Even in the 90s there were a series of cases before the Supreme Court of Germany in an attempt to posthumously pardon a bunch of Germans convicted and executed for treason against the Nazi state. The Supreme Court refused the pardons or these long dead heroes and upheld their convictions. I read some of the judgements and they basically read like this, "Even though this particular German government was MAYBE doing some bad things, thats no excuse for a citizen to attempt to involve other countries or give up state secrets. They should have used the approved government apparatuses in place." As in these people are indeed traitors and they should have like filed claims in the Nazi courts to stop illegal re-armament or the persecution of "undesirables" and mass murder. Yeah. Maybe a peaceful protest while your at it... Oh wait... That would have been illegal as well. Really quite maddening. Sorry but no. Thise traitors to Nazi Germany are the moral ones and a traitor to Hitler is in fact a patriot of Germany. 50 years had passed and the courts were upholding Nazi court decisions. Even acknowledging Nazi court decisions like they hold precedent in the first place is f'd but German high courts did just that.

this was a wonderful presentation. Some of your information is off though. Like the photo of Carrie Mary and Laura in De Smet, that photo was taken in 1879 or 80, making Laura 12 or 13, not 15. You said Carrie was three or four years older than Grace; she was seven years older. The Bouchie school was only six miles South of De Smet; 12 miles for the round trip. Laura was 18 when she married not 17. I hated that Rose Wilder published The First Four Years because it lists all of LIW's failures. I think she was jealous and she did it to spite her Mother.

Can't get taxation right either. Government only has the right to tax those in one area of America and it's considered a district! Look it up...

She lacks charisma but she’s a good teacher. Charisma isn’t everything. I suggest she read comics daily.

52:45 it's okay to be ignorant and forget about all the southerners that died in prison after the war. Just because history isn't taught in the north, doesn't mean it didn't happen. In fact if not for the southerners holding on to heritage would we see both sides of the war and realize it's not something we want to do again. You said you weren't going to get political and then you shit on 1/3 of the country.

It's amusing to imagine Japanese translators trying to deal with the uncoded message, "Scratch one flat-top." The use of scratch as a verb meaning 'to eliminate' is surely colloquial, and unlikely to be found in any contemporary English dictionary of the era. Similarly what are they to make of 'flat-top?' I think the term might have been used to describe a crew cut hairstyle for men. "Why would a US Naval pilot be sending a radio signal about scratching his head?" 😆

The Covid jab comment is aging pretty poorly. 🤦🏻‍♂️

"I am a reference librarian of the library here." OK, where is here? If this is on government time, we need to know your authority to speak for our nation. As our employee, you are burdened to provide truth.

Around 12:00 you speak of how soldiers need to get paid and mention Nuremberg, but there's another little known event that happened because of lack of pay, and supplies, and warm clothes, and food- at Valley Forge. An actual mutiny. Some disgruntled Soldiers committed a mutiny. AS a result, Gen. Washington sent some men, on his personal horses to go get them some pay, And sent some more soldiers around to the local farms and begged for clothes and food. The response was overwhelming ,as farmers from all around brought huge bundles of clothes and food. Washington wrote in his journal that eggs and butter was the number one foods to get them through that Winter. I served 8 years in the USMC and they told me that because of that, to this day, they serve real eggs and butter at the chow hall. Anyway, the soldiers were much happier, and morale went through the roof, BUT, Gen.Washington demanded that the men who started the mutiny be executed, and they were, by firing squad.

Melting away under Chinese pressure also happened to American troops. Why focus on non-American meltings.

I met a nasty old lady at the draft board in 1968. I told her I wasn't going to Vietnam and kill for her. She said that was un-American. If you're listening. You can get anything you want at Alices Restaurant.

Thank you for this wonderful summary of the end of the Civil War. I learned some new things today.

absolutely ridiculous that the ALA stripped their award of her name. History being horrible wasn't her fault. Her telling her story through that lens isn't a crime. She brought attention to it. But someone's life experience isn't inherently cruel or racist, especially when that person had nothing to do with policy.

