and normandy is entirely isolated. they take down telecoms, blowup -- blow up underground cables, this forces the germans to broadcast their troop movements via radio, and we have already decrypted their code. the french resistance was an important part of our success on d-day. a trip that should have taken hitler's tanks two days took three weeks. the french resistance was important. they weren't there just to bolster french national esteem at the end of the war. they did important maneuvers on the day. as i am researching this and i find it fascinating because i had not been a war scholar before this, i discovered there was a woman in command of these troops throughout the entire summer of 1944. i had not heard of her either. her name is lise de baissac. she is mauritian. she was 38 years old. she comes from an island off the coast of africa. it was captured in the napoleonic wars. they speak french, but she has british citizenship. she lived in paris from when she was a teenager and felt french. hitler marches in in

there he is in his normandy kit. they have fantastically designed kits for normandy. they always had the best kit, so they always looked the part. they really did look good. they were gung ho and ready for business. when they got there, they wanted to pull up alongside the 21st panzer, the only panzer division in normandy, and then you would have the 12th ss, the hitlerjugend division. they were not hot footing it that far because they were being hammered by the bombers. they were strafing them to hell. the idea is that they all pull in a line and go straight for the sea, to the west and push the allies back. that is the plan. by 8:00 a.m., meyer has about half the division's infantry and a third of the artillery. that is not bad. he has 29 artillery pieces and a whole bevy of 75 millimeter antitank guns, a few 88mm antitank guns, mortars, and young men bristling with firepower and ready to kick canadian butt as quickly as they can. that is the situation. on top of that you have gruper rauch. he's in the 21st panzer division. he is commanding the 192nd regimen and he

there he is in his normandy kit. they have fantastically designed kits for normandy. they always look the part. they were gung ho and ready for business. wantedey got there, they to pull up alongside the 21st panzer, the only panzer division in normandy, have the 12th ss, division.jugend they were not hot footing it that far because they were being hammered by the bombers. they were strafing them to hell. the idea is that they all pull in a line and go straight for the sea, to the west and push the allies back. that is the plan. a.m., meyer has about half the division's infantry and a third of the artillery. he has 29 artillery pieces and a 75 millimeter antitank guns, a few 88mm antitank guns, mortars, and young men bristling with firepower and ready to kick canadian butt as quickly as they can. ruperp of that you have g rauch. divisionhe 21st pender -- panzer division. he has been added a heather -- another load of guns. i reckon he's got about 28 guns. by the time meyer is on the rauch as well,ot plus remnants of the infantry division. not very good but they've sti

normandy is isolated. telecoms, blowup underground cables, this forces the germans to broadcast a be out radio and we have decrypted their code. the french resistance was an important part of our success on d-day. a trip that should have taken it alert -- should have taken hitler two days took three weeks. the french resistance was important. important maneuvers on the day. this and iearching find it fascinating because i had not been a war scholar before this, i discovered there was a woman in command of these troops throughout the entire summer of 1944. i had not heard of her. old.as 38 years she comes from an island off the coast of africa. it was captured in the napoleonic wars. , but she hasench british citizenship. she lived in paris from when she was a teenager and felt french. in may ofrches in 1940 and she is an enemy alien. they were put in concentration camps in france. she had no choice but to leave. for her, it was a common sense issue. why wouldn't i learn to parachute behind enemy lines and

there he is in his normandy kit. they have some rather fantastically designed kits for normandy. had the best kit, the best camouflage smocks and new uniforms and all the rest of it. they always look the part. they were gung ho and ready for business. the plan was that when they got there, they wanted to pull up alongside the 21st panzer, the only panzer division in normandy at the time, and then you would have 12 ss in the middle the hitlerjugend , division. zer, hot footing it up. they were not hot footing it that far because they were being hammered by the bombers. alliedhter bombers -- fighter-bombers strafing them to , hell, really. the idea is that they all pull in a line and go straight for the sea, to the west and push them down and push the allies back to the sea. that is the plan. time,ut 8:00 a.m. british 9:00 a.m. american time meyer , has about half the division's infantry and a third of the artillery. which is not bad. i reckon he's got 29 artillery bevys plus a whole host, a horse to backtrack 75 millimeter , antitank guns, a few 88mm antitank guns, mortars, and of

