The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
Good afternoon. I want to thank you for that very kind introduction. A lot of Research Went into that. You can go to the parishes we came from and that is good, that is real good. It is an honor for me to speak to an organization we need now more than ever and a point of personal privilege, we have with us someone whose name was mentioned before, the head of our civil rights division, mister gupta. [applause], head of the leadership conference, chiefly when i was attorney general, the prison continues into lead in the civil rights arena. Today i would like to discuss with you at that we all owe and an issue that threatens the integrity of this great nation and puts in peril the future welfare of our country. 50 years after the passage of the most significant civil rights legislation in our nations history the Voting Rights act in 1965, the most basic of american rights, the right to vote is under siege. President johnson said when he signed the Voting Rights act, the right to vote is t
Police, there are fears of a new cycle of violence and a new Palestinian Uprising in israel. We are going to take up this late in geopolitical mess, the Obama Administration has a big retreat in syria and its implications for u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east with peters. C analyst lieutenant chaos in the capital. Republicans scrambling to find a new speaker of the house, many names being thrown out that no one can agree on who it should be. The pressure is on paul ryan to run and so the power vacuum is going. And many moderate established conservatives are egging him to jump in. Paul ryan right now says you can overcome it together. Who needs it anyway . That is what president obama says, calling for new gun control measures and he will bypass lawmakers and do it by executive fiat. We have all the latest Political Developments with Terry Schonfeld and fred von. The Obama Administration, the pentagon abandoning its half billion Dollar Program to train and arm Syrian Rebels to fig