Love guys who describe the battle and you glean so much

The concept of races is wrong. There are no races just phenotype. Humans are strange in their belief of races..there are none...only one...the humans

Tracy you need to take voice classes...your voice is painful to listen to. Pharyngeal and ...stressed.

Watching this in 2024 as that American Dream is in so much danger of being destroyed. Thanks to Laura.

46:24 - Or, reconfigure the _was_ which is a euphemism for changing history! 42:48 - So, tell me how one of the two major political parties in the United States has become the massive faction that it is today. _Many_ labels are used on those who don’t agree with them.

Thank you so much for this presentation. I experienced a heart wrenching understanding of what General Howard had to endure as Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The only high school for Black students in Chattanooga, TN was named after General Howard and we did not know this important history of our school until we were older adults. There is a photo of him in the school that is almost comical. As a former TN state representative, I feel compelled to have that photograph replaced with a photo that accurately reflects his professionalism, appearance and historical significance. This is indeed a blessing.

Correlation is not necessarily causation.

Nqzis and how Stalin added most of Europe and most of Asia to his empire And started conquest of Space

Ur thrower level Bing bong u Afraid to go to ocean for fun and get the fuck out of my sky

The only reason the Germans weee successful in 1940 is because everyone else was tired and unprepared. New theories.....Stalin let the Germans deliberately advace in 1941.To tire them out and to win a moral superiority

The only reason I watch this channel is because of this Dr

I'm a genuine fan of Dr. Foster's lectures, thank you so much for posting them regularly! Regards from South Jersey 👍

Had a guy today from a geological museum tell me everything you just said is absolutely wrong. I asked about some items I found around Dublin and he absolutely said nothing younger then limestone exists in Ohio. Funny because I'm finding burrows in mudstone that has mangrove tree roots in it. Same thing the Ohio geology dept(his bosses essentially) say existed at the end of the denovian. Claims no crustaceans ever lived in Ohio. Nothing but trilobites and that's it according to them. I lost alot of respect for that geological dept today. They were so helpful in the past with another item but suddenly got really nasty and spreading bad info. Not the guy in the video, another schools dept.

make money real

Please start a podcast I would gladly pay you for access. Your lectures are superior.

I found it years ago but I'm not telling anyone who I am. I'm living the good life now though.

Interesting aside "Land for all men" didn't include the native population

Probably 10 million Russians death during WW2 was Stalins fault not the German's.

Carrie didn't "dabble" in the newspaper businesses. It was her job. She started as a typesetter and reporter for the DeSmet News, her boss Edward Senn had her traveling, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, South Dakota setting up Newspapers and running them, including reporting. It was in Rapids City where she met her husband David Swanzey, a mine owner, who was on the board to bring a monument to the area and choosing the site. They picked his mountain, Mt. Rushmore. Carrie and Grace took turns taking care of Mary after thier Mother died. Carrie and Laura also exhanged many letters about thier childhood, people they knew and event in DeSmet. Carrie died in Keystone, South Dakota.

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Grace and her husband Nat Dow lived in Manchester, not DeSmet. It was Rose who was upset that Uncle Nate and Aunt Grace took help from the New Deal, but the Sisters still wrote each other and saw each other on Laura last visit. Most farmers got some help from the New Deal, my family included who still around Spirit Lake, north of DeSmet. Also Nathan Dow nephew became a very famous artist, name Harvey Dunn and stayed with Nat and Grace every summer while painting his famous paintings.

Another great lecture. Thank you for mentioning your bibliography!

I'm from Ohio, mom and das are Hoosiers. We talk like that, mixed with some Western accent after moving. I like to call it The Blues Brothers accent.

Fabulous talk. You really know your stuff.

