Return to the reich, a biography of freddy meyern whose life tels incredible story of world war ii heroism area based on research and interviews with meyer himself whom the author was able to meet only once before his death at the age of 94, returned to the right is an eyeopening unforgettable narrative of world war ii heroism and this is one credit will story that i am very excited to hear more about. Eric lichtblau a twotime Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is the best starring author of the nazis next door and first law, the remaking of american justice. He was a washington reporter for the New York Times for 15 years while also writing for the Los Angeles Times the new york yorker, time and other publications. He has been a frequent guest on npr, msnbc, cspan who we have here tonight and other networks as well as the speaker at many universities and institutions. He lives outside washington dc. So, without further ado lets give it up for eric. Thank you so much. [applause] thank y
Smith is theglas author the book the forgotten job, the story of how the United States saved the soviet union from ruin. How did you come across these . It was luck. I was asked to go through the man huffs things before after they died. In the last room i went into i found these cardboard boxes and open them up and there i found these color slides, thousands of them literally, as well as these canisters of film. The first when i picked up had had written on it, stalins funeral. I started to shake i was so excited. What were you thinking . Dr. Smith i do not think this to be real, what i was seeing. I had to have it digitized because it was 60 millimeter film which i did not have a projector. I had to wait several weeks until it was finished. When i saw it i knew was a big historical discovery. The film is silent so you will walk us through it to explain what we are looking at. First, martin man half was an avid photographer. Dr. Smith this is in the spring of 1953 and he has standing o
5 00 p. M. So take advantage of that time. [inaudible conversations] now on cspan2 book tv, more television for serious readers. Good evening everyone, thank you for coming out to our new store at south street seaport, we have been open for two months so welcome, tonight we are excited to have with us Eric Lichtblau with return to the reich whose life tells an incredible story of world war ii hero is in. Based on research and interviews with him itself whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of 94 returned to the rich is an eyeopening of world war ii heroism and its an incredible story that i am excited to hear more about. Eric lichtblau a twotime Pulitzer Prize journalist is a bestselling author of the nazi next door and the remaking of american justice. Here was a washington reporter for the New York Times for 15 years while writing for the los angeles times, the new yorker time and other publications. He has been a frequent guest on npr, msnbc, cspan
The layout of the rooms, even where are usually slept. The man clearly had a number four numbers. He was throwing up so many details freddie worried he wouldnt be able to commit them to memory so freddie carried back to the room where he was staying and wrote down as many of these figures as he could. The dimensions of the walls, the exact locations and scrawled out a message that he would pass along to hans, is number two hiding out in an attic and this ishow it began. Furor headquarters is one and a half kilometers southeast of the rail stationand it went on from there. Details of where hitlers room was, where the guards were, where the planes were that were running Patrol Missions over it so you can imagine the effect this had among allied intelligence officials. It was one of them called a pinstriped and there were tears that went up from the allied intelligence officials when they read this but freddie wasnt done yet. He was also able to gather the exact locations of trains headin