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iraq exposed the lawyers push for a full public inquiry into the alleged torture and murder of civilians by u.k. soldiers. in the seas expected to lift the curtain on twenty alleged russian spies detained in the cold war while the arrests could threaten what's left of relations between the two countries many experts see it as a decoys georgian political infighting. a multi-million dollar contract to supply fuel to an american air base in kyrgyzstan gets the green light regardless i want to go investigation and objections from the curious leader. coming out is our special report focusing on the historic events of spring nine hundred forty five with first hand accounts of prisoners liberated from nazi death camps in europe by saudi troops. picasso's lucky.

pick. it was a spring like many of those in europe looks cherry's and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the continent liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently than one thousand to the cherries on the women seemed even to the full. of people in jeeps don't buy it and the russians have the such an opportunity he started a syrian he said to your ally v.a. but there was a dead man decent only before we found hugh jackman ashley in the party the

stimulus bloke and it's liberated including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national ami's with bread and milk flowers and the woman braces. rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally like go just. everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns you fit right into the air. romantic welcome to liberate us millions of civilians died in concentration camps and occupied. millions of soldiers have missed their victory day but those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realized and some still to this day. the spring of one nine hundred forty four still a year to go before the end of the second world war the red army has freed soviet

territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the county asian mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow down passes on the saffir great in bucharest past vienna and prague. by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tennessee it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp. one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to see in their fate. in the north people were sent to auschwitz to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that. at our health sector.

excuse me. nothing he read the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in the face basement. as his men like to say the juice in a requiem for themselves thank you. this is how the secret music lessons were held in ted as in. these drawings belong to martha's friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden their images paint a vivid picture of life in terror is it. that the baby and this is where we washed the thought at that there was no bathroom just a toy and water the only cold water and even that was spotty the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime the girls worked in the fields in the evening they got together in a small room to read aloud to each other in a camp like this a book was

a prized possession. a a r b a five o five. that was my transport number. you dish me else like these were in another great traction with paint for them in a brand yes we can have bread for them we put things under the mattress ace if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top bunk was the best place to sleep most of the bucks for them but at least nothing fellers you while you were asleep but on the level of bunk all kinds of stuff delany you whenever the want to . take your two people slept in the space and terrorising but as many as ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. mother says taro's in was a resort compared to auschwitz martyr her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of one nine hundred forty four. while czech

polish jewish or gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children little guys going to school learning to draw can't sing the songs they sang were not charmed last. show of pneumonia mother says a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to do is know that it was published in one thousand nine hundred thirty six line of one of the songs goes something like this one we want to march on moscow over we want to be moscow or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks fuel all strength and let the wilder oses pave the way of hitler's men dating for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. it was military chiefs had just won a touchdown teams to the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cup a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania

became the first country to be released from its nazi nightmare. then somebody troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered perhaps the hardest did it history men were executed all set down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for their mouth just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was he was so he was sent here in one thousand four hundred four as a. prisoner i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet the president and. even the best guide in the world would be clueless about conditions here compared to a man who survived the ordeal for two years each day. looked at the black smoke

billowing from the crime atory him chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his turn. just they were it out the list of people who was supposed to go where he went to the gas chambers. there were only thirteen of us left. and the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied the bunk below me. he had been a teacher before. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber. i was fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even human teeth everything was put to use toys were sent to german children german women it was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead.

from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone through tween the crematorium and the. men in the service staff and ok surely the officers' wives in attendance. and again joined the performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a crime a tory i'm in. some might find it odd that polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books at that. me movie the editor tells me she has done it on purpose in order to attract more attention you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground on the. penus if new the stories characters personally it would golinski was polish and millions ima tom was

a jewish woman in the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old and he was twenty one. the fact they found love at the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given atwood a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. at the cup will be here edwards was hanged in big canal. if he also wanted to hang. but she didn't let them. she vanes with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand. when an s.s. man was about to put the noose around her neck she has him. own story is unique he was one of the first to arrive at auschwitz as inmate number

one hundred twenty one and he was lucky enough to leave the camp alive on top of that each day he had to resist an excruciating temptation he was serving as the personal barber of the camp's commander rudolf hess for years people have wanted the answer to just one question. they say ok you service has always had a razor in your hands you might have taken him by the head and cut his throat. to that i respond yes. they have been the result. they would have killed all my family in the camps people. these people survived the concentration camps but they still don't understand how they made it through. teaches help educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and friends helped

by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. they see it in the national whole cold terrorising very with required brett no one can win just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild. terrorism surviving children a vow to wed butterfly pins on their jackets and dresses for as long as they live this is because they never saw butterflies in the concentration camps instead just fleas and bed bugs and even today when martha goes to a restaurant she told us a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abbie please give me that while these are nice i guess if i know for sure i'll take these two and just one more day at.

