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in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our team as we recap the stories that shake the moscow polish georgia's arrest of thirteen alleged russian spies a political farce aimed at scoring political points back home to was also met with mistrust of one of russia's top investigative journalists severely beaten in moscow police say oleg kashin professional activity was most likely a motivation for the attack. tour of russia's far east coral islands angered japan which also claimed the territory but moscow. the ownership is beyond dispute and promises to invest in the remote region. and president obama's party suffers a defeat in the u.s. midterm elections but many say it's ordinary americans who lost out as big business has played a big role in deciding the outcome. up next we hear from those who were liberated from nazi death camps by soviet troops in the spring of one nine hundred forty five .

often. it was a spring like many of those 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 cherries and the women seem to enjoy the full. of people young and cheap stopped by made into russian forces such an 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 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 let go just. a 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. some 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. years ago 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 and mountains the soldiers struggle through the snowbound passes on the saffir great in bucharest past the enter trog. 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 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 they had our health sector. excuse me. nothing he read has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in the basic basement the s.s. men like to say the juice in a requiem for themselves. 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 or images paint a vivid picture of life in terror as it. had to be release is where we washed the thought that 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. they are being five over five. that was my transport number. give me a shelf like these were in not that great traction with paint for them in a branch eighty yes we can 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 felons you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff telling you whenever they want to. take your two people slept in the space and terrorising but as many as ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. says terrorism was

a resort 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 live normal lives 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 swallow is 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 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 heading for russia with one. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. it was military chiefs had just

won a touchdown to escape the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cop ac amounting 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 taps 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 soldiers old women were sent 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. result i told you i think that you have you had occasion for the meeting of 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 and chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just they were read out a 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 and 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. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plod cone through tween the crematorium and the hassle. with their service men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and again joyed 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. the editor tells me she's 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 edward 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. 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 edward a german uniform but his happiness with just twelve days when they were then called . edward was hanged in. the 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 are you ok you service has always had a razor in your hands 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. says teaches 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 and terrorism. said sit in the national whole cold terrorising very with three quarters of the bread no one can win it was 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 flies in the concentration camps instead just fleas and bed bugs and even today when martha goes to a restaurant she old has 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's within arm's reach. they are not to lists they are researchers. and field workers on land then. water.

is just a parliament building in. front of them. sixty five years ago. it was the final target on the last major offensive from the red army. its capture became the symbol of the fall of the fascists. and the victory over nazi germany. the follow. on r.g.p. . 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 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 opening minutes in you see i'm incensed about a 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. 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.

forty four red army troops and isaf resistance fighters to the right to belgrade street to street block after block. attack 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. are popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one hundred forty one named queen natalie street 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 russian. troops in a very large pit dug here between. 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 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 the city stone by stone. do. surjit the germans are driving people out of little at 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 burned 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 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 all the 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 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 on the war began much. to shift the way of not probably receptors nobody wants to discuss your morning about what dominik agreement for instance when it was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war. another alternative could be the . national socialist germany 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 germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart in strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroyed 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 prague called on the city's residents to stand up to the hardships of the wars last hours.

of time before to vote was a seventeen year old mess. eastman said we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were wearing armbands with a 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. play with the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal generals will 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 a german troops in what to p.t. 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. 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 or 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 dread army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. the body now. i see you've laid flowers so that is great.

or you or your i first came here a long time ago a young nurses baret here i don't even know your relatives now that she lives here so 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 horse and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived. still get together. it's so nice to see your. form of check and. sometimes. will simply to.

help yourself. please journey. you know these men 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. they show each other newspaper cuttings photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime. looking at pleasure. they were 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. bones 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. the earth of my country and it's stuck to my lips. some. of. their 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 nightingale 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.