message to troops as they prepare for the assault at normandy. [video clip] >> soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force, you are about to embark on the great crusade. eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. in companies with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, elimination of snazzy and security for ourselves in a free world. your task will not be an easy one. your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battle hardened and he will fight savagely but this is the year 1944, much has happened since the nazi triumphs since 1940-1941. they inflicted upon the germans great defeats in open battle man to man. our air offensive has seriously reduced them in the air and those to wage war on the ground. our home front have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war and placed at our disposal great fighting men. the tide has turned. the free men of the world are ma

in normandy, the fighting has moved inland. in the last war when a soldier was wounded, you had to watch and wait. now the order is reversed. the aid man does the watching and waiting and is at the side of the casualty as soon as he becomes one. in addition, the american corpsman today, unlike his counterpart in previous wars, is qualified to administer morphine and plasma and to render numerous other services to the wounded. all this is making a vast difference in the saving of life. some of the wounded filter back to the aid station on foot. but evacuation by walking and hand litter bearing soon gives way to the faster method of evacuation by jeep. a battalion aid station operates just behind the lines. ♪ here the trained corpsman again demonstrates his value, taking over many jobs that the physician would otherwise have to perform. this frees the doctor's time for more detailed attention to the serious cases. ♪ next, the wounded are brought to a collecting station a mile or so farther back. there are facilities here for

in his boots, hit the jew sudden graphs normandy, 12:15 a.m. on june 6, 1944, badly 1 wounded that evening, completed his mission. hit in the face with shrapnel, went back to england and came back to 101st airbourne.all the way through end of the war. fantastic combat leader and american. you can tell from my tones that aren't white like boris johnson, i am british. been here 25 years. my heart beats faster when i look at this photograph. this is the most successful operation in british military history. 10 minutes. there's a glider, a plane made of wood. it different land using the wheels. they are entirely cosmetic. this plane is designed not to land, it's designed to crash land at 100 miles per hour. 30 guys in each glider, this is famous pegasis bridge. after 10 minutes crash landed at 12:15 a.m. just 10 minutes later, 90 guys have carried out successfully the first operation that is a success on d-day. question arises, who was first? americans or british. who was able to claim bragging rights that they were the first? it wasn't captain fra

in his boots hit the jew sudden graphs normandy, 12:15 a.m. on june 6 1944, badly 1 wounded that evening, completed his mission. hit in the face with shrapnel, went back to england and came back to 101st airbourne. all the way through end of the war. fantastic combat leader and american. you can tell from my tones that aren't white like boris johnson i am british. been here 25 years. my heart beats faster when i look at this photograph. this is the most successful operation in british military history. 10 minutes. there's a glider a plane made of wood. it different land using the wheels. they are entirely cosmetic. this plane is designed not to land, it's designed to crash land at 100 miles per hour. 30 guys in each glider, this is famous bridge. after 10 minutes crash landed at 12:15 a.m. just 10 minutes later, 90 guys have carried out successfully the first operation that is a success on d-day. question arises, who was first? americans or british. who was able to claim brag rights that they were the first? it wasn't captain frank and the pat

eisenhower in montgomery have left to go back to plan normandy. alexander has chosen the british eight army for the main stroke in diadem. it is just too big for them. instead the fifth army will attack on the allied left to support the british. once the gustav line hinged on lucian major general talking to alexander on the left , and his u.s. sixth court will burst from the anzio bridgehead, shouldering aside the blockading german 14th army and helping destroy the german 10th army and further open the route to rome. that is the plan. the positioning begins. in early may 1944, on the allied right, the eighth army secretly side slips more than a quarter million men east to west over the apennine mountains, and general lease's divisions led by 356,000 poles general anders. he is a slender, handsome cavalryman who had fought both germans and russians in 1939, wounded three times, captured on crutches. he spent 20 months in moscow's prison before being released. he eventually formed a polish core against the common not see photo as -- cohe eventually

