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you're with r.t. coming to live from moscow here's a quick look at the top stories u.s. prosecutors are said deciding the fate of a russian businessman big board who faces charges of supplying weapons of to terrorists russia says bullets extradition from thailand was illegal and fighting the last for his rights. a massive defense budget a world with nuclear weapons and seeing threads all around her and she is back on the agenda after the republican success in the midterm elections you conservatives have met in washington to lead the old rhetoric of the bush administration. and
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dragging an island behind the european union warns of economic collapse or violent and the whole we don't face up to it cannot make storm some analysts say dublin is now dipping into the pockets of very organizations which caused the trouble in first place. but we have more on the stories about thirty minutes tie up next is our special report on the veterans of the second world war the tries to find out why for some it's a period of pride while for others a painful memory they'd like to raise. visits to this house from leo frankl street in central budapest are by special
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invitation only even the sign marking trying to get his doorbell is missing in their strip by vandals or the tenants so fed up with inquisitive intruders. needs help from his friends to do it household chores and next officer in high gear in john di maria he's lived here under virtual siege for nearly three years he stayed largely indoors since his name was put on the list of the most wanted nazi criminals. the most devastating war in the history of mankind came to an end sixty five years ago every passing year see shrinking numbers of those who fought in the war now well into their eighty's it's hard to tell from their looks which side they were on back then once a year some of them proudly wear their medals but others would rather race those years from their memory.
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leaving our country. doing everything but your problem. my country. preciosa coming close an episode took place outside a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and if. which council nazi war criminals then chief investigator was looking for traces of dr r. hi i was on the top ten most wanted list. his case is very important because he's. served in three concentration camps and murdered many inmates in the mauthausen concentration camp in austria who also carried out all sorts of experiments and operations without anesthesia and castrated people did really horrible things. to. spend little time in this modest jerusalem office his work takes in many places
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around the world. died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is the result of the work of my life i should say. twenty what is it twenty four years working in the. investigations elderly hungary and mentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home. is providing conclusive evidence linking computer organized. city of nobody. listened people to be executed and her. feet were sealed some would be allowed to live while others would be executed on the banks of the danube we know that. the team that rounded up these people. took them to. there is of course a possibility. this is what we're hearing that the men under his command committed
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murders already at the beginning before the people were actually taken to. today's top nazi hunters are mostly preoccupied with people who. are tribes collect evidence and keep legal action against war criminals but in one thousand and fifty eight when israeli investigators discovered the whereabouts of adolf eichmann the. israeli intelligence agents decided. it all began with a letter. an elderly jew living in argentina wrote that his daughter was dating a young man whose surname was eichmann. and his daughter stabbed the indian boy in the sadness to get their weed. bowie weed then they moved san name. rosie time and now retired who lives in
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a spacious house he used to be an israeli government minister and a member of the israeli parliament almost all of these perks came his way thanks the operation he led to seize adolf eichmann interleaved six hundred sixty at the time it was very important from a saudi agents to determine whether the men who organized the conveyor belt extermination of jews during the war was living in a small house and when osiris summer and even sent to south america took pictures of ricardo now was eichmanns assumed name in argentina then the pictures were compared with older photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and take these photos the. facial department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent men and then the name of the meant was i just thought i needed to.
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find all of the. nuremberg germany april nine hundred forty six the trial of nazi criminals eichmann is not among excused but the it's coming down of house which mentions him. as showing by grrr ribbentrop. almost all of the top leaders of the third reich with the exception of hitler josef goebbels and heinrich himmler committed suicide. love there though i need to leave this camp time same they didn't know anything about the concentration camps they said they had never been there they claim to have not even heard of their training if. this is one of the tensest moments of the trial the accused are shown a documentary about nazi atrocities in occupied territories in concentration camps most of the accused put on dark glasses their fate is now sealed.
