of hitler's remains. there is that in most of the witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth and the dentures i was shows with the style and was immediately informed about the remains and their identification. and you know he now knew that hitler was destiny to get him off. yet 7 weeks later at the popstar conference stalin told his western allies that the dictator was in good health and had probably defected. but you must tell him why didn't stalin tell his allies probably because keeping it a secret could prove useful for those that are sure that. the settlers in the story of hitler's death shows how suspicious stalin was of the west. stalin's lie about hitler's death was held for almost 50 years old proof of hitler's death was kept under wraps until the soviet union became history only them was the truth finally tell 1st. year if you will nothing can be hidden gullible young. earth everything comes out in the end. for the serviette union world war 2 began in june 1941 after a surprise invasion b

that was before hitler took power. he made a very specific decision to fight against hitler. against injustice. he was not jewish but he had a lot of jewish friends. and he saw this rising anti- stigmatism. and intelligence for women rights and minorities. and he spent his career and he put it online and made himself into an artistic activist. so he created to work which was criticizing, not all christianity, motivation of christian teachings. there's a judge in the back that is criticizing political corruption. and then here in the front you see him criticizing the major generals that got the country involved into world war i. here's another work that again, the tried to say it was criticizing christianity. it was not. it was the use of jesus to create the war. and there was so much popularity, actually relied even the quakers in america, who god bless them are not going for being art savvy. people defended him and really praised his delivery. immigrated to america. eventually died here. i felt attached to him. i live between germany and america. and when a lot of german sab

so "hitler's last hostages" explores the many ways in which for hitler also the deliberate distraction looting apart is a key strategy. hitler wanted to control not only what the germans pahpa with this author you wanted to limit creativity to aryans alone. this book tells these stores but she tells stories of artists who courageously fought against hitler's proclamation, risking their lives to create art church also tells the story of other more cowardly artists who sought as hard as they could to follow hitler's proclamations whether they were about hating jews or about the proper use of canvas and paint. she tells enthralling stories about the victims of nazi art obfuscation and also about the machinations of profiteers who sold the confiscated art outside of germany to profit the nazis and themselves. we're fortunate tonight to a few of these stories. mary, the book concentrates around one in the news story the fighting of -- when did you first hear of this story? >> 4 a.m. in november of 2013 i was actually here in manhattan as a chief european art reporter for the "wall street jo

hail hitler. hail hitler. i have those documents are birth certificates all the way back to their great-grandparents proving there are a few aryan. the mother wants to call her son hunts. (speaking foreign language) ross hands seems to be okay for the time being. this is their hereditary passport. germany needs shoulder soldiers. (speaking foreign language) as a reward, they get a copy of germany's best seller. now let us see what happens to one of hitler's children. kindergarten and little han han han learns little hands hans learns the fairytales. do you remember the wicked witch and sleeping beauty? who can the witch be and who can sleeping beauty be? law, here comes the prince. the prince is victorious democracy has fled. and the brave handsome night, you know who he is. the beautiful princess is germany and the prince breaks the spell with a kiss. and the breed handsome night, you know who he is. hail hitler. hail hitler. (speaking foreign language) (speaking german) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the moral of this nazi fairyt

beginning with the hitler's assumption of power in 1933 he feared the worst for all of europe.his father leo was warning people when this was still germany's problem about the rise of fascism and political campaigns against nazi alliance and canada and in 1937 he began looking at visas for members of his family and cannot afford for the mall to get out and cannot get visas for them all to get out but he sent his two twin sons, again hans on the left and luke on the right to america, basically to escaped hitler and to escape the [inaudible] his friends and family members thought he wasas crazy and said this is not our problem and this is germany's problem and you will send your boys away to america with cowboys and indians and they saw this as a rash step. and they sought as an overreaction to a political problem that was still hundreds of miles away but obviously leo, in hindsight was quite present. he would write these letters which the family shared with me long typewritten letters which were both passionate and dutiful in the telling of mundane daily events at work but also

