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then things went downhill now in the 2nd quarter of 21000 a reversal the economy grew by point 4 percent. a looser monetary policy has also helped put wind in brazil sells 4 weeks ago the central bank cut the benchmark interest rate by a half point to 6 percent. right wing populist president also naro push through pension reform legislation saving the brazilian state roughly 250000000000 euros men must now wait until 65 to retire women until 62. analysts also believe paulson are could succeed in passing a tax reform measure. brazil's agricultural sector stands to gain from the trade agreement between the e.u. and the americas or trade block which brazil belongs but the deal has begun to look more fragile as parts of the brazilian amazon burned through the e.u. now accuses the government of not doing enough against the fires and the wider deforestation of the region. and finally an english couple has unearthed thousands
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of ancient silver coins worth an estimated $6000000.00 the haul a discovered with a metal detector includes rare pennies stating back to the era following the norman invasion of 10 $66.00 the discovery was made in the southwest english county of somerset shook the coins be declared a national treasure the couple and the land owner would be entitled to an equal share of their present day about. the. program thanks for watching.
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fake hair and real story is where i come from a lot of women like me have fake hair sometimes the hair style takes up to 2 days it's a lot of time that needs to be filled so people at the salon talk about what's happening in their lives and i became a journalist to be a storyteller and i always want to find those real authentic stories from everyday people who have something to share. with all the time i spent at the salon i know a good quality here when i see it and a good story when i hear it my name is elizabeth shore and i work at studio album.
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let me introduce myself i'm a health noack a polish filmmaker my grandfather was an ethnic german from salacious i recently found a small treasure trove in our house and cut a pizza and it changed my life. that's my grandfather alloys crime story we had a special relationship he was an obstetrician in fact he brought me into the world .
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there was one thing about his past that really fascinated me he served for years in the uk during world war 2 in school we heard about the atrocities committed by german soldiers and every sunday i ate potato soup was one of them. it all started when i found this orange box 120 old photos and 2 rolls of film i thought these must belong to grandpa and i wondered what secrets they might hold. i decided to talk to my mother ana she is always his daughter she's a doctor like everyone in our family. just did you see all his photos from the war
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or just the ones with him. yes not just the ones with him but was the group photos with other soldiers standing next to cars and maybe a tank and there was a photo of a field hospital it was not a. terrorist attack we are going to find out what grandpa did during the war what do you think about what is completely. new that i don't know maybe some people need to do something like that but i certainly don't i'm i didn't pester my parents with questions about the past 10 years a month on his middle just well my mother maybe but not my father he hated that but then you don't. live in those and. that's not unusual my mother belongs to the generation that was raised to not ask questions about the war. at all was not how we should look at home and she didn't talk about it much and when i did it was usually after a few strong drinks and of a mother when i was
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a traumatic experience and it really affected his character with that. i think that if you start digging up the past it could be a sobering experience. one of them and maybe it's just better to forget it was some of the new book we took wasn't good but if you really are that serious then you'll just have to go ahead. of all systems at a beach. well but i'll have to do it on my own my grandfather pasted most of his photos neatly into an album but not the one what's the story behind these pictures and. here's a list of the places where he served during the war and the 1939 map of europe. french helmets a field hospital. it says here surgical training in french. or
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. to be photographed this russian girl did he like her or was she the 1st prisoner of war he saw. a rabbi being taken away jewish gravestones as tank traps. a burning synagogue images of war and war crimes. i can see why he didn't put these into the family album. there were nearly 60 pictures of the warsaw uprising in 1944. but not always could not possibly have been in warsaw at that time he was in a military hospital 600 kilometers away recovering from shrapnel wounds that's confirmed in a letter that his mother sent him. my dear son i have sent you a rosary because you have lots of time to pray now may the mother of god heal your
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wounds and give you comfort because your own mother cannot be there with you. my father's family is polish some of them refused to come to his wedding they had fought against the germans and now my father was marrying one. he's kept track of the family history on both sides when grandpa signed up for his military disability pension my father helped him with the paperwork. to join grandpa talk about the war are you sure i think i was the only want to talk to about it at the scene so he had some photos from poland and france. which photos i think it's the ones in your in shock box. over there in one of those open what are you talking about with the clock for that type of box has nothing to do with your grandpa though he's one of the belongs to my family to. the late folk.
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while i got it completely wrong. this is my great uncle at lego ship on ski elec for short he's my father's uncle he fought in the polish underground a kind of hero that we read about in school. who fought the enemy. who sent secret messages. and bravely led his troops. his code name was cure or heart like in a game of cards if snapshots from the war from the german point of view from one of these photos have to do with elec did he steal them. did he take those photos from a german so that he didn't steal them. i don't know how he got them. if.
