 period during the nineteen thirties when the american ambassador william dodd was sending cables back essentially warning the u.s. state department of what was happening which the u.s. of course ignored and on the eve of trump's election i tweeted to eric larson i said i hope history isn't repeating itself here and he says you know he said something along the lines of i hope i hope you're right that it's you know that i hope that we can prevent this