Thank you Bob and thanks to the Mentor Library for hosting this event and posting this video. I really appreciate what you did for our country and what you are still doing by continuing to talk about it - sharing the facts of what you endured, as well as your insights, your sense of humor, and positive outlook on life. I have been researching the Battle of the Huertgen (also Hurtgen) Forest because I inherited a press release photo of my great uncle, Jesse R. McLinn (misspelled “McLean” on the photo back), receiving a decoration during WWII. Although I had heard a bit about my Mom’s “favorite uncle” while I was growing up, I have never had much curiosity about his life until seeing the photo. I quickly learned from a bit of research using the information on the back of the photo that he must have been in Huertgen, and am now on a quest to understand as closely as is possible the who, what, when and where of what he did in Huertgen and beyond. Even if that is never possible, I have so much more understanding and appreciation for what it means to have fought in this battle. I found this video because I listened to Bob’s Library of Congress interview he did in 2007 (www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.54169/) and decided to search for more about him, to find his book or anything else I could. His is just one of three interviews available there by men who served with the 121st Infantry Regiment (8th Inf Div) (per the search engine using only the unit) and who fought in the Huertgen Forest. It’s really great to see this video and learn more about Bob and what he’s up to.

This video is about one man talking.

I guess more liberal sewage comes out the drunker this prof gets🙄

I’ve never seen data, statistics, or opinions compiled from ONLY our First Nations citizens. It would be the only way to know exactly how they feel.

you cant expect non whites to follow the original constitution or think even remotely like the founding fathers

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Very interesting and good video.

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The founding definition of citizen was the same as eligible to vote aka participate in government. This was the same as the roman Republic and greek city states. Coverture provided the use of citizen rights for children and spouse. Birthright citizenship breaks that definition because the right to participate in government is withheld until the person reaches adulthood. The definition of "the people" was those persons eligible to participate in governance of the jurisdiction acting as a group.

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What a great idea for a video which I really enjoyed watching. A few things that I wanted to mention: Nicholas was only related to Queen Victoria through marriage, he wasn't her grandson. Maria and Margot both loved babies (Margot wanted to be a nurse for new born babies). Maria had the habit of grabbing babies off people and kissing them. Watch the video of the Romanovs visiting Romania and you'll see her taking a baby off her big sister Olga. Olga and Tatiana had several godchildren but Maria didn't seem to have any. Anne's best friend Hanne had a baby sister who Margot was crazy about and Margot used to babysit for her. Regarding love interests Carol was supposed to marry Olga but she was having none of it and was really not interested in the slightest, in fact all four sisters purposely got very sunburnt on the way to Romania so that he wouldn't fancy any of them. Ivan was one of the guards in the Ipatiev house who Maria was friendly with and famously brought her a birthday cake! Demenkov was Maria's true love, she signed her letters "Mrs Demenkov" and wanted to have 20(!) babies with him. Maria and Demenkov would have been perfect together. Maria took after her grandfather Alexander in being incredibly strong. One officer walking up to the Imperial Palace one day saw Maria climb out of a window on the top floor onto the roof where she reached down and pulled her sisters up onto the roof where they played before going back down again! Maria also had the habit of grabbing her tutors and lifting them into the air! Alexandra Tegleva married the children's French tutor. Maria made a shirt for Demenkov as a present. Maria chatted with everyone including the guards in the Ipatiev house and that's how she got to know people and she never forgot them. During the war the family often visited the Tsar at military headquarters where Maria had alot of fun tormenting a particular officer (she used to write letters to him first saying "I'm coming to get you!"). Margot was a member of a rowing club and when Jews ✡ were banned from such things everyone else in the club stopped going as a matter of solidarity and their respect for Margot. Margot originally went to an all girls school but because of the Nazis had to go to a Jewish school where the boys were interested in her (she even said so in a letter to her grandmother Alice). Miep Gies said while the eight were in hiding Margot (like her father also) never asked for anything from the helpers. When they were in Auschwitz a guard attacked Margot without warning or reason and Edith fought him off, that's why Margot and Anne were separated from their mother as a punishment. I love the Romanovs and the Franks, I've been to Amsterdam, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, St Petersburg, Moscow, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg and what I'm most proud of is the fact I was born on 16th February like Margot. #Marianikolaevnaromanova🇷🇺 #Margotbettifrank🇮🇱