hitler is a stunk. hitler as a pin cushion. hitler on a toilet bowl. you see american heroes like captain america, this is a reproduction of the first issue of "captain america" where he is punching out hitler. then you also see hitler as a mad man as a murderer. a wanted poster for hitler. buttons that show hitler wanted for murder. one with a string on it that says, let's pull together, where uncle sam, pull the spring and you lynch hitler, hang him from a tree. there's a range of opinions about hitler and a range of images of hitler. he remains a key figure in our popular culture. the poster art from wartime i think is graphic fascinating but the messages are fascinating. what you see here in a poster like this with the dagger going through the bible is naziism being portrayed as an enemy of christianity or naziism with this deliver us from evil portrayed as an enemy of american children, naziism as an enemy of american values. what you don't see here is naziism as an enemy of europe's jews. the key here is to understand that americans go to war to

or hitler as a skunk, hitler's a pincushion, hitler on a toilet bowl.e also see american heroes, like captain america. this is a reproduction of the first issue of captain america, where captain america is punching out hitler. but then you also see hitler as a madman and a murderer. a wanted poster for hitler's, buttons that show hitler wanted for murder, and even one with a string on it saying, let's pull together, where you can lynch hitler. you hang him from a tree. there is a range of opinions about hitler and a range of images of hitler, but he remains a key figure in our popular culture. the poster art from wartime is graphically fascinating, but also, the messages are fascinating. what you see here in a poster like this one, with the dagger going through the bible, is nazism being portrayed as an enemy of christianity, as an enemy of american children, as an enemy of american values. but what you don't see here is nazism as an enemy of european jews. the key here is to understand that americans go to war to fight fascism to defeat nazi germany, b

hitler on a toilet bowl. you also see american heroes like captain america, this is a reproduction of the first issue of captain america where kept america is punching out hitler. but then you also see hitler as a mad man and as a murderer. so a wanted poster for hitler, buttoned that show hitler wanted for murder and even one with a string on it that says, let's pull together, we are uncle sam, you can pull the string, and your lunch hitler. there's a range of opinions on hitler and a range of images but he remains a key figure in our popular culture. the poster art from wartime i think is graphically fascinating, but also the messages are fascinating. what you see here in a poster like this one with a dagger going through is nazism being portrayed as an enemy of christianity, or nazism with this deliver us from evil, for trade is an enemy of american children. nazi hasn't enemy of american values, but what you see is nazism as an enemy of europe's jews. the key here is to understand that americans go to war

or hitler as a skunk, hitler is a pincushion, hitler on a toilet bowl. he also see american heroes, like captain america. this is a reproduction of the first issue of captain america, with captain america punching out hitler's. you see hitler as a madman and a murderer. a wanted poster, buttons that showed him wanted for murder, and even one with a string on it saying, let's pull together, where you can lynch hitler's. there is a range of opinions about hitler, but he remains a key figure in our popular culture. what you see here in a poster like this one, with the dagger going through the bible, is nazism per trade as an enemy that portrayed as an enemy of christianity. -- portrayed as an enemy of christianity. nazism is an enemy of american values. what you don't see here is nazism as an enemy of european jews. america's go to war to fight fascism, to defeat nazi germany, but the message is not to rescue jews. the priority is not to rescue jews. that's an essential question we ask in this exhibition. that's one quick -- why a rescue jews didn't become

now let's see what happens to one of hitler's children.dergarten, and little hans learns thefairytales of the new order. remember sleeping beauty. hans was taught the wicked witch was democracy. and sleeping beauty, who can she be? here comes the prince. ♪ the prince is victorious. democracy has fled. the prince breaks the magic spell with a kiss. the beautiful princess is germany. and the brave, handsome knight, you know who he is. ♪ >> the moral of this nazi fairy tale seems to be hitler got germany on her feet, slimed into t the saddle and took her for a ride. the distortion of this tale has its purpose many molding the young nazi mind. hitler becomes hans' idol. one day hans became sick. his mother is praying he get sick. he knows the unfit are taken away by the state and are never heard of again. [ speaking foreign language ] >> this superman has just reminded hans' mother that unless this stops, the state will have to step in and take over. hans recovered. back in school, he is giving his daily pledge to fight, obey and die for his f

