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Discussing the book "Twentieth century journey: 1930-1940" with the author William Shirer.
Interviewing historian Martin Broszat while visiting Munich, Germany at the Institute of Contemporary History(Institut für Zeitgeschichte). They discuss National Socialism(Nazism) in German & European History between World War I and World War II. As well as a brief discussion of the Neo-Nazi Movement in the 1960's in Germany.
"War Times"
Co-author of Guernica
Discussing the book "The 900 days" about the siege of Leningrad during World War II.
Daniel Yergin, author and economic historian, discusses his book, "Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State." He explains the key players in the Cold War and his thoughts on the Yalta and Riga Axioms. Yergin also explores the end of World War II and other events that led to the tensions between US and the Soviet Union.
The Big Three (leaders): Churchill, Stalin and Truman were among the main topics of Charles L. Mee's book, "Meeting at Potsdam." It was the ending stages of World War II and Mee explained that the meeting at Postdam was really a peace conference. There is an excerpt of a speech by Winston Churchill at the beginning of this interview.