blood is the same whether it's bills on aluminum or normandy mud. it takes guts whether you fly a million-dollar airplane or wade in with a $50 rifle. if a german takes a potshot and misses a yank on the ground, he might get another and another guy -- therether is nothing personal in it. maybe some of the airpower fanatics will scream that the big brains did not give us a chance to win it our way. maybe we could have, maybe not. there aren't many guys around here who might sharing this war. the only thing that matters is a way that win in there is never another one. thank you. [applause] >> don is asking ken beckman to stand. donald: he flew in the eighth air force in world war ii. [applause] >> i was describing how guys took off and landed in england. from the back of the bus came, that is wrong. ken.as he was sitting in the front seat the rest of the time. [laughter] fewe've got time for a questions before everybody rushes out and gets books signed. the first question, stephen the center. cal,ask this for my uncle who was a radar operator. s did t

blood is the same whether it's bills on aluminum or normandy mud. it takes guts whether you fly a million-dollar airplane or wade in with a $50 rifle. if a german takes a potshot and misses a yank on the ground, he might get another and another shot, but another guy -- there is nothing personal in it. maybe some of the airpower fanatics will scream that the big brains did not give us a chance to win it our way. maybe we could have, maybe not. there aren't many guys around here who might sharing this war. the only thing that matters is to win, and win in a way that there is never another one. thank you. [applause] >> don is asking ken beckman to stand. donald: he flew in the eighth air force in world war ii. [applause] >> i was describing how guys took off and landed in england. from the back of the bus came, that is wrong. it was ken. he was sitting in the front seat the rest of the time. [laughter] >> we've got time for a few questions before everybody rushes out and gets books signed. the first question, stephen the center. >> i ask this for my un

when we were there, the 70th anniversary of normandy, when i met them there. my uncle is at the battle of the bulge. these were so brave teenagers. mostly they were, 18, 19, some 17 years old. when we talked to them this time, deeper relationships over time, they said, you know, i never wanted to kill anybody. i didn't want to kill the germans. i was incapacitating them. and one of them told me, i killed somebody and found out later he was a doctor and i -- i have always carried that with me. i said, you were instructed to shoot him. you take him, i'll take him. you know? and he said, i still never forget that. we all would die for our country. we take pride in saying that. but to kill for our country is a pretty traumatic thing. so when we want to engage in you want to call this that the president engaged in, you have to be really careful about how we endanger our men and women in uniform. who courageously, patriotically put themselves out there to protect and defend. any other questions? yes? reporter: because the airstrike targeting soleimani happened in ir

landing that is clearing the normandy beaches. he will take over when they have the ninth armored division. he will take over combat command be. he is a relatively senior officer. ands senior to clark robert. i feel look at the relationship in thisl the forces area. that is not how it will take place. we willcus tonight focus in on that square. on the area around the actual fighting that will happen. the german offensive starts at 5:30 in the morning on the 16th of december. through up the area. they are in water towers, church steeples. they will notice all these flashes of light. they don't really know it's going on. they see all these lights and they start calling their headquarter saying something is going on. 90 seconds later they realize it was german artillery rockets. 1800 different pieces of artillery firing that will start impacting all across the friend. in the area,es because there are so few ofdiers over the 83 miles the eighth corps, it actually ends up being an advantage. the soldiers are spread out. and as a less e

and to downgrade the tension in the region as far as it's possible we have also discussed the normandy forum in normandy and kerry's side would say at least partially it was successful the meeting that we had we didn't manage to result although each is but by the end of the here we exchange the detainees the hostages and now we are trying to implement the cease fire regime and these are good things and we're going to continue working as.

when we were there, and the 70th anniversary of normandy, when i met them there, my uncle was in world war ii, in the battle of the bulge, and these were brave teenagers, mostly, 18, 19, some 17 years old. and when we talked to them this time, because of deeper relationships over time, they said, you know, i never wanted to kill anybody. i didn't want to kill the germans. i was incapacitating them, i would shoot them in the leg or something. and one of them told me, i killed somebody and found out later he was a doctor and i always carried that with me. i said, well, you were instructed to shoot, you take him, i'll take him. and he said, i still never forget that. so we all would die for our country. we take pride in saying that. but to kill for our country is a pretty traumatic thing. when we want to engage in these -- whatever we want to call this that the president engaged in, we have to be really careful about that, how we endanger our men and women in uniform who courageously, patriotically put themselves out there to protect and defend. any other questions? >> reporter: because t

