Test. Test test. Test test test. That is more or less reflected in the number of the divisions. But more important than that is the dynamics of what is happening. The soviets are about to take berlin. The western allies as well that is the contest for the conferenc context for the conference. Issues that were discussed, the conference apart from the military coordination of the military, the activity on the Eastern Front and the western front, was of course the future of germany. And we talked about that a little bit earlier. The question was whether or not there would be small germanys, roosevelt saying when i was a student and i travelled and everything was wonderful and peaceful, and the german states he has no real problem with dividing germany into a number of states. Chur churchill was also excited about that. Germany, but in yalta he was the one who was pushing for that. And fdr and churchill were champions of that idea and they were in a position where they were not prepared to
Full eight hours talking about it. [ laughter ] the last session is often one of our favorites, and that is a round table discussion where we get all of the speakers up together to talk about some themes, to ask each other questions or ask questions of themselves, and to give you all one last time to pepper one, some or all of the panelists with your own questions. I would ask that when you have a question, if it is for a specific panelist, please name that panelist or if you want to throw it open to some or all. We are going to ask dr. Gunter bishoff to chair this panel discussion. Again id like to thank gunter for coming in and filling in for dr. Stole on such short notice. [ applause ] but before i leave the podium, i would like to introduce for the last time today dr. Gunter pitchoff, dr. Rob satino, and mr. Michael bishop. Ladies and gentlemen, gunter will start it and ill run around with the microphone. Thank you very much. Jeremy. Let me just throw a few general questions out th
The National World War Ii Museum hosted the event. Well, greetings, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see you all here and it is always great to see i dont want to say so many probably all are familiar faces and we saw most of you in november and we hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. As steven is said, unfortunately dr. Stoller tried his best, slipped on the way and caught his balance. But all three flights from berlington, vermont, were cancelled to get him here yesterday. And while we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city of new orleans to have one of the leading scholars in this field in gunther bischof here to fill the breach and enlighten us with the first panel of the day. Gunther has been a friend since before we had a building. Not just a hotel. But an actual museum. He goes back with
Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and josef stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen for our next event. Its more or less the keynote of the day because it is the talk on the yalta conference though all of the programs, all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have Serhii Plokhii here from harvard. Hes the professor of ukrainian history and director of Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. As i mentioned the morning hes been on our list for a longtime and we have finally found the right time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His many titles include the last elm pmperor, the cossack myth and forgotten bastard of the Eastern Front. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [ applause ] thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers of the conference for bringing me here, and i also want to thank all of you because coming from boston and thinking that the weather is like today decided to come inside and listen to presentations like mine, i really appreciate th
Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in