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top ranking figures of the third reich are sentenced to death by hanging. some of the footage showing the nazis trying to hide behind their dark glasses was shot here and who controlled one of the most horrific concentration camps no which museum and those who survived the horrors of those days often come here. but we were brought here and told all of us what now the fear is slate. the only way out of there was through the criminal tory chimney and they pointed to it good at this let it that it is going. through the really friendly chain could tell us a story when he was brought to be controlled he was only seventeen years old but he was far from the youngest inhabitant of his barracks. youngest prisoner was brought to go his name was your chick. your chip. was then the
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six year old son of a polish rabbi if left without help in the concentration camp he was unlikely to survive for more than a few weeks children fellow inmates decided to save the boy. looked up to him she did all the work that was meant. i know that father gave the boy some potatoes so he had them to find. this ability to notice she was a fairy move just. so that when you were much older. so while he was playing we did his work for him. despite the fact that. was an activist organizing former inmates of concentration camps he had no idea what happened to the little jewish boy after they were separated in the liberation of involved he became the chief rabbi of israel. scores of worshippers come to a small synagogue to listen to his sermon they like rabbi lao for his eloquence and
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lucid examples and again he tells the story of more than a half century of searching for a russian by the name of the from the city of dust off the way he tells it it sounds like a parable. lived in russia itself a little boy he'd saved had long forgotten. that the feast of i don't think he remembers me only seven years old then. existence to feel. the recording where fyodor recalls the jewish boy he saved was made in one thousand nine hundred two just a year later he died of cancer but two years later rabbi lao did find the address of his surviving daughters to the rabbi allows endeavour's the name of. the man who
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saved him has been put on the righteous among nations list in yad vashem memorial show that of rest of is now one of the heroes revered in israel for their part in saving jews during the holocaust. this small synagogue in central budapest is not much different from the one with. his sermons. by by a twist of fate. god now passes the house of a former maid. the hunger and gendarmerie but she doesn't hate shandor computer. says matter of fact is simply the teapot of the iceberg there is any number of people now living in hungary who deported to no jews during the war but they leave in freedom and peace the hungry and prosecutor's office doesn't think it's obvious that shonda computer is guilty of the massacre in the town of novi sad. i mean even
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if we receive documents supplied by the serbian site now we need to formulate a logical chain that might prove shandor could be a risk irritant or there are two options either will fail to formulate a logical chain and the case with a closed oh she will be put on trial. in his apartment shanda computers attorney dr schwartz attorney is again playing the game with the here in judiciary in his opinion the situation has reached a stalemate nobody has serious plans to put the old man behind bars but of quitting capirossi not in the interest of the hunger in legal system either. garion prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put appear on trial on the other hand they can't just a quick him because of pressure coming from abroad particularly zero so they're just playing for time simply waiting for capirossi day. meanwhile shandor computers set to mark his ninety six birthday death is not on his mind despite his failing health he says a clear conscience is the recipe for his longevity but computers future is far from
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clear israeli nazi hunters predict the action dharm will soon be put on trial and in prison. says sean that is likely to see next christmas behind bars. for sure is the same of i can. tell the difference in their need to this military alliance is in search of a mission can nato remain relevant facing twenty first. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. may eleventh nine hundred sixty a suburb of boston a service mossad agents are parked in two cars on garbled the street deciding what to do they're about to capture the most prominent nazi still at large but the first
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bus that was supposed to bring holocaust mastermind adolf eichmann alias ricardo comment clerk came without him operation meter ruffy ton has to decide whether to capture should be postponed into another day or the agent should wait for the following bus a ton tells his team to stay the course appears thirty minutes later. got a bad history. and when was a valid seven a plea to us from us then. jumped on him the sea was taken to a safe else it will be nine days before an airplane with israeli diplomats could secretly take eichmann out of argentina throughout this period rafi ton was questioning the former nazi leader. only asking in german what was he
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what was his name and he said hani go and. was easy named. after escaping from the. prison came in germany a ninety four to five and then. know what was s s and. and then he say. and then. finally the man who organized the mass extermination of people during the second world war face trial in israel. bateman eagerly cooperated with israeli prosecutors and gave a detailed account of the past the true throwing detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. for get
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it the first moment of the trial. came into the courtroom the symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy. and he stood up to attention before a. court of the state. the importance. of the creation of. security was exceptionally tight throughout the eichmann trial the defendant was protected by bulletproof glass there were serious concerns that some of the holocaust victims or their relatives might attempt to kill eichmann eventually the court gave the verdict as expected adolf eichmann received a death penalty for crimes against humanity his life ended in a prison in a suburb of tel aviv.