and to downgrade the tension in the region as far as it's possible we have also discussed the normandy forum in normandy and kerry's side would say at least partially it was successful the meeting that we had we didn't manage to result although each is but by the end of the here we exchange the detainees the hostages and now we are trying to implement the cease fire regime and these are good things and we're going to continue working sold that at the next psammead we could achieve further progress according to the main sca chords and we have these bases we have this fundamental and we need to continue working and there is certain there is certain complication theory but we are firm in our desire to continue working so we have a very meaningful meeting we exchanged our opinions hopefully we are going to continue meeting russian and german represented davis and the representatives from other contraries to work. on the benefit of diplomatic solutions and to support the un resolutions on all this issues 2 questions from each side so let's start with german media outlets it's. a further que

landings that is clearing demolitions from the normandy beaches. he will take over when they have the ninth armored division. he will take over combat command b. he is a relatively senior officer. he is senior to clark and robert. if you look at the relationship here, all the forces in this area. that is not how it will take place. as we focus in tonight, we will focus in on that square. st. vith, the actual offensive that will happen there. the german offensive starts at 5:30 in the morning on the 16th of december. lookouts throughout the area. they are in water towers, church steeples. they will notice on the horizon all these flashes of light. they don't really know what is going on. they see all these lights and they start calling their headquarter saying something is going on. about 90 seconds later they realize it was german artillery rockets. about 1800 different pieces of artillery firing that will start impacting all across the front. the u.s. forces in the area, because there are so few soldiers over the 83 miles of the eighth corps, it a

eisenhower in montgomery have left to go back to plan normandy. alexander has chosen the british eight army for the main stroke in diadem. it is just too big for them. instead the fifth army will attack on the allied left to support the british. once the gustav line hinged on casino, major general lucian, talking to alexander on the left, and his u.s. sixth court will burst from the anzio bridgehead, shouldering aside the blockading german 14th army and helping destroy the german 10th army and further open the route to rome. that is the plan. the positioning begins. in early may 1944, on the allied right, the eighth army secretly side slips more than a quarter million men east to west over the apennine mountains, and general lease's divisions include 356,000 poles led by general anders. he is a slender, handsome cavalryman who had fought both germans and russians in 1939, wounded three times, captured on crutches. he spent 20 months in moscow's prison before being released. he eventually formed a polish core against the common nazis see photo as c

the logistics are coming from normandy across france, so logistics are stretched to the utmost. the weather turns bad, and we get to the german border, and the other part is what they call the miracle in the west, what the germans call the miracle in the west. during the advance across france, we destroy large numbers of german troops, particularly in a counterattack. we destroy equipment, and most of the soldiers will walk back. they have a cadre of trained soldiers and officers and when they produce tanks and equipment, they will be able to refill their forces very quickly. we expect when the weather improves, when the logistics improve, we will go on the offensive again and it will be in two different places. in the north, the 21st army group and the ninth and first armies up towards the ruhr off the map to the north. in the south with the third army and seventh army crossing the rhine. in the center is this not impassable, but very rugged ground known as the ardennes. it is beautiful countryside today, a tourist haven, beautiful little towns with wandering brooks, the roads

the logistics are coming from the normandy front across france, so logistics are being stretched to the utmost. the weather starts to turn bad. we also start to get to the german border, and the other part is what they call the miracle in the west, what the germans call the miracle in the west. during the advance across france, we are going to destroy large numbers of german troops, particularly in the more 10 counterattack. we destroy equipment, and most of the soldiers walk back. they have a cadre of trained soldiers, educated officers, and when they produce tanks and equipment, they are going to be able to refill their forces very quickly. we expect when the weather improves, when the logistics improve, we are going to go on the offensive again, and it will be in two different places. in the north, the 21st army group and the ninth and first armies up towards the ruhr off the map to the north. in the south with the third army and seventh army down crossing the rhine. in the center is this not impassable -- i hate using that term. it is very rugged ground known as the ardennes. if you

