the graphic novel called mouse depicts juice as mice and nazis as cats. the school board objected to some violent images, a few curse words and one image where a character is drawn in the nude, the books author art spickle, men whose parents survived the holocaust called the decision demented and orwellian . and we have our reporter, i'm in s, if with us here in studio to tell us about the story. he also happens to be a tennessee native. i mean, thanks for bringing the story to us. i mean, it is hard to imagine a book about the holocaust that doesn't include violence. so what exactly was the school board objecting to you here? but an irony here to me is that this book was chosen and is chosen or in schools around the country. i mean, it was taught in my school as well because it does not to pick the hard cause with gratuitous violence. so it's, it's chosen as a book that does it in a way that is approachable for 8th graders as people from 13 to 14 years of age. that's not a child. so it's not people who have never seen violence before. a lot of the debate

in the aftermath of the 2nd world war, the nuremberg trials of nazi criminals established the principle of universal jurisdiction. it allows cases of crimes against humanity and genocide to be tried almost anywhere regardless of where the crimes were committed. and when syrians began fling their country civil war 10 years ago, some like and war roslyn came here to germany, hoping to escape their criminal past. as fate would have it. other syrians arrived who had no intention of forgetting. they helped the prosecution and they played a key role in overcoming time and geography, forcing on war ruslan to face justice release and happiness at the trials, verdict, relatives, and friends of victims of the assad regime had gathered outside the court building and co blends, waiting for the outcome among them, the syrian journalist, luna, what fun she attended every day of and while ross lens trials since had begun in 2020 for her the guilty verdict, his groundbreaking. after all, at the multi, i have yeoman mocking the verdict doesn't mark a conclusion cutaway leticia? it's just the beginning m

on the other hand, we do have to remember that the nazi invasion of the soviet union began in ukraine and walrus. so of course, as a historical responsibility towards ukrainians who died in world war 2, i understand why germany doesn't want to ship arms to ukraine. it is part of this historical responsibility i but i believe germany is supplying a field hospital to ukrainians. germany supplies of the things to the ukrainians, short of weapons, and with the north stream pipeline. this is obviously an issue of contention. in the con german government, certainly because the greens of course would be quite pleased to say that they would close it down. my understanding is that if there were to be a full scale invasion of ukraine than i do think that the german government would think about or might agree to never opening, no one stream to it feels like when we look at this whole crisis and what has been discussed in the month of january alone, it feels like that we are trapped in the cold war. how will we be able to break out of this? i think in the long run, the only if there, if there is

pointed to, as you say, conflicts in the balkans, they pointed to world war 2 and resistance to the nazi regime. to try to find precedents for the activity that they're involved in or planning for or the different events that they perceive. i don't think that necessarily means there's any formal connection that the group has with participants in the balkans conflict though. the old keeper's, they also referred to the founding fathers of the united states, thomas jefferson, for example. he was an advocate of generational renewal, saying that each generation was conduct its own revolution. but why are we talking about this in the oath keepers now in the 21st century? there's a long history in america of different people with different political views, political identities, fighting over the legacy of those founding fathers. there's an excellent book. the author's name is eluding me as the book is called, the jefferson rule, which talks about how even the founders themselves fought over that their own legacy in the decades after the nation was founded. so this is nothing new to try to claim

i mean, the march is the protests that we saw in our nazi on tuesday, unprecedented tens of thousands of people. and there's been low level process been going on for years, particularly when the elections, when the old president nasa, by a left and to kind of took over in 2019. there were protests, but there quickly, smothered, and the people arrested and given administrative. 15 days of jaylin let out again, but this, this is off the scale and it came from nowhere. and so everybody scrambled in order to try and catch up, particularly the government, trying to regain control. and the kremlin when asked, acted very quickly because likewise, they don't want to see another after ukraine, particularly after that. russia, which is a huge pain in the neck for they don't want to see another long which writes it's demonstration. pope pro democracy democracy demonstration again journal has been ours giving us valuable context of the situation in context on tonight. then we appreciate your time and your insight. thank you. that when they to leaders met today to discuss the situation as we were