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take their executioners and i'm longing for justice. those so many years of past. memory is to minimize as well. as cold and hate. so that the headlines now that shape the weak signals the bad times are over and russia nato relations this present advent of greece to help be an island some missile defense and anti drugs missions in afghanistan. russian businessmen bit to boot denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism supporting north calls for fresh father james washington pressuring the legal process. and shunned across the continent roma communities and. it took by european governments have been left
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without shelter on health care books and it's a crying need. now as the world marks sixty five years since a new trials and shortened international laws of crimes against humanity altie hears from those who fought for and against nazi. visits to this house on 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 gendarmerie 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 or country you're not doing here everything but you grab a get out of my country i know my country. you live in peace so i also i coming to
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some pleasant episode took place outside a hotel in santiago chile people at the center of it was efraim zuroff and if he's in call center which huntsman nazi war criminals something then chief investigator was looking for traces of dr arbor time 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 who 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 is worth many places around the world. died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters
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founder. this is the work of my life i should say. twenty what is it twenty four years working in the. investigation. mentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home. is providing conclusive evidence linking computer organized in the serbian city of nobody. listened people to be executed and her. feet were 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 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. are tribes collect
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evidence and legal action against war criminals but in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight when israeli investigators discovered the whereabouts of adolf eichmann the most wanted 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. his daughter studied in this who had no we had. a boy we did they move sand name. rosie time 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 the operation he led to seize adolf eichmann interleaved six hundred sixty at the
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time it was very important from a saudi prince 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 come in now was eichmanns assumed name in argentina then the pictures were compared with older 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 the men and then the name of the meant was. that i needed. to. find your. number germany april nine hundred forty six the trail of nazi criminals eichmann is not among excused but the next
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coming down of 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. lavin there so i need to lead is kept on the same day 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 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. top ranking figures of the third reich are sentenced to death by hanging. some
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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 furious slave. any way out of there was through the criminal tory chimney and they pointed to it good it. at this let it the to skim. through the me from the chin 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 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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and she did all the wood that was meant to deal with it father gave the boy some potatoes said he had been to find. out his ability to get us she was a fairy mood. we were. 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 a small synagogue to listen to his sermon they like rabbi lao for his eloquence and lucid examples 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 us it sounds like a parable. a. chink
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lived in russia itself the little boy he'd saved had long forgotten heavy. at the feast 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 loves endeavour's the name 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
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saving jews during the holocaust. this small synagogue in central budapest is not much different from the one with. sermons. by by a twist of fate. god now passes the house of a fool. i'm a major in the hunger and gendarmerie but she doesn't hate chunder computer. as a 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 hungry and prosecutor's office doesn't think it's obvious that shonda computer is guilty of the massacre in the town of novi so. i mean even though we received documents supplied by the center of insight now we need to formulate a launch a cool gene that might prove chunder could be a risky rotana there are two options either both fail to formulate a logical chain and the case with a closed oh she will be put on trial. in his apartment shanda computers attorney dr
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schultz attorney is again playing the game with the hunger in judiciary in his opinion the situation has 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. gary and prosecutor's office really doesn't want to put to peter one trial on the other hand they can't just acquitted him because of pressure coming from abroad us some 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 imprisoned. says shown that is likely to see next christmas behind bars.
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we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. may eleventh one thousand nine hundred sixty a suburb of buenos aires. saudi 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
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alias ricardo comment. came without him operation meter ruffy ton 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. got a bad decision. and there when was a valid seven eight need to 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. mean german what was he what was his name and he said hani and not going any gal was easy named. after escaping from the. prison
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camp in germany a night devoted to 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 throwing detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. the first moment of the trial. came into the.
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symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy people and 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 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 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 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 don't you know germans were killing jews wherever they found them. my father went to get some hay and noticed the hay stack was moving. down poked at it with a pitchfork. doubt to be turned
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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 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 enough of that he sure knew when they were shooting innocent people on the square. grabbed a small john out. and smashed parents against a telegraph. being. 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.
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that was that earlier this is lay on rubin speaking from israel or you know in a hurry and i don't know how i am still how did you do you. know. somebody crassness you. there is national talk 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 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 the many of them were women and children. of two
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sons organize a big march of their citizens over their territory. through their german russian lines to safety into into territory. later the jews nicknamed partisan nicholai q c.e.o. who was put in charge of the march the moses. he was the commander i think he had was a fifteen or sixteen part years and this was it 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 covered about thousand five hundred
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kilometers despite all the precautions on several occasions germans almost discovered them one time to see oh screw communally 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 all. day 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 said of came and took her own on her own his hands and
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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 fully unprecedented march 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 a is my younger brother this is mom and this is dad the shandor computer keeps old pictures in the most prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old chandon mom to search for perry to celebrate christmas of one nine
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hundred forty two with his family play and then meaninglessness ladyship it was very nice then phen 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 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 there that i heard somebody crying she's telling mated to her toe and saw the end in it and
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his family with all their belongings already packed a bag on a bottle. the seat. assignment was telling him they should go to the bank. or 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 from the former john barnes 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 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 wanted to help him and since i had. done that one off so i took. a photo and. he told me go away and put that 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 paid that then. they were calling please said better shiny shiny. that is the way shortening of the name.
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lydia sees what a pitiful condition shallow computer but she's not willing to forgive her. he 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 graeber 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 know. 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 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 russian partisan was listing one of the righteous among nations. that is deserve that it made a sound. that.
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