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so long. as there's a good fortune. goes so many years you spent. summers will be designed to save. others shake your execution there is no longing for justice. those so many years you spent just. memory used to memorize. as well. as country. soon which brightened a few moments from phones to print. these for instance on t.v. don't come.
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hard these top stories russian businessmen victor boot await sentencing for arms trafficking in a new york prison after his extradition from thailand which mosque outside was their legal. america's neoconservative grass sound bush era foreign policy with a massive defense budget and continued military presence of broad after republican gains in the midterm vote. ten euro zone finance ministers brainstorm a banking work after the e.u. president warned the single currency is facing a fight for survival. now every year there are fewer survivors of the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen max world war two veterans share their often painful memories with fosse in hope and hate.
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visits to this house from leo frankl street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marking showed a computer's doorbell is missing in their street by vandals or the tenant so fed up with inquisitive intruders. he 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.
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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. hello me you have missed you doing everything but your problem. my country. you live in peace i don't like coming to some pleasant episode took place i'll try to hotel in santiago chile people at the center. and if you call center which council nazi war criminals something the chief investigator was looking for traces of dr arbor time was on the top ten most wanted list his case is very important
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because he's a. three concentration camps and murdered many inmates in the mauthausen concentration camp in austria and also carried out all sorts of experiments and operations without anesthesia and castrated people did really horrible things. to the frames spends little time in his modest jerusalem office his work takes in many places around the world. famous nazi hunter simon wiesenthal died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is. the work of my life i should say. twenty. twenty four working on the. best occasions. mentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home. has provided conclusive evidence
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linking computer organized. in city of nobody. listened people to be executed and herded them to the local theater where their feet was sealed some would be allowed to live be executed on the banks of the danube we know that. the team that rounded up these people. took them. there is of course a possibility. this is what we're hearing that the men under his command committed murders already at the beginning before the people were actually taken to. today's top nazi hunters are mostly preoccupied with paperwork. collect evidence and legal action against war criminals. when israeli investigators discovered the whereabouts of adolf eichmann the most wanted nazi and israeli intelligence agents decided. it
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all began with a letter an elderly jewish living in argentina wrote to his daughter was dating a young man whose surname was like. this. we did they move name. retired 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 in. 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 each and since south america took pictures of ricardo come in now was eichmanns assumed name in argentina then the pictures
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were compared with older photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and we also check these photos the. facial department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent demand and then they were very meant was i. thought i needed. all of the benefit all the way to november germany april nine hundred forty six the trial of nazi criminals eichmann is not among the accused but the next coming down of house which mentions him. is joined by grrr ribbentrop kato. almost all of the top leaders of the third reich with the exception of hitler josef goebbels and heinrich himmler who committed suicide. last i knew good ideas
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enough to lead is kept on scene they didn't know anything about the concentration camps they said they had never been there they claimed they had not even heard of the shooting is not a. 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. delivered top ranking figures of the third reich are sentenced to death by hanging. some of the footage showing it. he's trying to hide behind their dark glasses was shot here and who can hold one of the most horrific concentration camps know it's a museum and those who survived the horrors of those days often come here. we were brought here and told all of us what now the furious. anyway i don't know if there
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was through the primitive. and they pointed to it. 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. a prisoner was brought. his name was your chick. who was then the 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. to do the father gave the boy some potatoes. she was a very modest. much older so while he was playing we
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did his work for him. despite the fact that. it 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 lucid examples again and again he tells the story of more than a half century of searching for a russian by the name a few of them from the city of dust off the way he tells it it sounds like a parable. i could find. a. chink who lived in russia itself little boy he'd saved had long forgotten. i don't think he remembers me he
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was only seven years old. 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 endeavors the name of. the man who saved him has been put on the righteous among nations list and memorial showed 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 rabbi deliver sermons. by by a twist of fate. god now passes the house of
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a former major in hungary and gendarmerie but she doesn't hate chunder computer. says the matter of fact is simply that. there is any number of people now living in hungary who did. choose during the war but they leave freedom in peace. and prosecutor's office doesn't think it's obvious that shonda computer is guilty of the massacre in the town. we received documents supplied by the serbian site now we need to formulate a chain that might prove. there are options either to fail to formulate a logical chain and the case with a closed. the issue in his apartment shandor computers attorney dr schwartz attorney is again playing the game with the hunger in judiciary in his opinion the situation is reached a stalemate nobody has serious plans to put the old man behind bars but of quitting complera is not in the interest of the hungry and legal system either. turning me
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down gary in the prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put to peter i want trials on the other hand they can't just a quick him because of pressure coming from abroad the serbs and particularly zeros 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 with computers future is far from clear israeli nazi hunters predict the action dharm will soon be put on trial and in prison sort of says shown that is likely to see next christmas behind bars. the question is the same of you i can tell you the other day when most of us were
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telling the fruits of their nature this military alliance is in search of a mission can nato remain relevant facing twenty first. the hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. may eleventh one thousand nine hundred sixty a suburb of buenos aires mossad agents are parked in two cars under a ball the street deciding what to do they're about to capture the most prominent nazi still at large with the first bus that was supposed to bring holocaust master my. ileus ricardo comment clerk came without operation meter ruffy ton has to decide whether to capture should be postponed until another day or the agent should wait for the following bus a ton tells his team to stay in the cars appears thirty minutes later.
