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ok tell martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. it was a spring like many others he likes cherries and lots. of those and sold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently the nightingales. cherries and the women

seemed to. be employed and cheap stumped by name and the russian officer came up to me. he said you're a light v.a. but there would only be for a week on few. of. the stimulus locomotives liberates us including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with bread and milk flowers and the woman braces. rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally let go. everybody shot from any kind of weapon from signal pistols to machine guns you think right into the air. romance welcome to the races millions of civilians in concentration camps and. millions of soldiers that missed that victory day. those who have not lived to see this. spring

of nine hundred forty five women more realized songs still sound to this day. the spring of nine hundred forty four there's still a year to go before the end of the second world war the red army has freed soviet territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the combination mountains the soldiers struggle through the snowbound passes beyond them a war swords of fear the great and bucharest who perished vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. monster kosovo a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tent as if it was cold town but it was actually more of a concentration camp and also was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting

for the decisions are sealed their fate more often than not people with sense outfits to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures or sing. as if that be at our health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me. nothing he really has the loss of bright the peace and also direct with us in the face basement. as his men like to say the jews sooner requiem for themselves thanks. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters and. these drawings belong to martyrs friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden their images paint a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank you this is where we

washed out at that there was no bathroom just and water only cold water and even that was spotty. the young girls courses were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime the girls worked in the fields in the evening they got together in a small room to read aloud to each other in a camp like this a book was a prized possession. a a a r b a five o five. that's was my transport number. you dish me shelf like these were in another great treasure we paid for them in a brand jelly yes we gave breath for them to put things under the mattress if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top box was the best place to sleep most of the bucks for them but at least nothing phelan's you while you were asleep but on the low a bunk all kinds of stuff felony you whenever the want of up turned over to people

slept in the space and terrorising but his name and ten people shared the same space it in auschwitz. says terrorism was a resort compared to auschwitz. her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish or gypsy children were being herded in gas chambers german children little dogs trying to school learning to draw can't sing the songs they sang were not childlike. szilvia money a mother says a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to war was no there it was published in nineteen thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want to march on moscow we want to be a mosque or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks feel all strength and let the wildrose is paved the way of hitler's men getting for russia with one thing. but by

late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. that is military chiefs had just won a couple down teams to pick up the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from a cop a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to released from its not saying i met. them soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered laughs the hardest of its history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for them off soldiers old women were sent to factories or gas chambers.

he was the. one he was in. he was sent here night in forty four as a. result i told you i think that you have you had occasion for anything the president himself and. even the best guide in the world would be clueless about conditions here compared to a man who survived the ordeal for two years each day tell you some urgency to the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory and chimneys inhaled the nords gazing sweet odor and waited for his term the axons fifth corps to just they read out a list of people who were supposed to wear the gas chambers. there were only thirteen of us left. and the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied the bunk below me. had been a teacher before to tell poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber. i was face was operated like

a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even human teeth everything was good to use toys was sent to german children german women was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. a abidjan. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone things when the crematorium. with their system in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed the performance knowing full well that people were being burned in a crime a tory a minotaur. some might find it all the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of outfits it's aiming to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books i read that. the editor

tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention and you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground. penus if knew the stories characters personally it would golinski was polish and millions in the town was a jewish woman a comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old and he was twenty one. the fact they found love of the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given it would a german uniform his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. edward was hanged in canal. press he also wanted to hang. him but she didn't let them for my ass in your.

veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand. you know what. when an s.s. man was about to put the noose around her neck she had him. own story is unique he was one of the first to arrive at auschwitz as inmate number one hundred twenty one and he was lucky enough to leave a camp alive on top of that each day he had to resist an excruciating temptation he was serving as the personal barber of the camp's commander rudolph hess for years people have wanted the answer to just one question. more upon their part though they say they're ok you service has as barbara you always had a razor in your hands you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat. to that i respond yes i might have or they both would have been the result.

they would have killed all my family and hell for the cancer people. these people survived the concentration camps but they still don't understand how they made it through. to go to vs teaches helps a lot educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and most his friends helped her by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. and said sit in the international hole cold terrorising very with three quarters of a breath no one can win just to survive who can ask for more it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children have vowed to wear butterfly pins on their jacket some dresses for as long as they live this is because they never saw butterflies in the concentration camps instead just fleas and bed bugs and even

today where not to go to a restaurant she orders a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. and she certainly still has a sweet tooth. avick please give me that one of these and i think i know for sure that i'll take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrace in the gnome to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. just for. fifty fifty fifth street. from.

belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been fiercely resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from the inside. the

germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshal tito and fullback busily despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open and in a tribute c i'm incensed about a great. book i don't know why i know how you got the gist of it and says world war two with a few tanks it had thought from france when your first country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks in the girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they sold enormous monsters of tanks is numbers and capabilities well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks i was there. in october nineteenth before red

army troops isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block of the town of times to free. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for their health but they enjoy it because it makes them feel as they walk through the streets where they used to fight the germans. rubio honest see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one hundred forty one namely the queen natalie street station of change the name they should've left in its history the right have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern blue nevada but local people still call it red army street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both

names. from what i hear a total of eight thousand russians died in serbia you could go all the. tell you was. true is where there is in a very large pit dug here between this monument and this place that was two days after the liberation of belgrade. a convoy of twenty four tanks went through the streets tank. with the body of a soviet saying from him. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy musical. form. was. told most.

veterans say today's belgrade is very different from the city of nine hundred forty four. after the war the serbian capital was rebuilt like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. under hitler's orders the polish capital was to be razed to the ground and those instructions were carried out for determination. today it's hard to imagine that here where these beautiful streets squares and restored castles now stand they used to be just broken rocks people completely rebuilt as city stone by stone. is out of trouble or so ease deserted now you. the german side driving people thought over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street in a palace after house and the buildings are being blown up and burned all it would

claim legal decision is being raised to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of all buildings that had survived air raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut chettle they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority nazi arts experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. there's an acquittal if the entire all the castle was in ruins that's the just in the nineteen forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left over and that. was a liberation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and entered warsaw but unlike elsewhere the local population didn't line the streets to welcome soviet soldiers the polish capital

was a deserted city only a day after the german retreat the first refugees began returning to what was left of their capital. poland suffered much more than any other european country it was also occupied longer than others here the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians onto the war began much. to shift i've not brother effect or is nobody wants to discuss your morning about my dominik agreement for instance when slovakia's was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war crowd another old song. could be the onslaught when national socialist germany not swallowed up austria. almost the thirteenth nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna

but the un truce was not a civilized action it was a powerful military absorption. the war came to an end for many european towns in the spring of one nine hundred forty five on april the thirteenth the germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroy the traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltz's in the town squares. the fighting continued in neighboring czechoslovakia on may the fifth people in prague staged an uprising they flew the national flag from windows and built barricades. radio prog called on the city's residents to stand up to the hardships of the wars last hours. a bad time lost a fourth of a was

a seventeen year old this. system and said we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were wearing armbands with the red cross on them she already. when do you plan to connect some that soon for the wounded we found ourselves undefined to. there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. they were the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana who gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance general knew that the red army was approaching and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were a german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right

here. they were mocked as hospital trains but in fact they were not but i think germans had weapons with them. they were not going to surrender even though the war was over. they wanted to get to the americans at any cost time and they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prado made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given of the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the red army soldiers who died liberating prague buried. the body hello. well. i see your great flower is green.

well may i ask why. i first came here a long time ago a young nurse's gerlach here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lies here she was something that was a flower in her grave and leaf she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from home. with many of those who lie here live just long enough to hear the word victory hossam on their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the exam the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to sell to soldiers weeks after the german surrender. and those who survived still get together. it's so nice to see your. former czech and soviet scientists meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays will simply to talk. about their mission can't help yourself and utterly please join in.

that way no these men are not the let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionaries as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. neither do i you can see i've only got one on. the show each other newspaper cuttings photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime wearing them in a tree. hugger sounds well well not if you're looking at here is a sheer pleasure in the years. they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. not sure which will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk will

avoid bones there so for a short order you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast i thought i would if we stuck to fire a german tanks delta just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips one of the. summer to modest to wed them medals others take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they and each of. the veterans insists that the young must learn about the. wars of this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity a medal awarded by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed victorious shows and forget about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who

couldn't hear the mighty gale singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the my legs form the tanks the sea those who kissed the liberating soldiers oh hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to these war heroes they didn't live to see the piece of their memory lives on in. this.

martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.