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the streets of canada. the giant corporations are the day. again this is all c. coming to you live a quick check of the headlines. nuclear negotiations dominate talks as russian president dmitry medvedev sits down with his iranian counterpart mahmoud ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a key regional summit in his a bush on the better side of russia will continue helping tyrone develop a peaceful atomic program. president obama urges lawmakers on capitol hill not to sidetrack the ratification of the nuclear arms countries and between moscow and washington calling it
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a national security imperative republicans have stalls the approval of the pakistan's the spring. and also in the uars they alleged are going to run a victim who claims u.s. officials tried to force him into admitting to on smuggling charges while being extradited from bangkok to washington insists he is not guilty. when the second world war ended and closed a period of heroic service and self-sacrifice for some but for others it's a stain on that paul's they'd rather forget as some of the survivors have been telling elsie.
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visits to this house on leo frankl street in central budapest are by special invitation or even a sign marquee show computers 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
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years from their memory. yeah miss you doing everything but your problem. you didn't teach i don't like coming this implies an episode took place outside a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and if you can call center which hans nazi war criminals their chief 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 and also carried out all sorts of experiments and operations without anesthesia and castrated people did really horrible things.
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to the frames 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 work 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 vesta gave it the elderly hungry and mentioned 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.
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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 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 eichmann. the indian boy in the sadness who had no. we didn't they move sand name.
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now retired who 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 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 then the pictures were compared with photos of the so-called architect of the holocaust. and. the. facial department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent men and then the name of the man was i.
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thought i needed. final. 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 gurra 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. have left i need to lead is kept on the same 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
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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 here and who can hold one of the most horrific concentration camps known which 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 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 early for election could tells the 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
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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 to him so she did all the work that was meant to. do the father gave the boy some potatoes . 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 book involved he became the chief rabbi of israel. scores of worshippers come to
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a small synagogue to listen to a sermon they like rabbi allow 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. about they did this last thing i could find. meanwhile children because a chink lived in russia itself the little boy he'd saved had long forgotten heavy. 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
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of his surviving daughters to the rabbi lau's endeavors the name of. the man who saved him has been put on the righteous. 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. 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. 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 to. believe in freedom and peace. prosecutor's office doesn't think it's obvious that shonda computer is guilty of
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the massacre in the town. we received documents supplied by the serbian site now we need to formulate. their options fail to formulate a logical chain and the case with the closed. in his apartment shanda computers attorney dr schultz attorney is again playing the game with the judiciary in his opinion the situation has 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. just a quick him because of pressure coming from abroad 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
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says a clear conscience is the recipe for his longevity with computers future is far from clear israel. the nazi hunters predict the exxon dharm will soon be put on trial and in prison. says sean that is likely to see next christmas behind bars. closure is the same of i can tell you that you know the turtle most of us were telling the fruits of 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. 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 boy in
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a service mossad agents are parked in two cars under of all 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 kambal clerk came without him operation me to roughie tun 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 in the cars i mean appears thirty minutes later. the guy back the same. time came to swan and there when was about seven eight meters from us then madison jumped on him the nazi was taken to a safe house it will be nine days before an airplane with israeli diplomats could secretly take eichmann out of argentina throughout this period rafi tongue was questioning the former nazi leader. only as german what was he
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what was his name and he said hani go and. was is a name that he used after skating from the. prison camp in germany in ninety four to five and then. he said no what was your s s number. and then they 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
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a detailed account of the past the truth throwing detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. for. the first moment of their trial. to the. simple. whose only object in life it become to destroy people when 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 is life ended in a prison in
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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 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
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and noticed the haystack was moving. down poked at it with 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 and. when they were shooting people on the square. all it's like grabbed a small john out. and smashed parents against a telegraph here i cannot. speak of these. two
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hundred jews managed to escape from dogs you know 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 getting their own hi i'm so happy to hear you. know. somebody crassness you. here's nash i talked to the mayor of the town of actor samuel storage they say they will look 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
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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 territory. later the jews nicknamed part of cynical like you see yo 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
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children. who started this beak unprecedented and 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. sure most provocative 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
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drown her to kill her it was. reported to key serial and she said of came and took her own on her own his hands and quiet. became quiet. 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 you know for 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 fully unprecedented march me to like you see 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
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chunder 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 made listeners ladyship there 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 harry and 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.
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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 bag on a bottle. she. was telling them 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 anywhere. that's what i told. them 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 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
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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. and. of course without the head and. without the thing gone 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 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 linea remembers clearly whose name gendarmes repeated during
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the executions paid their. savior calling please sever that shiny shiny. that is the way shortening of the names. lydia sees what a pitiful condition china computer is in but she's not willing to forgive her. 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 dogging 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 know. this is the elie of 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 was listing one of the righteous among nations.
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