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from the streets of canada. today. good to have you with us top stories now this hour russian businessman victim to wait sentencing for trafficking in a new york prison to his extradition from thailand which moscow says was illegal. state hillary clinton is urge the senate to ratify a landmark nuclear deal with russia republicans have dealt a blow to the a bomb administration by storming its progress. and eurozone finance ministers brainstorm a banking recovery after the e.u. president the single currency is facing a fight for survival. about with more developments in half an hour from now the
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mean time every year there are fewer survivors of the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen and next war two veterans share their memories with us it's our special report. visits to this house from leo frankel street in central budapest are by special invitation or even the sign marquee show that a computer store bell is missing in your strip by vandals or the tenant so fed up with inquisitive intruders. you need help from his friends to do it household
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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. leave telling me you're doing everything but your problem. you live in peace i don't like coming this implies an episode took place outside
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a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and interview some call center which hans nazi war criminal. investigator was looking for traces of dr our time 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 spends little time in this modest jerusalem office his work takes in many places around the world with the famous nazi hunter simon wiesenthal died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is the result of my life
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i should say. twenty some was twenty four years working in the. it's because of your friends who are of some best occasions the elderly hungry unmentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home to current head of the center is providing conclusive evidence linking computer organized in the serbian city of nobody. listened people to be executed and herded into the local theater with their feet was 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 sokolski there is of course a possibility. this is what we're hearing that the men under his. committed murders already at the beginning before the people were actually taken to. today's top nazi hunters are mostly preoccupied with paperwork they studied here types collect
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evidence and initiate legal action against war criminals but in one nine hundred fifty eight when israeli investigators discovered the whereabouts of adolf eichmann the most wanted nazi and israeli intelligence agents decided that it all began with the letter an elderly jew living in argentina wrote to his daughter was dating a young man whose surname was like. this who had no. we didn't they move sand name. retired lives in 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 in sixty at the time it was very
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important from a saudi agents to determine whether the man who organized the conveyor belt extermination of jews during the war was living in a small house. and he. took pictures of her. name in argentina the pictures were compared with photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and. these fall to. the. face of the department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent men and then the name of the man was. even. your own. benefit. number germany april nine hundred forty six the trial of nazi criminals eichmann is not among excused but the next coming down of house which mentions him
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. is joined by grrr ribbentrop kato and lay 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 need to what is a naturally discount time seemed 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 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. delivered 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
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here and who controlled one of the most horrific concentration camps no it's a 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's that it's the only way out of there was through the criminal chimney and they pointed to it. at this let it that it is get. through the roof religion 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 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
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she did all the wood that was meant to. know the father gave the boy some potatoes and the definiens got a. disability to get us she wasn't very moved. we were much older so while he was playing we did his work for him. despite the fact if 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 book 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. but they even say. but they did
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this last thing i could find. meanwhile children because the chink lived in russia itself a little boy he'd saved had long forgotten. at the feast and i don't think he remembers me he was only seven years old then ever from. the. existence of he'll. 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 lau's endeavour's the name of freedom of the man who saved him has been put on the righteous among nations list in yad vashem memorial showed that of rest of is now one of the heroes revered in israel for their part in saving jews during the holocaust.
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this small synagogue in central budapest is not much different from the one with rabbi delivers his sermons. lives nearby by a twist of fate a route to dishonor god now passes the house of a former major in the hunger 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 deported jews during the war but they leave in freedom and peace the one carrion 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 gene that might prove. there are two options either to fail to formulate a logical chain and the case with the closed oh she will be put on trial. in his
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apartment shanda computers attorney dr schultz attendee 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 equating complera is not in the interest of the hungry and legal system either. the prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put to peter want trial on the other hand they can't just acquitted him because of pressure coming from abroad us particularly zero so they. just playing for time simply weighty book appear as a day. meanwhile shandor computer is 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. says sean that is likely to see next christmas behind bars.
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cultures the same of you i can tell you the other day most of us were tough to see their need to know this military alliance is in search of a mission can nato remain relevant facing twenty first. may eleventh one thousand nine hundred sixty a suburb of boy in 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 bus that was supposed to bring holocaust mastermind adolf eichmann alias ricardo comment clerk came without him operation me to roughie tun has to decide whether to
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capture should be postponed into another day or the agent should wait for the following bus a time tells his team to stay in the cars i mean appears thirty minutes later. both got a bad decision i find case. and then when roles have vowed to send in a need to us from us then. jumped on the nazi was taken to a safe else it will be nine days before an airplane with this really diplomats can secretly take eichmann out of argentina throughout this period rafi tang was questioning the former nazi leader. germany what was the what was his name and he said. and. was is named. after escaping from the. prison
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came in germany. in one thousand forty five and then. know what was. 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. might mean eagerly cooperated with israeli prosecutors and gave a detailed account of the past be true throwing detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. for get it the first moment of the trial. came into the courtroom
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the symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy people and he stood up to attention before the. 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 d'accord 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.
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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 they were very. many houses here. too who was just eleven in one thousand nine hundred three he remembers clearly how the germans came to the once rich town of dug enough for 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. doubt to be turned in. and then he looked to me.
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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 gallina 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. for the sure when they were shooting people on the square. grabbed a small john out. and smashed he said parents against a telegraph here i cannot. speak of these. 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.
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that was that this is they own rubin speaking from israel or you are never their own now i am still had to do you. know. somebody that. that's you know cash off his national talk to the mayor of the town of actors daniel sturridge to say they will look after the jewish cemetery that we should. move in with 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 disappoint 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 nine hundred forty two two hundred survivors had joined many of them were women and children. of two sons
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or denies a big march of their citizens over their territory. through their german russian lines 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 say 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
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discovered them one time to see oh screw purely 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. underneath will grow old most probably about two years old or three years old. and she used to cry and at night the 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 and he sort of came and took her own on her own his hands and
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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 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 make a like you see oh it was again put in charge of the partisan group he led into nine hundred forty four as he does eventually this is me this is my younger brother this is mom and this is dad shandor computer keeps old pictures in the most prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old chandimal to search for perry to celebrate christmas of one nine hundred forty two with his family play and then leave us with
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a mission it was very nice then then made it easy. notion there computer number three on the list of living nazi criminals celebrates christmas all alone at the end moose a moose i'm very learning you know it's not so easy to find a wife when you're 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 this that and i heard somebody crying is jealous. of their tone and soul the onion and his family with all their belongings school ready hacked bag on
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a bottle. she. was telling him they should go to the bank of the danube or i 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 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 pleasing. and. of course without the head and.
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without the think. it was a very heavy so 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 that shiny shiny. that the way shortening the names.
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lydia sees what a pitiful condition shanda computer is in 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 genius 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 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 they're asking for the maximum term without regard for the age of the defendants.
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beyond rubin one of the surviving doggin of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a creative each. and rocco i don't. know he no. this is dead 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 you so you know it was leon rubin who made sure the bill russian partisan was listed one of the righteous among nations. that is and deserve that it made it sound. if necessary closing. off.
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