so that the former nazis at least. some of them had a new incentive to paint as dark a picture of the soviets as possibly could be painted in order to finance their own organizations it was a very powerful drift towards war chris you mentioned that it went beyond physical scientists i mean we're talking about social scientists what do you say to people i mean in a broader sense that this country and this government has kind of adopted the nazi propaganda model gerbils was doing has been implemented here and just a much more insidious way i mean do you see any correlation there. i think its truth is that everybody in the mass media. of every nationality has learned some lessons from gerbils frankly i think that that's true and that all of the major powers have very large scale. propaganda operations so. the. the problem is not abstract the problem is literally with this it's with us on the set right now and it's with this in. the most reputable media sort of situations where we news media this is my belief and the way.

or tolerance of former nazis in power in germany and. the then soviet union's worries about what were the post-war and post-war intentions of the western hours and some of those in time some of those questions went back to the war time period or even earlier. all right so then that again spurred more cold war attention its cold war tensions and so the group meanwhile the soviets were also recruiting nazi criminals and if the track record of that they can be clearly established so you have a a open market if you will in which the. the it's on the one hand there were prosecutions of nazis on the other hand there was recruiting over nazis and protection of them in a variety of different ways by the western allies as well as by the soviets. you see today some of the same phenomenon in terms of people who are responsible for very serious crimes southeast asia other parts of the world. again will be picked up for intelligence purposes or for even for commercial gain and some of these people weren't just in the nazi party i mean they were actua

there was no nazi germany. but president hoover issued a new instruction that anybody who wasn't independently wealthy was likely to become a public charge and was therefore ineligible, and roosevelt in 1933 had to decide whether to loosen those draconian cutbacks, and he kind of wanted to do something about he didn't want to take a lot of political heat for it. so in his first term he didn't do that much. but that's as well as i can do quickly with that question. >> what was the role of eleanor roosevelt? did she concretely change her husband's attitudes or behavior at any key points? >> i am aware that eleanor roosevelt still has millions of admirers. and i always disappoint them. eleanor roosevelt grew up in an antisemitic family, and some of her early letters are filled with negative comments about jews. she grew out of it gradually, but she was not a mover and shaker on most of what we call holocaust issues. she did have a particular concern for children, and she was a supporter of the wagner-rogers bill i

the nazis had confiscated them.they couldn't get them from the villas back into the city, and there they are safe from allied bombing, but in the middle of ground warfare. it was a perilous situation, and ultimately, the removal by iss forces taking these things on the basis they were supposedly safeguarding them. >> host: susan is calling from springfield, missouri. you're on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hi. thank you guys for being there. my question is about, like, christian art? forgive me, i haven't had a chance to read your book, so i'm new to all this. but i just wonder especially in iraq and places where there might be more religious, you know, type p artifacts and so forth, if they were destroyed on purpose because of obvious reasons that people don't want the world to know that anything else exists besides what they believe in. i just wondered if your research has, you know, turned up anything about those kinds of issues. >> guest: well, one of the things that the monuments men foundation is doing, we're,

immediate reason why franklin roosevelt did not speak out personally and forthrightly against the nazi policy of genocide. at best, it was a distraction that brought complications. at worst, it might damage the success of the invasion. of course, his earlier worries have not disappeared. he was still worried about american perceptions that he was manipulated by his jewish advisers, and american jews generally. we think he was excessively worried, but this is much easier to say in retrospect. so, why's held his press conference and publicized weidner's telegram, and the evidence collected to support it. he got greater publicity than any single atrocity story had obtained before. but that was only a relative success. "the new york times" put the story on page 10. the "washington post" on page six. the "los angeles times" was the best of the major papers, put it on page two. late november was also the time when the now famous career, polish career surfaced in london with his own alarming stories of nazi extermination camps. is the briefing in london put some pressure on british officials

