About the American Experience in world war i. , fivemains of company d lieutenants, i will hold. He is the winner of the colonel Joseph Alexander award for biography from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the polar bear expedition the heroes of americas forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald of the lastred some three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece
A long time hand like made his way up in a train which started in 1912 and goes to the highest train station in europe. Its known as the roof of europe and one of the worlds most iconic signs the young and this was house. And thats where im going to day im climbing almost to the top of the you for but without eyes began climbing rope im taking the train the hardest to do it. Its always been a dream of mine to travel through this snow we all pine landscape by train here we are on route to the famous mountain trio the eiger and its around 80 kilometers from switzerlands capital back to the u. N. For your station the car will railway has to send some 1400 meters during the final stretch. Conductor could cross now says this is his favorite groups a large part goes right through mountains in a tunnel it took 16 grueling years to cut through the eiger and the mention at the beginning of the 20th century finishes hard to not miss and it still amazes me even today that got that look at how the
Involved in groups that were preparing this kind of violence but at the same time you have to see it to say that the political situation in germany is such that right wing sentiment is growing has been growing and that the number of attacks the number of people that are prepared to be involved in such attacks the number of right wing extremist groups that are organizing themselves has increased significantly at the same time one hears criticism again and again for instance voiced today by the Jewish Organization the council of Jewish Organizations in germany that the authorities so far have not taken. Enough note of rightwing terror that they have concentrated the n. T. Terror organization there into terror activities against muslim organizations and possibly against far left wing terror suspects but that the right wing has not really been in their focus enough that i think is changing and now in this particular case apparently federal prosecutors have have been brought in order to han
Discourse focuses very much on fear and people react to this and i think were seeing some some of the side effects of this focus on security and people so this could be a link between militias and actors young st pierre a security expert and counterterrorism adviser joining us there from frankfurt thank you so much. And in the last few minutes the german chancellor Angela Merkel has made a statement on the killings and she condemned what she called the poison of hatred in German Society it is too early to say what the background its off this incident will you are and i was able to shed light on the top and we understand the pope perpetrator how. Far right to motives xenophobia motives. People if. You. May like im not hate is a poison that exists in our society. A reaction there from the top level of German Government the german chancellor Angela Merkel our Political Correspondent joining us now here in the studio on this morning when we know now 11 people are dead in the city of one no
With a Corruption Case hes also head of the qatari channel been in sports and he is accused of inciting former number 2 Jerome Valcke to commit criminal mismanagement the case relates to the awarding of lucrative t. V. Rights for tournaments such as the world cup valka has been charged with except in bribes. To some tennis news now and Roger Federer will be out of action for several months after undergoing nice surgery federer has been struggling with his right knee since last months Australian Open the operation means that he will again miss the Clay Court Season including the french open the 20 time grand slam champion says that his doctors were confident that he will make a full recovery. We turn to our top story a suspected far right terrorist has shot at least 10 people near frankfurt in germany the suspect opened fire at 2 bars in the town of ha now he is said to have later killed himself and his mother in their apartment many of the people that he shot dead were a foreign descen