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One result of the brutality encountered by the yanks. Prison camps and forced labor camps, millions of miserable people enslaved by the nazis. These girls faced incredible hardship forced to work in german factories. Each girl wore a number tattooed on her arm. And here is stark evidence of german torture. Yellow identifying crosses on their clothing. Unhappy humans being freed daily by our army. Years of private nation left their mark, gathering for cigarettes and to receive instructions from british and American Military authorities. The yanks get a rousing cheer. A girl spots a gestapo agent in civilian clothes. He is quickly hustled off to jail. In france, 3 million families wait eagerly for their loved ones to return. Some have been gone for five years and mixed feelings of joy and sadness with the returning war prisoners. Such pitiful family reunions are reminders of the devastation and the horror visited on the world by the axis. Following the advancing armies a great university, once a great center of german culture. American reporters uncovered the plaque the nazis removed listing all of the donors, names familiar to all americans. It was progressive americans who helped maintain heidelberg just to have nazi supermen grind culture under their heels. The watch on the rhine has taken added significance. They know when these starspangled banners unfurled they will keep watch until german militarism is stamped out. General omar bradley gives personal thanks to his men at this point. It was after a slight pause here that his armies lose to the full. Of the attack, just as they have done. The stars and stripes fly in victory over conquered german soil. In 2003, New York Times reporter Judith Miller wrote several stories in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. She was found in contempt of court and imprisoned in federal jail for 85 days. Sunday, she talks about her time in jail, as well as her new book the story a reporters journey. Judith miller i was in jail because i refuse to reveal the identity of a source. Protecting sources is the lifeblood of independent journalism. And i really felt that among the people i routinely spoke to who had access to classified information, unless they could trust me to protect them, my sources would dry up and eventually i would just be righting what the government wanted me to write. So, i felt that this was a question of principle, that i did not really have much choice. Sunday night on cspans up next, Senate Historian Donald Richie and several educators from the center of legislative archives discuss how the first u. S. Congress led by James Madison introduced the bill of rights despite significant opposition. 10 of the 12 proposed amendments were ratified on december 15 1791. This event from the Capitol Visitor Center is about one hour. Donald i am pleased to welcome you to this event. They were supposed to start on march 4 but they did not have enough members for a quorum at first as the senate achieved its first quorum on april 6. That First Congress turned out to be one of the most productive in american history, working feverishly to fill in the gaps the constitution had left. Our constitutions is one of the shortest of any nation in the world and in many ways an outline begging for interpretation. That First Congress helped to fill in what the authors of the constitution have been unable to do in the brief time in which they were writing the constitution. For instance, creating the

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