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a top russian newspaper must be found and punished as president with a leg nationality kind of that for the next end of his life and his last day. and in person protests is one os as to why police officers that have added been convicted for deaths in custody despite a fatality rate of around one a week among people who got contact with the norton forces. it's never too late that's what a world war two veteran for russia must be thinking also fathering a baby son a day eighty nine out of nice and the desired reason one of the oldest dogs ever to a new born has become a celebrity in his hometown and it is just a few baby steps away when you fly out from his extended for his extended. up next we hear from those who were liberated from nazi death camps by soviet troops

in the spring of nineteen forty five. pissed off. 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. to cherry's and the women seem to enjoy the feel. of the people in

jeeps dumped by nate and a russian if the such an opportunity started a syrian he said you're a life v.a. but there was a dead man decent only before we found hugh jackman ashley in the. east welcome it's liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national ami's with bread and milk flowers and women 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 don't see fit right into the air. welcome to liberate 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 in some still to this day.

the spring of 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 nation mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow bound passes on the saffir great in bucharest past the enter 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 in 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 terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that. at our health sector. he rests the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a basic 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 mother's friend. she slept in the adjacent bed elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden images paint a vivid picture of life in terror as it. had to be release is where we washed the thought at that there was no bathroom just a towel and water 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 b a thug life over five the boy that was my transport number. you dish me shells like these were in another great traction with bait for them when a brittanie yes we can have breath 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 lower bunk all kinds of stuff telling you whenever they want to secure two 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 live normal lives 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 but 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 wildrose has paved the way of hitler's men getting 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 to stimulate 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 suffered arabs 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 so just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the boy. when he was nineteen years old or so he was on nine hundred forty

four as a political 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. look to the black smoke billowing from the crime atory and chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just they were read out a list of people who was a poster 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. 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 three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with s.s. men in this service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and again joined the performance knowing full well that people were being burned 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 that. 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 stories characters personally it would golinski was polish and tom was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old and he was twenty one and. 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 just twelve days when they were then called . edwards was hanged. 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 had 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. well they say they're ok you service has always had a razor in your hand you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat. to that i respond yes i might have. been the result. moira you know 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 a lot educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and most his friends helped by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. say sit in the national hole called terrorising vietnam 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 of 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. abbie please give me that one these are nice as if 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. holidaymakers i wouldn't dare to swim so deep. a tourist would be scared of such cold water. and would never die if nothing within an arm's reach. they are not to lists they are

researchers. and field workers on land then. water. is just a parliament building in. them. sixty five years ago. it was the final target on the last major offensive from the red army. its capture became the symbol on the fall of the fascists. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of. belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was ubisoft is capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing

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 fall 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 great. i don't know why no how do you just know if it ended world war two with a few tanks it had those from france i mean you know this country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. 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. in october one thousand four hundred four red army troops to suffer systems fighters to break to belgrade street after street block after block. of time 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. see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one thousand nine hundred one namely the queen natalie street change 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 a suburb. but people still call it the 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 tanks. with a body of a soviet tanks. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy.

veterans say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. after the 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 restored castles now stand they used to be just broken rocks people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. the germans started driving people thought a little out of the bank of the river once again the city is being systematically

destroyed street after street in a palace after house and the buildings are being blown up and burned all it's a bit plainly the c.d.'s being raised 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 only cool if the entire old castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five could only dream of three men and some small structural elements which 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 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 probably were fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss your morning about my dominican greenman for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war got enough. could be the . national socialist germany swallowed up austria.

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 nervous. 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 surreality. when the un to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined too and 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 shona were 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

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 prague and 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 dred army soldiers who died liberating praga buried.

the body. i see of late flowers 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 ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the us and the remnants of the nazi war machine continued to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived. get together. to see or. form

a check or. sometimes 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 photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime. 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 stuck to fire a german tanks. just to earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some. of. their 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. 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 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 use it.