Dangerous to believe. That happens tonight on cspan to book tv. Good evening and welcome. By name is howard and on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum is my other two welcome you to todays program titled a relentless pursuit bringing holocaust perpetrators to justice. I am the son of a holocaust survivor and have served on the counsel for the Us Holocaust Museum for the past five years. Ive come to learn that the museum is so much more than just a building that houses exhibits. The Museum Research in history, trained educators and members of the military and judiciary within the us and internationally and has many programs focused on preventing future genocides from occurring again. Here in new york, the museums northeast Regional Office offers a variety of events including talks like this one that you are about to hear plus Film Screenings and holocaust history as well as contemporary genocide and antisemitism. Tomorrow, we will be holding this same program, so pleas
Conduct war wartime trials then you can strip them of their citizenships. There are several such cases. In the early 70s elizabeth who is a congresswoman from brooklyn begins to hear about these things and she says, will a first i thought the case was an aberration and then i hear there is is some sort of list the ins has of nazi war criminals in the United States of about 53 people. The ins commissioner comes in testifies before a subcommittee and she asked do you have this list and he says yes. She says i about fell out of my chair and then begins the battle the ins is clearly not investigated these cases and eventually forces through the creation of the osi, the office of special investigation where people like yourself and that becomes the unit that finally gets back into the business of identifying people who are nazi war criminals and stripping them of their citizenship, deporting them if possible and if possible getting them tried someplace else. Each step along the way is a ver
Mentioned i think its always fun when you can put documents together that casts several different lights, several different kinds of light on the same event and sometimes even the same person saying something differently at different points in time. A little example of that for example, in hemingways novel about the war for whom the bell tolls, the central episode in that novel the blowing up of the bridge behind nationalist lines, hemingway himself part in a. That lou up the bridge and i tell that story in the book. Anyway in that novel he paints an excoriating picture of stalins man who was in charge of the international brigades. When the book appeared in this country, the communist press was outraged because they had expected hemingways muchanticipated book about the war would be about workingclass men from Different Countries standing shouldertoshoulder in the fight against fascism and the hero is a lover of Spanish Literature who is nonpolitical and heres this portrait of stalins
It should have been an obvious question because nationalist spain has no oil, hitler and mussolini which were supporting it or importers, not exporters. It would have been very difficult and expensive for them to supply the oil. What was the major source of oil in the world at this point . The United States, especially texas. As it turned out general franco was getting most of his oil from texaco which had a ceo at that point to buy a name who was basically a fascist sympathizer. He not only supplied franco with most of his oil throughout the war, but he violated u. S. Law in several ways by sending it to him. American law said that anything traveling to a country at war could not travel on american ships. Nationalists had no oil tank so he loaded the oil onto texaco tankers at the texaco pipelines and off it went to spain and the sea where the ships were found for amsterdam and the captains would open c sealed orders redirecting them to spain. That was the first violation of u. S. Law
Six out of ten, weather by the numbers, speaking every pets here is muggy the dog. Bus stop buddy taking a dip in the pool. It is a sticky start with temperatures already in the 70s and the 80s, with 81 in philadelphia, at 5 00 in the morning, oh, 75 in lancaster, we go up to the mountains, hazleton has 70 degrees, 76 in reading. Oxford, 77, 78 in atlantic city. Greenwich township, 79 degrees, and lewes, delaware, 77. So, we have couple of areas of green showing up on radar, but really not a big deal. We had couple of showers in Lancaster County earlier. Theyre dissipating. 93 degrees was the high yesterday. Twentyfifth time weve reached 90 or above in 2016. Here comes number 26 with 93 degrees, hazy sun, a lot of cloud cover, humid, pop up thunderstorms, and thats the drill for the next well at least through the weekends, maybe even beyond. Well check the seven day forecast, coming up. Hunker down, bob kelly. You got it. Hunker down and fill up the freezer with the freeze pops for the