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me is to eat. food. eat. they faced it this is not a problem but a warning of the. day for which it should be first step is already assured of support for trish crossin they have no idea about the hardships to face. they wanted businesses it open to new systems for any army the life of a usaf mother is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice
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and heroism but no those who understand the full of what you have to live us from real life stories from world war two. nineteen forty five dollars r.t. dot com. to tell you with this is r t coming from the russian capital twenty four hours a day top stories now this hour presidents. have discussed iran's nuclear ambitions they talked on the sidelines of a summit in azerbaijan where five nations are mapping out their claims to the caspian sea energy resources. president obama is pushing the congress to approve the production deal with russia before the end of the year republicans have been stalling it. russian business when the victim says u.s. authorities pressured him into confessing to charges of arms trafficking and
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terrorism insists he's not guilty moscow says it will offer consular help to boot but officials stress that doesn't mean they consider him innocent. poppy but with more news for in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime when the second world war ended it closed a period of heroic service and self-sacrifice for some but for others it's a stain on their past said rather forget as some of the survivors have been turning r.t. . visits to this house from leo frankl street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marking showed that it could get his doorbell is missing in your
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street by vandals or the intended i'm so fed up with inquisitive intruders. do you need help from his friends to do it household chores and next officer in hungary enchant armor 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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yeah miss you doing everything but your problem. you didn't teach i don't like coming to some place an episode took place outside a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and if he isn't all center witch hunts nazi war criminals the chief investigator was looking for traces of dr r. but chaim was on the top ten the 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 and 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. famous nazi hunter simon wiesenthal died it was efraim zuroff
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they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is the result of my life 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 and mentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home to current head of decent all center has provided conclusive evidence linking computer organized in the serbian city of novi sad list of 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
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already at the beginning before the people were actually taken to. today's top nazi hunters are mostly preoccupied with paperwork they study here tribes collect 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 had. we didn't they move sand name. now retired lives in a spacious house he used to be an israeli government minister and
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a member of the israeli parliament almost all of these perks came his way thanks to the operation he led to seize adolf eichmann in six hundred sixty at the time it was very 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 in the summer and he. took pictures of her. name in argentina in the pictures were compared with photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and. these photos the. facial department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent men and then the name of the man was i. needed. your own.
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number 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 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. left i need 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 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
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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 known which museum and those who survived the horrors of those days often come here. brutes 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 tory chimney and they pointed to it good at this let it that it is good. through the literally chain could tells 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 go his name was your chick. your ship. you she was then the six year old son of a polish rabbi. if left without help in the concentration camp he was unlikely to
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survive for more than a few weeks children fellow inmates decided to save the boy. looked up to him she did all the wood that was meant to. know that father gave the boy some potatoes . to notice she was a very modest man. much older so while he was playing we 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
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a few of them from the city of dustoff the way he tells it it sounds like a parable. but they. say. but they did this last thing i could find. meanwhile children mccullough chink lived in russia itself the 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 from. 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 right just. among nations list in yad vashem memorial
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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 delivers his sermons. lives nearby by a twist of fate. god now passes the house of a former major in hungary and gendarmerie but she doesn't he chunder computer. says the matter of fact is simply that. there is any number of people now living in hungary who did. choose to. believe 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 chain that might prove. there are two options either to fail to formulate
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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 with gary 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. prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put trial on the other hand they can't just acquitted him because of pressure coming from abroad us particularly so they're just playing for time simply waiting. 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 israel. the nazi hunters predict the action dharm will soon be put on
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trial and in prison your assertion that is likely to see next christmas behind bars . for sure is the same of the idea that you know i know you most of us were. immediately after the end of the second world war major nazi leaders were put on trial for war there is no doubt such crimes were committed. may eleventh nine hundred sixty a suburb of when a service mossad agents are parked in two cars on garble the street deciding what
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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. ileus ricardo comment clerk came without him operation me to roughie ton house 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. got a bad history. on. this road and there when was a valid seven eight meters 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
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what was his name and he said hani go and not going any ghana was easy named. after escaping from the. prison came in germany a night devoted valet and then. know what was geo 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. might mean eagerly cooperated with israeli prosecutors and gave a detailed account of the past be true through and detailed charts showing how jews
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were deported to death camps described how they were killed. for get it the first moment of the trial. came into the courtroom the symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy people and he stood up to attention for several sovereign states. 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 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 they were very. many houses here. too who was just eleven in one thousand nine hundred three he remembers clearly how 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
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a pitchfork. doubt to be turned in. 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. but. when they were shooting the innocent people on the square. site grabbed a small john out. and smashed he said parents against a telegraph. being convinced speak up these. two
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hundred jews managed to escape from dog enough walk fifteen hundred kilometers through german occupied territory and make it to the soviet front line. that was that earlier this is they own rubin speaking from israel or you know never yet and i don't know how i am still happy to hear you know. somebody could. that's your class or this national talk to the mayor of the town of engineers going 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
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the woods with the partisans. and by august one nine hundred forty two two hundred survivors had joined the many of them were women and children. out of his own sword denies a big march of their citizens over their territory. through their german russian lines to safety into internal 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 by pence and the rest of us where at two hundred seventy two hundred seventy people as i said children. who started this beak unprecedented and
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unique march. we 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. underneath will go. most provocative 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
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and he said of came and took her own on her own his hands and quite. 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 a dish and this is my younger brother this is mom and this is dad shandor computer
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keeps old pictures in the most prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old chunda mole to search for perry to celebrate christmas of one nine hundred forty two with his family play and then leave us with a mission it was very nice then phen made it easy. notion their 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 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 herion 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 where that
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and i heard somebody crying used. to their tone and soul the end in it i just finally with school ready hacked back on a bottle. she. was telling him they should go to the bank of the danube. 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 underarms 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. thing. and life has a sort of close so. it's out there and you think. it was 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 leah remembers clearly whose name gendarmes repeated during the executions i prayed that they. save the calling please sever the
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shiny shiny. that is the way shortening the names. 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 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
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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. beyond rubin one of the surviving doggin of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a creative. yohane oh. 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 of them a fellow chink who saved tel of use 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 partisan was listed one of the righteous among nations. that is to serve that it made it sound.
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