In world war ii. Whoral mason was a veteran served in the european theater in George Pattons third army and went on to have a long career in the military. Several retiring, held highranking positions in the pentagon, including assistant deputy chief of all operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. So it is a very special night any time we have a mason lecture at the museum. Thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonights by one, a Public Lecture of the worlds most distinguished holocaust scholars. Museum,to think, at the we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii and feel that too often the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate, almost isolated topics. We believe it is our role to help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust and the legacies it continues to impact on her world. We have one more exhibition to come. Believe it or not, there is room for one more bui
Piece of territory. The authorities of young america, already in the first half of the 19th century, began to adopt the traditions of the British School of military provocations. One of the first experiments of this kind in 1835 was the rebellion of the american settlers in texas, at that time part of mexico. Formally , washington declared neutrality, but in reality it actively supported immigrants from the United States who demanded independence from mexico. The rebels had almost half of the armies. Formed from americans, including the military. As a result of the rebellion, texas gained independence, and 10 years later it became part of the United States, which was rapidly expanding to the pacific coast. And american bayonets rushed across different continents. Since then, us authorities have organized dozens of times military provocations in various parts of the world, both to justify their own interventions and to incite conflicts that are beneficial to them without. Their direct p
, 1939, storm of banfuhr rss alfred knox heard this phrase in a hotel room in the city of glewitz while calling berlin. Glewice is a settlement on the polishgerman border. From this seemingly insignificant event began canning operation. Adolf hitler planned an attack on poland back in 1938. According to heydrichs plan, ss officers dressed in polish military uniforms were to attack a Radio Station in gleewice, now gliwice poland, and broadcast an antigerman proclamation in polish. The role of those killed during the attack was intended for the concentration camp prisoners who were killed. News services stated that the polish Army Launched an unprovoked attack on the third reich, just a few hours later at 4 45 am on september 1, 1939. Fascist german aviation attacked the airfield, communications centers, and the economic and Administrative Center of poland. The german lenkor schleswick holstein, which had arrived on the polish coast in advance, opened fire on the westerplatte peninsula.
Have you always been a reader . Yes, i have always been a reader. Science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. Does it help you in your work here . It it helps me unwind. There is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and nonfiction. One is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. The other is the scandal of money by george guilder. He is from wealth and poverty. It deals with the Federal Reserve is right now making the wealthier People Better off but the policies over the last six years in particular have kind of hurt the average guy. This week on q a, Robert Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a 30year journey through romania and beyond. Cspan you start in the proto logging by talking about books prologue by talking about books. Why . Guest because i think the ultimate goal of travel is to
Books about them to explain their past. Those books be due to other books. Often very obscure ones. We travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. The relationship between travel and good books is inextricable brian . Why a book about romania . Robert i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. Where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. Brian 1973 . Robert my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. I stayed in Youth Hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. Weaverey taught me reading that all these countries were the same. What i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. Really start not my session with romania. That happened later. It happened in 1981. In the fall. I was getting out of the Israeli Defense forces. I was in jerusalem. , a seeminglyk obscure book by