I have to mean how it work. Im. Germany has criticized china for the dismissal of 4 prodemocracy opposition. Politicians in hong kongs parliament. Several of their fellow lawmakers also resigned in solidarity after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the islands chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. Budging has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law. Opponents say it spells the end of the territories fight for democratic rights. Who stand out way back. They were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong. Now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement or to go that they got all part of the decision made by the National Peoples congress today. It is extremely ridiculous, it shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. Dennis
It seems they hadnt been able to destroy everything in the final stages of the war. Searching for incriminating documents among the ruins of the 3rd reichs capital required initiative. I was assigned the prosecution of erics call for that was my individual defender error scholar. It was a head of what is known as the r s a chair, the right set, right. How that agency include the gestapo, for example. And yesterday i visited a medical stop or offices and i found documents lying around on the floor saying this man should be executed by our scholar byrne. I picked them up, brought up the floor, but it is true that there were many, many documents that were not destroyed that we obtained and were incriminating jury in his visit to hitlers chancellery. Even jackson himself found useful Material Files or correspondence that soviet forces had thoughtlessly left lying around during the capture of berlin. In london, the 4 victorious powers struggled to decide on a statute for the trials. The sov
The palace of justice in nuremberg. After the 2nd world war, nearly 200. 00 defendants were brought here to be held accountable for 12 years of dictatorship, military aggression, tara and mass murder. At the heart of proceedings was the International Military tribunals which tried key war criminals from germany. The 4 victorious powers responded to the nazis once in a millennium crimes. With a once in a millennium trial, on nov 20th, 1945 some 20 high ranking nancy leaders were brought by elevator to the court in room 600. The former rights Marshall Hermann goering willingly took on the role of most senior nazi. He was followed by grand admiral carl dern, its whom hitler had appointed as president of the reich in his will. And rudolf hess, hitlers former deputy. The defendants never showed the slightest remorse. It was part of their shots, their pride to insist that they were right all the time and would do it again. They stood accused of conspiracy to carry out wars of aggression, war
Roosevelt library and museum since 2015. He will be talking, obviously, about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel, who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. Hes spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather, and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So, today, well give a great opportunity for question and answer. And please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today, and i guarantee you theres going to be a lot of interesting ideas and discussions. So i will begin and introduce paul to begin us in our program. Thank you. Thank you, ed. And thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of the those topics that has generated enormous amount of debate throughout the years. Background fo
Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program.