Of people help the end of the war in europe. It is five years and more since hitler march into poland. Here is full of suffering and death and sacrifice. Now, the war against germany is one. A grateful nation gift thanks for victory. Hundreds of thousands crowd into american churches to give thanks to god. President trump announced the official surrender. This is a solemn but glorious hour. I wish that franklin the roosevelt had lived to see this day. General eisenhower informed me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the united nations, the flags of freedom fly all over europe. For this victory, we join in offering our thanks to the providence, which had guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light. Much remains to be done. The victory one in the west must now be one in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been free. United, the peace loving nations have demonstrated in the west that their arms are
To a political solution, a political agreement to end the war. In this battle, the largest that has ever been fought by the United States army in its history, better than 600,000 better than 600,000 americans were engaged. And you can see, our lines famously bulged but they did not break. However, you have the story of the siege that is going to be depicted here. Most famously, George Patton is going to come up and save the town from the south after they had been surrendered. This was an incident that Many Americans will recognize from where thepatton, Commanding Officer was asked by the germans to surrender and he famously said to them one word, nuts. In this case here, you get a sense of how logistics are so important in war, particularly with things like gasoline up here. We have a german gas tank where you can actually see the sf markings on the side. Germans were running out of gasoline. We, however, are going to also not only have to deal with moving mechanical vehicles, tanks, a
Mark Rick Atkinson author of the guns at last lights of the war in western europe 1944 to 1945. The Program Starts with an archival newsreel from may of 1945 showing the signing the surrender and the statement from president harry truman. What im this year marks the 75th trying to find a good yeah theory had lived to see this day generalize and how are informed me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the United Nations the flags of freedom fly all over europe for this victory we join in offering our thanks to the providence which is guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light much remains to be done the victory one in the west must now be one in the east the whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United the peaceloving nation have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military that once called us salt and wheat the power of our people
Bombs mines tall paedo warheads basically you find the entire horrifying array of things that the human brain is capable of devising when it wall that its just by current estimates there are about 1600000 tonnes in german waters. Enough to fill a 3000 kilometer long Freight Train its. Got i mean legions are made of metal and because salt water has a highly corrosive effect its a question of when not if all their contents are harmful for the environment and for people mentioned. Pretty government policy in recent decades has essentially been to ignore the issue people have no real idea how much already has been or is about to be perforated by rust it was. The 2nd world war. A global conflict that also so large parts of europe bombarded from the air on an unprecedented scale. And the high seas were also the same a fierce fighting in the course of naval battles the parties to the war fired off countless shells mines and torpedoes towards the end of the conflict German Forces dumped their
Minute event. Well, thank you for coming out what i want to try to do is look at the cold war it is worth baring in mind that there were actually periods of time that caused your fore bearers more anxiety and in some cases with much greater reason to do so. And won the 1952 and 1956 election. And these are the years that represent a high point. Thinking about the cold war and the United States its worth bear in mind that the legacy and the history of the cold war was one of much of americas 20th century. And the forces in the soviet union was not during the period that you tend to think is the cold war which is from 19464748 and and much of eisenhowers much of the people in the army who served with him are being framed by the fact that america is one of the coalition of powers that went to war with the communists in the russian civil war. The idea that russia represented an ideological challenge to the United States begins there. The cold war is at its hottest between the United States