Joining us for another program in the museums Facebook Live series. Im your host historian, edna friedberg. During each episode we discuss holocaust history and its relevance in our world today. Months ago we planned this program about the pursuit of justice after the holocaust. In light of yesterdays verdict in the murder of george floyd, it feels particularly timely and meaningful. The holocaust and longstanding american racism are painful and distinct histories with which we continue to grapple. In both instances individuals and organizations have worked to achieve some measure of justice for victims targeted because of who they are. We hope that this conversation can shed light on the causes of hatred and the manifest forms of justice in its aftermath . Today we will speak with a former nazi hunter to learn about efforts to prosecute perpetrators of crimes committed during the holocaust and to compensate survivors and their families decades after the war ended. I am pleased to be j
In both instances individuals and organizations have worked to achieve some measure of justice for victims targeted because of who they are. We hope that this conversation can shed light on the causes of hatred and the manifest forms of justice in its aftermath . Today we will speak with a former nazi hunter to learn about efforts to prosecute perpetrators of crimes committed during the holocaust and to compensate survivors and their families decades after the war ended. I am pleased to be joined by my colleague museum historian, dr. Elizabeth white. She has almost 30 years of experience preparing cases to prosecute and remove from the United States perpetrators of nazi crimes. Hi there, barry. Good morning, edna. Its nice to see you. Here during todays program, please. Send us your questions for barry by posting them in the comments section and well get to as many of them possible live as we have time for. Barry lets begin by setting the stage. Although some prominent leaders of nazi
And organizations have worked to achieve some measure of justice for victims targeted because of who they are. We hope that this conversation can shed light on the causes of hatred and the manifest forms of justice in its aftermath . Today we will speak with a former nazi hunter to learn about efforts to prosecute perpetrators of crimes committed during the holocaust and to compensate survivors and their families decades after the war ended. I am pleased to be joined by my colleague museum historian, dr. Elizabeth white. She has almost 30 years of experience preparing cases to prosecute and remove from the United States perpetrators of nazi crimes. Hi there, barry. Good morning, edna. Its nice to see you. Here during todays program, please. Send us your questions for barry by posting them in the comments section and well get to as many of them possible live as we have time for. Barry lets begin by setting the stage. Although some prominent leaders of nazi germany were prosecuted for th
You noted in your testimony that you are increasing your departments efforts to assess how domestic extremists are leveraging social media and other platforms. Can you tell us about that . The challenges really, number one, the anonymity people are able to at to navigate social media and exploit the medium for unlawful purposes. And the speed with which they can do so. What we are doing is dedicating analysts to understanding the narratives that are being communicated on the social media platforms and identifying links between those narratives and indicators of intention to commit violent acts. Right now, we are doing that through the human resource, not yet leveraging algorithms but we are of course planning different methodologies as we proceed in this endeavor. Attorney general garland, you and other leaders, chris wray at the fbi spoke about self radicalization. I assume what that means is folks who are largely sitting at home and consuming hours upon hours of extra mist content th
Good morning, everybody. I appreciate being here, all of you. I was just this is a somewhat unusual way to meet. And i would mention this to our two distinguished witnesses. Its a little bit more difficult to keep the distances we want. But i think its important for the Appropriations Committee to have this meeting. And the january 6th images of all of us remember that, flying confederate flags as they stormed the u. S. Capitol are stark reminders that domestic violent extremism is highly under threat. Our nations history has been mired by the violent, deadly acts of extremists pushing a range of hateful white supremacist ideologies. From the ku klux klan to Timothy Mcveigh, weve witnessed and weve suffered through as a people extremists killing innocent people in the name of usually morally, always morally bankrupt causes. The violence on january 6th was simply the latest chapter in this long history of domestic extremism in america. Plots by domestic extremists are at historic highs.