is a very insulting thing and no one wants to be called nazis governments don't want to be called nazis but again you know when you misuse a war. like that it's the same way of misusing the word holocaust when everything becomes a holocaust nothing becomes a holocaust when every action of a government is nazi like that no action is nazi like we have to use the terminology in the correct and the correct times we need to say that when when a country is acting like nazis or nothing when they're acting in a pandemic and trying to protect their own citizens after all and even willing to go against the good of the large businesses and business interests and tycoons all this for one purpose to protect people so to call these countries nazis where is the united states government or state government or any country in europe or any was ole's because they're trying to protect their people because they're trying to find a way of defeating a pandemic i think is a tremendous disservice to humanity and it certainly insults the memory of all those who were killed by real nazis let's tool allied quarant

devastating nazi plants and marshalling yards. but the nazis' twilight of the gods had yet to come.e-scale battles had yet to be fought and some of these were soon to come on the italian front, where strong defensive positions were held by a tough and stubborn enemy. that and the weather had bogged down our advance. it was winter 1943. the stage was set for the cairo-tehran talks. roos sxrelt churchill met with chiang kai-shek at cairo. even at the moment fighting was most intense in italy, high level master plans continued to be made for the invasion of france and for other allied operations throughout the world. at cairo talks centered on the relation of european operations to the war in the pacific. from cairo roosevelt and church hill flew to tehran. where for the first time during the war they met with marshal stalin, dictator of soviet russia. the allied leaders failed to agree on everything, but one thing they did agree upon was that the invasion of normandy in southern france must and would take place sometime during the following summer of 1944. for? time there had been dou

this certainly has to be made a fence so the nazis nazis were attacked and it's a very complicated set of historical events which unfolds as a result of the leading into the us and jeffrey. you're not here i don't think you need to defend i say i wouldn't i wouldn't phrase it that way a defense of it when i am i would say is if there is a reasonable explanation to understand why a bad thing happened we have to look at munich you have the western powers basically destroying the post world war one international system unilaterally destroying a sovereign state which they had implicitly and explicitly said that they would defend and then you go all the way up to august 19th 39th and you get a more under regis form of it but it is the precedent is set it's the same price that it made even if you just have to agree i mean that's why i really get too sick and tired of people moralizing about an international system that the western powers. corrupted before the 2 outsiders nazi germany and the soviet union were involved in it ok this isn't the way back you know and that again i want to make su

but he does know that the nazis took him from here to germany. be that you've been in the political but you have been going. on all of this by. what i am. but nor do. you very much but i was on it and you know what you got on board it would be. about gridlock. to me when i did not speak if you have it on. critical i am not going to be a hold back i am kind of all the voting on. the. lodhi of the time shake story also has ties to war which. she was 5 years old when she was brought to the youth detention camp in let's munched out as would you was called during the nazi occupation. today she's meeting up with her friend barbaro patrick even each of the 2 women have a lot in common. and their parents in life have been very similar. they've come to a school located on the site of the camp. the school directory showing them a room that commemorates the thousands of children who were interned here. like who was brought here in 1943. starting. off already have a great map. well shallow we need to find him really have plotted street it's over here we shou

but he does know that the nazis took him from here. germany. me that you've been into the cold but you've been going. on all this by a. lot of money out of. but no one. she really was good i was on that and you know what you know i was on order given that. i do not. want i didn't know if you have it all. critical i'm. not going to be appalled by how credible. that. story also has ties to which. she was 5 years old when she was brought to the youth detention camp in let's munched as woods was called during the nazi occupation. today she's meeting up with her friend bob barr a bitch. the 2 women have a lot in common. and their paths in life have been very similar. but. they've come to a school located on the site of the camp. the school directory showing them room that commemorates the thousands of children who were interned here. like who was brought here in 1943. 5. i already have a great map. well shall we need to find him really have plotted street it's over here we should turn the map around like this last hour. that means my house must have

