It was the capital of the German Federal republic this edition of check in as a journey through time in 29000 the German Federal republic celebrates its 70th anniversary it all started here and bonn when the german constitution was passed in may 949. Today i want to invite you to join me on a tour of 70 years of history from germanys provisional capital bonn all the way to the current capital berlin together well discover what a giraffe has to do with the countrys constitution or basic law as its known here and well revisit the places and locations that tell the story of postwar germany. We take you to bonds museum of german history. We catch an open air film and berlin government quarter. And we share a viewer video sent in from the hate speech of the dutch government. To get things off im taking a walk down bonds path of democracy along the ground hell come across the alex and the colonels museum. On was heavily involved in world war 2 so there werent enough venues in the city for of
It is not often that i get a musical introduction so i appreciate that very much. I think we will have some fun with our panel when they come up but as i think you know, i believe this is the program, we are going to have a special guest first and a little intimate conversation between this special guest and me and i feel very privileged to be able to chat with them. An old and dear friend, senator john warner. Senator warner is approaching but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about old times in this race and that race and all kinds of things. I was thinking about his career and that is absolutely incredible because you can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those wars, and he did not have to, he did not have to do the second one if he did the first one, but he was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between, but lets start with secretary of the navy and early 1970s. Then he became head of the
In the next rm youll find the exhibit stitching history from the holocaust, developed our colleagues at the Jewish Museum of milwaukee, telling the story of a family who attempted to escape from nazi occupied prague via impassioned plooe for american visa based on talent as a dress kainer. The request failed. The family perished. Her designs survived and have been brought to testimony of what america lost when we decide the desperate souls were unwanted. As we hear the case of this evening the the case of in family wasnt ewe nic and it wasnt just the haters complicit in the murder of the innocent. Mr. Dobbs talk is part of the shapiro lecture series made possible by gloria l. Shapiro. I want to thank Program Partner willings, the library and the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. Here to to introduce mr. Dobbs is a Holocaust Museum midatlantic regional director, patterned t patterned, andre abraham. Thank you, marvin. Im andre sabril. I have occasion to get to baltimore and speak
His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere, is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling and the coauthor of where the river burned the carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me be been by asking physically where youre located and explained what happened 50 years ago this month. Thank you for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie so you can see over my shoulder one of
The river river, as most think of it, the brown stream that meets lake erie, an industrial waterway if banks populated by steel mills and factories, its channel filled with ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile journey from its headwaters is an exhaustive stream, abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, cleveland and akron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today, nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply, and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph or the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradlin