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this is just the parliament building in derby and. put them up sixty some years ago it was the final target of the last major offensive for the army. its country became the symbol of the fall of the sunshine citadel. victory over nazi germany. the following. clear. cut again this is

a lie from moscow the headline. that is responsible for the savage beating of a top russian newspaper journalist wasn't found and punished that's president medvedev with a leg in a coma following an attempt on his life when. the finger in britain protests as well and also as to why no police offices have added been convicted for deaths in custody despite a fatality rate of around one a week long people. with the law enforcers. and it's never too late that's what a world war two veteran from russia or most of the thinking after the fall of a baby son that day eighteen in a mason azhar who's one of the oldest does have a new born and has become a celebrity in his hometown and is just a few baby steps away from a new client of his extended family. of next we'll hear from those who were liberal liberated from the nazi death camps by soviet troops in the spring of nineteen forty five states.

comes. in the spring like many others 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 cherries and the women seem to enjoy the feel. of the people in

jeeps don't buy it and a russian if 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 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 was so happy when she finally like oh just a different. 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 here 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 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 in their fate more often than not 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. he read the law to bright the case and also the requiem with us in the case basement 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 monsters friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images paint a vivid picture of life in terrorism. at the b.b. and this is where we washed the thought that there was no bathroom just a toy and water 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 a r b a five o five. that was my transport number. you dish me shells 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 feller's 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 terrorism 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 beaten getting gas chambers german children little guides 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. 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 roses 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 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 their mouth just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was he was so he was here in one thousand four hundred for 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. look to the black smoke billowing from the crime atory imp's chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term the axons just going to 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. 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 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 through tween the crematorium and they. were the s.s. men in this service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoy to perform and knowing full well that people were being burned in a crime a tory and. 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 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 knew the stories characters personally it would 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 edward 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 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 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 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 brett 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 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 her fear of hunger. but she certainly

still has a sweet tooth. abbie 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 the gnome 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 not within an arm's reach. they are not to lists they are researchers. and few wars on land then. water.

is just a parliament building in. front of them. sixty five years ago. it was the final target 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 you the sufi'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 military museum in central great. i don't know why i know how you just elvia ended world war two with a 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 in the girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they sold 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. in october one thousand four hundred four red army troops and the slavs resistance fighters to the right to belgrade street to 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 as they walked 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. know 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

before it is 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. 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 restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone. deserted i. the germans are 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 house after house buildings are being blown up and burnt 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 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 all compiled longer than others in 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 we're not proud there are fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss 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 old sir. could be the . national socialist germany that 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 distilled the traces of the angelus welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltzes in the town squares. to 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 three living. when you know you went to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined. and there were many dead and wounded people that we had. they were the final casualties of the war's 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. 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 marcus 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 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 baret here i don't even know your relatives not that she lies here she was simply what a. and how great and if 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. the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. with her it's so nice to see your. former check and just meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to. underachieve help yourself in the

tolly 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 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 their in their prime wearing them in a tree. well well no dear looking at here is a sheer pleasure. they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail it's as though it was yesterday. 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 takes. just the earth of my country and it's stuck to my lips. some a tumultuous to wed. take pride in wearing them they're always happy to. have them. the veterans insists that the young must learn about that. war is all this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity to middle ward by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed victorious shots of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about

those who couldn't hear the nightingale singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line it's full on the tanks. 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. wealthy british scientists i told some. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports.