody. our team. next hour to talk to british historian dr michael jones has written extensively about world war two he shared his knowledge about why hitler invaded the u.s.s.r. and how the soviet people balance to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the soviet union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of sheer res

how unexpected was the invasion i mean hitler and stalin had signs the molotov ribbentrop. back to making them allies onesie allies of course but allies nonetheless they were allies and the soviet union was caught by surprise and this was stalin this great blond stalin was not naive but he thought that germany would not attack in one thousand forty one he thought your type would come late and he believed that he could use this product to develop the soviet union's and sphere of influence and at the same time. the right on me and transfer industry was beyond your own mountains but in fact he got it very very badly wrong and of course the red army was cool d.p. unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about this is a human story behind the how did it develop militarily during the conflicts at the beginning at nine hundred forty one on the right i mean was that sort of. by the order of nine hundred forty one at a loss between two and three million tons of killed in this thing and. i think few are as in the world could you sustain that level of punishment and still car

former soviet republics more than twenty seven million victims killed in the fight against hitler is true to this day seventy years ago the nazi invasion of the soviet union the bloodiest conflict in the region's history became known as the great patriotic war. when next we talk to british historian and author dr michael jones well known for his books on world war two he told r.t. what motivated there's decision to invade the soviet union seventy years ago and what helped the soviet troops win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name to germany's invasion all to save the union it became the largest ever military operation based in terms of resources deployed and also in casualties datsun michael jones's new book tells the story of the red ole me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today let's start from the beginning of operation why did decide to invade. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the eviden

and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler picked up from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war. i'm often asked what was the biggest award for you the one most valued from that war the most precious award for me is that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived. what could i understand of four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself that i realize what a life is worth now i'm a fierce pacifist i hate war i don't understand how one human being can do violence to another i live my life never doing any harm to anybody. you could integrate your war our team. bellows. in a few minutes our two sit down with world war two historian michael jones despite germany claims that they obeyed the rules of engagement dr jones believes some of them were waging a genocidal war on the eastern front. part of the war the german claimed it was fighting a clean war and it was. the units behind the army and it was the us that with. stuff. that was not many were affected by

up to nine days of fierce fighting hitler forces captured most of the fortress but their losses amounted to almost nine thousand there were reports that isolated defenders remain resisting the nazis as late as august one hitler and mussolini personally visited the site of the battle it's claimed that a stone hitler from the remains of the fortress was found in his office after the war there i'm often asked what was the biggest award for you the one most valued for. the most precious award for me was that i stayed alive everyone was fighting like true heroes but few survived but you could understand it four years of age nothing it's only now that i'm a father and grandfather myself i realize what a life is worth. i hate war i don't understand how one human being can change to another i've lived my life never doing anything to anybody. in the gradual our team effort. it's a twenty four pm here in moscow we've got sports in twenty minutes it's got news of a forty year old person thought almost upset a five time champion away ball though that's out of the sport later but it's that wednesday

hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through a bridge that used to be right here what hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him even took a stone lying amongst the ruins. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor of the third reich. church fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside. it was from here that the defenders of breast fortress launched their first counterattack . scores of german and soviet soldiers died here. the time has come for mutual forgiveness. we must live in peace. it's not that we should forget the past it must not be forgotten. we might forgive. children now play a fortress where military hardware dating back to the one nine hundred forty s. is on display they knew about that war only from books and films. on holidays veterans told tourists about the war. and other survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith in the ultimate victory troops. comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years

what motivates hitler's decision to invent the same unit seventy years ago want to help the civil troops to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the soviet union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of sheer resources deployed and also in casualties and michael jones's new book tells the story of the red old me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. to say well let's start from the beginning of operation barbarossa why did decide to invade the. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave

at first glance it may not seem like my kind of book but the book is that 1933/34 with hitler and the whole deal but this is exactly my kind of thing because it is about a period that people think they know an awful lot about but i would argue don't. there is a tendency to view the period 1933 through 1945 as one homogeneous horror or the holocaust when really it was phases. and you may have heard me talk about this it is a hard time. talk about the dark country of new ideas. we want to be productive. i don't want to sit around sucking my thumb so back about five 4/6 years ago wondering what i would do next. to browse the history section to get an idea of what looks interesting. what covers turn me on zero or turn may off to start my mind thinking. two bmi must read list i have never read it because it was too intimidating. some of your thinking it is the bible but when shares rise and fall of the third reich. it is like a thriller i fell in love with the. it was a terrific book and only one-third of the way through the book i realized william had been there and had come to berlin and

what motivated the hitler's decision to invade the soviet union seventy years ago want to help the soviet troops win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the save the union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of resources deployed and also in casualties dr michael jones's new book tells the story of the red told me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today now let's start from the beginning of operation why did decide to invade the u.s.s.r. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one it's flights underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism bolshevism and that was what he really put out to you or that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a man that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if o

and -- lit hitler's life. and when they got all the files, bonhoeffer was with technically in what was like the cia, they had smuggled papers there. and when a different faction took over and they got the keys to all the files, he was guilty as could be. >> he was found out. yes, sir. >> so you mentioned that universities in europe became very secular, but africa became very religious. does it bother you that more educated part of population became secular, but very uneducated became very religious? and yesterday professor christopher lectured here, and he said people who do not believe in evolution should not use cell phone. [laughter] or if you don't believe in science, you should not use the fruit of science, you can pray. [laughter] what is your -- >> yeah. i believe in evolution, but i also use a cell phone. [laughter] yeah. well, that's an extreme statement, but there is something to it. in general, it's been not only evolution, but many other features. i did an eight-volume study, six-volume study of fu