kaiser wilhelm, benito mussolini, at off hitler's, stalin and his soviet successors -- adolf hitler, stalin and his soviet successors. i would like to turn to the meat of the book and look at a couple of important episodes in this history. i would like to begin by turning to the first world war, which began in the summer of 1914. the u.s. entered the war in 1917. wars can do peculiar things to societies. world war i was no exception. it caused unsavory attitudes to bubble to the surface of american life. the german state and its people were portrayed in barbaric terms. german-americans and all things >> german-americans and all things german ultimately would be scorned in this country. the german language was no longer taught in schools. german books were removed from library shelves. there were book burnings in america of german language books. more trivially, sauerkraut became liberty cabbage. hamburgers, liberty steak. german measles, yes, liberty measles. but more seriously, germans were tarred and feathered. they were beaten. a drunken mob lynched a german labor in a small town

there is a guy who portrays hitler. and, at the appropriate moment captain america turns around and punches hitler in the phase. if you look at it closely, it inspires a cover of a comic book. this comic book. captain america number 1. now, this is the actual real captain america number 1. it came out long before the attack on pearl harbor, and we talked about in class that joe simon, jack kirby, the people who produced what would later be called the marvel comics line of comics. they had a number of names back in the day. timely, atlas, etc., etc. they said, you know we are trying to make a statement against the isolation. let's just make our separate american peace with hitler, so he will leave us alone. we don't need to get involved in the world. let's just leave hitler alone and he will leave us alone. the poster said, when did hitler ever leave anybody alone if he had a chance to invade them? no, we need a hero that will express the need to fight hitler. there was a concern, because hitler was a dictator that might

, inevitably against japan once hitler was defeated. perhaps no one will ever really explain winston churchill's opposition to d-day. what we can do at last 75 years after the landings is see exactly how the president of the united states went about defusing churchill's time bomb. in cairo. and insisting as the president did that the d-day operation be carried out as agreed at quebec, saving d-day in other words. churchill was furious, boiling with rage in fact. the two men flew to tehran as fdr arriving. where fdr got stalin to promise to back the d-day invasion with a simultaneous russian offensive on the eastern front which would force the vie mar to fight on two fronts which the germans would unable to pull from the east to reinforce the armies facing the allies. operation begratsion. he also promises stalin to join the war against japan once hitler surrenders. fdr's trip to cairo and tehran was thus was historic. a triumph. when churchill was asked by his doctor whether anything had gone wrong, he snapped, a bloody lot wrong has go

called i saw hitler. except erupted in cosmopolitan magazine, so we are showing that issue from cosmopolitan here. and thompson gets many things right. she says antisemitism is a life and soul of hitler's movement, the nazis lose no opportunity to insult the jews, but she also says that there is no way that this guy can become chancellor of germany. so she sees that antisemitism is essential to nazi ideology. she can't imagine a 1931 that people become chancellor of germany, and this is a good representation of how america's thought about hitler early on. some of them saw real danger and understood his appeal to germans at the time, but others thought that there is no way that he would last. and you see both of those things in thompson's article. one of the most interesting projects the museum launched before the exhibition opened is called history unfolded, and it is a crowd source website where we ask students and history buff throughout the country to go into their local newspapers, they're not digitiz

let's just leave hitler alone and he will leave us alone.itler ever leave anybody alone if he had the chance to invade them? no, we need a hero that's going to express the need to fight hitler. there was a concern, because hitler was this dictator who might get killed at any time, that by the time this comic book hit the stands, that hitler might already be dead. and they felt, well, that might not be the worst whether he is alive or dead when it hits the stands. if you look at the captain america movie again, and there's a lot of comics sold of him punching hitler in the face, what the moviemakers did is to come up with a fictional in plot reason why this image became so popular. action comics number one, he does lift up a car, smack it against a cliff. in captain america, it is like well, he couldn't have gotten that close to hitler, otherwise the war would already be over with. what they did is say this is a representational cover and the moviemakers came up with a real reason that inspired it. everybody see that? let's look a little bit