normandy,higher up in they are told that the reason the german army cannot send as much ammunition to the german ,oldiers fighting the british americans and canadians in ofmandy is that in march 1944, germany occupied hungary, and there are lots of trains now ruralg from the rule -- communities to auschwitz, carrying jews, and they cannot simultaneously file carrying jews to their death at etheridge -- auschwitz, carry ammunition from german factories to northern france. note to thend delusional germans, just to say, himmler, on the day after s birthday meets with the representative of the world jewish congress in sweden the first time he has met a jewish person in the house. he shakes his head and says "let's say bygones be bygones." [laughter] >> himmler, crazy. know what wase to the extent of the role of german , inn, particularly ss wives this extermination of jews. to what extent did that happen? >> there were substantial numbers of women guards in the caps. there were all stashed guards in the camps, there were also those who performed duties for the killing units. participation

this village in normandy has 216 residents. a quarter of them are british. that is why town counselors like patrick had are so valuable -- patrick head are so valuable. to those been a link who know little about local law. >> [speaking foreigngn langugua] when you come from a different culture you are not certain you got things right. reporter: city halls will lose people like patrick because they're not french. british nationals have been allowed to run for local elections except f for the may'' position since 2001. their work was much appreciated. overall there are 757 of them. now they can't run and they cannot even vote. small towns worry that some british residents would head back home. >> [speaking foreign language] over the past 20 years british parentnt -- families arrived hee after french residents left. reporter: same story in southwestern france and area appreciated by u.k. nationals who are now fearful over the future. they have paid their taxes here for years or decades. will they still be entitled to healthth and social benenefits r brexit? >>

it makes it sound like normandy. it is not normandy. there is a path and it winds its way up the bluff. it is not 100 feet high. windy, wine d, steve -- they do notut scale the bluff. after the of the day confederates rocked the federals, a lot of confederate reports talk about driving the yankees over the bluff and you have these images of guys doing swan dives into the river off of this 100 foot cliff. that didn't happen. at happened at the southern end where it is-- bluff not 100 feet high. over5th massachusetts go onto the virginia side -- 20 guys of the 15th massachusetts go over onto the virginia side, which is impressive. it had rained almost every day in march. reports and with something like more rain, river up another six inches, still raining. know dark so they do not -- they are crossing the virginia channel of the river, which is much more narrow, which means the current is going faster and you do not know what kind of logs may be floating. they get across. are to send this recon, so he sends captain philbrick out to do the

that it was primarily fought between two allied nations whose troops were literally dying together in normandy, italy, on the seas and in the far east, the united kingdom and the united states. in truth, bretton woods was actually the end of a confusing campaign between a faltering british empire and a somewhat reluctant rising american one. and the story of how the allies came to the agreement is rife with ironies. while we don't have time to recite the interwar history of the gold standard, it is important to note that there was bad blood between the two anglo nations over the issue. britain had abandoned the international gold standard in 1931. unimportant detail for what would transpire at bretton woods, however, is that while the pound sterling lost its set price to gold, the pound cked to other currencies within the british commonwealth nations. expect stable exchange rates for sterling as part of the imperial preference system. economicsondon conference was held in 1933 with the aim of reestablishing a stable exchange rate for the pound and the dollar based on the gold standard, preside

some of them also at normandy. imagine the courage of teenagers, most of them at the time. but the compelling message from the veterans who -- the veteran who spoke for them along with the king of belgium and the archduke of luxembourg and the president of germany, the veteran who spoke, he spoke about the band of brothers, spoke about allies working together, multilateralism, spoke about the challenges they faced and those winters reminding me really of washington crossing the delaware because it was in december and it was snowing and they were not as prepared for snow and camouflage from snow as they needed to be. but just seeing their patriotism, their courage, those young people, this veteran coming to speak for them, 90 some years old, at the end of his remarks, he said i just want one message and i don't know if it is appropriate to say, but i will, pray for peace. pray for peace. that's what we all do. protecting the american people is our first responsibility. protect and defend. an oath we take. not only of our constitution, but of the american people. pray for pea

