Men, german men who were drafted or had been conscripted. I also wanted to look at an area that had been relatively on it understudied and that is the leningrad region. There is a lot written about the siege but not a lot about the german operations in that area. I wanted to add a bit to the literature that has developed about the war, most of which focuses either on the center of the front with moscow or the southern section of the front. Interviewer what was the ideological struggle . Hitlers struggle was to create this racial empire, that the germans could economically exploits of the can so they can continue the war. The idea was that the main goal had, they were interested in feeding their home front. This goes back to the First World War where germany was blockaded and you see that the german home front brakes. This is primarily due to the german state being unable to feed its population. Hitler and his leadership are convinced that they can grasp for from the soviet union, parti
And jailing dissidents and bloggers and journalists will turn to its historic enemies and treat them with magnanimity. Its a silly contention. But that said, i think the way that the issue was used in the soviet context was that it was a tool to help bring about the end of the soviet union, not merely to contain the soviet union, but to end the soviet union and so, too, it can be used in the iranian context. When you look at the boldness of someone like senator jackson who confronted the soviet union and directly linked most favored nation status to improvements in human rights and free immigration, that was a tool which drove the soviets absolutely crazy, and if you read the memoirs of any of these guys, you see when carter and reagan would bring up the names of dissidents, they really, really hated it, and i think thats one sign that its the right approach. I think that human rights is actually a real achilles heel of the Iranian Regime because they are dependent upon external actors
D. C. Next, marc leepson takes us on a tour of battlefields to tell the story of the battle of monocacy, where the confederates were delayed by union forces in their approach to the capital, and the battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. After will list wilderness, you had petersburg surrounded. His idea, his plan was to choke robert e lee and force them to come out and fight what he thought would be the battle that would end the war. We knew this as well. Lee came up with a plan of his own witches he took an entire core of troops and he took them outside the defenses of washington on a bold plan, a fourpart plan that he hoped would mess up general grants grand plan to end the war. The first plan with the kick the forces out of the shenandoah valley. Lees biggest problem was supplied, including food and most of the food came from the shenandoah valley. These forces under general hunter had taken over j
You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulnerable. Thats when he ordered director Major General john g. Barnard to design forts around the city to protect it. Here they are. These are the ones available there. It was quite an amazing feat to build all those. It was just tremendous. Here they are there. Ive circled them here on this old map, the ones that are under government ownership today. The park service owns all the ones in washington, d. C. And one in maryland and one in virginia. The ones in virginia are owned by local governments.
Generals men. The president of the railroad is telling him its a real threat and grant is going to move rather slowly. As the confederates will now move toward isolating the union troops, which evacuated Harpers Ferry on Maryland Heights and close in on frederick, maryland. On frederick, maryland, they have occupied it on the 8th day of july. A union army has been assembled there on the banks of the river and on the 9th day of july at the battle, who would write the most popular novel written in the 19th century by american author ben purr. When evacuates and leaves the battlefield he falls back on baltimore leaving washington uncovered. Many of the thousands of men who had been manning the washington forts, the 87 forts and batteries had been called to fill the vacant ranks as we talked about in those wonderful songs we were led in as they are father abrahams call. And they are going to become instant infantrymen. Many of them we have just heard from our lecturer, many by the black me