i flew down to nuremberg to talk to michael musmanno, i flew down to nuremberg to talk to the generalge and he said we can't put on this trial now, because of all the lawyers are already assigned. the trial is in progress, the pentagon hasn't approved it, i doubt if they will approve it, and i have in my hand evidence of mass murder on a scale never before seen in human history. you can't let these guys go. he said, can you do it in addition to your other work? isaid, sure, and i did, and i rested my case in two days. you said you wanted to prosecute the officers. you weren't as interested in the foot soldiers, you wanted to get the educated officers among them. it is very hard for the public today to understand. the special extermination squad, einsatzgruppen, the german word means "action groups. " they were 3,000 men. i selected of these 3,000, all of whom were complicit in mass murder, i selected those based on severalfactors. first of all, we had to have them in captivity. if you have got the evidence and you haven't got the prisoner, you have got nothing. i want a list of everyb

he is the last surviving prosecutor at the nuremberg nazi trials.elped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. so does he believe that the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived in america. my parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. no money, no skills, no language. and lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn't need any boots made in new york, there were no cobblers. but the owner of a building offered us the opportunity to sleep in the cellar and my father would be the janitor. that's where we

he died, he was hung, after the nuremberg trials, when you were seven years old.just wondering how strong your memories can be of him when you were in that castle in krakow, his headquarters, the headquarters of the nazi force in poland, do you really remember what it was like and what he was like? no, i didn't remember what kind of profession he had. i only knew poland was ours. and the castle was ours. and the other castle outside of krakow was ours. and there were our properties. it was almost like you were part of the royal family. yes, it was, it was. and this i enjoyed very much, like my mother. i enjoyed it. what about the truth of the unimaginable crimes and cruelty as a young boy growing up from the age of, well, from being a baby to being six years old. did you have any awareness of what was happening? no. the only thing was, when i accompanied my mother into the krakow ghettos, when she was shopping, maybe it was one visit, maybe more, but i remember especially this one visit, there was a lot of people, everybody was looking very sadly. and this was the

-- nuremberg. no, ididn't what he was like? -- nuremberg.mber what kind of profession he had. i only knew poland was ours. and the castle was ours. and the other castle outside of krakow was ours. and there were our properties. it was almost like you were part of the royal family. yes, it was, it was. and this i enjoyed very much, like my mother. i enjoyed very much, like my mother. i enjoyed it. what about the truth of the unimaginable crimes and cruelty asa the unimaginable crimes and cruelty as a young boy growing up from the age of, well, from being a baby to being six years old. did you have any awareness of what was happening? no. the only thing was, when i accompanied my mother into the kra kow accompanied my mother into the krakow town, when she was shopping, maybe it was one visit, maybe more, but i remember especially this one visit, there was a lot of people, everybody was looking very sadly. and this was the only memory. but i didn't know where it was. later on i turnit didn't know where it was. later on i turn it to my beloved h

what is possible flying in the face of something like the nuremberg code? i'm always on the lookout for that kind of work come for those kind of operation programs. i did not find any that the reader specifically is referring to. >> host: dave, cleveland ohio good afternoon. annie jacobsen is our guest. >> caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you for booktv. my question is concerning 1957, the year sputnik and also the life article with the multi color photographs appeared in 57. in april of 57 a.m. project 57. it. it occurred right before the nuclear test series operation plumb bob. in project 57 this was near area 51, plutonium are scattered across the desert and i wonder if you research in kerry 51 from if you give us any more details about project 57 that might be of interest. >> host: do you have come why the interest in these topics? >> caller: back in 1989 i was delivering mail and met a man who had been in hiroshima, a youth are mak. i saw a tv show about cloud samplers and i also started getting a lot of newspaper photographs relating to

what is possible flying into the face of something look theth nuremberg code.ays on the lookout for that kind of work, for those kind of operations, programs. i did not find any that the reader specifically referring to. >> host: dave, cleveland, ohio, good afternoon, annie jacobsen is our guest. >> caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you forler: tk booktv. my question is concerning 1957. that was the year of sputnik and also the life article with the multicolor photographs appearing in '57 and in april of '57 they had project 57 that occurred right before the nuclear test series, operation plumb bob and operation 57, blew tonum was scattered across the desert and i i wonder if your research into area 51 if you can give is r details about project 57 thatny might be of interest. >> host: dave, do you have a -- why the interest in these topics? >> caller: well, back in 1989 i was delivering mail and met a man who had been in hiroshima, i u.s. army guy. saw a tv show about cloud samplers and standded getting a lot of newspaper photographs relating to th

