College classrooms, tours of historic sites, and see our schedule of upcoming programs at cspan. Org history. Narrator may day in moscows vast red square. Moscow sees its first may day parade in four years of total war. Military attaches of allies, american, british and french, are guests of honor. Marshal stalin with other high soviet officials mount the reviewng stands to russias fighting men. At 10 00 a. M. , the vast Red Army Band is first in hails theviet russia victory. Narrator Japanese Military observers see the mighty display of Russian Armed power. Narrator Russian Rocket launchers on american lend lease trucks. The soviet unions valiant ally celebrates a holiday and salutes the great victories in europe. Narrator into a police court in oslo, norway, comes this man to plead for his life. One of the wars most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes. As the judge enters, at first preliminary trial for a major war criminal begins. Narrator the man who made his name s
Filming us. Is so later in the question and answer portion, if you would please go to the microphone on this side so that you can be heard. After the event, before the signing, if you would please take your chairs and lean them helpst something solid, to make this store orderly looking again. At a time when there is growing unease among sensible people because of the rise of fascism, it is important for us to look toward the past and analyze the conditions that made fascism possible. So naturally, we turn to historians as our guides into the murky realm of the past. One such historian, david king, is here today. He is a fulbright scholar who earned his masters degree from cambridge, and a professor who taught european history at the university of kentucky, a New York Times bestselling writer, onhas written several books history including death in the city of lights. He is here to read from his new book, the trial of adolf hitler the beer hall putsch and the rise of nazi germany. Calls
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At 10 00 a. M. The gigantic parade starts. As soviet russia hails the dawn of victory. Japanese military observers see the mighty display of Russian Armed power. Russian rocket launchers on american lend lease trucks. The soviet Union Celebrates a holiday and salutes the great victories in europe. Into a police court in oslo, norway, comes this meant to plead for his life. One of the wars most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes. As the judge enters, at first and the first preliminary trial for a major war criminal begins. Quisling, who made his name synonymous with trader in his betrayal of norway to the nazis, heres hears the case against him. Once arrogant and rude he shows signs of fear in a world free from nazism. There is no place for quisling. From Alliance Headquarters in north germany, orders go out for the arrest of the last top nazis. German sailors, marines, and soldiers who guarded these secrets are made captive. And the high commanders of this curious orga