Conditions at the prison and some of the officers in charge. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the civil war blog. Hello, and welcome to the emerging civil war virtual symposium. Im editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derek maxfield. Fr it earned fame at the courthouse. Derek has recently earned fame for his brandnew book as part of the emerging civil war series. Its called hellmira, prisoner of war camp. Please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. You know, prisoner of war camps have been a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarc
2007. I want to thank shelby for her steadfast support for the biography center over all these years. It is her program that made this possible. Please note the next event is coming up in two days on this thursday october 15th where victor and i will interview larry about his timely and important new biography of joseph mccarthy. Tonight we are here to celebrate the publication of abe, Abraham Lincoln in his time a new biography by david reynolds. His book launch and the book has received early reviews and the Publishers Weekly and elsewhere and we encourage everyone to look it up on amazon or your own local bookstore. David reynolds is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center and the author of Walt Whitmans america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. His other books include beneath the american renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mighty year than the sword, Uncle Toms Cabin and the battle for america. He is a regular book reviewer for the New York Times bo
Legislative and judicial and executive. But there is a fourth factor. And when we stand up to say no more, when we say there is a person right there doing the right thing we will get behind them then make sure that attitude becomes potent and decisive. When someone reads about Margaret Chase smith and says thats what i willwh do somebody in the government right now it will happen out of the necessity to survive we will expect that. I believe and you write we are centrist nation basically a country where 30 or 40 or 50 percent of the people are in the middle and want government to get something done. We aint doing it. That doesnt mean we wont. We have come through very hard times and baffling times and pessimistic times. And inappropriate behavior with the part of leadership but we have come to thembu all and very often when we do come through these difficult times the dark clouded sky times, we were better off for having done it. People talk about it was a simpler time. No itt wasnt. I
Im Anthony Howard thanks for joining us we begin here in berlin with protesters have tried to storm the German Parliament building the Group Holding in period german flags managed to reach the entrance of the rocks die before police force them back this happened during a vast protest on the streets of the german capital against the countrys coronavirus restrictions that saw hundreds of everests. Taken by the thousands to demand germanys government changing its course in the corona crisis. But for many the demonstrations in the heart of berlin ended in arrest. Police say they were forced to make the detentions after far right activists who marched alongside coronavirus skeptics clashed with police. In a small group even managed stormed the steps of the German Parliament before being detained. Saturdays demonstrations attracted a Wide Coalition of activists from right wing radicals to those who reject the authority of the German Government or doubt the severity or even existence of the p
Throughout. The restrictions are disproportionate to the level of threat posed by the virus. Police said protracted talks with the organizers failed and ordered a halt to the rally. Because demonstrators many of whom doubt the pandemics severity were ignoring Court Ordered safety requirements like maintaining social distancing and wearing masks. Least i know how it wasnt possible to enforce the regulations police try to get people to wear a nose and mouth cover and even handed out masks to those willing to wear one but that wasnt sufficient to ensure adequate compliance i never had that. Police estimates put attendance of 38000 most people touting themselves as independent thinkers but there were also right wing extremist groups and a dozen lawmakers from the far right party making little apparent effort to keep separate from right wing radicals coming from distance myself from small Fringe Groups by not taking part if i share the beliefs of the vast majority of people here. But expert