of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in the known to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. the question is that so much i'm going to get rich of course he's right on it again so here it is after the us elections the start of a brave new revolution or in evitable and destructive gridlock will anything get. me close up team has beans or no growing region where russia's first free elections were held a thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of

the wild growing products. where rich academic life gives birth to innovate of idea welcome to the tomsk region crotchet close up. it was yugoslavia's capital of the country. and its collaborators from. the. divisions to overpower the freedom fighters. who despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open air. in central great.

middle we were. world war two with the few tanks it had bought from. at the time. the locals could see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they saw the enormous monsters of tanks with his numbers and capabilities well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. forty four. troops and isaf resistance fighters to the right to belgrade street to street. to freedom. these veterans strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for their health but

they enjoy it because it makes them feel through the streets where they used to fight the germans. are popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one thousand nine hundred. eight change the name. have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as. people still read the street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear a total eight thousand russian. troops were buried in a very large pit dug here between this monument this place. after the liberation of

belgrade. twenty four tanks went through the streets. of a soviet tanks. there was a band playing at the front of the. veterans say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered. the polish capital to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out

with cruel determination. today it's hard to imagine that here where these beautiful streets and restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt by a city stone by stone. deserted the germans are driving people thought over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and house after house buildings are being blown up and burnt all its ability plainly all the c.d.'s been razed to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of old buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with it's clear cut chad duell they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as

a matter of priority not psy-ops experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is an acquittal of the entire all the castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three and some small structural elements were left open and that. also separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and entered warsaw but unlike elsewhere the local population didn't line the streets to welcome soviet soldiers the polish capital was a deserted city only a day after the german retreat the first refugees began returning to what was left of their capital poland suffered much more than any other european country it was also a key part longer than others here the second world war started when the nazis attacked

on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians onto the war began much. to shift the way of not probably were fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss your morning about the many kid greenman for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war. another alternative could be the. national socialist germany of swallowed up austria. on march the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna but the entrance was not a civilized action it was a powerful military absorption. the war came to an end for many european towns in the spring of one thousand nine hundred five on april the thirteenth the german surrendered in vienna the city of

mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroy the traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltzes in the town squares. the fighting continued in neighboring czechoslovakia all made a face people in prague staged an uprising they flew the national flag from windows and built barricades. radio prog called on the city's residents to stand up to the hardships of the wars last hours. of that time slot a fourth of a was a seventeen year old nervous. system uncertain we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were wearing armbands with the red cross on them three living. when the day you went to collect some metson for

the wounded we found ourselves undefined too that there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. play with the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general shona would gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance chynna knew that the red army was a pro. and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were a german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right here. they were mocked as hospital trains but in fact they were not but are now the germans had weapons with them and. they were not going to surrender even though the war was over. they wanted to get to the americans at any cost

they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered praga made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given. the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dread army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. the body now. i see you've laid flowers so that is great. i first came here a long time ago a young nurse's beret here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lives here i simply put a flower in her grave and leave she was about twenty two years old i think. such

a long way from. many of those who live here live just long enough to hear the word victory their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the blows and the remnants of the nazi war machine continued to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived. still get together. it's so nice to see your. former. sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to. help yourself. please journey. where you know these men lived me give you the medal of czechoslovakia. as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them.

neither do i you can see i've only got one. they show each other newspaper cuttings children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos they're in their prime. looking at pleasure. of the. days of the victory day in such painstaking detail. today. we were given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk. there are so fresh you could squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. we stuck to fire a german takes. just

a birth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some. of. them they're always happy to. each of them. the veterans insists that the young. this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity. do you. people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victorious shot of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the mighty gale singing in the spring of one nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line it's full on the tanks as seen those who kissed the liberating soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to these war heroes they didn't live to see the piece of their memory lives on and as it.

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