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the center of the gator that ran along that street. there was no road on the side of the street so the only road people used was here there was only one road and there were very many high. yeah. it was just eleven in one thousand nine hundred three he remembers clearly how germans came to the once rich town of dog enough there were five thousand jews living here at the time he set out to exterminate them straight away they set up a ghetto in a central part of town and put up barbed wire around it they made a plan dividing the process into three stages throughout their stay in dog enough germans were killing jews wherever they found them. my father went to get some hay and noticed the hay stack was moving. down poked at it with
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a pitchfork. doubt to be turned in. when we fed him and then he looked to me. in the morning. during the occupation the jewish cemetery and several times bigger students from a local school are now taking care of the graves former school principal galina to putin a doesn't remember that time she was born afterward in a different town by the time the germans left there were no jews left and enough. sure when they were she would soon be innocent people on the square. that side grabbed a small john out. and smashed he said parents against a telegraph here i cannot think and speak of these. two hundred jews managed to escape from dog enough walk fifteen hundred kilometers
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through german occupied territory and make it to the soviet front line. oh look how that was that this is lay on rubin speaking from israel or you are never again they are now hi i'm so happy to hear you know. somebody crassness you. here's nash i talked to the mayor of the town of actors daniel sturridge to say they will look after the jewish cemetery that we share. and was barely seven at the time when germans were shooting jews he and his family spent three days heidi across space under the floor. of residents realized clearly that germans would not stop until all the jews were exterminated despite the barbed wire around the ghetto some jews did manage to escape from dog enough they hid in the woods with the participants. and by august one nine hundred forty two two
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hundred survivors had joined many of them were women and children. of his own sort of denies a big march of their citizens over their territory. through the german russian alliance to safety into into territory. later the jews nicknamed part of cynical like you c.e.o. who was put in charge of the march the moses of. he was the commander i think he had was a fifteen or sixteen part years and this was was weapons and the rest of us where at two hundred seventy two hundred seventy people as children. who started this beak unprecedented and
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unique march. we've covered about thousand five hundred kilometers despite all the precautions on several occasions germans almost discovered them one time to see nearly ran into a nazi patrol the germans opened fire and several people were killed but the nazis decided not to pursue the group the participants of the march were very much afraid of being discovered. one people gold should be most probably about two years old or three years old. and she hears to cry and at night they're crying was a very dangerous thing because we could have been discovered by the enemy so that people start or forcing their parents of this girl to drown her to kill her it was. reported to key serial
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and she said of came and took her own on her own his hands and quiet. became quiet. in early winter when the march was almost over and the group was about to cross the front line the soviet military arrested q seven o five and other participants they suspected them of being german spies no gain of smoothness could easily have been executed and only the testimony of the jews he saved convinced the red army of his innocence phoning the unprecedented march to make a like you see oh it was again put in charge of the partisan group he led until nine hundred forty four as he does eventually this is me the issue is my younger brother this is mom and this is dad shandor computer keeps old pictures in the most
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prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old chandimal to search preparing to celebrate christmas of one nine hundred forty two with his family play and they leave us with ladyship that it was very nice day and then made it easy. on their computer number three on the list of living nazi criminals celebrates christmas all alone at the end moose a moose i'm very lonely you know it's not so easy to find a wife leah ninety five. computer is still there pill cases all over his coffee table he has no energy left for his favorite pastime of cooking. the former major of hearing john barnes keeps saying the same thing again and again. they can add. that i've never killed anybody i've never even used my gun. before that. oh then i was walking down the street cos the rixos hotel and
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i heard somebody crying she still made it to her tone and soul to end it as his family with all their belongings school ready hacked back on a bottle. she. was telling him they should go to the bank of the danube or yelled at him and told him that they were not on the list and that they were not going anywhere. that's what i told you. that even though there are no icons or crucifixes in the former's and arms house computer claims he's a very devout christian. his speaks about the good what this a leader brenner who lives in a small israeli town doesn't need translation she's still fluent in hungary and but she doesn't believe a single word of what she and the computer has to say. she remembers perfectly well the frosty day in january nine hundred forty two when she along with three thousand
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other jews in novi sad was brought to the bank of the danube it was pleasing. and. of course without the head and. is out there and you think. it was a very heavy sell it was my father i jumped on him i wanted to help him and since i. took. the photo and. he told me go away and put it on my head the jews were ordered to form a line for people wide they were shot near the river and many bodies were thrown down into the danube lee remembers clearly whose name gendarmes repeated during the executions i prayed that the. savior calling please sever the
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shiny shiny. that is the way shortening of the names. lydia sees what a pitiful condition shallow computer but she's not willing to forgive him. he's still clever. trials of war criminals have attracted a lot of public attention in recent years the case of john demjanjuk is one of the highest profile trials jr served as a warden in several concentration camps according to the prosecution he was an accessory to the murder of nearly thirty thousand jews. another sensational case is the trial of joseph grabber a very marked officer who spend the rest of his life in prison a court of law is established that he's guilty of murdering fourteen italian civilians in one thousand nine hundred four. these are so-called last chance trials many of the war criminals are already dead so as prosecutors review each case
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they're asking for the maximum term without regard for the age of the defendants. beyond rubin one of the surviving dogging of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a creative each. and rock oh. no he no. this is that i leave the righteous it commemorates the names of people who risked their lives during the holocaust to save jews it has the name of funeral mccullough chink who saved tel aviv's chief rabbi next to it there's the name of nigga like he said yo it was leon rubin who made sure the russian partisan was listed one of the righteous among nations. that is deserve that it made
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