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Pivotal meeting between british Prime Minister winston churchill, president franklin roosevelt, and soviet leader joseph stalin. Welcome back to the metal and Paul Hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing highlevel analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. As we know, wars are fought on battlefield, not in boardrooms. These summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they would not have mattered much if we did not have armies in the field. Our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war two. To do this we have asked rob citino. His executive director of the museum of democracy as well as at the world War Ii Museum. He is an awardwinning led terri historian. Military historian. He has published 10 books, primarily on the german army. He has taught for three decades including stints at
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Next on American History tv, historians present talks on two aspects of what the soviets aspects of the operation. Ready toow getting hand the stage over to an associate professor in the department of history at the university of windsor in canada. We met rob last year when he came down for our 2018 conference as an attendee. We are delighted to have him back with us to moderate our first session of the day. Without delay, dr. Nelson. [applause] good morning. Bout. E to the heavyweight these three major fronts for those of us, he saved the biggest one for last. Operation, one of the greatest, the most significant with a name that none of us can pronounce. I dont speak russian. I can say it in french way. Then there is the funny, easy pneumonic device. Operation bag of rations. Can kind of spell it out along the way. Words spelling out the with the emphasis on the final syllable. About the Eastern Front and how significant it is, difficult to bring the numbers and figures and the size o