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got a bad decision. on. this way and there when was a valid seven needs us from us then. jumped on the docks he was taken to a safe house it will be nine days before an airplane with this really diplomats can secretly take eichmann out of argentina throughout this period rafi ton was questioning the former nazi leader. only asking me in german what was he what was his name and he said. and. was easy name that he used after escaping from the. prison came up in germany a ninety five. and then. know what was your
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s s n. 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 be true thorough and detailed charts showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. at. 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 for several of. the
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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 is life ended in a prison in a suburb of tel aviv. the center of the ghetto 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
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there were very many high. yeah bush. two who 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 haystack was moving. down poked at it with a pitchfork. crawled out to be turned in. the mother. fed him and then he looked to me. in the morning. during the occupation the jewish
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cemetery and several times bigger students from a local school are now taking care of the graves former school principal galina to puton 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 doug you know that he sure knew when they were shooting innocent people on the square. side grabbed a small john out. and smashed he parents against a telegraph here i can not being convinced speak of this. with them two hundred jews managed to escape from dog enough walk fifteen hundred kilometers through german occupied territory and make it to the soviet front line. oh. that was that earlier this is they own rubin speaking from israel or you know never there were now i am still happy to hear you. know. somebody crassness you.
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here's national talk to the mayor of the town of actor samuel storage they say they will do come after the jewish cemetery that we should. have been 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 hundred survivors had joined many of them were women and children. of two sons or denies a big march of their citizens over their territory. through their german russian lines to safety into into
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territory. later the jews nicknamed part of cynical like you c.e.o. who was put in charge of the march the moses of dog and. 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 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
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decided not to pursue the group the participants of the march were very much afraid of being discovered. sure 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. reportage to key serial and he said love came and took her own on her own his hands and quiet. became quiet.
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in the early winter when the march was almost over and the group was about to cross the front line the soviet military arrested accused of no friend 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 a dish this is my younger brother this is mom and this is dad chunder computer keeps old pictures in the most prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old chandimal the search for perry to celebrate christmas of one nine hundred forty two with his family play and then meaninglessness ladyship there it was very nice then fan made it easy. notion there computer number three on the list of living nazi criminals celebrates christmas all alone at the end moose
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a new cemetery larry me 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 doris keep saying the same thing again and again. they can add. that i've never killed anybody i've never even used my gun as that. oh then i was walking down the street cos the rixos hotel there that i heard somebody crying she's jealous. of the hotel and sold the ennis and his family with all their belongings school ready hacked back on a bottle. she. was telling him they should go to the bank. or i yelled at him and told him that they were not on the list and that they were not going
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anywhere. that's what i told you. that even though there are no icons or crucifixes in the former's on d'armes house computer claims he's a very devout christian. his speaks about the girl 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 other jews in novi sad was brought to the bank of the danube it was freezing. and life. is out there and you think. it was very heavy so it was my father i
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jumped on him i wanted to help him and since i haven't billion. 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 they would. save their calling please sever the shiny shiny. that the way shortening the names. lydia sees what a pitiful condition china computer is in but she's not willing to forgive him. he's still clever. trials of war criminals have attracted
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a lot of public attention in recent years the case of john demjanjuk is one of the highest profile trials to mean you're 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 sure grubber 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 they're asking for the maximum term without regard for the age of the defendants. leon rubin one of the surviving dogging of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a creator which. you know he no.
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this is then i'll leave the righteous it commemorates the names of people who risked their lives during the holocaust to save jews it has the name a few of them a fellow 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 courtesan was listing one of the righteous among nations. that is deserved that it made it sound. places that are close to home tonight. i mean a lot. crime and make it all.
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