hoped images of courageous german troops and fallen red army soldiers could bolster optimism in the nazi mindset surrender was not an option hitler for all that i thought fleeced so they had decreed something like a duty to be doomed in the high command and many soldiers complied. thus there was the sense that germany couldn't endure another $918.00 a defeat which in hindsight would be described as a premature capitulation yet he smiled homicide often in this time troops wouldn't capitulate at the 11th hour they'd wait until after midnight which naturally resulted in horrific losses that eclipsed everything that had come before i thought he was dealing with 450000 german soldiers killed january 1905 was the month that recorded the heaviest military losses in the war and the carnage continued in the following weeks despite the threat of death many german troops continued to fight tenaciously especially on the eastern front you forced along from our point of view today we would say the war was lost there was no choice but to capitulate. but for most of the soldiers on the eastern front tha

japan or nazi germany? franklin wars availed and winston churchill believed that hitler and nazi germany were our chief enemy. the problem was that we were not ready to fight the nazis on the continent of europe. we did look into plans to perhaps invade across an english channel into normandy in 1942 or 1943 but realized we did not have the material, resources, or the army built up that would be necessary for victory. in the meantime, the soviet union was taking a terrible pounding on eastern front and so, franklin roosevelt and winston churchill realize they had to do something to meet joseph stalin's pleading for a second front, of which is going to be in france. where do we fight? they decided we would land in north africa and so, to tell the story in this north african farmhouse that we are standing in of that decision and its consequences. problem that we are going to face after we decide to go into north africa is, can our troops breed young citizen soldiers, actually fight the vital hardened nazi arm

joe had fought and defeated the best the nazi had to offer in north africa and had taken the enemy's measure. >> now he was a veteran who had growing confidence in himself and in his leadership. he was a soldier. whether he knew it or not, he was adding new glory to the traditions of the american fighting man and that war's outcome, the world defeat had never been written on the scrolls of that fine tradition. in many areas, there was nothing more than a rut for a road. so units of the p seventh army did a little amphibious leapfrogging along the coast in their push for mancina. >> while our seventh army pushed the nazi's across sicily, in far away new guinea, the 5 03rd parachute made a drop while the forces continued to press forward. >> our growing air power made a daylight raid on military objectives in the heart of italy with 500 bombers. >> on sicily's north coast, pat ton's seventh drove on eastward towards macina. in the air, 177 american b-24 bombers raided the oil refineries in romania with 300 tons of explosives. >> the initiative no longer belonged to the nazi fascist axi

so from a 945 europe was liberated when nazi germany surrendered to the allied forces after 6 years world war 2 was over in europe it left more than 30000000 dead here including 6000000 jews killed by the nazis today europe and with it germany remembers a day of liberation but that was not always the case until a few years ago many germans of the war generation remembered a day of defeat and shame europe remembers the end of world war 2 how the alpha's in berlin and this is the day. people fighting assad from unfair liberation of 1945 was imposed from outside it had to come from outside this country had descended too far into the evil the guilt that it had brought upon itself. but we too played a part in the liberation army in our internet liberation because this did not take place on a single day rather it was a long and painful process. and long. after vick. also on the day new hope in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine can a tried and tested vaccine against tuberculosis also ward off covert 19 researchers and south africa believe yes it could. remember of a spreadsheet. or. 2 of

annihilate the scourge of bashes them from europe the soviet union and its western allies prevailed against nazi germany today such global solidarity is sadly missing in the face of the current pandemic who in what blocks is very necessary solidarity. to stop this and more i'm joined by my guest to me bob it's in moscow he is a political analyst and editor of you know just me internet project and in court we have geoffrey robertson he is america's professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war right gentlemen cross-talk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want the house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to demon here in moscow you know d.m.a. here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as we're sitting down doing our chat right no

who to fight first, japan or nazi germany? fragment roosevelt and winston churchill believed that hitler and nazi germany were our chief enemy. the problem was that we weren't ready to fight the nazis on the continent of europe. we did look into plans to perhaps invade across the english channel into normandy in 1942 or 1943, but realized we would not have the material upources or the army built that would be necessary for victory. in the meantime, the soviet union was taking a terrible pounding on the eastern front. and so franklin roosevelt and , winston churchill realized they had to do something to meet joseph stalin's pleading for a different front. but it was not going to be in france. where do we fight? we decided we would land in north africa. and so we tell the story in this north african farm house that we -- decision and the consequences. the problem we are greater face after we decide to go into north africa is can our troops actually fight the battle hardened nazi army and win? we are now entering the north africa

