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welcome back so let's see in this week's headlines. most hotels nation will get involved in their lines as missile defense plans for europe but only as an equal as historic summit in lisbon which declared and then to confrontation with russia and . now the rattling me and also american news crew has been detained in the u.s. while covering a demonstration calling for the closure of a military training camp for latin american armed forces finishing school flights subsidized by critics. russian businessmen victims who denies challengers evolves trafficking and terrorism it's important to do us up to his swift extradition from thailand don't tuesday. up next our special report on those still hoping to locate and bring to trial nazis who destroyed complete countless lives during the most devastating war in history.
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visits to this house on rio frankel street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marking showed that it could get as doorbell is missing in your street by vandals or the tenants so fed up with inquisitive intruders. guinea's 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.
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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. the fellow. you're doing everything but your problem my. country. you live in peace 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's in call centers which constantly nazi war criminals the chief investigator was looking for traces of dr r. but chaim was on the top ten most wanted list his case is very important because
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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 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 peace and all died it was efraim zuroff they carried on the job of dissenters founder. this is. the work of my life i should say. twenty. twenty four years working in the. because of your friends who are of some vested geisha elderly hungry unmentioned a computer has to spend most of his time at home. and head of decent all center has
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provided conclusive evidence linking computer organized jews 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 already at the beginning before the people were actually taken to. today's top nazi hunters are mostly preoccupied with paperwork they studied 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
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a young man whose surname was eichmann. studied in boy in the status who had no. we didn't they move sand name. 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 in 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
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architect of the holocaust. and. these fall to. the. station department of the police and we came to. that ninety nine percent men and then the name of the man was. eating. only. number germany april nine hundred forty six the trial of nazi criminals eichmann is not among the accused but the ex commandant of polish 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. last i knew good ideas enough elitists kept on scene they didn't know
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anything about the concentration camps they said they had never been there they claimed they had not even heard of the shooting of nanny. 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 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. as the brutes here and told all of us what now the fear is slate's that if the only way out of there was through the criminal tory chimney and they pointed to it good at
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this let it that it is good. through the relief 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 . 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 she did all the wood that was meant to. know the father gave the boy some details of. this ability to notice she wasn't very moody. much older so while he was playing we did his work for him. despite the
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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 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 field or from the city of dust off the way he tells it it sounds like a parable. but they. say. this lastly i could find. meanwhile children mccullough chink lived in russia itself the little boy he'd saved had long forgotten. at the feast
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i don't think he remembers me he was only seven years old then ever 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 endeavors the name of through them 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. 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 hate chunder computer.
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says the matter of fact is simply that. there is any number of people now living in hungary who deported to jews during the war but they leave in freedom and peace. 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 sort of insight now we need to formulate a chain that might prove. there are two options either fail to formulate a logical chain and the case will be 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 legal system either. prosecutor's office
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really doesn't want to put trial. just a quick him because of pressure coming from abroad particularly zero 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 but computer future is far from clear israel. the nazi hunters predict the action dharm will soon be put on trial and in prison service says shown that is likely to see next christmas behind bars. closure is that so much of me is going to make a lot of people a very unhappy look at around me in debt levels in rich industrialized countries but truly staggering for a long time to come there is plenty of financial. wealth
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. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around flushing. we've got the future covered. may eleventh one thousand nine hundred sixty a suburb of boy in a satirist 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 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 town tells his team to stay in the cars i mean appears thirty minutes later.
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ok back to st i finally came to swain and there when was a valid seven eight meters from us then. 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 a ton was questioning the former nazi leader. only as he knew german what was the. what was his name and he said auto any go and. was is a name that he used after scaping from the. prison came in germany. nine hundred forty five and then. he said no what was your s s number. and then he say.
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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 this really prosecutors and gave a detailed account of the past be true through and detail showing how jews were deported to death camps described how they were killed. for get it. into the. symbol. whose only object in life had become to destroy people and he stood up to attention before a. court of state. the importance.
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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. 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
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three he remembers clearly how germans came to the once rich town of dog enough where 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 we fed him and then we 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
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putin a doesn't remember that time she was born afterward in a different town by the time to germans left there were no jews left enough for that is sure when they were shooting innocent people on the square. i grabbed a small john out. and smashed parents against a telegraph here i cannot think and 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. that was that this is they own rubin speaking from israel or do you know never getting their own hi i'm so happy to hear you. know. somebody crassness you. here's national talk to the mayor of the town of actors daniel sturridge to say
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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 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 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 partisan nicholai q c.e.o.
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who was put in charge of the march the moses. he was the commander i think he had was a fifteen or sixteen part your sentence was was weapons and the rest of us where at about two hundred seventy two hundred seventy people. 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 oh 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 all gold sure most probably about two years
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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 cereal and he sort of came and took her own on her own his hands and quiet. became quiet. in early winter when the march was almost over and the group was about to cross the
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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 pulling the unprecedented march make it like you studio 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 chunder computer keeps old pictures in the most prominent space in his little room in this photo he's a thirty year old john darm all to search for perry to celebrate christmas of one nine hundred forty two with his family play and that made us with ladyship that it was very nice day and 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 learning you know it's not so easy to find
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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 as that. 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 end in it and his family with all their belongings already packed on a little. she. was telling him 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 you.
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that even though there are no icons or crucifixes in the former's on d'armes house computer claims he'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. and. of course without so. without the. it was a very heavy so it was my father i jumped on him i wanted to help him and since i. took.
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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 lee remembers clearly whose name gendarmes repeated during the executions i prayed that the. savior calling please sever that shiny shiny. that is the way shortening of the name. 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
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highest profile trials jr 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. beyond rubin one of the surviving dogging of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a creative. rock oh i don't. know he know.
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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 of human fellow chink 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 russian partisan was listed one of the righteous among nations. that is and deserve that it made found. anyone anywhere and. crimes and i get all.
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