would be useless without this mineral. tiny. piece of. life. the admiral most human a passenger liner sailing in the black sea. august thirty first nineteen eighty six. twenty three twenty. four kilometers off shore. crashes into another vessel. four hundred twenty three people die. russian titanic. they feasted this is not a prohibition but warned of. the forces that we should see

everybody assured us a pretty tree they have no idea about the hardships that we face. plate one it's this is. too nice and for in the army the life of abuse is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war. victory nineteen forty five gold on t.v. dot com. it's one thirty am in the russian capital good to be with you here on our team you

see your headlines those behind the attempted murder of a newspaper journalist must be found and punished says president medvedev after one of russia's top investigative reporters all a caution was savagely beaten near his home and remains in a coma. in britain demonstrators have been demanding convictions for police officers responsible for fatalities. in custody with none so far ever found guilty of killing despite a death rate of one a week. and it's never too late that's what a russian man must be thinking after fathering a son at the age of eighty nine in our mice and is our own from southern russia is one of the oldest dads ever to a newborn but he's inexperienced and it parenthood already having a father to other son at age seventy two. up next we hear from those who were liberated from nazi death camps by soviet troops in the spring of one thousand nine hundred five stay with us.

pissed off the. pitch. it was a spring like many of those 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. cherries and the women seem to enjoy the full. of people in sheeps don't buy it and a russian officer came to the tonight he started a syrian he said to your ally v.a.

but they would dead nandi said only later before we found you next menashe the body used to the plough commits liberates 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 like go just. everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns you fit right into the air. welcome liberates us millions of civilians died in concentration camps and occupied. some soldiers that missed their victory day but those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realized 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 company to mountains the soldiers struggle 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 tent as if it was 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. people were sent to auschwitz to face execution meanwhile television children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying.

that. at our health sector. excuse me. nothing he read the law to bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and 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 of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden their images paint a vivid picture of life in terrorism. that they began this is where we washed up that there was no bathroom just a towel 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. they are five o five. that was my transport number. give me shells like these were another great traction with paint for them in a bread teddy yes we can have bread for them we put things under the mattress 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 phelan's you while you were asleep but on the lowest 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. mothers says taro's in was a result 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 herded in gas chambers german children little girl guides going to school learning to draw can't 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 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 somebody troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan southern baptists the hardest hit history men were executed all set down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very modest just old women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was. he was sent here in one thousand four hundred four as a. prison i told you i think if 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. look to the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory imp's chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just they were it out the list of people who was 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. and. from my blog i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with s.s. men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and the danger would be performance knowing full well that people were being burned. 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 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. penus 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 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 it would a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. a couple of you hear edward was hanged in big. she 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 to. 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. teachers help to

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 three quarters of the bread no one can win just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild. terrorism surviving children of 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 her fear of hunger. and she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abbie please give me that. these are nice and i think i know for

sure i'll take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in the known to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. moment when the world changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded.

hurt her hand noone to suffer to the end. it was the first but probably not the last unitarianism this weapon. commonly morning will be come. children common get on in the future. belgrade 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 that 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 military museum in central about great. book i don't know why i know how you got lucky if you just elvia ended 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 in the 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 resistance fighters to the right to belgrade street after street block after block. return to freedom.

these veterans strolling through belgrade doctors recommended so that tells them they enjoy it because it makes them feel through the streets where they used to fight the germans. see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one nine hundred forty one namely the queen natalie street they should have changed the name they should. 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 of eight thousand russians died in serbia. all the. tanks

troops were buried in a very large pit dug here between this monument this place. 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. 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 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 best city stone by stone. do. deserted the germans are driving people out over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street in a house after house system of 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 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 if the entire all the castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five can only dream of three and then 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 all cuba had 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 prosperous fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss your morning about dominica greenland 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 not swallowed up austria update. on march the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler 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 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 most. instruments 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 letting. when you die you went 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 war's last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance chynna knew that the red army was approaching and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were 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 and they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prague made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to give. the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dread the soldiers who died liberating prague buried. the body. in. the sea of late is great. i first came here a long time ago a young nurses beret here i don't even know of your relatives now that she lives

here she was simply what a. the great and the she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. many of those who live just long enough to hear the word victory. and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind and the remnants of the nazi war machine continued to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. to her it's so nice to see your. former checker just sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to told. her to shut up yourself in the tolly please journey. 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. neither do i you can see every 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 in a tree. hugger well well no idea looking at here is a sheer pleasure. they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail. yesterday. surely we were given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones there are so fresh you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape

that's what i call a feast. to fire a german tanks to just the earth of my country and it's stuck to my lips although if both. some a tumultuous to wed them medals others take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they end each of them. the veterans insists that the young must learn about that war or is all this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity a medal awarded by the yugoslav 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 gail singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line it's full on the tanks will see 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 in. this. big.