howard k smith, the early reporter who became an anchor put i thought -- put it i thought smartly. he said there's four stages when a visitor comes to nazi injuger, one, it's a great place, things are orderly. everyone seems happy. and the unemployment seems to have disappeared. second stage is, wow, there are a lot of people in uniforms. there's, you know, there's a loft military stuff going on, a lot of marching, but it's still exciting. all the armies of young men, very handsome going through. third stage is oh, my god. why are they marching, why are they being taught the commands. to kill and to conquer and the fourth stage is terror, my god the world doesn't get it. what we are facing here and democracy may be great, but it's not going to cope with what -- you know emerging in germany. it's interesting that some people went from stage one to four real fast and some people stayed in sage one or go, and some people actually went up that ladder and then went down a bit. it's not all clear always. people -- it's rarely black and white with many of these people. what was the discus

people like sinclaire lewis, thomas wolfe, george cannon, and howard k smith. he becomes a famous anchor man. and even the young john f kennedy flits through the pages of hitler land, with a short visit, most of his entries in his diaries have to do with his young bundle of fun he picked up at the border. this is a germany that is incredibly pro-american. yes, germany had, the u.s. had entered the war against germany but late in the game. the main characteristic about the americans had was that they were not the french. while americans were sympathetic, often to them economically in terms of trying to get them back on their feet and just culturally. and nowhere in europe was americanizati americanizati americanizati americanization more evident than in germy. so, you had all of this going on, which made a -- this american community big and a track i have to what they saw, and you had the extremists, and one of them was this local agitator in munich called hitler. i asked myself who were the first americans to meet hitler and what did they think of him? and it t

by the way, howard k. smith, this early reporter who later became an anchorman, put out very, very smartly, he said there are four stages when any american or other foreign visitor comes to nazi germany. everyone seems happy, the unploimt seems to have disappeared. the second stage is, wow rksz there are a ltd. of people in uniforms. there is, you know, there's a lot of military stuff going on. a lot of marching. but in that stage, it's still kind of titillating. it's exciting. all of these armies of young men, very handsome going through. the third stage is oh my god, why are they marching? why are they being taught on all of these demands? it's to kill, to conquer. and the fourth stage is my god, the world doesn't get it here. but democracy is not going to be able to cope what's e emergencying in germany. some people seem to go from stage one to four. some people went down a bit. it's not all clear. it's rarely black and white with many of these people. >> what was the discussion in the u.s. with regards to th

howard k smith, the early reporter who became an anchor put i thought -- put it i very smartly. he said there's four stages when a visitor comes to nazi germany, first one is, wow, this is a great place, everything is orderly, it's a beautiful country, the -- you know, the embankments and everything else are wonderful. everyone seems happy. the unemployment seems to have disappeared. second stage is, wow, there are a lot of people in uniforms. there's a lot of military stuff going on, a lot of marching. but in that stage it's still kind of titillating, exciting, all these armies of young men, very handsome going through. third stage is, oh, my god. why are they marching? why are they bds? 's to kill, to conquer. antotal terror in the sense of my god the world t gedoesn'it. at we' facing here. and democracy may be great bu it's not going to be able to cope with this -- what's emerging in germany. and it's interesting that some people seem to go from stage one to four real fast, some people stayed in stage one or two, and some people actually went up that ladder and then went down