it will not be too hard to beat the western allies, hitler ads. after all, he doesn't quote, have the feelings that the british have their shall we say hole heart in this attack. after the presidents trip to cairo and tehran, though, the d-day project is energized. it will go forward in the spring of 1944, and it is energized for one extra historic reason, as i tried to define definitively at last in this oak, "war and -- the president's decision not to appoint general martial to command the d-day invasion, but the man he had interviewed as we saw at length on his way out to cairo, young general dwight the eisenhower. this was one of the most inspired appointments of world war ii, a coalition war involving the forces of many nations, but led by the united states. and typically, fdr is not content just to send ike a telegram. returning from tehran and cairo, he stays with eisenhower in two tunis and together, the two men fly in the president's plane, nicknamed the "sacred cow, " to malta and sicily, where the president decorates general mark clark

less than a month later, hitler committed suicide in his berlin bunker.8, 1945, germany surrendered to the allies. four months later on 2, after september suffering atomic bomb strikes on the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki, the war effectively ended when the japanese surrendered in tokyo bay. world war ii, the most important and most terrible event of the 20th century, was over. but it profoundly changed the whole economic, political and social relationships that continue to influence the world we live in today. ♪ pres. roosevelt: we are now in this war. we are all in it. all the way. everything single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our american history. we must share together the bad news and the good news, the defeats and the victories, the changing fortunes of war. narrator: to fight a global war, the united states needed to mobilize the entire population along what became known as the home front. the government turned to ordinary citizens and leaders of large corporations to help lead the mobilization effort

adolf hitler began the persecution of the jewish population. but american immigration laws were complicated and often harshly administered. the expansion during the late 1930s and world war ii lead to enormous growth that put vast numbers of european yous under german control and diminished the prospects for escape to safety. with the outbreak of war, persecution escalated to mass murder beginning in eastern europe and involving millions of jews across the entire continent. it was a carefully planned and organized effort to maximize the killing and destroy every jew the nazis could find. >> how otherwise can we explain sending jewish people from berlin and other cities at an hour's notice into trains with their destination either poland or some part of okay yccupied r. >> the scale and depravity was staggering. historians debate whether they might have done more and whether they might have undertaken policies including the bombing of the rails that could have saved lives. he delivered a historic effort at the white house. and warn that nuclear

after coming to powner 1933, adolf hitler began the population as a way out. american immigration laws were complicated and often harshly administers. germany's armed expansion during the late 1930s and world war ii led to enormous growth in german controlled territory that put vast numbers of european jews under control and greatly diminished prospects for escape to safety. persecution escalated to mass murder involving millions of jews across the entire continent. what is the final solution to the jewish question is a effort to maximize the killing and destroy every jew they could find. >> without regard for human life is the german -- how otherwise can we explain the reports of sending numberless jewish people from berlin and other cities that are now packed like cattle in trains with their destination either poland or some part of occupied russia. >> the scale and depravity of the final solution was staggering. reports of mass killings began reaching the allies almost as soon as they happened. the response of president roosevelt and others within the ameri

and have used it for decades and was a world war ii began in september 1939 when adolf hitler invaded poland but then we have the other half and the other part of world war ii which we can mentally refer to as the pacific war that began december 1941 with japan's attack on the u.s. at pearl harbor. what i am doing with this trilogy basically is to rewrite what we call that second part of world war ii and to call it in asia pacific war, not simply the pacific war and that is specifically intended to write in to the history what i call the ark of asia and in 1937 that ark, which basically ran in the west from what was in india which was also pakistan and bangladesh ran east across china to japan and also ran southeast to what is now called indonesia. in that region there were over a billion people, pretty close to half the population of the globe, if not half yet among that full population and that whole region most of those people lived in colonialism and there were only four nationstates with any claim to sovereignty and what was in the siam charlie became thailand had sovereignty and

