It was 1945, the war was over. Slowly, painfully, life came back to the ruins of europe. The war was over, but there was no peace. Despair crouched over the continent. Hopelessness circled europe like a bird of prey. Why . What were the forces . What were the issues in a war that turned nations into rubble heaps . And populations into beggars . The people wanted the answers. They wanted to know what happened and why. In the palace of justice in nuremburg, the people of the world came together. For there is at the International Military tribunal to judge the chief nazi war criminals. Justice robert jackson, the chief american prosecutor, makes the Opening Statement for the prosecution. Of opening the first trial in history. [inaudible] the privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the piece of the world, imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cann
And so everyone in the correspondence, there is chatter about the soviet union. I dont remember the quote, a great quote about how at this point in the trial all the countries are working to gather, it has fallen apart. The Wartime Alliance during the nuremberg, comes under strain. The cold war flows into the court room. Really significant in terms of understanding the rhythm of the trial, what happens at the end of the trial. It is also critical for understanding for what happens. And that is great. It was. It is important to understand too this was all happening in the cold war context and to understand political origins and humanitarian origins this new language of human rights, that is one thing we look at. I would like to turn the program mac to maddie, thank you. From niccolo. Could you tell us why the allies, the military, what are the consequences of the decision. Part of why they decide to establish military tribunal. They dont have to follow all the rules of regular double tr
About her policy. The American People cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy. Tonight, therefore, i would like to answer some of the questions that i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me. How and why did america get involved in vietnam in the first place . How is this administration change the policy of the Previous Administration . What has really happened in the negotiation in paris on the battlefront vietnam . What choices do we have if we are to in the war . What are the prospects for peace . Let me begin by describing a situation i have found when i was inaugurated on january 20th. The war had been going on for four years, 31,000 americans have been killed in action. The Training Program for the South Vietnamese was behind schedule. 540,000 americans within vietnam, with no plans, no progress have been made in negotiations in paris and the United States ha
Cold war it was an ideological for people who said you know it its not clear what system is best what system will prevail. In track of it which are a long time the issue of who was more calm economically 2 years was not totally clearly displayed and in the west the sputnik shock caused total panic sets for the proof. How surprising was that now its us who are showing the west showing the americans what technical progress is to shoot from. Dumb muds guppy and immunity to the military doctrine at the time was mutual assured destruction we would prefer to think its a. Really were. Youre still going to throw in the 1st 15 minutes of a war germany would have gone up in flames like a tool which. It had we were really scared because it could all kick off any time someone goes crazy and bam were in the middle of the 2 on. The 2nd world war came to an end in europe in may 945. 00 with germanys Unconditional Surrender the victorious powers divided the ruined country into force owns a bucket pati
Know the situation along the front line has been calmer today but these strikes on civilian population points of course are radicalizing populations across the divide and making it increasingly more difficult for the leader of to step back and fill out the terms of a humanitarian truce so i think a cease fire is in a very dangerous place and i think we could see a lot more violence in the coming days how much of a role are outside parties playing a mainly russia and turkey what are they stoking this conflict. Well this is actually never been a proxy conflict as such its driven by local concerns local identities but outside powers have paid a very Important Role in sustaining the conflict so for the last 20 odd years russia has preserved a kind of an equilibrium between the parties its formally allied with armenia but arms both armenia and azerbaijan but russia doesnt want to have a major conflict involving an external power such as turkey in the south caucasus a quite sensitive region