James Holland

You know, it's the country of Beethoven and Strauss and of Goethe and incredible art and culture and some of the greatest engineers and scientists have ever lived. And look how quickly it flipped into the descent of unspeakable inhumanity, which manifests itself in the Holocaust and the gas chambers and the executions into pits and tiny places and creeks in Lithuania or Ukraine or whatever.

You know, it's the country of Beethoven and Strauss and of Goethe and incredible art and culture and some of the greatest engineers and scientists have ever lived. And look how quickly it flipped into the descent of unspeakable inhumanity, which manifests itself in the Holocaust and the gas chambers and the executions into pits and tiny places and creeks in Lithuania or Ukraine or whatever.

And look how quickly it flipped into the descent of unspeakable inhumanity, which manifests itself in the Holocaust and the gas chambers and the executions into pits and

tiny places and creeks in Lithuania or Ukraine or whatever.

I mean, it's just horrendous. And this is from a nation which a decade earlier had been a democracy.

I mean, it's just horrendous. And this is from a nation which a decade earlier had been a democracy.

I mean, it's just horrendous. And this is from a nation which a decade earlier had been a democracy.

I mean, it's just horrendous.

And, you know, this is from a nation which a decade earlier had been a democracy.

Well, the decision to finally go, when the Americans joined the war in December 1941, there's the Arcadia Conference a few days later, a week later, between the British chiefs of staff and political leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt and his own chiefs of staff, about what the policy should be.

Well, the decision to finally go, when the Americans joined the war in December 1941, there's the Arcadia Conference a few days later, a week later, between the British chiefs of staff and political leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt and his own chiefs of staff, about what the policy should be.

Well, the decision to finally go, when the Americans joined the war in December 1941, there's the Arcadia Conference a few days later, a week later, between the British chiefs of staff and political leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt and his own chiefs of staff, about what the policy should be.

Well, the decision to finally go... When the Americans joined the war in December 1941, there was the Arcadia Conference a few days later, a week later, between the British chiefs of staff and political leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt and his own chiefs of staff.

about what the policy should be.

And the policy is to get American troops over to Europe as quick as possible, get them over to Britain, get them training, and get them across the Channel ASAP and start the liberation of Europe. But the reality is that in 1942, the Americans just aren't ready. They've gone from this incredibly tiny army. They're still growing. They've got no battlefield experience.

And the policy is to get American troops over to Europe as quick as possible, get them over to Britain, get them training, and get them across the Channel ASAP and start the liberation of Europe. But the reality is that in 1942, the Americans just aren't ready. They've gone from this incredibly tiny army. They're still growing. They've got no battlefield experience.

And the policy is to get American troops over to Europe as quick as possible, get them over to Britain, get them training, and get them across the Channel ASAP and start the liberation of Europe. But the reality is that in 1942, the Americans just aren't ready. They've gone from this incredibly tiny army. They're still growing. They've got no battlefield experience.

And the policy is to get American troops over to Europe as quick as possible, get them over to Britain, get them training, and get them across the channel ASAP and start the liberation of Europe.

But the reality is that in 1942, the Americans just aren't ready.

They've gone from this incredibly tiny army.