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if there are, stand or wave, wherever you might be. and if we do not have any veterans, that is a shame. we would love to have them as always. anybody working on the home front that is here? there s somebody. don t be bashful. i thought so. [applause] i saw them earlier. holocaustors of the who might be here, i would like to recognize them as well. and veterans of any period of time wherever you are in the audience, would you please stand and raise your hand? thank you. [applause] service. all for your and thank you again for being here. in the early morning hours of may 7, 1945, and a little red schoolhouse in france in a little red schoolhouse in france, world war ii officially came to an end in europe with the surrender of german military alfred jodel. it is the anniversary date of ve day, the 72nd anniversary of that event, which celebrates the allied defeat of the nazis. 72 years ago, the west was facing a new beginning, a herculean task to ensure that another wa ....
a record breaking charity to raise money for health care workers battling the coronavirus. well i m terry martin good to have you with us we begin with breaking news germany has banned hezbollah on its soil and designated the iran backed group a terrorist organization since early this morning police have been conducting raids in several cities on mosques and associations suspected of affiliation with the group as is the shiite muslim political party and militant group based in in lebanon its military wing has long been banned in germany this latest measure plies to the group s political. well it s gets more now from modern political correspondent thomas sparrow thomas why did germany s interior ministry decide to ban hezbollah s activity it s now. terry there had been a long discussion not only here in germany but also in other parts of the world as to whether you could consider hezbollah as an organization and you mentioned that with a separate military wing and a poli ....
orleans, a look at the italian campaign in 1943 and 1944. seniorino, the historian, talks about the german army in italy, and author and historian rick atkinson discusses the campaign from the allied perspective. now you hear me. i hear me, too. good morning. lengle, senior director for programming. welcome to our humble abode. we had to clear out some junk to make room for you, so it sits on best so sit on any so sit on any old upturned law you can find. you don t see this kind of passion to get in at 8:00 in the morning at an academic conference. we like to keep things at a very high level. we certainly witnessed that yesterday with our preconference symposium on dwight d. eisenhower. the quality of the presentations ,nd the questions were superb caps off by a fantastic lecture 1944.l hitchcock on june i encourage you throughout today and tomorrow, it is really you who make this conference happen and make it as exciting as it is. please keep the great questions co ....
mr. d souza, you write in your book that if you read the nazi platform without knowing its source, you could easily be forgiven for thinking you were reading the 2016 platform of the democratic party. guest: the nazis issued an official platform. it had, i believe, 25 points to it. and if you go down the list, you basically realize that they want a minimum wage, they want to have a national health care system, they as you read down, you bin to realize, wait a minute, this runs against everything i ve been taught. because we ve been taught, this has been an idea since world war ii, that fascism is on the right, that fascism is somehow a right-wing phenomena. hitler was a right-winger. but you realize this is collectivism. this bears an eerie resemblance to socialism and to a lot of the if not the ingredients of obama, certainly the ingredients of elizabeth warren, bernie sanders wing of the democratic party. host: so, very quickly, a definition of fascism, social ....
host: author and also, was september 1, 1939 a surprise? spirit. guest: a surprise to everyone but nazi germany. the day hitler marched into poland and it was a surprise attack. i think most of the world expected but hoped it would not happen but it did. and that really it launched world war ii. host: was poland prepare? guest: it thought it was but it wasn t. nazi germany was the mightiest military up to that point. poland has a sizable army, small air force and navy. it is basically a poor country. it did not have the financial wherewithal that germany did. it did thing it could hold off germany for a while but the germans went right over them. host: you say it wasn t really a surprise. was the rest of your preparing for war at this point? they suspected war was coming. was countries hoped it wouldn t happen. at least half were neutral. some prepared for war to a certain extent. but none were ready for what was about to happen. they all hope somehow someth ....