College classrooms, tours of historic sites, and see our schedule of upcoming programs at cspan. Org history. Narrator may day in moscows vast red square. Moscow sees its first may day parade in four years of total war. Military attaches of allies, american, british and french, are guests of honor. Marshal stalin with other high soviet officials mount the reviewng stands to russias fighting men. At 10 00 a. M. , the vast Red Army Band is first in hails theviet russia victory. Narrator Japanese Military observers see the mighty display of Russian Armed power. Narrator Russian Rocket launchers on american lend lease trucks. The soviet unions valiant ally celebrates a holiday and salutes the great victories in europe. Narrator into a police court in oslo, norway, comes this man to plead for his life. One of the wars most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes. As the judge enters, at first preliminary trial for a major war criminal begins. Narrator the man who made his name s
Filming us. Is so later in the question and answer portion, if you would please go to the microphone on this side so that you can be heard. After the event, before the signing, if you would please take your chairs and lean them helpst something solid, to make this store orderly looking again. At a time when there is growing unease among sensible people because of the rise of fascism, it is important for us to look toward the past and analyze the conditions that made fascism possible. So naturally, we turn to historians as our guides into the murky realm of the past. One such historian, david king, is here today. He is a fulbright scholar who earned his masters degree from cambridge, and a professor who taught european history at the university of kentucky, a New York Times bestselling writer, onhas written several books history including death in the city of lights. He is here to read from his new book, the trial of adolf hitler the beer hall putsch and the rise of nazi germany. Calls
House museum and has worked for the smithsonian and mystic seaport. Before wilkins is a published author of books and articles relating to maritime and aviation history. Mr. Wilkins has a masters degree in history from Harvard University and is currently working on several books relating to world war i aviation. He is adjunct faculty in the History Department at st. Marys college of maryland. Mr. Wilkins is also serving as producer of aerial effects for the lafayette escadrille. His book, aeroneurosis, will be available for purchase on october 21st. Due to unforeseen complications we do not have copies of the book available for signing tonight, however we do have bookplates already signed you can pick up on your way out or the speaker graciously agreed to personalize some as well. Thank you again for joining us this evening. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming mark wilkins. Thank you for that very nice introducti introduction, krystal. Im happy to be here tonight. Thaur th
President truman announced the official surrender. This is a solemn but glorious hour. I wish that franklin d. Roosevelt had lived to see this day. General eisenhower informs me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly all over europe. For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the west must now be won in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half of the world has been freed. United, the peaceloving nations have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far and the might of dictators are the tyranny of military clicks that once called us soft and weak. The power of our people to defend themselves against all enemies will be proved in the pacific war as it was proved in europe. Historic pictures last days of the war in europe show american and R
Narrator with the coming of spring 1944, the winter stalemate in italy was broken. Our forces resumed fighting their way up the west coast of the italian boot towards rome. Against bitter german opposition. [explosions] the british advanced up the east coast, in the face of equally bitter opposition. [explosions] in the pacific, troops of the First Calvary Division landed on los negros and another island to wipe out all japanese resistance and complete the occupation of the entire group of islands. [explosions and gunfire] we landed in large forces on the north coast of new guinea. General stillwell and his troops were fighting the japanese in burma. [explosions] this was global warfare on a scale never known before. [explosions] less than three years before, hitler had addressed the nation. Willrmany, italy and japan face war on the United States to a positive conclusion. Narrator in rome, his counterpart declared on the side of japan against the United States. Narrator a japanese mil