With his joke because it is not really a joke, but one of my polish students told me this. You know, i am a historian. I am aware of the difficulties that poland has had being between these great powers, the habsburgs and the romanovs. More often than not, we think about the czars and the prussian kings and the problems that lie in there. I had asked my polish student, i said, who would you fight first, the germans or the russians . And he thought about it and he said, it is not hard. We fight the germans first. Business before pleasure. [laughter] john kuehn ok, i dont know if that was supported by the last three. This is one of those kind of things where you go, is this the year of decisions, sort of a restorable question rhetorical question . I will say yes, but because all of the years and years of decisions, certainly 1914 is a year of decisions, because we do not have a year of decisions if we dont have 1914. We will talk about why none of those years of decisions really achieved
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5 00 this evening on southbound highway 242 just north of solano way. The suspects vehicle then drove off into the city of concord. Ktvu rob malkin is joining us live from the scene of the shooting. Reporter yeah, it is still a very fluid operation here. Of course the bottom line is two men were shot at and somehow they managed to get their vehicle through this valero gas station. That bulletriddled car sat in this gas station for some time. Chp responded to the calls of shots fired on highway 242 around 5 10 tonight. Two black males were driving in that black mercedes southbound north of solano way. Its not clear who shot e them, if the other people who shot them were on foot in another vehicle. But its not clear who the suspects are. But the driver was hit and transported to the hospital. The passenger has not suffered any life threatening injuries. Now somehow they managed to get that car to the gas station. Chp responded here to this valero gas station, which was a crime scene. It
Riding and publishing. In 2017 he will release is eagerly anticipated book certainly by me americas first general staff. Uehn will expertly highlight the german decision to resume unrestricted submarine warfare, while examining the horrific campaigns that occurred simultaneously on lands. Please give a gracious welcome uehn. John t. K [applause] dr. Kuehn i dont know question start with his joke because it is not really a joke, but one of my polish students told this to me. If it has artie been told in this venue, then i will have to apologize upfront. But you know, i am a historian. I am aware of the difficulties that poland has had being between these great powers, the habsburgs and the romanovs. More often than not, we think about the czars and the prussian kings and the problems that lie in there. I had asked my polish student, i said, who would you fight first, the germans or the russians . And he thought about it and he said, it is not hard. We fight the germans first. Business b
Shoot demonstrators. Now the secret the leadership tells the secret miss to do whatever is necessary to make sure an uprising doesnt happen again. In 1960s, a fifth of the population has fled and the regime decide the time has come to do something to stop the hemorrhaging of its labor force. If they dont want to see their country collapse. While the bored between east and west germany is secured in berlin due to the interconnected nature of the city, people are still able to escape into west berlin. But there are rum years in regime plans to some day build a structure, perhaps a wall to permanently separate west berlin from the east, thus cutting off the last hope of escape. So by the envelope 1960s 2,000 east germans a die are fleeing into west berlin. The east german leader tries to quell the surge of escapes by saying, this is a quote no one has any intention of building a wall. But one month later thats exactly what he does. Starts at abashed wire and brick walls a concrete wall wi