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In 1945, 70 years ago, allied forces liberated nazi concentration camps. For the next several weeks here on American History tv, we hear holocaust stories from those who lived them. These interviews are part of the oral History Collection at the United StatesHolocaust Memorial museum in washington, d. C. Up next, mayer adler talks about being deported to auschwitz, it with his family. Their separation, and his later transfer to a labor concentration camp. He remembers liberation and returning to his childhood home where he searched unsuccessfully for any of his immediate relatives. This oral history is almost 90 minutes. Tell me where you were born and when . Adler czechoslovakia, october 6, 1929. I wonder if you would tell me something about your family a ....
Up next, the National Portrait gallery senior curator wendy wick reaves, talks about amateur depictions of George Washington. Instead of focusing on portraits drawn from life, she explores the lesserknown unless accurate and less accurate images of washington that circulated in the 18th century. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this 50 minute event. Good afternoon. My name is elizabeth stock known to many people here as betty. Together with my husband stanley scott, i am in a serious enthusiast for George Washington of many varieties, including portraiture. We have collected all of our adult lives as were several members of our families, before us, and they acquired a number of surveyor drawings medallions, coins, rare books, stamps and meta ....
The entire globe of the world. Well, first of all, the domino theory was nonsense when it was articulated in it turned out to be nonsense in fact. No other countries fell to communist rule is because vietnam fell. Our theory about why we were going into the war reflected a disastrous lack of understanding about the anticolonial attitudes of the vietnamese people. They had thought the french for decades and then the japanese. They wanted selfrule. Fdr opposed supported french imperialists. The failure to understand that communism wasnt monolithic was also an Extraordinary Part of the ignorance that motivated the actions of the United States. The idea that china and vietnam were like this was ridiculous. Anybody who knew anything about history, which excludes top people in the u. S. Government, at least at that time, china and vietnam had thought many wars over the centuries ....
Up with the latest history news. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring American History. Next, a look at our recent visit to Fort Lauderdale, florida. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Patsy west has worked closely with the seminole and suki tribes in southern florida for more than 40 years. Studying their history to tell their stories. Patsy these are cyprus. Cyprus is used to make the posts, and these are items that would have been made for tourism, our little turtle, the cyprus turtle. We visited her home to talk about the personal collection of tribal artifacts. Patsy in discussing native americans in the u. S. , obviously it was not necessarily the intent of anyone to annihilate the tribes in the u. S. Thank goodness. But the government has gon ....
Angry, the people in the country are angry, and there is nothing wrong with saying you recalculated. Look, all i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won this thing. What are we going to do here, i only need 11,780 votes. Gimme a break. On the other end of that phone call, you can hear the georgia secretary of state objecting to the president s requests, and today a source telling cnn that the white house actually attempted to contact Brad Raffenspergers time no less than 18 times between election day and this past weekend. I never believed it was appropriate to speak to the president , but he pushed out, i guess he had his staff push us and they wanted to call. The challenge that we have, first of all, were in litigation mode with the president s team against the state of georgia, and whenever you say anything, you have to have your advisers there, they have to have ....