the weimar republic. fragile, wrecked from within even as hitler comes to power. never having the popular vote. i think that's one thing we see here. there was a statistician writing in the 1920's who had reviewed many cases and the german legal system. the vast majority would be let basically with a slap on the wrist. if you compare it to suspects on the left who were far fewer, i have a lot of them in the book. you can see. they would have much harsher sentences. 10 or 12 years. they talked about how the legal system was this wellspring for the third reich because of the -- there is a system i can refer you to. they kept a lot of that. comes in, one of the things he does, he goes five years with the people's court institution in munich at the time and they will re-create the people's court's. he won't let them talk. defend ast let them he was loved do when he just would talk and talk and talk. -- as he was allowed to do when he would just talk and talk and talk. i think you raise a lot of questions about the anti-semitism and the challenges they would have. >> a

so he took weimar, and we were not there for the first week the camp was liberated. patton and general eisenhower and general bradley all visited the camp within the second day after it was liberated, april 13 perhaps. i think it was. they probably went in the 14th or so. they saw the hundreds of bodies and learned about the awful things which had happened at the camp, which had had about 20,000 inmates at the time. patton said the camp should remain how it was so people could see what it was like. the american press descended and pictures were taken, movies and stills. it was the most widely publicized of the camps, partly because it was huge, the biggest of the concentration camps. it was a work camp. people get them confused with the extermination camps. a camp like auschwitz in poland was designed to kill people at the rate of 1000 a day, gas theman dburn their bodies. buchenwald was a work camp. they had a quarry. they had a factory which made v1 rockets. and if you had people working in a quarry and a factory, there was no point in feeding them so little that t

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this was a camp that was north west of weimar. in. had the patrol came didn't have to fight, but they were overwhelmed by the joy and enthusiasm and freedom feeling of the occupants of the camp. they heard -- i heard this was that --, the commanders throwing in the air with blankets or something, but they had a heckuva time getting out of this lodging and advancing to the east. wasn't it, but i present. we went on. we went on. the mcured crossings over and the one that mit weine is on. we put our cp in the river at mittweida. they were very concerned about us getting in the firefight with the russians accidentally. to a place called wasberg i believe, which 15, 20 miles maybe east, southeast of mittweida looking for the russians. this was no man's country. i never found them until later they came drifting in at the time. they were something else. invited to, we were the soviets, one of the day with for lunch one a real -- vodka flowing liberally. they consume it just incredibly. we could not keep up with that. but they had reached our