Hosted by the Pritzker Mil. Lib. and the National WW II Museum. Anyone else watch it today? Part II is tomorrow. The International Conference on World War II
The sessions are available on their youtube channel. There was an excellent session on the turning points Midway and El Alamein. I also enjoyed Don Miller on American motorisation and the female historian on the US aircraft industry. I was less impressed by the Holocaust discussion. Having started by mentioning that the Nazis genocide extended to hundreds of thousands of Roma and Scinti as well as the Jews, these minorities were then completely ignored. This is a pity. The Warsaw resident holocaust expert talked about the populist policies in Hungary and Poland to turn focus onto the suffering of their nationals and away from any part they may have played in the Holocaust. However, the Roma are still subject to discrimination in many European countries, including the UK, but especially so in Eastern Europe.
GRW - like Sheldrake said, you can still watch. The only thing you missed out on was Q&A for each session and the interesting chats between the audience. I met Fred Smith and we briefly talked about PoWs who were executed illegally. I told him my research confirms it and that all belligerents I researched did it. He shared his "book" which is a compilation of research notes and I briefly went over it. First part is a reprint of the Geneva Convention, second part/chapter is the US Military Code on PoWs, third is an actual court martial record, then there are official records and unofficial records. Basically it's a compilation of documents w/out interpretation (that may be released with the book that will have the footnotes).
