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so many years you spent just. memory you still moment. as well. as country. watching r t these are the top stories extradited russian businessman bigger boats has he will not confess to crimes he didn't commit to survive u.s. pressure his charges include conspiring to kill americans ounce of lying arms to terrorist groups. shaky start the white house pushes for ratification of the arms reduction treaty between russia and u.s. and strong opposition from republicans who are said to be trying to disrupt the deal. and rising tension road trips to say they are being cast claiming european countries are using
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a fight against crime as an excuse to target their. pride for some pain for others world war two veterans share their memories of the bloodiest conflict in history that's next on our. visits to this house from leo frankl street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marking trying to computers doorbell is missing in their strip by vandals or the intended i'm so fed up with inquisitive intruders.
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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. 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 hell our country yes you do if everything but you grab a get out of my country i got my country. you didn't preciosa i coming to some close an episode took place outside
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a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and if he isn't all center which hunts nazi war criminals then chief investigator was looking for traces of dr r. bird high and was on the top ten of the most wanted list. his case is very important because he's. served in three concentration camps and murdered many inmates in the mouth housing concentration camp in austria 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 around the world. died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is the result of my last.
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twenty. twenty four years working in the. investigation. mentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home. conclusive evidence linking computer organized. in city of nobody. listened people to be executed and her. 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 to. there is of course a possibility. this is what we're hearing that 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 people who. tried to collect evidence
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and keep legal action against war criminals but in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when israeli investigators discovered the whereabouts of adolf eichmann the nazi and israeli intelligence agents decided. it all began with the lead. 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 there we had the. boy with then they moved the sand name. rosy time now 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 interleaved six hundred sixty at the time it was very important from
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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 when osiris summer and even sent to south america took pictures of ricardo that was eichmann sassoon's name in argentina then the pictures were compared with the older photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and. these photos the. facial meant of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent demand and then they were very adamant was i. needed to. find your. number germany april nine hundred forty six the trial of nazi criminals eichmann is not among excused but the next coming down of
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house which mentions him. is joined by grrr ribbentrop. almost all of the top leaders of the third reich with the exception of hitler josef goebbels and heinrich himmler who created. levin there are new good ideas enough elitists kept on saying they didn't know anything about the concentration camps they said they had never been there they claimed they had not even heard of printing it and that. 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. eleven 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 can hold 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 were now the furious slaves. anyway out of there was through the criminal tory chimney and they pointed to it good it just in there with the sledge 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 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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so he did all the work that was meant to. know that father gave the boy some potatoes and the definiens got a. disability it was a fairy mood. the bust up so said we will. 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 lucid examples again and again he tells the story of more than a half century of searching for a russian by the name of fuel there from the city of dust off the way he tells it it sounds like a parable. a. chink
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lived in russia itself the little boy he'd saved had long forgotten. at the feast and i don't think he remembers me 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 endeavour's 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
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synagogue in central budapest is not much different from the one with. lives nearby by a twist of fate. god now passes the house of a. i'm a major in hungary and gendarmerie but she doesn't hate chunder computer. so as a matter of fact is simply that. there is any number of people now living in hungary who did it in the jews during the war but they leave in freedom and peace the hungarian prosecutor's office doesn't think it's obvious that she under computer is guilty of the massacre in the town of. i mean even if we receive documents supplied by the sort of insight now we need to formulate a launch equal gene that might prove chunder could be risky there are options in the field to formulate a logical chain and the case will be closed oh she will be put on trial. in his apartment shanda computers attorney dr schultz attorney is again playing the game
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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 capirossi not in the interest of the hunger in legal system either. turning me down gary in prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put to appear on trial on the other hand they can't just acquitted 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 with computers future is far from clear israeli nazi hunters predict the action dharm will soon be put on trial and in prison. says shown that is likely to see next christmas behind bars.
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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 nine. suburb of when 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 house to decide whether
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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 i mean appears thirty minutes later. both got a bad history. on. this one and there when he was about seven eight needs us from us then. jumped on the nazi 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 tongue was questioning the former nazi leader. only asking me in german what was he what was his name and he said go ahead. and not i any gal was ease named. after escaping from the. prison
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came in germany a nine hundred forty five and then. know what was your 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. i mean eagerly cooperated with israeli prosecutors and gave a detailed account of the past the truth throwing detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. at. the first moment of the trial. came into the courtroom.
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symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy people when he stood up to attention before a. court of sovereign 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 is life ended in a prison in a suburb of tel aviv.
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the center of that run 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 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 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 shooting innocent people on the square. i grabbed a small john out. and smashed his 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 earlier this is they only rubin speaking from israel or you know never their own hi i'm so happy to hear you know. somebody crassness you. crashaw 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 hundred survivors had joined many of them were women and children. of his own sort
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of denies a big march of their citizens over their own 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. he was the commander i think he had was even a fifteen or sixteen apart your sentence was was weapons and the rest of us where at two hundred seventy two hundred seventy people as i said 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 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 peaceful goal should be most provocative about two years old or three years old. and she used to cry and at night because writing 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 cereal and she said of came and took her own on her own his hands and
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quiet. she 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 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 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 chandon mall 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 the 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 ill there are 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 he's jealous. of their tone and soul the end in it and his family with all their belongings school ready hacked back 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 that's what i told you. that even though there are no icons or crucifixes in the former's and arms house computer claims she'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 outside. and. of course without the head and.
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without the think. it was very heavy so it was my father i jumped on him i want to help him and since i. took. a photo and. he told me go away and they've done 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 the calling please sever the shiny shiny. that the way the name of the names.
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lydia sees what a pitiful condition shanda computers 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 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.
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beyond rubin one of the surviving doggin of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself a cost museum. in a creative each. of. you know 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 a few. 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 bill russian was listed one of the righteous among nations. that is deserved that it made it sound. businesses closing tonight. everyone.
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