Jack fairweather a former reporter in iraq and afghanistan and the author of a war of choice and the good war. He served as a bureau chief for the Washington Post in afghanistan and interviewing jack today is doctor Robert Jan Van pelt curator and one of the main authorities on the history of auschwitz from 97 to 98 he presided over the team that drew the master plans and participate as an Expert Witness in the case against the british historian and author david irving. Robert has published and served as a historical advisor on numerous films and curator exhibited at 2016. Before we get started i want to make a few quick housekeeping notes. We will have about 15 minutes or so for audience qanda at the end of the round so make sure to hold your questions for the end if you can and we will try to get to as many as possible. This program is being recorded and it will be available on our Youtube Channel within the next few days or so and i will follow up with an email probably tomorrow wit
Volunteer the true story. When joined today by author jack fairweather. And the author of the good work. As the daily telegraph, and as a video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. In interviewing jack today is doctor robert. One of the main authorities on history. From 1997 98, robert young developed a master plan and participated as an Expert Witness in the case against the british historians and author. Robert young has published on camp and served as historical advisor and the Evidence Room which would be visited at the center. So before we get started i wanted to do some quick housekeeping things. We will have time about 15 minutes or so for audience q a. And i sure do have questions from the end and we will try to go back and get as many as possible. And please note that this program is being recorded it will be available on Youtube Channel within the next few days or so. I will followup with registers on todays program. And probably tomorrow with a link to it. And
Let me just tell you that its a great pleasure to be invited here and part of this event. It is a distinct pleasure to be surrounded by so many hoovers. Ive never seen so many hoover s in one place. It looks like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921 and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier, and millions are threatened with starvation and disease, most of them, as you will see any moment ill have a map up, situated in and beyond the vulgar river valley. The soviet government is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for and assistance and in that day, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that is the man that you see year, Herbert Hoover. As chairman of the American Relief administration, the ara. As george nash told us, the ara is a private relief organization, Relief Agency but i would say for this part of the
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Washington meddling in the 26000 u. S. Election and in search of her husband what it means if youre married to a human rights activist who disappeared in china. Im brink off its good to have you with us we start right here in berlin across the german capital festivities are underway marking a 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on that historic night november 9th 1989 the unthinkable happened and youre looking at it right there east germanys communist regime opened the border the announcement of welded citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades now in all those years crossing without permission was often fate. Hundreds of people were killed trying to escape the country but with the berlin wall down friends and family could finally reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 germanys to do the same not long thereafter. All right for more on the celebrations this week lets go now to my colleague David Leavitts he is out in a balance in berlin this evening