How did Germans feel about America following the Second World War?

So I remember my father talking about it, my grandparents, how they felt very shortly after that it was a liberation from fascism more than being defeated by a victorious power.

Coming up, I've invited a few European friends to tell us how they're responding to the recent changes in the political

relationship of the U.S. with their countries.

What is our role at the table?

And now we have that feeling that America is not a reliable, very important word, I think,

ally.

Plus artist Richard Rhodes tells us how to view the icons of Europe, like the Parthenon and Notre Dame, the way its master craftsmen saw them.

He helps us notice how the stonework they use endures through the centuries.

It's a legacy material, which is why we use it to honor the dead.

We build monuments to things we care about.

Come along for a great hour ahead.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

We'll look for visual poetry

in the great stoneworks of Europe today

on Travel with Rick Steves.

Master Stone Mason Richard Rhodes

joins us later in the hour

to recommend what to look for among Europe's

great monuments.

But first, I've invited three of my European tour guide friends to put up a mirror, as it were,

to show us how they're seeing the United States lately.

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