nazi administration buildings there in munic. basically, with the elimination of adolph hitler, we then have the opportunity to try and sum up what this war in europe meant. we do so with a film that tells what the cost of hitler's nazi germany meant to the world. in terms of death, it was something that had never been seen before. in terms of destruction, culture and unity, the holocaust jews as well as others, political prisoners, so on. many others perished in hitler's concentration camp system. we try and give people what allied troops were fighting for. what it meant to extinguish that from the world. the end of the road to berlin after we try and summarize the cost of the war for our public, we have an ending quote by general dwight d. eisenhower. this came from a letter that the supreme commander wrote in april of 1943 to his son john. which he tried to put the meaning of a conflict that he was so central in trying to prosecute. he said, no other war in history has so definitely lined up the forces of arbitrary oppression

while our seventh army pushed the nazis across sicily. in faraway new guinea, the 503rd parachute regiment made an airdrop. while american and australian ground forces continued to press forward. cool our growing air power made a daylight raid on military objectives in the heart of italy with 500 bombers. on sicily's north coast, patents seventh drove eastward towards messina. in the air american bombers raided the oil refineries in romania with 300 tons of explosives. the initiative no longer belonged to the nazi fascist activists, in the air or on the ground. the ruthless drive for world conquest have been stopped all the way around the earth. from north africa to the pacific where u.s. army troops and marines captured airfields on the island of new georgia. on the same day our troops took those air fields, soviet forces drove across central russia. key military targets on the italian mainland were being mauled by our air force. our ground forces were also hitting the enemy with devastating power. the crushing defeat suffered by the axi

so on may 7th, nazi germany formally surrendered to the allies. in this case here, we have silverware and a teapot with adolf hitler's initials on them that were captured by american troops in munich, where hitler had begun its political career found in nazi headquarters buildings, nazi administration buildings there in munich. so, basically, with the elimination of adolf hitler, we then have the opportunity to try and sum up what this war in europe meant. and we do so with a film that tries to tell what the entire cost of hitler's nazi germany meant to the world in terms of death, it was something that had never been seen before. in terms of destruction, culture, entire communities, the holocaust of the jews, as well as others, political prisoners, the roma, etc, so on. so many others perished and hitler's confrontation camp systems. we try to give people a sense of what the allied troops were fighting for, what it meant to distinguish that from the world. at the end of the road to berlin, after we try and summarize the cost of the war for our pu

world heritage 360 get the maps now. 75 years ago on the 8th of may 1945 europe was liberated when nazi germany surrendered to the allied forces after 6 years world war 2 was over in europe that left more than 30000000 dead here including 6000000 jews killed by the nazis today europe and with it germany remembers a day of liberation but that was not always the case until a few years ago many germans of the war generation remembered a day of defeat and shame europe tremendous the end of world war 2 in berlin and this is the day. people playing roles of film and feel liberation of 1945 was imposed from outside it had to come from outside this country had descended too far into the evil guilds that it brought upon itself. but we too played a part in the liberation army in our internal liberation because this did not take place on a single day rather it was a long and painful process. and long. schmetz after vick. also on the day new hope in the race to develop a corona virus vaccine can a tried and tested vaccine against tuberculosis also ward off covert 19 researches and that south africa

the problem is that we were not ready to fight the nazis on the continent of europe. we did look into plans to perhaps invade across the english channel into normandie in 1942 or 1943 but realized we would not have the material resources or the army built up that would be necessary for victory. in the meantime, the soviet union was taking a terrible pounding on the eastern front. and so franklin roosevelt and churchill realized they had to do something to meet josef stalin's pleaing for a second front. so where do we fight? they decided we would land in north africa. so we tell the story in this north african farmhouse we're standing in of the decision and the consequences. the problem we're going to face is can our troops green, young citizen soldiers actually fight the battle hardened nazi army and win? so we're now entering the north african gallery here at the museum. and behind me over here is our weapons case. featured in this weapon are handguns, rifles, shot guns, mortars, other weapons that we're going to use to fight in europe. included in this case is the m