the nazis had confiscated them. they couldn't get them from the villas back into the city, and there they are safe from allied bombing, but in the middle of ground warfare. it was a perilous situation, and ultimately, the removal by iss forces taking these things on the basis they were supposedly safeguarding them. >> host: susan is calling from springfield, missouri. you're on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hi. thank you guys for being there. my question is about, like, christian art? forgive me, i haven't had a chance to read your book, so i'm new to all this. but i just wonder especially in iraq and places where there might be more religious, you know, type p artifacts and so forth, if they were destroyed on purpose because of obvious reasons that people don't want the world to know that anything else exists besides what they believe in. i just wondered if your research has, you know, turned up anything about those kinds of issues. >> guest: well, one of the things that the monuments men foundation is doing, we're

if it turns out to a lot was nazis looted art. initially the germans were treating it as tax evasion so we intervened as the state department based on the washington principles. based on what we have done it is not just tax evasion looking at the washington principles and publish the arch which originally they would not do but now to their credit, 450 pieces have been published on the internet so claims can be made. know i cannot guarantee this will happen but we urge technical defenses not be used and they are seriously considering to create a new law to waive the statute of limitations as to the art but if they will do it or not remains to be seen. the publicly indicated they are looking at. so this story never ends. >> i hate to predict the future coming it is a perilous thing to do but i believe we will see changes in the principal reason is the public, the court of public opinion will now know what the heck people are talking about. it is in step with legislators and lawyers debating in fancy terms like providence and the gen

so did we need the nazis? think not. >> but if we look back at it, is it fair to look back at what was going on back then through our lens today, without really trying to get ourselves in the shoes of what people were dealing with back then and the utter fear that exist bed the cold war especially after the russians, the soviet union got the bomb? >> that is one train of thought. many will tell you that, who support the program today, they say how dare you stand on the pedestal and look back? have that conclusion, let it be drawn by the reader. >> a lot of incredible work went into it. annie jacobson. thank you for being here. paper clip, the secret program that brought nazi scientists to america. >>> straight ahead, did speed skating lose because of fashion? surprising results out of data diveless. >>> our series of oscar nominated documentaries concludes with cutie and the boxer. >> every sunday night, al jazeera america presents... award winning films telling stories... >> she doesn't wanna come as someone

did we need the nazis? >> i think not. >> is it fair to look back at what was going on back then through our lens today without getting ourselves in the shoes of what happened back then, and the utter fear, once the soviets got the atomic bond. >> that's one train of thought. many will tell you that who support the program to this day. they'll say how dare you stand on the ped stall and look back. that's why i tried to have this conclusion, let it be drawn by the reader. >> it's an incredible story, it's fascinating, and a lot of credible work. >> the book is operation paperclip, the secret intelligence program bringing nazi scientists to america. >> did the u.s. speed skating lose because of fashion. the excuse next in data dive. >> alcohol and a volatile relationship. our series of oscar nominated >> today's data dive goes the olympics, and the speed skating team are partially complaining their clothing, complaining that the underarmour outfits slowed them down. it's one explanation for the less than stel

if they don't like something they compare it to nazi germany.from congressman daniel webster. he compared the consumer protection bureau to the secret police in nazi germany. >> this is more collection of data on individual citizens who have no cluet that this is happening. >> let me get this straight. an agency designed to help people is like hitler's police force? apparently fox news contributor ben carson agrees. he also thinks that obama officials are, quote, acting like gestapo. that is almost as ridiculous of the belieft that progressives are like the nazis. >> progressives didn't care until the jews died. it was because of the universities and progressives, this was their thing. they were all anti-jewish just as much as they are anti-jewish now. >> one of the real goals of the second progressive movement is to fundamentally change who we are. most of those people did not believe in what hitler was doing but did they speak up? did they stand up for what they believed? they did not. and you saw what happened. and if you believe that the sam

