Let me introduce myself im a health noack a polish filmmaker my grandfather was an ethnic german from salacious i recently found a small treasure trove in our house and cuddle pizza and it changed my life. Thats my grandfather alloys can store we had a special relationship he was an obstetrician in fact he brought me into the world. There was one thing about his past that really fascinated me he served 4 years in the during world war 2 in school we heard about the atrocities committed by german soldiers and every sunday i eat potato soup was one of them. It all started when i found this orange box 120 old artful photos in 2 rolls of film i thought these must belong to grandpa and i wondered what secrets they might hold. I decided to talk to my mother ana shes always his daughter shes a doctor like everyone in our family. Just did you see all his photos from the war or just the ones with him. Yes not just the ones with him but was the group photos with other soldiers standing next to ca
Asked whether id mind talking to a couple of germans who used to live here having us on the go that i said ok and invited them in so it was a man and his wife so they brought me some trousers i still have them. A pair of black trousers. That spotted. The problem is that the shutters did not leave a forwarding address so how can i track them down. I decided to try the German Federal archives by reut. Germans who were driven out of the eastern territorys after the war could qualify for compensation if they renounced all future claims they had to fill out an application and provide an address. Stephanie works at the archive maybe she can help me. Should i see him in. Ok ok says he owned a car a horse it was a used car. He bought it in 1937 for 3000 marks coughed. Easy says the very mocked confiscated it 5 years later. Heres a list of everything he says he lost us and alice for. Weve seen that car in the film so maybe we can find a record of the car here in the file just as justice is over
Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the