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it's a test but to find out. so that going to go right at most. fortunately elex sister christina is still alive my father calls her and tells her i want to meet her. maybe she knows something about the photos and can tell me more about how . she lives in just a hole that the city was occupied by the germans just 2 days after they invaded poland. alex resistance group was based here. i think i'm on the right track now. some of the photos were taken here. i only see great and christina at family weddings and funerals this is the 1st time
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i've been. her house. no good oh my hips hurt i've got psychotic. and my back is killing me going that's what was it they go. to church. my father said i should come talk to. me that you're not moving which is what is mr johnston no no no you should talk to me if you wish. oh. yes i'd like to talk to about how like i took what he did during the war. so she's given his main task was to keep track of the parachute drops that were organized by the polish government in exile in a london he'd get the time and place usually a forest and then organize the pickup i want to be in a. place to send this bottle of rum look this like yours
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a piece of one of the parachutes at the group in the corner of the materials had great colors. we used to make closed out of that was so confusing to me i was this is part of. your like back that. yes. e r e dance and once i was on the way to school it was a secret school so i was just set up by the underground polish home on me or you eat spacecraft i was crossing the square and suddenly the germans showed up. some of them as a radar they shoved me into a truck and took us to the old school and yes in the course of the street. they were going to deport us to germany as are forced laborers rush hour trips the last ship i cried my eyes and answer yes i was 14 years old and i was being sent to germany. i cried like a baby one of the germans took pity on me he brought me to another room and told me
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to stop crying he said they wouldn't take me away they'd make me a waitress at the gestapo canteen medicaid or the guest that gestapo now you and then. night but then my brother was really going out of the home army. is so mom i have a satellite i kept the abrams has a souvenir they're all faded. a tailor made them for me because you couldn't buy things like that anymore. your captures years of democrats that last forever i've still got a few options. now you don't get that deal to get it if they want to use when you work at the gestapo can take you there live for you is that right you can use that
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if you like the venue kept track of the preservation of their character you have said after the germans arrested someone i tried to find out as much as i could imagine if you joined she was upset. incredible my great aunt was forced to work for the gestapo at the same time she was working for the home army and she was just 14. kristina told l.-i quote she could about the prisoners. he passed along the information in coded messages. plus x. the nice wife or just wife news inskeep henrich. elec also sent his sister on missions through the city carrying messages or weapons. if she'd been caught she could have been executed.
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the duty as i came here to talk to you about this box of photos was only next to the interests of money and i know when a link was in the resistance he lived with a married couple who do agree to hide him. the man called stefano says yes i worked in a photo circle and he took the photos and developed them the whole of all the good . so stuff and ascii work with l. ike in the resistance. 75 years ago this was the largest photo story in chester hope everyone had their photos developed here including the germans. stuff and also he had a man names for their skin made unauthorized copies of their photos and pass them along to hell and. now i'm going to be true terrorist because grandson pavol. i'm with you because you know. i still get just as this photo with a rabbi is from the chester home of ghetto. it's imo not as neat that's
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but this would be thought if this is the school and just of course because it was good you know you are here's a mother on the phone with a good steak in the same place most of these you have this photo to right this was my cousin somebody that's yours and this one's mine he said look there's an x. mark on the back of both. if it looks up front on the same paper they're both a bit overexposed in the below this one's overdeveloped but boy you see my grandfather used to make 2 sometimes 3 copies for the german customer from soft and from the resistance. what is this russian girl thinking.
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and this woman realized what was going on around her. the rabbi looks afraid probably for good reason. this classroom was converted to a jail cell on the wall there's a quote from the florence mine come from. in an age of racial poisoning a state that preserves its best racial elements will one day become master of the world. the box has pictures from all over here. i figured out that this is the school in yasser street police battalion number 310 from iranian born or stationed there but they were not traffic cops they were there to impose german law and order with deadly results. i did
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some research on the way up and then decided to visit the police college or on inboard just north of berlin. feeling make huge as an expert on patel in $310.00 that's not looks like russia. maybe you can tell me more about the photos. here. that's the important it's definitely a police officer you can see the german eagle insignia raised by oak leaves homes. there from other parts of europe. and this is. just this is the big question i have trying to find out. how to survive the war. as a thing to me a fight i mean there are lots of photos of prisoners and detainees and scenes of deportations. so i think the photographer was recording events for posterity as he
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would in fact before it was that would give information to the relatives about the person's fate when he avoided. and then these photos document war crimes and the unbelievable destruction that took place he is that was a grabs they were intended to be used later as evidence and to help bring the perpetrators to justice. but on trying to take these photos. and why he collected them. you know strange and i have no idea of course we are the ones that show the germans deporting people from warsaw are valuable as evidence. or summing up they shipped people off to the camps. and a lot of them never came back. right. now this is.