we generally try to avoid oblique references to nazis on this show. in this case, it's unavoidable because the swastika is giant and is on the cover. the subtitle "how the u.s. government hid the nazi discovery of abiotic oil from the american people." remember the people who wrote the where's the birth certificate book and they had to change the title of the book to "where's the real birth circuit? "remember that guy, his name is jerome corsi from world net daily. he has a few pet theory, not just that president obama's birth certificate is fake and, therefore, president obama is not really the president. there's his theory that president obama is both secretly gay and secretly gay married. sorry, michelle. world net daily jerome corsi had a theory that john kerry did not win his medals. he also thinks that hitler is not dead. hitler actually escaped nazi germany and is not plotting the fourth -- that is not a novel. that's his history. my vote for jerome corsi's weirdest theory of all is his nazi oil conspiracy. see, jerome corsi believes, no, he kn

of course i was born in ukraine i've been to i'm jewish i despise the nazis and the neo nazis anywhere in europe and unfortunately the lots of them everywhere these days but the majority of people who demonstrate i'm not talking about the island fridge clearly there's clearly there's a violent fringe there but the majority of younger gradients including in the southeast on the ok i hear you're really putting me go ahead you're interrupting. peter pan or you can yell i said there patiently and listen ok so please majority of people who are demonstrating against you and of coverage by young educated western oriented people who want to live in a country that doesn't have as much corruption as you know coverages regime bread and you know coverage totally lost support of the majority of the population ok and what he needed to do was to range political transition with the. opposition so that sometime late spring early summer they have an election including presidential election and they change the constitution that is ludicrous to the way it works i'm sorry. what you're saying is ludicrous t

all the more pronounced because the violence has been perpetrated by right wing extremists by neo nazi mobs but even tents all over for in the democratically elected government of ukraine and that it's an intolerable situation and we must move away from what we're hearing by western journalists and western politicians that these so-called protesters are protesters they're not protesters they're militants they're terrorists they became militants or terrorists that day they took up arms against the police force in kiev you cannot call people peaceful protesters when they take up guns when they take up molotov cocktails and they start not just injuring the police or this is actually the elite so he says that wouldn't that would not that would not be accepted no that's not what would well certainly wouldn't it certainly wasn't exactly an end of intercepted a lot of them except that in london it wasn't accepted in any kind of european capital but but ariel you know i mean you would write sectors for boulder do you like these kinds of people i mean they seem to represent this mob that you ca

you can still see where the nazis numbered the stolen painting.ainting to the museum where other works are, but the whereabouts of other major works remain a mystery, including this portrait by raphael. >> i think there are hundreds of thousands of works of arts, cultural objects, library books that are still missing. we're still gathering them. >> reporter: just last year german authorities found they had found 1,400 pieces in this munich apartment including works by matisse and picasso. nearly seven decades after the war, the hunt continues. mark strassmann, cbs, new york. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest storm to hit the south and east coast. >>> plus, google's expanding empire. we'll look at the controversy of the takeover of a storeship container. >>> we'll talk about a company beyond beef and talk with its ceo. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com griego. >>>

they are saluted by the nazis as a hit movie in theaters right now. >> before the nazis destroy it. >d to the white house for a special screening of the film last night. we want to bring you a guest right now with special insight into the story behind the movie. this has been stolen and looted and missing works of art. thanks very much for joining us. give us a sense of how much art was taken and how valuable it was during world war ii. they were trying to build a museum in austria. >> you point out that i know that you represent heirs whose art was stolen and seeking to get some compensation or restitution for that for these heirs? is that right? >> that's right that we are seeking restitution and right that we are seeking compensation. they are seeking restitution of a painting currently in the museum in oslo, norway and another that has been found as part of that collection in munich, germany. >> art was found also in munich and also in salesburg, austria. is that believed to be part of the stolen art by the nazis? >> i have been in touch with the lawyer regarding those works and h

you can still see where the nazis numbered the stolen paintings. there it is.el took us to the metropolitan museum in new york city, them a dozen paintings recovered by the monuments men. but the whereabouts of other major works remains a mystery, including this portrait by rafael. >> i think there are hundreds of thousands of works of art, cultural objects, library books, documents that are missing. we're still gathering the pieces, we're still solving the mysteries. >> reporter: just last year, german authorities announced they had found 1,400 pieces in this munich apartment, including works by matisse and picasso. nearly 70 years after the war, the treasure hunt continues. mark strassmann, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. in the wake of a u-p-s truck shooting... we've learned the techniques drivers are g bay area's most dange >>> they know they are rolling targets in the wake of a u.p.s. truck shooting, we l