in terms of both these characters received important metal from hitler. and it was 1 billion propaganda and move. and they were alarmed by what was going to happen if they did that, but here these guys were, faces in the newspaper, the chicago tribune, hitler was quoted in 1933, saying henry ford, a connection between people that makes them so incredibly controversial but once the door started, it was clear these three gentlemen who received these metals had their heart in the right places, they wanted to win the war. >> it was illustrated in the book where henry ford and charles lindbergh were no fans of president roosevelt. it was a struggle to turn this arsenal of democracy from dormancy and reluctance into something that turned out to be war winning. how did he pull that off? >> roosevelt, when we think of it, here is this character who was so beloved and represented americanism all over the world. a lot of people didn't like him and specifically what fdr needed to create the arsenal of democracy the people he needed were the people running the big bu

of course the whole issue of hitler's allied with the ban been kicked in and at that point then hitlerrdered the german advisors to be pulled out and they were pulled up. many of them reluctantly. chiang turn to soviet advisers including some very distinguished officers of the red army are going to become a prominent during world war ii. but yes, there is a time when the german advisors i very prominent in china and very important in china. >> the next question is online and might be the last question that it comes from a text from my buddy, dave walker. i would like to let the crowd know and the crowd watching online, dave has been a charge of our social media here at the museum for over four years, and this week is his final week here at tonight is is i know week texting me in the middle of these talks, and and i like everybody to get around of applause or dave walker for his great service and great work you at the museum. [applause] >> the question is, the battle of no mom hung. you cover in your book but could you explain the overall strategic significance of that? >> briefly a goe

at nurmburg, the hitler gang has gone on trial.he first time, criminal war leaders are being judged by an international court, by nkind, gering and 17 others, men who had planned world conquest and the death and envillanuevament of millions are now tried under law. and the law of all nations have rules for dealing with criminals. peace and decency were assured as the representatives of the united nations signed the san francisco charter. the lessons learned in 1945, if man dined would remember them, could make the world a better place for all men forever. ♪ >> american history tv is on social media. follow us at c-span history. >> on lectures in history, baylor university professor david smith teaches a class about the growth of the internationalist world view in 190's america. he argues that economic, moral and political impulses caused americans to consider a larger role in the world for their nation. professor smith then details the actions they took, such as pursuing missionaries work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and

it's a very ugly phrase that's been used by stalin, used by hitler. used during the french revolution and basically the justification was the people targeted by the law under which they were found guilty and beheaded, the actual law uses that phrase and any of the people.>> watched "after words" with jonathan karl sunday at 9 pmeastern on book tv on c-span2 . >> good afternoon. good afternoon everyone. welcome to the american enterprise institute. my name is ryan streeter and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this e

and really embarrassing hitler in the games in germanyments i wanted to ask who was robert abbott. >> a great newspaper editor. the chicago defender was one of the most important publications in america for black americans at time and during a period when chicago, where there's a migration, you know, the chicagoan and really nationally, really, being kind of pa beacon for truth and leading the way. so robert abbott definitely deserved, you know, and of course, we're journalists so we've got to have some journalism representation there. >> what was the importance of the defender? what is the importance? >> i think that black newspapers at the time. african-americans weren't working at the white house papers. this is where we got our news, and there was like, you know, the amsterdam news and of course, the afro american and they were out covering the civil rights movement and covering injustice and many of those reporters that were going down into the deep south were just like thurgood marshall. they had to figure out how to stay in places and file their stories, you know, in dangerous

sadly she died last may before we finished making the film when hitler still pink rabbit. style and if i really would like to show it to her it's like that's what was it about carr's book that moved you so much that you wanted to tell the story on film. and effect what won me over was that the perspective is quite unique and that this very difficult time is told from a child's point of view and that she didn't feel it was only terrible these are skinned. you don't see the horrors of the nazi era in all their enormity thank goodness it's got saddam because the story judas cartel's was also an adventure for her and that's the way she described it it was actually a nice time inside. the premiere in berlin of links latest production when hitler stole pink rabbit the film adaptation of judith carr's bestselling autobiographical novel. the tells how cars family fled germany when the nazis seized power in 1933 despite its title the book's not really about hitler. it's about her father theatre critic alfred carr her mother and her brother about how they flee to switzerland. not lo