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german troops both s.s. and very marched down the warsaw uprising in just 63 days. more than 200000 people were killed 100000 were deported for forced labor and 60000 were sent to concentration camps. somewhere in this crowd is my grandmother hanya my mother's mother her brother was killed in august 1044 just after the uprising started in an air raid. in september her husband was shot and killed in october she was deported. after the war she married heloise my grandfather. now i was just
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30 years old when the war ended younger than i am now. there was something else in that box besides the photos i still haven't been able to watch the 2 rolls of 16 millimeter film. i've taken it to a photo lab to see if they can help me. good i wonder what the film will show. to the amateur pictures of german soldiers. scenes from the war. it's mark 1939 which means it was probably developed in that year but it doesn't
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show a war time scenes these pictures may have been taken in the summer of 39 shortly before the war started 4 minutes one second snapshot in time. who are these people why are they smiling and what are these pictures doing intel x. collection. i'll show them to and christina and see whether she knows. that look you know this is from l x 2 rolls of film. you know they do through school i don't recognize any of these people that i don't know who shot this film. and you know how did a film end up in the box. no idea and i'm going to maybe he took them from a german mosher possibly. look at that oh are.
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my antennas lost none of her secret agent skills let's see if we can make out the license plate number. that could tell us who owns the car. my license plate starts with s k s force alasia and k 4 cut off it's a 75 years ago in germany it would have been i cade. the original vehicle registration lists no longer exist but there are copies at the national library in light tick. there are probably thousands of registrations with the sillies or prefix. the number i'm looking for is i k 47860. i found a copy of the list but everything is filed by the registration date.
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finally i find the car was owned by the shredder brothers they lived at brough plots one here's where. the car was an 8 cylinder horse a pretty cool car at the time. today is called yellin your gora i still can't confirm that the photos were actually shot there and i still don't know why i like how this roll of film i need to do some more research. evil operate it she is the director of the national archives here. there's it's up stuff up and that's the old posture asa. it's not far from here it's these days it's called home army street it's. like and you just because i mean obviously on a trip of some sort of. well this is a czechoslovak bunker in the mountains near enough. built to protect against
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a german attack it was 80. the germans annex the sudan inland in 1938 who later took over the rest of the country as those in the bunkers ended up as tourist attractions and he thought it into effect with this and. that's an unusual development but i still want to find out who those people were and what they were doing there. was 80 so that the germans annexed the sudan in the end and turned western czechoslovakia into a protectorate. so those people are visiting the new german territory. are these the shirkers. i want to find out what happened to them after the summer of 1939. people helped me to track down the construction files for bra plots one. and then you thought that here we are. at the moment got a blueprint to sketch for building a toilet. that the sun still will and will divide up thought that's
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a pub that adjoins the city brewery. so what's the bit about a meal that would assume that some of the shirts owned hirshberg. we can't find any more documents he's gotten week after the war a lot of east german territory went to poland including now you lend your gorup with each other. if the shirkers survived the war and wanted to hold on to their brewery they'd have had to become polish citizens spend another year with us i wonder whether either of the brothers applied for citizenship that's why i didn't find an application for them so i looked at some documents filed by others. we read some klara of. here by apply for polish citizenship. and as my last name indicates my ancestors were of slavic origins means that the one is of the plague that escaped and is the best applicant joined the nazi party
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in 1937 he says he signed up only because he had a government job and was never an active member. she adds that he has no polish blood says most of it is about their own live yeah the it's already is gathered information about the applicants by interviewing neighbors who have to go to german and polish this application was rejected. tucson's is not an issue. there are no files on the shorter brothers it seems that they had to leave their property behind probably in 1946. the poles had vivid memories of the atrocities carried out by the germans and they were in no mood to forgive. even still german civilians leaving poland let em back up their things and go back on. it c.q. we put heaters in their trucks and gave them blankets and our food. we've got to do
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it. straight your rig. second i mean i was upset. moment of happened if my grandfather had not been granted citizenship in poland he would have had to leave the country he'd never have met hina the young woman from or saw. and he never would have delivered me. i wonder whether the shirkers have ever come back to visit their birth. today plots one is not one and today 10 families live here instead of just one. committed me to quote i'm trying to find out what happened to the people who lived here in 1945 oh you know idea i've only lived here for 20 years or just you're not going to be. one of the neighbors might know about 3.
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to 5 you recognize anyone. movies but one of them maybe. i mean i don't remember much from that time i hope it's just that the one that it's a whole lotta shorter's and so you know because they spoke german. or you mean so that says it back then when people heard german they thought hitler was just around the corner. you know the doorbell rang an interpreter asked whether i'd mind talking to a couple of germans who used to live here she had with us on the go then i said ok and invited them in so it was a man and his wife so they brought me some trousers i still have them. a pair of black trousers. and that.
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