People were corrupted to provide mostly with information about movements. Other things as well, in exchange for not that much money , but fairly lavish lifestyles. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend featuring museum tour is, archival films, programs on the presidency. Heres a clip from a recent program. I will never publish word of these reports, at least on my own, though i am proud of the work. One major report in tribal treaty rights. It involves analyzing a phrase in a treaty clause that ran less than a sentence. Explaining the contemporary meaning of the words usual and accustomed places, and cultivate. Parlayed those few words into a report that ran several hundred pages. The research led me to me considering myself for a time the leading historian on oyster cultivation, a title to which i never aspired it to which i did not have much competition. Ive experienced some of the most gratifying moments of my career putting h
The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
The germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as knot as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. A famous historian of nazi germany, William Sheridan allen, once said more people b
The events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that preceded it. The long tradition of antisemitism, the echoing of antistatic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. Power, magnified the ideals of those who hold it. And when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. Famous historian of nazi germany William Sheridan allen once said were people became antisemi in germany because they became National Socialists then became National Socialists the cause they were antisemites. This is another way of formulating what i just said. Power magnifies the ideals of those who hold it and if those who hold it appeared to be successful in the realms that are important, some segments of the population, those segments of the population will come to think that those other ideals they hol