when we were there and the veterans at the 70th anniversary of normandy, and battle of the bulge, they said we went there next. and these were so brave teen-agers, 18, 19, some 17 years old. and when we talked to them this time because deeper relationships over time, they said, you know, i never wanted to kill anybody. i didn't want to kill the germans. i was incapacitating they will. i would shoot them in the leg or something. and then one of them told me i killed somebody and i found out later he was a doctor and i've always carried that with me. i said, well, you were instructed to shoot him because a superior said you take him, i'll take him, you know. and he said but i still never forget that. so we all would die for our country, we take pride in saying that. but to kill for our country is a pretty traumatic thing. so when we want to engage in these whatever we want to call this that the president engaged in, you have to be really careful about how we endanger our men and women in uniform who courageously, patriotically put themselves out there to protect. any other questions? >>

when we were there, the 70th anniversary of normandy, when i met them there. these are so brave teenagers, mostly they were, 18, 19, some 17 years old. when we talked to them this time, deeper relationships over time, they said, you know, i never wanted to kill anybody. i didn't want to kilt germaps. i was incapacitating them. and one of them told me, i killed somebody and found out later he was a doctor and i -- i said, you were instructed to shoot him. you take him, i'll take him. they said, i still never forget that. we all would die for our country. we take pride in saying that. but to kill for our country is a pretty traumatic thing. when we engage in these whatever we are going to call this that the president engaged in, have to be really careful about how we endanger our men and women in uniform. who courageously, patriotically put themselves out there to protect and defend. any other questions? reporter: because the targeting soleimani happened in iraq, is there times -- the aumf, i know the legal justification the administration is using to move forwa

makes it sound like normandy. it is not normandy. there a path. where it is way up not 100 feet high. it's about 30 feet. it is a steep path. and it had been raining. everything is muddy and slippery. they do not scale the bluff. the opposite is at the end of the day after the confederates route the federals, reports about driving the yankees over the bluff. you have this image of these guys doing swan dives into the river. they did not do that. the route took place down at the not 100 end where it is feet high. you have to watch those reports. this recon patrol, 20 guys, they go over and they get over onto the virginia side. which is actually an impressive thing to do. it had been raining. almost every day. ,ou look at the daily reports they almost all and was something like, still raining. river up another six inches. more rain. this kind of stuff. almost every day it is raining. they get over there. they do this in a couple of skiffs. it's dark, they don't know, they are crossing the virginia channel of the river. which means the current is fas

under the command of a famous general, you can compare him to patton's role in normandy. the generals bought it because it looked like a logical place, all of the forces were there, he key general, a key army was there. it was so effective that it took german intelligence three days after the beginning of operation bagration to acknowledge this was the main event of the summer. they still thought it was a decoy for something to come down in ukraine. i am not going to go through a lot of events because david has already done that for you. i want to mention a couple of key aspects. thebattle activity includes largest operation of world war ii. attacked more than 1000 transportation nodes, enough to put them out of operation for the next 24 hours. there are also teams out there doing reconnaissance, attacking key targets. air attacks on german airfields, often at night. there is interesting stuff going on. get massive artillery preparation and some areas. other areas, they decide to go with surprise rather than artillery. as the breakthroughs occur, sequentially, these are s

contributions of women, allied governments, and military forces in ensuring the success of the landing on normandy's beaches. this event was part of the national world war ii museum national conference in new orleans. of june, 1944.th >> welcome back, everyone. it is hard to believe you get started on the very first session, and here we are coming to our final session of the daytime programming. although it was our intent to make this conference, june, 1944, as global as possible, we knew that we, for our loyal audience, had to finish with d-day itself.

from mosh -- fromage has been in conflict for three decades, producers argue it must be made with ron normandy milk to merit the protected g geographihical indicator. meanwhile, industrial producers using cheaper pasteurized milk have borrowed the image without the official designationon, much to small farmers' indignation. a meeting is excited to settle the argument with two designations, one for the pasteurized version. both likely to smell terrible but taste delicious. genie: if you want the good one, go with the french title. brian: al pays. genie: people will be flipping cripes -- crepes across the country for the holiday this weekend. tips for the treats coming up. ♪ ♪ sonoko sasakai: well,l, i grew p in a very smsmall town called kamakakura, which is about an hour outside of tokyo. and so i was immersed in the old world, old japan, very artisinal, without even knowing what that word is. ththey have this craftsmsmanshi. that wawas the way y people liv. you hadad to know h how to work with your hands. and it wasas an awakening for me as a young child looking at the craftsman's work.