but i think he is spot on with his nazi analogy. because you know who else called their enemies nazis, the jews. it looks like an anti-sell identify now. -- santa semite now, it's still me. got to work on that. got to work on that. all right. >> well, despite near universal condemnation tom perkins somehow found the courage to go on a network owned by a billionaire to make his case to the nonbillionaires. >> you are a multimillionaire. >> no, i'm not a billion -- >> i said multimillionaire. >> i created some billionaires but i unfortunate leigh am not one. i can buy a six pack-of-rolexes, but so what. >> so what, he's just a regular nonbillionaire joe six pack of rolexes. but somehow this appearance failed to win over the 99% thanks so president obamalib and the progressivecrat demagoguing by income inequality, the pope attack the so-called idol tree of money and hollywood vilifying the-- villifying the wealthiest 1% of dragons. i mean come on, come on, the deslation of smaug? how about the appreciation of smaug. don't get mad at hi

there were reports from the beginning of the nazi killing of jews. it was impossible to keep such things secret. but there were also reports of other nazi atrocities. widespread civilian occupied territories. the supports in this country were not sufficiently numerous or distinctive enough for us such intelligence quality that it forced government officials to ponder the overall shape of the nazi policies. most officials including franklin roosevelt were predisposed to thinking that's not the germany pose a threat to judaism and christianity to western civilization. because franklin roosevelt had a long history of having to deal with a set of right-wing extremist who attacked him as being the puppet of american jews and the isolationists that he combated shortly before the war during the early part argued that american jews were trying to drive the u.s. into a war which was not in america's interests. so roosevelt had political reasons as well as an intellectual predisposition not to single the jews out into these early reports of the shootings simpl

his book is called "the monuments men: allied heroes, nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history." it's also a major motion picture directed by george clooney and starring george clooney, matt damon, bill murray and others. >> no matter how real book does, there's nothing that can reach a worldwide global aufd audience than a feature film. there's such an epic story about world war ii that's not in public knowledge. but it's focused on the good guys. the middle aged men who volunteer for it was so be a new kind of soldier when charged with saving rather than destroying. >> rose: the wonders of the american museum of natural history and a conversation with robert ed sell when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> the astronomers were startled to see that the flight distant galaxies was always stretched out to longer wavelengths signifying that there were all moving away from us. >> rose: the american museum of natural history in new york is visited annually by five million people from around the

we returned them. >> reporter: his work ironically was helped by the nazis themselves because of their meticulous records. even today the codes they used are still visible. >> on this painting, we see r-94, the nine is somewhat obscured. but that means rothchild object number 94. >> reporter: what about this print in here? the recovery of so many treasures for ettlinger was also personal. it was one of your grandfather's prints and you were able to retrieve it. >> that's right. >> reporter: he was able to find his own family's art collection. what are you most proud of about that time that you served with the monuments men? >> i'm proud to as an american that we adopted this policy of saving culture. >> reporter: a monumental achievement by unlikely heroes who saved some of the world's most extraordinary art. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> thank goodness. and that is our broadcast for this wednesday evening. brian will be back with you tomorrow night from sochi. i'm ann curry, and for all of us here at nbc news, thank you and good night. >>> it's dry now but the rain is on the w

[laughter] so mussolini trying to convince italians to get on board with the aliens with nazi germany he has a challenge that is why if the pope had clearly spoken out that no good catholic could follow or embraces heller -- hitler i don't know the impact on germany but a big impact of italy but if the pope were younger and not in a position maybe that blood have been different. babied not the holocaust for the second rule of war could be going to for. >> five like to ask a question. i a understand the italian government did not send the jews away and the catholic government was very much for the of jews. >> no. there is a and narrative there was a church opposition to the racial laws and only one aspect in the fall of 1938 says a converted jews that became catholic should be treated as jews not catholic and could not legally marry a catholic kim the pope was irate because it went against church doctrine if you were baptize you should be considered catholic and able to berry and other catholic but one of the major provisions had given the church's right to decide for church weddings w