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a fanatical nazi, he was the commander of germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. >> ♪ arrests, withs ended forever. >> ♪ narrator: in the city lies the body of the most hated man in europe, heinrich himmler, chief of the nazi secret police. captured while posing as a civilian, he was carrying tiny vials of poison. under examination, he bit into one concealed under his tongue. propped up for official photographs, this nazi who terrorized a continent has met in violent death his proper end. >> ♪ narrator: this is the notorious german death camp. the last of the living dead are treated by british medical troops before being transferred to allied field hospitals. >> ♪ narrator: insecticide is applied to liberated prisoners. of the 29,000 who survived, 500 our children. these former enemies of the reich will now receive human care and medical attention. the commandant, joseph kramer, murderer of countless thousands, is now a prisoner. british flame tanks fire the flimsy building. it is erased from the earth. freemen muste that not forget. >> ♪ narrator: president harry truman delivers a

but, the battle for nazi held italy was only beginning. on the 3rd of september, two british divisions crossed the straits of messina to land on the toe of the italian boot. six days later, american forces struck the beach at solar no, 30 miles south of naples. they met stiff enemy resistance. four days after the landings, the enemy launched a strong counterattack pouring in some of its best troops. for a time, our foot hold was precarious. supported by concentration of combined firepower from aircraft, naval guns and artillery, the allies held the beach had. the heavy pounding by land sea and air was too much for the nazis. they fell back as our own forces pushed on towards naples. by then, italy had surrendered unconditionally, now officially out of the war. october 1st 1943, elements of general clark's army entered the city of naples. they were greeted not as conquerors but liberators. the citizens of naples knew that we and our allies were the only hope of driving the germans from their homeland. here as elsewhere, a new problem confro

you cannot legally be a nazi in germany.ermans have been extraordinarily capable at educating all germans, particularly younger germans, about what had happened and who was responsible. but it is difficult to snuff out this virus. we see it cropping up in hungary and other places in eastern europe. we see sparks of it in portions of germany. it is very concerning. we see it wherever there is a populace who wants to take the route of fascism or neo-fascism. proto-fascism. and try to feather their nest politically with it. that is a greater concern than any residual of nazis from 1945. host: you wrote in your last book about the discovery of a trove of german bully on and -- bullion and gold, already minesres in caves and after the war. how did allied forces prevent looting of that and prevent extra violence, revenge violence against germans who may have been prisoners or in pursuit of german troops? guest: the germans were great thieves. nazis had looted artworks and treasures of all sorts from individuals and galleries and m

newspaper wrote the obituary on the nazi party. announcedork times" hitler's career over, and it probably should have been over. what happened? it may not be what you think. it wasn't what i thought when i started researching. i started researching this book five years ago, five years full-time. i had just finished my previous book, "i death in the city of place in nazikes occupied paris, and a serial killer was chopping people up and got filthy rich from his murders. it was a true count. so i was looking for something a little less dark, ironically, and ended up here. i always go through a list of history topics on what i want to go through next, and the list usually gets longer than shorter. one wild idea after the next, one rabbit hole after the next. it was probably amusing and exasperating for my wife. the topic was in front of me. one of my favorite lectures i used to give when i used to teach at the university of kentucky was the beer hall putsch. german marksof that my mother-in-law got when she was living in germany, passi

the survivor the nazis persecution and the holocaust or non jewish friends in berlin. she remain very close to her rescuers all her life the german resistance memorial center in berlin commemorates these unsung few moments and the courageous engagement for the man. up. next on d w. so. the market. top of the morning world. is made made in germany. in 60 minutes on g.w. . europe and the end of world war 2. our 08945 brought an end to the destruction suffering and death. and it marked a new beginning of european cooperation. d.w.m. celebrates the 75th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war in europe today d w i subscribe to b.w. books or something more in the world than a book we may be back after 5 point. 3 books. hello and welcome to focus on europe the corona crisis is still taking its toll on lives and businesses across the continent the tourism industry has been especially hard.

