whoever errors of nazi concentration camps, creating films that were used as evidence during the nuremberg trials. first we talk to journalist and film historian mark harris. >> the book is titled, "five came back: a story of hollywood and the second world war" and one of the directors featured by author mark harris is george stevens. mark harris is joining us from new york. thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> in your book, these five directors essentially putting their careers on hold to help the u.s. army and the military during the height of world war ii. why did george stevens get involved? >> stevens had been a director of some of the most successful light comedies and escapist movies in hollywood throughout the 1930s. he actually came up doing laurel and hardy silent shorts and then once sound came in he did everything from "swing time," one of the best fred astaire and ginger rogers movies to "wochlt year" with katherine hepburn and spencer tracy. each of these movies had reasons for directors going in. for stevens, who like all of the directors was old e

to apply the standards of the wirz trial at nuremberg or after world war ii, one would imagine you would have to prove that the nazis tried at nuremberg, we would have to prove that they personally put somebody in the gas chamber. by the end of world war ii, we no longer have to do that. what i want to do is step away from the trial itself and talk about the crime and talk about what wirz is on trial for. before the civil war, the united states army had something known as the u.s. articles of war. the u.s. articles of war essentially followed the traditional, well understood customs of warfare at the time. one of the customs of warfare, the understandings and usages that were accepted by all americans since the revolution that have been promulgated by the military over and over again, including the general regulations of the army promulgated by secretary of war john calhoun in 1821, and all of these rules said you had to treat prisoners of war humanely. you had to provide them with enough food. you had to provide them with shelter. you cannot summarily execute them. every one of the lead

we highlight marshall nuremberg, who not only cracked the genetic code back in the 1960's, but also won the nobel prize for his work. charles schultz, one of my favorite parts of the exhibit. we were lucky enough to get two of his original sunday comics. and a pair of skates that illustrates it was a lifelong amateur hockey fan. that is something we try to do in the exhibit, to find one object or one document that speaks to the accomplishments of each person. the importance of an exhibit like 60 from the 60's is to show how americans 50 years ago completed work that is still relevant in the 21st century. for example, in the early 60's, we launched the first communications satellite, which was the precursor to the electronic age we are experiencing now. satellite communications, cell phone reception, worldwide television reception. one of the people we are highlighting is the inventor of the world's first videogame, which began the videogame revolution we have now. his prototype, that was developed in the 1960's, eventually was produced by magnavox, that they turned into the magnavox ody

we highlight marshall nuremberg who not only cracked the genetic code back in the 1960's, but also won nobel prize for his work. charles schultz, one of my favorite parts of the exhibit. we were lucky enough to get two of his original sunday comics. and a pair of skates that illustrates it was a lifelong amateur hockey fan. that is something we try to do in the exhibit, to find one object or one document that speaks to the accomplishments of each person. the importance of an exhibit like 60 from the 60's is to show how americans 50 years ago completed work that is still relevant in the 21st century. for example, in the early 60's, we launched the first communications satellite, which was the precursor to the electronic age we are experiencing now. satellite communications, cell phone reception, worldwide television reception. one of the people we are highlighting is the inventor of the world's first videogame which began the videogame revolution we have now. his prototype, that was developed in the 1960's, eventually was produced by magnavox, that they turned into the magnavox odyssey,

. >> reporter: for about 15 years now darrell nuremberg has called the northridge neighborhood home. >> close to the city. as new people come here and spend their lives here it's not very transient. >> reporter: friday this house on jackson place turned into a crime scene when an elderly couple returned to their home. inside an intruder in the process of carrying out a robbery. spooked perhaps, the suspect stabbed the 84-year-old homeowner. that man still in critical condition. and darrell says that's not all. >> the gentleman's wife was brought to an atm machine. that's the word going around the neighborhood. >> reporter: not far from here about a year ago, another alexandria resident was killed inside of her home. the suspect in that case charles severance, has been charged. >> randomness of this has everybody in the neighborhood very concerned. >> reporter: darrell describes it as a quiet neighborhood a place where people come and in many cases never leave. some residents haven't been happy with the police response time. all the folks that i spoke to just want things to return to

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whoever errors of nazi concentration camps, creating films that were used as evidence during the nuremberg we talk to journalist and film historian mark harris. >> the book is titled, "five came back: a story of hollywood and the second world war" and one of the directors featured by author mark harris is george stevens. mark harris is joining us from new york. thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> in your book, these five directors essentially putting their careers on hold to help the u.s. army and the military during the height of world war ii. why did george stevens get involved? >> stevens had been a director of some of the most successful light comedies and escapist movies in hollywood throughout the 1930s.

general wolfe the one that dulles befriended, and he spent, he originally was facing execution at nuremberg is one of the top of the nazis involved war. thanks to dulles he was limited as a defendant and was just a witness. not actually defend. had to spend a couple of years in a pow camp. dulles can get them out of the pow camp completely slowed to carry a gun and he would go off voting on a yacht on the weekends. so it's prism confinement was not accept what one would consider normal prism time. as far as the financial rewards, he wrote letters to dulles who helped him escape or crime prosecution wanting to be reimbursed or all of this lost time in the pow camp because a business career to resume and this was costing him money. and so one of dulles' aides wrote back, he put in he literally put in for like dry cleaning and tailoring and close and said this was, this was run 1951. one of dulles' aides wrote back to general wolff saying he should thank his lucky stars come is lucky didn't lose a lot more than his shirt. >> you mentioned at the beginning that the jews were victims, and that i

will the nuremberg call-up or increase our paranoia? i would say i don't share that view particularly looking at the history of the american muslim community that is a historically moderate community so the odds of that happening strike me as very small but look at this people say to i have to check that? but it was a very big number >> you are probably right if there was a poll today or tomorrow. because generally i think they have differentiated between europe and america. but second, that number is high but the number of people have said they're very worried is very small. is the most ideological and to have a rough comparison with al qaeda anything less with the capacity so it is high for asher but it is not as intense to be careful not to over interpret. >> so we're not in the public opinion environment where people were willing to contemplate a lot of things but i want to come back to the point that is saved president obama has done a masterful job of reflecting public opinion. a year of his policy as he has regulated demands from

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his task was to prepare two evidentiary films that were to be shown at the nuremberg trials later thatled "the nazi plan," which was intended to demonstrate that, in fact this was a well calculated, systematic effort in a way to prove intent and conspiracy, and the other film "nazi concentration camps" was to document the atrocities that stevens and his men had seen when they went through the gates of dachau and filmed there. >> i, george p. stevens, colonel, army of the united states, hereby certify that on the 1st of march 1945 to the 8th of may 1945 i was on active duty with the united states army signal corps. >> both of the movies were shown at the trial themselves and since the defendants were, you know, were present, they were forced to watch these movies, and by the accounts of people who were there it was really a fascinating experience that at first they didn't understand that the crowd, that the room was horrified by this. they were so infatuated with the footage of hitler that one of them said, you know after this even, you know, the americans will want to join up. the film

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