using nazi terminology himself.is there are several people, several characters along the fringes, not just ted nugent. it's steve king, it's michele bachmann, it's matt bevin. there are a whole bunch of these character let's certainly stipulate that's not the majority of conservatives in america or republicans. the problem is that when they're trying to step away from that image the party has, the trouble that it has with women, the trouble that it has with minorities, the collection of these characters and the slowness to disassociate themselves from these characters is what the problem. >> you know, joe, both governor rick perry and senator cruz were asked if they would still campaign with nugent. take a listen to what they said. >> ted and i have been on the stage together. he is a proud and a strong defender of the constitution of the united states. we've all said things that we would like to reel back in. i suggest to you that this is probably one of those for him. and he does that, and i don't know. >> would y

there are nazi inventory card codes that do evidence the acquiring of these works of art, theft. they're not a legal ownership title, but they document how these works of art are acquired, photographed, inventoried, codes assigned to the families indicating what number of object it is from the families, and those documents were found by the monuments men and were used at the nuremberg trials ask very, very important in helping to return these object toss the people they were stolen from. .. liz: terry, please go ahead with your question or comment for jeff bezos. >> caller: i was wondering if you had any opinion on the art work and obvious destruction that the catholic church has perpetrated over the centuries to art works and if they should be held accountable? peter: we have more immediate problems in places like syria where we seek works of art, these things belong to all of us and should be a concern for all of us about seeing them destroyed by both sides in this horrible civil war. there are things under threat in cairo and molly. these challenges are a challenge that aren't

think nazi, germany.people did not believe in what hitler was doing. >> yep. >> exactly. >> but did they speak up? >> nope. >> did they stand up for what they believed? they did not. and you saw what happened. and if you believe that the same thing can't happen again, you are very wrong. >> and joining us now from virginia beach is dr. carson. if you mention nazis you know you are going to get hammered. what you said there at the end there intrigued me a bit. you said if you believe it can't happen again -- see i didn't believe that naziism could happen in the u.s.a. i don't think it could happen nor could communism happen here. do you disagree with me? >> well, i believe that what can happen is if people do not speak up for what they believe, they can be trampled. their rights can be trampled to various and sundry degrees. now, of course, the objective of many on the left is to take a single word that you are not supposed to say. you can't say nazis and slavery, that's political correctness as you well k

hours after the collapse that was engineered by wall street you had a rise of neo nazi ism in france just recently as part of a huge protest almost twenty thousand neo nazis are in the street shouting screaming anti-semitic slogans oh well let me correct you on this one because you know i covered the. there were no twenty thousand i mean there was actually it was like eighty thousand people in the streets and there were like one thousand people you know standing discomfort of so it's difficult because up but that was made by the you know by do the french media who who wanted to do it to to be off of the screen of the radar ok so let's be clear that there was approximately a thousand ysaye of. magic now nazi types in the street there is a similarity with what's going on in greece however one of economy becomes completely distorted when there's reparations to be paid in this case reparations are being paid to the likes of corrupt bankers like life masters and j.p. morgan it is a rage that boils over people start looking for scapegoats people start becoming violent and ears suggesting t

medic male nazi types in the street there is a similarity with what's going on in greece however one of the economy becomes completely distorted when there's reparations to be paid in this case reparations are being paid to the likes of corrupt bankers like life masters and j.p. morgan it it is a rage that boils over people start looking for scapegoats people start becoming violent and ears suggesting that twenty fourteen we could see this type of violence that we have seen in greece we could see it in france is that correct it's definitely correct let me just remind you something we're going to goldman sachs goldman sachs commode i think it was two years ago sinking a french newspaper that salaries are too high in france government size could imagine that saying you know we want the seller is going down of the thirty percent and basically this is what is what is happening now so you do this is the perfect pattern and of course in in france we can see the extreme right. going up definitely the. sure you have the movement from and so on for instance you have the movement from you know

