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a moscow journalist known for his criticism of a costly road construction project has been brutally beaten in the center of the city and attempted murder case has been opened and will be overseen by russia's prosecutor general. police brutality draws anger in london a person dies in british custody each week yet not a single officer has ever been convicted of murder or manslaughter. torture tog the u.s. gets a grilling at the u.n. human rights council for the first time washington was challenged to close guantanamo bay prison and conduct inquiries into allegations of abuse by u.s. troops. coming up next is our special report focusing on the historic events of spring of nine hundred forty five with first hand accounts of prisoners liberated from nazi death camps in europe by soviet troops. picasso's mother.

pick. in the spring like many others in europe looks cherries and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently than one thousand to the cherries and the women seem to enjoy the feel. of the people in jeeps don't buy made into russian officer chain opportunity he started a syrian he said you're a life v.a. but there was a dead nandi said only later before we found you next menashe the body. blow

committed separates us 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 let go just. everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns you fit right into the air. until welcome liberates us millions of civilians died in concentration camps and occupied. some 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 saw 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 a few mountains the soldiers struggled through the snow bound 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 tatters in 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 on their fate. people were sent to auschwitz to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that they had our health sector. excuse me.

nothing here has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in the face basement if the s.s. 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. 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 they began this is where we washed the thought that there was no bathroom just a toy and water the only cold water and even that it 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 thug life over five the boy that was my transport number. you dish me shells like these were another great traction with paint for them when a brittanie yes we can breath for them we put things under the mattress face if we needed to sniff them out there was no iron that that don't bonk was the best place to sleep true most of the bucks for them but at least nothing felons you while you were asleep but on the level of bunk all kinds of stuff delany you whenever the want to secure two people slept in the space and terrorising but as may as ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. mother says taro's in was a result compared to auschwitz. 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 girl guides going to school learning to draw can't sing the songs they sang were not charmed laughter. a show of pneumonia a mother sees 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 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 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 was military chiefs had just won a touchdown teams to the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cop a few mountains 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 did it history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very modest soldiers older women were said to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was nineteen years old or so he was sent here in one thousand four hundred four as a ball the prison i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet the president will step aside 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 term. just they were read out the list of people who are 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. 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. and.

from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plod cone through tween the crematorium and the. men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and again joined the performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a crime a tory a myth. 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 added that. the editor tells me she has done it on purpose in order to attract more attention here you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground on the. news if new the stories

characters personally edward golinski was polish and millions in the town 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 of the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given it would a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. a couple of you hear edwards was hanged in. 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 rudolph 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. 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. says teachers helped

educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and his 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 a national whole cold terrorising very with three quarters of a brett no one can win just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild it's war. 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 flies 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 a fear of hunger. but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abbie please give me that. these are nice ass if i know for

sure i'll take these two and just one last day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrace in unknown to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. the close up team has beams of. 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 ideas come to the tom screech crusher close up. they faced it this is not

a provocation but warning that. the forces at the shelters just everybody is sure to suppress the trieste because they have no idea about the hardships to face. one it is this is it is all too nice and for any army the life of the usaf is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. victory nineteen forty five dot dot com. belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was you the salvias 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 them in a trip you see i'm incensed about a great. book i don't know why i know how you just elvia entered world war two with the few tanks it had bought from france when us country was modernizing its weaponry 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. they saw the enormous monsters of tanks 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 resistance fighters liberated belgrade street to street. return to freedom. these veterans strolling through belgrade doctors recommend. that 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. changed. 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

a suburb. but people still call it street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear a total eight thousand russians died in serbia. all the. 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. with a body of a soviet tank. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy. force .

veteran say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. after the war the serbian capital was rebuilt like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. the polish capital was 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 squares and restored castles now stand they used to be just broken rocks people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. if. he's deserted the germans are driving. bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street after house

buildings are being blown up and burnt all. the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. inventories of old buildings that had survived and blew them up in accordance with it's clear. they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority. prepared a special register just for this purpose. the entire all castle was in ruins. that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left of it and that. also is liberation 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 all cuba had longer than others. 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 it had not brother i felt sure is nobody wants to discuss your morning about the munich agreement for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war god another alternative date could be the and slows when national socialist germany not swallowed up austria update.

on march the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna but the and 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 germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroyed traces of the anschluss welcome to solve it liberating troops and dump. 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. was a seventeen year old. instrument 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. and there were many dead and wounded people that we have. they were the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general who gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance gena knew that the red army was approaching and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops.

and there were german troops in what to pete had to be three hospital trains. they were right here. they were mocked as hospital trains but in fact they were not but are 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 give us 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.

in. i.c.u. late this green. well. 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 there she was somewhat a flower in her grave and leaf she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from how. many of those who lie 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 wars and the remnants of the nazi war machine continued to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's so nice to see you all. so much and can solve it so i'm just me time sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to

tour. i'm going to shut down are you going to help yourself on the telly please join in. where you know these men are let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. neither do i you can see i've only got one on. they show each other newspaper cuttings photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves. in these photos they're in their prime. looking at pleasure it is of the. days of the victory day in such painstaking detail it's the. day.

we were given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk. they're so fresh you could squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. but we stuck to fire a german tanks. just to earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some. of. them there always happy to. each of them. the veterans insists that the young. this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity. peoples army. veterans tell young people the stories of those who missed victorious. liberating cities and countries from fascism

those who couldn't hear them. in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't walk. the tanks. and soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to those they did to see the piece of their memory lives on in.