JOLLY DAYS

Richard Sonnenfeldt

On Charlie Rose, the story of a man's journey, a witness to history, told with such quiet clarity, has a human resonance one seldom encounters in the media.

Richard Sonnenfeldt, chief interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, reminding us that the leaders of Iran and Korea are comparable to the leaders of pre-World War ll Germany:

“Once you believe a leader is really evil you shouldn't wait to stop him…”

Sonnenfeldt said that Germany was shocked that nothing was done when it invaded the Rhineland; the far greater military powers of the time — France and England — could have stopped the disaster to come.