And sister whom he had been close to refer to him as napoleon nest. Also for the 17 years he was pope he never allowed anyone to sit down at the table when he ate, not even a cardinal. And this by the way was different than some of his predecessors and a continuing tradition that all of his predecessors had obeyed. The popes vision of the church and of the world was basically a medieval one in which there was only one True Roman Catholic Church and all to his teachings and lines of authority. Mussolini as i alluded to before was in many ways his opposite. The anticleric, the rabblerouser, the person who valued violence but also had a notion of a new society. This is certainly not a medieval vision but a new vision. Mussolini before he came to power had been a radical socialist. He had been reading social meeting and it was the outbreak of world war i that he had the division with the socialist party or for the war and he wanted italy to enter the war. He founded the fascist movement an
Romans and the insignia that we see in rome and the mona lisa in the loop taken on one of napoleons ventures. What established it was a sufficiency and organization. With respect to artwork, it is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were stolen and 8000 of which are personally selected by adolf hitler for a museum that he planned after the war in his hometown. But artwork was only a part of it. So for example homes and businesses, jewelry, insurance policies and Bank Accounts. Let me just mention these and we will come back to these a little bit later it will be found for an article in the wall street journal is a front page article and it said that there were doormen swifts Bank Accounts that had been set up during a war primarily by jews trying to show their money in the safest thing system in europe by the on lot of the third reich. And that after the war those who survived and if they didnt, their families who tried to recoup those Bank Accounts were told that they couldnt be foun
Remarks. You could see one part of Army Intelligence telling the pentagon we cannot bring this guy to the United States. He was a nazi and turned a colleague over and this was a u bad act but then the pentagon says we need him. And he came. There he is as the first director of the jfk space center and still every year they give out the kurt debus award. And i interviewed the head and said what about kurt debus who wore the ss uniform to work and turned over a colleague and he was a nazi . What do you say to that . And the answer was no one has ever asked me that question before. So, i would like to end with the idea that einstein had it right in my opinion. He left german prior to hitlers armament buildup and maintains the reason he left as a scientist was because he wasnt going to work for a raw and r rabid nazi militia. He is one of the people with power that petitioned truman not to let operation paperclip happen but to no avail. And my last picture is this. This is an old german pr