Nazi Destruction of Educational Facilities
As a U.S. delegate to the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education in 1943, J. William Fulbright, a congressman from Arkansas, speaks about the Nazi destruction of intellectual leaders and educational facilities and the need to help restore the devastated institutions of liberated nations.
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