president and the world holocaust forum to come together here to commemorate the liberation of auschwitz normandy in israel the remembrance say for the holocaust is an april that's a day when this you know sirens are sounding in the country the country then comes to a standstill for a couple of minutes to commemorate what happened during world war 2 during the holocaust tony thank you so much i just want to remind our viewers that we are looking at live pictures there from jerusalem where we're seeing not just tony of course but also the russian and and israeli leaders of blood near putin and benyamin netanyahu tonya thank you very much for now. survivor dita kraus was just a teenager when she was deported from prague and ended up in it's now $91.00 to her home in israel she might have gone to the official commemorations taking place at the former death camp in poland on monday but the horrors she experienced there are too much to bear and she's my. mood in history now. and here i sit with the perks. this is me. in the black stockings. my number is 73305 which i had to shout twice daily at the co

our logistics are coming from the normandy front. logistics are stretched to the utmost. the weather starts to turn bad. we get to the german border. the other part is what the germans call the miracle of the west. we are going to destroy large numbers of german troops. we destroyed equipment. most of the soldiers walked back. they had a cadre of trained soldiers and educated officers. when they start to produce tanks and equipment, they will be able to refill forces quickly. we expect when the weather and our logistics improve, we will go on the offensive again. prof. mark gerges: we expect that when the weather improves and logistics improve we will go on the offensive again. it will be on two different places. in the north in the ninth and first armies. off the map to the north. in the south, with third army and seventh army down crossing the line. in the center is not impossible. i hate using that term. it's a very rugged, for street ground. if you go there today it's beautiful. countryside, a tourist haven. hiking trails. beautiful little towns with wandering brooks.

where it wasn't, so when we were planning the d-day invasion, that piece of intelligence tu$e allies normandy would be better to invade than the coast at calais. so that was the kind of intelligence being produced by these women at arlington hall. they were reading other diplomatic correspondence as well. it gives you a sense of how many women were recruited to do this work. there was an african-american code breaking unit hacking codes and ciphers of the private sector, transmissions of banks and companies to make sure nobody was doing business with heckler or mitsubishi. that was a segregated unit because the army was segregated, but they were doing important, unsung work as well. these were former schoolteachers who had gotten their education at historically black colleges and universities, and were recruited to do this work and jumped at the chance to show their patriotism during the war, at a time when maybe they had somewhat less incentive to feel patriotic, but obviously did and wanted to contribute to the war effort. with an eye toward june 1944, there were women who were encrypting o

achieved success in alleviating the crisis in ukraine after 3 years with the poor so we had another normandy for a meeting after the government in kiev finally made steps to implement some of the obligations it had as agreed upon previous meetings so we need to move forward on the way to implement the music accords these decisions these agreements should not stay on paper as it was true during the tenure of poroshenko we are a means to reinforce the ability and. peace we are all against the deployment of weapons in space and cyber space should not be weaponized we are ready to step into the but. the u.s. and russia with the theoretical make union g 20 also the c.e.o. and briggs are very important instruments which is we will continue our work as part of the 5 permanent members of the security council of the key point of the age and they still reinforce their all of us and we will help but to continue implementing its major function of the charter its principles should be beyond reproach begun and you're questioning i think occlusion this. would be a little. which different to the one we have

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contributions of women and allied governments and military forces ensuring the success of the landing on normandy's beaches. this was part of the national national ii museum conference in new orleans. this is the month of june, 1944. >> well welcome back, everyone. , it is hard to believe you get started on the very first session, and then here we are coming to our final session of the daytime programming. although it was our intent to make thi

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strategic bombing of germany followed by conrad crane who focuses on airpower during the d-day invasion of normandy, france. of the world war museum's annual conference. our final panel for what has been a great day and is only going to get better is "supremacy in the skies: allied air domination in europe -- europe." i feel a certain sigh of relief that i am not the only world war i guy

bombing of germany, followed by conrad crane who focuses on air power during the d-day invasion of normandy. this is part of the world war ii annual conference. >> our final panel, for what has been a great day and is only going to get better, is supremacy in the skies, allied air domination in europe. moderating our panel, i have to say i feel a certain sigh of