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says all see coming to light for most of the headlines. who calls the latest spy scandal in georgia a political farce saying thirteen people accused of secretly working for the innocent victims of a stunned by president saakashvili attention seeking before a nato summit. romp and overseen iraq forces locals to take desperate measures to make a living some have resorted to smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran and risking death across the border in a country where booze is tricky for the dead. and the british high court has claims of systematic torture by the british soldiers from lu is representing over two hundred wrong pleased that seeking to revise the defense secretary's decision to refuse a public inquiry into mass abuse allegations in a wrong between two thousand and three and to france and today. as the headlines up next sixty five years since the end of second war or the second world war we hear from those who managed to survive the death counts how special report is up next.

often. pick. in the spring like many others in europe looks cherries 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 and the women seemed even to the full. of people young and

cheap stopped by the maid and a russian officer came to the tonight she started hastily and she said to your ally v.a. but there was a dead man decent only before we found you and the national party the stimulus welcomed its liberators 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 thought i wouldn't die i was so happy when she finally like oh just. everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns you fit right into the air. welcome to liberate us millions of civilians died in concentration camps and. millions of soldiers had 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 there's 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 here mountains the soldiers struggle through the snowbound passes beyond the saffir great in bucharest budapest vienna and prague still occupied 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 tatters in it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp monza was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to see in their fate more often than not people were sent to auschwitz

to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that be at our health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and the s.s. men like to say the jews seen a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters and. these drawings belong to martyrs friend. she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images paint a vivid picture of life in terrorism. that the leases where we washed . there was no bathroom just a towel and. 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 r five zero five. that was my transport. you dish me else like these were in another great traction with paint for them in a brand teddy yes we can have bread for them we put things under the mattress face if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top box was the best place to sleep true most of the bucks for them but at least nothing phelan's you while you were asleep but on the level of bunk all kinds of stuff telling you whenever they want to secure to people slept in the space and terrorising but as many as ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. 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 cans and sing the songs they sang were not charmed last. show of pneumonia mother this is a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to. 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 feel 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 is military chiefs had just won

a touchdown teams to the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cop a semantic games to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to be released from its nazi nightmare. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered perhaps the hardest it's history men were executed all set down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very modest so 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. prison 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 tell you smirch in ski slope to the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory and chimneys it hailed the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just they read 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 good to use toys was 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 three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with their service men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed the performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a crime a tory i'm in. some might find it all the 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 that. meanwhile 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 edward golinski was polish and millions in the town was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old the names twenty one. the fact they found love of 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. up or be here edward was hanged in big canal. if he also wanted to hang. but she didn't let them. she cut her veins 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 hand you might have taken him by the head and cut his throat. to that i respond yes i might 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 three quarters of the bread no one can win just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children have vowed to wear 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. abby please give me that. these are nice sassy i know for sure i'll take these two and just one. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in an on to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. a moment when the world changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded.

hurting and noone to suffer to the end of the land. it was the first but probably not the last unitarianism this weapon. commonly morning will be come. children common get on in the future. though great in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been fiercely resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from the inside. the germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshall tito who fought back bitterly despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the

resistance movement struggle is found in the open and in a tribute c i'm incensed about great. but i don't know why i know how you got lucky if you just elvia entered world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france when your best country was modernizing its weaponry at the time and always your. 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. in october one thousand four hundred four red army troops and the slavs resistance fighters to the right to belgrade street off the street. at times to freedom.

these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the health but they enjoyed it because it makes them feel through the streets where they used to fight the germans. rubio honest see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one thousand nine hundred. namely the queen natalie street they should have changed the name. right they 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 that was two days 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 convoy. of . 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 restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. do. deserted the germans are driving people out of it all the bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and house after house is that my buildings are being blown up and burned out all its ability plainly the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived air raids and blew them up in accordance with its 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 old 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 keyboard longer than others here the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians on the war began much. to shift the we're not proud there are fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss with your morning about dominica green meant for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war god. another alternative could be the. national socialist germany swallowed up austria. almost the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight triumphantly entered vienna but the un truce 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 square as. 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. system and said 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 un to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined too. there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. they were the final casualties of the war's last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general were 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 german troops in what to peter 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 who were. 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 bruises times fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dred 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 so i simply put a flower on 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 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 checker. sometimes. will simply to. help yourself. please journey. where you know these men are let 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 photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime wearing them. looking at pleasure. they were. 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 can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape

that's what i call a feast. we stopped a fire a german takes. earth 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 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 using. it.