hitler had stolen during the war. but most important let's thank richard frank for a wonderful presentation on a wonderful book. book. have a great evening, good night. [applause] .. >> former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland details her time in the trump administration. and later new york times reporters jennifer steinhaur the largest class of women ever in congress. enjoy book tv and watch over the weekend on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the henry wallace center here at franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. i'd like to welcome you to today's program. as you know today a pearl harbor day and i would like to take a moment to recognize those who served, if there are any active members or military rise and we'll acknowledge your service. [applause] >> thank you very much. today is a day that marked the transition of america from an isolationist nation to a global super power and there are a few days in world history like december 7th because of wha

it's a very ugly phrase used by stalin, used by hitler, used, you know, during the french revolution and basically the justification was-- the people that were targeted by the law under which they were found guilty and beheaded, that the actual law uses that phrase, enemy of the people. >> watch after words with

ctfailing to do so would be no different than enacting laws similar to hitler's declarations eating. -- and edicts. as always, i would did its best to romanticize this. the movies in the latesome w 19s 40's seemed to acknowledge that some way or other americans undertaking the fight against slavery. i would like to conclude my by revisiting and old and familiar film, perhaps one of the most iconic gnomes in hollywood this perspective in mind. it is not usually what we think about as your movie. the film i have in mind is casablanca. it appeared at the end of 1942 was directed by a hungarian immigrant. dy she embarked on a steady strm of moving moviemaking. he made two extremelyfe unmemorable civil war films,er the santa fe trail virginiafe f. city santa fe trail was a poorly named movie if there ever was one since nothing to do with santa fe for a trail. it did show a historic jed stewart played by harold and george custer played by ronald reagan. they joined forces in pursuing a fanatical john brown.to geraymond massey traded in hisss lincoln outfit for a john sbron outfit. ititca t

embarrassing hitler in the games. >> host: i wanted to ask who was robert abbott? >> guest: he was a great newspaper editor. the chicago defender was the most important publication at the tim time and during as durid when chicago had the migration and being a kind of beacon for truth and leading the way. i think the defender come, the k newspapers at the time were they were not working at the white leaders. this is where we got our news and it was like they amsterdam news and of course the afro-american, others around the block papers they were out covering the civil rights movement and many covering and justice and many of those reporters that were going. >> host: what was the toughest part about transitioning from the washington state politics into sports and politics. the transition is that you're at a place like the "washington post" that is so newscenter. we had to build everything from the ground floor. you need to suffer to know what you can become and it was good from a sports standpoint and a race standpoint that really came together as an ideal. we are go

that was a really tragic outcome for somebody who had essentially was regarded in defeating hitler. and really embarrassing hitler and the german games. >> host: i wanted to ask who was robert abbott's? >> he was a good newspaper editor. the chicago defender was the most important publication in america for black americans at the time. i was really during a period when chicago, where the migration, chicago and really nationally being kind of a beacon for truth and leading the way. robert abbott definitely deserves it. and he was a journalist. we've got to have some journalism representation. >> host: what was the importance of the defender? >> guest: i think black newspapers at the time were really -- black men were not working at the white papers prayed this is what we got our news. there is like the amsterdam news and of course the afro-american, other papers around the country with black papers they were out covering the civil rights movement, and covering injustice, many of those reporters that were going down in the deep south were just like third thurgood marshall they had to

the very next day hitler shot himself.owers ideology of fascism collapsed. but the death of the strange offshoot only cleared the way for other branches of socialism to flourish. ♪ bret: in the aftermath of world war ii communism spread like never before. the soviet union's military games set the stage for communist governments to take power in eastern europe. and in north korea. the communist against postwar conquest was yet to come. four years after the war's end in insurgent communist forces in china drove the pro-western nationalist government off the mainland. in january 1949 the communist marched into beijing to declare the birth of the people's republic of china. their leader was a 55 -year-old intellectual named mao. >> mao was a true revolutionary who do not believe in normalcy and did not believe in - and disliked bureaucracy. what he did was to mobilize peasants to join the communist revolution. bret: mao gave the chinese people what came to be called the iron rice bowl. it's a promise of lifelong economic secur