as a child i lived through the persecution of the nazis barbarism. you know they killed my mother and my sister in the gas chambers of auschwitz birkenau. my father died in despair just after the war this is in july 945. in one when i was 11 the nazi secret families the gestapo it took me and threw me in prison measure the thank gosh to the nazis put kornacki and his mother on a deportation train more than 1500 people crammed in cattle cars destination i'll shit's concentration camp. but he was lucky 3 belgian resistance fighters stopped the train his mother told him to flee and he ran into the night she didn't jump because she didn't want to threaten his escape he says. every night i dreamt i was being chased by the gestapo. 2 or 3 times i changed families for security reasons. whenever i arrived somewhere i went to the attic 1st to see how i could escape over the roofs if they came to get me we were the victims here she after the war returned to brussels and make good on his dream of studying law. but at 23 i was a doctor of law and a lawyer i'm st

well on this eve of the 75th anniversary of nazi germany surrender i'm joined by aren't. he is a history professor at the free university here in berlin professor it's good to have you back on the day you know we just heard in that report there will be no commemorations tomorrow because of the pandemic berlin is still in somewhat of paralysis mode from the walk down of the past weeks what has all of this done to this very important and a verse or 3 in your opinion. i think ben downey has reminded at least of the elderly germans of the end of the war my parents are about 90 years and they talk they've talked a lot of all the end of the war because it's seems to be similar at least at 1st glance i mean. it's a state of emergency it's it's a profound transformation of public life so at least at 1st glance i mean there are similarities and of course it's sad because we cannot read commemorate the end of the. war the collapse of the nazi dictatorship which had been which was a major turning point in european history in wood history and of course it would have been nice to have

he knew of the nazi party. was not a participant in it, not a member of it at that point in time, but then because of the great depression a lot of car companies were abandoning grand prix racing, colluding mercedes and outer union. so by 1933, early 34, rudy had a terrible car accident so it was kind of crippled, had just lost his wife in a skiing accident and sort of had, the only thing left in his life was racing and getting back into racing. and with the rise of hitler and his investment in automobile racing and grand prix racing, the opportunity presented for rudi was joined the nazi party, become a representative of, or never race again. and i think the answer to that question for him was not even a reluctant one, even though he didn't believe in the ideology or even necessarily, definitely not the sort of anti-semitism even. but i don't think he hesitated. i think he joined -- i know he joined straight away. he thrived, he did everything he could to get back into shape to join the team. because racing wa

dell to remember russia commemorate 75 years since the defeat of the nazis but the pandemic right now means big plans have changed with events scaled back all moved on. to the significance of i think it would be a beautiful city there so no parades on the ground today but the aerial tributes still took off in the military flight out in the skies above moscow plus. more to regiment march which usually sees millions of russians turn out with portraits of their wartime relatives lose online and later to a flash mob will see russians take the balconies to see wartime songs just as we did here earlier with our friends for the straight. lowball the law was all over. the. hello this is our team from moscow it's made the 9th a date indelibly etched in russian minds it's a victory day and exactly 75 years ago nazi germany was defeated and the 2nd world war in europe was over this year's commemorations may be subdued in size and spectacle but none the less the emotion the pride and the immense gratitude is of course still being felt nationwide as the country remembers the incalculable sacrifice

victory over the nazis is a victory for us all. and tonight neal bascomb is award-winning author of the winter portrait, the perfect mile among others and he grew up in st. louis, welcome from afar and now i would like to bring in neal into the conversation and so if you all where you're watching could give a round of applause for neal bascomb. >> hello, everybody. >> hello. >> thank you, shane, for that great introduction. >> thank you. so i do want to say for anyone watching, sorry, for anyone watching that is not incredibly familiar with auto racing with the history of cars, for me personally, this was such an incredible and very easy, not easy but very enthralling parade and comparisons to the book is boys in the boat and sea biscuit but for other sports i don't know anything about i feel like this was very appropriately matched but now i'm going to let neal talk a little bit about the book and tell you and then i will come in and ask some questions. >> you bet. well, thanks again, shane. nice to be talks to left bankbooks as i

i did so it is a nazi face i mean this is. massive. so i think that there is there is some concern which is not entirely legitimate that some racial grow in. so what washes i mean i mean i saw this a while washing going on on both sides here i mean if you want to go down that path and you know why was president bombed ok the dropping of the atomic weapons on japan i mean you know we could go on and on and that's called what about what about is ok but i don't think it gets us really anywhere there underneath one of the things in with this touched on just this for a 2nd we touched on it is really it's not really about the outcome of the 2nd world war it's really the origins of the 2nd world war about invoking the the snyder character here and sign no you have the that the nazi soviet pact display 939 that's their exhibit a all of the time and they don't like to mention that just about every country in europe they play nice 3 year old in $1034.00 and non-aggression pact with nazi germany that's not brought up because it's inconvenient ok