they were fighting to get all of the incredible art stolen by the nazi's.'s lindsey davis tonight. on the monuments men. >> reporter: you likely won't recognize his name. >> my name is harry. >> reporter: but this 88-year-old story being told on the big screen in the movie "monuments men", his family was one of the last jewish families to make it out of germany and into the u.s. he arrived on american soil only to be sent back to germany in uniform. >> immediately was drafted. >> reporter: but his ability to speak german spared him from the battle fields and put him right on the frontlines with a group known as the monuments men. >> i learned that there were interested in saving works of art. returning them to their owner. >> i take them out. >> reporter: but they weren't all soldiers, many of them volunteering their art expertise to hunt down the art stolen by the nazis. >> it is written by hitler, signed by hitler. that if he dies and german falls, they're to destroy everything. >> reporter: was there particular pieces of artwork that you remember saying,

have the potential given a great cast with clooney directing the sun about an ocean's eleven with nazis but true. it would've been coated in a really fun fantastic movie. instead it's it's far too earnest and i'm tanned and not funny enough and clooney spends too much time explaining to his audience in long speech is why it's very very important the rescue european art almost almost as if he's doesn't trust his audience babies american audience to care that much of a deadbeat to the picasso's and the various works of art stolen by the nazis. so unfortunately i have to say unless you're really crazy for clooney and really want to see bill murray opening on a path running around fighting nazis. my kids are still moments of cable that's the same stuff but it does receive isn't and is also a big german film running in competition isn't that today tells about that. it is brief yes it's called the beloved yes it's called the beloved sister says about that up an hour but it's a love story depicts his relationship with her two sisters who both fell in love. oh. that's why we must stop sra baghd

descendents many of the our works had been seized from their owners by the nazis. it is nearly impossible for the owners' families to get them back. the claim period is limited to 30 years. harmon is debating new legislation that would annul the limitation statute for those knowingly possessions stolen works. >> germany has a particular historical responsibility and i think we owe it to those persecuted by the nazi regime to make every effort to change their legal situation as quickly and effectively as possible. >> critics say the draft law is flawed. how can you prove that evil new their works were stolen or not? many others think germany has current law is inadequate. >> the case was a fine example of the very many problems there are with researching ownership. so we will be discussing it. >> experts disagree about how many are works could be returned to their owners after so long. change could soon come and progress be made in resolving this vexed issue. >> when we come back we will take a look at another war-torn town in syria that is in evacuation mode. >> ev

journalist annie jacobson recalls the program that brought nazi scientists to the cus after world war ii to work on government projects in "operation paper clip: the secret intelligence program that brought nazi scientists to america." in "the twilight of the american enlightenment: the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief," george mars den, a history professor at university of notre dame, analyzes the political landscape in a post-world war ii u.s. david lockbaum and edward lyman, members of the union of concerned scientists recount the 2011 nuclear emergency in japan at the fukushima nuclear power reactor, the story of a nuclear disaster. in "the news: a user's manual," 25 news stories are analyzed to better understand their effect on readers and viewers. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and book tv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 eastern, rachel sheldon talks about washington brotherhood. at 7:30, robert moraldi profiles seymour hersh. at 9 p.m. eas

robert edsel came in with this nazi thing. >> the book. >> the book. all this aired last night here. all of these pages. >> he had those books with him in the bunker because he never got to put his hands on those paintings. he never got to touch the bruges ma madonna. >> rose: and what was the decree about another historical reference in which he ordered everything -- >> basically he ordered everything to be destroyed. >> he was afraid that -- he didn't want everybody to have it. first of all, he didn't want the allies to have any of their things so he said destroy the bridges, your cars and tanks. >> rose: decree from the fuhrer that when i'm dead this shall happen. >> and it wasn't called the nero decree until after. >> as in nero rome burns. right. >> but he also -- he was burning the degenerate art, the reality is one of the very ambitious nazis when you got to the mine in -- he there -- that guy specifically took hitler's letter to mean "burn all the art." so he was on his way to -- and the miners who owned -- who had been working that mine for a