. -- he was shaken by the nuremberg trials.ful a really director of comedy before the war and said he could never make another comedy after what he is seeing in germany so in the 60's, hed 50's and became a very distinguished director of drama. it really did make a difference. the trial had been, was being widely covered by the press and everybody said the first few days were sort of flat and wereg and the prosecutors not making an oppressive case and the film is shown in the spotlight was turned on the defendant's box. the defendants were forced to view the movies and the witnesses for the trial say the effect was electrifying. the defendant's own attorneys said that after seeing the movie , it was impossible to sit in the same room. it goes from being a filmmaker of comedies and musicals into doing documentary filmmaking and once he goes into the camps, he becomes an evidence gathered her, so that speaks for his transformation as a filmmaker, as a man, and is reflected after the war when he comes back and cannot work. charlie

you know the nuremberg pilotses after world war ii, carrying out orders was not a sufficient excuse whene nazis. carrying outaries is not a sufficient excuse for dropping nerve gas on innocent civilians. we all saw the pictures and we're appalled and angered and shocked. just incredible. >> is this a reminder that there is belf that foreign policy matters at the end of day? that trump said, hey, there are too many quag meyers. we're getting involved in too many foreign affairs. we can't do everything. do you get the feeling president trump now gets the idea that there's no other policeman in the world? >> i think he is realizing our moral responsibility and it was graphically illustrated with the father holding the two dead babies. i think he is getting it. i think he realize that's america must lead. and by the way, america has not led in the last eight years. and whatever happened to the much trumpeted removal of all the stuff, with russia and that bashar al assad that obama and kerry were so proud of? >> i want to talk about that. whatter responsibility does vladimir putin have for th

crater the runways, the pilots can be tried as war criminals, that's a presidents that was set at the nuremberg trials in nazi germany. carrying out orders is not a sufficient accuse for committing crimes against humanity. and obviously increased sanctions against russia. including by the way providing lethal defensive weapons to the ukrainians. >> shep: we are on the road to that is certainly tonight the united states has launched a limited strikes against syria on the one the syrian military base something upwards of 40 tomahawk missiles. have hit the syrian land this evening. it's 10:00 on the east coast, at 7:00 p.m. on the west coast, i'm a shepard smith into new york on the fox broadcast network and fox news channel from coast-to-coast on a night when the united states has launched targeted military strikes on syria. dozens of tomahawk missiles meant to send according to the white house a message to the syrian leadership and their dictator bashar al-assad not to launch sarin gas attacks on their own people to stop slaughtering their own people after seven long years of civil war. the russ

he worked for the nuremberg trials and he negotiated the release of francis gary powers in trade for rudolph powell. he was tasked to go negotiate the release of the bay of pigs survivors that had been captured by the cubans. we sent him over to negotiate with castro to get these hundreds of cuban exiles released back to the united states. the cia said you're going to be in the same room with castro. castro loves to go scuba diving. we want you to give him this wetsuit. and he said, why my giving him this wetsuit? they said it will have this massive fungus on it that will give him this skin rash. and inside the snorkel is tuberculosis. and donovan is like, i'm not doing this. i am a diplomat. i'm not going to poison the man i'm trying to negotiate in good faith. donovan went out and bought a brand-new wetsuit and gave that to castro. the cia was very annoyed with donovan at that time. the idea that castro loves to go skin diving and stupid diving so someone had the idea of creating a bobby trap sea shell. we have a plastic explosive that is shaped like a lump of coal. the idea was to

as i writes in paper clip, of mass murder,mm slavery, genocide, sent to landburg prison after the nuremberg trials and then was released by our u.s. high commissioner, john mccloy, and what went back into the world and then consulted for the atomic energy commission. when i tried to track -- when iu did track down his son and tried to interview him he said mysent father did nothing wrong. he was acquitted. on the other hand i interviewed other children of major nazis who had a very different take and were very thoughtful and remorseful and courageous in sharing with me the profound difficulties of that legacy they must live with. the son cannot be judges by the father but it's an extraordinary burden to bear. so interviewing people that were that forthcoming with me about the complications of that legacy, i mean, feel like that undergirdses the book with significance that is deeplysi emotional. >> host: 1600 nazi scientists came over via operation paper clip. how deep did their tentacle goes in the country. >> guest: they were in every weapons program we were financing there was a top nazi.