for fear of hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through a bridge that used to be right here where hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him before he even took a stone lying amongst the ruins with him. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor e. of the third reich. church in brest fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside the dome. it was from here that the defenders of brest 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. but we might forgive. children our plane best 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. of another survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith and the ultimate victory over fascist troops could make of i

franco was joined by hitler and mussolini, and the republic was supported by stalin and the soviet union. so you have sort of a dress rehearsal for world war ii being fought in spain. about 3,000 americans go to fight, as many as a fifth to a third of them were from new york city. um, and so new yorkers are putting themselves, again, on the front line of international conflict. from 1934 the mayor of new york, laguardia, is a vocal, one of the country's most vocal anti-nazis. and he gets into this amazing transatlantic shouting match with berlin that goes on for several years. he publicly declares hitler to be a perverted maniac and a fanatic who endangers the peace of the world. he makes these statements very publicly to the press. berlin is not amused, and dr. again les, you know, propaganda ministry responds with things like this. in 1937 it became, it became public knowledge that laguardia who, of course, was italian-american, that his mother had been, was italian immigrant, but she was jewish. and so the nazis jump, of course, all over this. and so one response to this is this germa

we have got to worry about mussolini. online and apricot industry is going to save us. there is more than that. i have learned in my life that change is inevitable. it can be quite positive when guided in the right direction. if you were to allow this tiny little spot to become a museum, it would be a feather in your cap. you will always have the money, the exorbitant l.a. riot, but the art, the stairwell, the whole thing up stairs, the old expression about artists must be told. the great depression really did happen. it affected my grandmother and all of us here. i believe that there is no interaction here. this place should have museum status. thank you so very much for your time. >> thank you. >> i have lived on telegraph hill for 20 years. i have been very involved in the pioneer park project, which has mostly to do with the landscaping. trying to make sure the transit -- the trees get trimmed in a reasonable way and things like that. i have also been on the sidelines, observing the process of selection of the concessionaire will last seven years. i think this is th

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nationalism and typically racism to keep the population in line and united against a perceived enemy as mussolini was dissolving italy's parliament in one nine hundred thirty eight and setting up his come out a day fasi day data that corporate sione the chamber of fascist corporation's italian philosopher giovanni gentile argued that fascism should be more appropriately be called corporatism since its hands government off to corporations . in one nine hundred forty four the vice president of the united states of that time henry wallace wrote an op ed in the new york times about the dangers of fascism and threats that fascists posed to the united states he wrote fascism is a worldwide disease its greatest threat to the united states will come after the war within the united states itself another fascist danger is represented by those who pay in lip service to democracy in the common welfare in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives do not hesitate sarap tisha slee to of aid the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion even though vice president wa

. >> bob: you and mussolini formed a caucus, didn't you?s," the other topics to talk about, we'll get to it. do you remember the north carolina teacher having an argument with one of her students about president obama and whether or not it was okay to criticize president in class? take a listen. >> do you realize people were arrested for saying things bad about bush? do you realize you are not -- you can't -- you're not supposed to slander. >> i'm not slandering. i asked a question. >> i'm saying, i'm saying to you, you are not supposed to slander. people were arrested. >> dana: all right. so the teacher there is tanya dickson-kneelly. the student hunter rogers. come to find out after that there is an investigation in the school. she is keeping her job and coming back next year. hunter is a going to be a senior in high school. his family is asked, because he has been harassed at the school if he could finish out the last three weeks at school. they said no. >> bob: who is the picture of? >> dana: that is the guy, the young student. >> greg:

harlem and black harlem african americans and italian-americans are fighting in the streets because mussolini has invaded and conquered ethiopia and africa. you have demonstrations in chinatown against the japanese invasion of china and so on. this just sort of keeps the pot stirring. some new yorkers as well as other americans take this outside the country, to spain in particular, 1936-7, the abraham lincoln brigade, as the communists from and not exclusively. so we went to fight against generalissimo franco rebellion against the spanish republican staff franco republic against the spanish revolution -- republic. so we have dress rehearsals for world war ii 3,000 americans identified , as many as one-fifth to one-third are from new york city. and so they're putting themselves on the frontline of

produces more than mussolini's economy. and in fact we produce enough steel and other raw materials to enable the number one wartime manufacturer of airplanes imagine enough material to enable british and soviets to the the number 2 and no. 3 aircraft in the process. numbers are staggering in textbooks and so on, 28,008,800 -- we were producing five aircraft carriers a month during world war ii. talking 86,000 tanks, 3.5 million trucks. remember studebaker? misapplies 200,000 in the red army. studebaker trucks on the backbone of the soviet logistics' section which enables stalin's armies to go across eastern europe to the gates of berlin. 2.5 machine guns many produced by companies that had never seen a machine gun before. companies like revenue typewriter, national postage meter, the jukebox company out of chicago which produced the m 1 carbine using design created by winchester hand over forty-one billion rounds of ammunition. outpouring -- the one in which you could depend upon to bring about a final victory in a war bas

they live in a town near rome built by mussolini in the 1930s and renown for its deeply fascist rootse their conservative surroundings and the town's right wing politicalr they say they haven't felt any discrimination here.fn >> ( translated ): after we got married when we came back we could have found broken windows, writings on the walls or anything against us but we found things to be normal. the mood was very serene and calm. nothing had changed. >> reporter: where staunch catholics may grimace at the idea of marriage or adoption for gay couples, back in latina, mario's mother says she doesn't see any conflict with her faith: >> ( translated ): same-sex partners in italy cannot share property, inherit pensions, receive death benefits or make other important decisions concerning death or illness. >> ( translated ): we are the same as everyone else so i hope that soon we italians will have a law that makes us feel like everyone else. >> reporter: until then, mario and antonio say they plan to use the court decision to fight for those rights one at a time. >> ifill: again, the majo

fashionist society in america in the early 30s, and he was sent to the [ inaudible ] which was opened by mussolini in upstate new york during the summer. so he was really doctrine at itted with fashionism. >> wow, i'm going to italy tomorrow. and i have may have to do some digging. i'll see if i can find any people that know him there. and this is very sweet, the listener is getting very clingy. audra -- you know, she has zone various singles and promos for us. she sent me a rather overwrought good-bye. ♪ wherever you are going we wish you well ♪ ♪ wherever you are heading, we know you have to go ♪ ♪ so we know you are going somewhere, to ride your fancy like ♪ >> yes! ♪ you have been training for weeks now ♪ ♪ and it's time for steph to fly ♪ >> oh, god. ♪ even though it kills us to go a week without you on radio and tv, we will survive ♪ ♪ we're all going to miss you ♪ >> wow! [ laughter ] ♪ miss you, miss you ♪ ♪ farewell ♪ ♪ we're all going to miss you ♪ ♪ but we will survive ♪ [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> overwrought. >> wow, calm down. uncle john fugelsang will be here visiting baby sitting