History Transmission

DeutschlandRadio produces a five minute segment each day about some historical issue or figure, providing links to both the broadcast version and the transcription (you can find a list of the programs here). Yesterday they looked at the life of Georg Forster, a German philosophe who became a revolutionary leader in Mainz in its heady "republic days." Today they look at one of my favorite subjects, Konrad Adenauer, his attitude toward nuclear weapons, disarmament treaties, and how Europe could defend itself without developing nuclear capabilities of its own.