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the glow of. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've. covered. it was a spring like many others in europe looks cherries and nightingales. of those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently the nightingale sang the cherries on the women seem to. move people in cheap stone to buy made into russian forces such an opportunity he started a syria he said you're
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a life really but there was said nanda it's only before we found you in action and national party east locum that separates us including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with bread and milk flowers and women braces. rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally let go just. a everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns right into the air. nor the wrong man to welcome the braces millions of civilians who died in concentration camps and occupied. millions of soldiers have missed their victory day but those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realized in song and still sad to this day. the spring of nine hundred forty four years ago before the end of the second world
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war the red army has freed soviet territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the compilation mountains the soldiers' struggles for the snowbound passes. a war of fear. perished vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation of. kosovo a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tennessee and it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp and martha 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 all saying. should that be at our health
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sector and use ition. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the loss of bright the peace and also the requiem with us in a space and. as this man likes to say the juice in a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tell us in. these drawings belong to mother's friend vase of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her schedule everything around her but keeping it hidden or images take a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god to be release is where we washed at that there was no bathroom just a job and water the only cold water and even that's was spotty the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in
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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 r b a five zero five. double that's what my transpersonal. edition michel's like these were enough to create traction we paid for them when the brits say yes we gave breath for them we put things under the mattress face if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top bunk was the best place to sleep most of the bucks for them but at least nothing felons you while you were asleep but a bunk all kinds of stuff tell me you whenever the one about turned over to people slept in the space and terrorising but isn't a s. ten people share the same space it in auschwitz. says terrorising was a resort compared to auschwitz. her brother and parents and her friend helga was
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sent to auschwitz in the autumn of nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish or gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children live normal lives going to school learning to draw cans and see the songs they sang were not complicated. szilvia money and mothers is a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to. know that it was published in nineteen thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one and we want to march on moscow for what we want to be moscow or soon as we can feel or let the bolsheviks feel all strength in little wildrose is paved the way of hitler's a man killing for russia will flood. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. it was military chiefs had just won a tumbledown seems to pick up the red army launched an offensive on the frontline
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from the cup a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to be released from its not sing like manner. then so be troops brought peace to bulgaria. i wouldn't suffer that was the hardest did it history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very mouth so just older women were said to factories or gas chambers. he was the quote this is one when he was nineteen years old will suck it wasn't your night before for a political prisoner i told you i think that you have you had occasion for the meeting of the prison if everybody. even the best guide in the world would be
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clueless about conditions here compared to a man who survived the ordeal for two years each day tell you some regions he looked at the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory and chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term the axons just going to just they read out the list of people who was opposed to where he wanted a guest chambers. there were only thirteen of us left. and the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied and gone below me. had been a teacher before. till poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber again and. i was fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles given human teeth everything was put to use toys were sent to germany children german
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women were sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. they are. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with their system in the service staff in occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed the performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a criminal. some might find it all of the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz it's a man to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books and. meanwhile really editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention over here you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leave through this book again and again the ground.
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penus if knew the stories characters personally it would gilinsky 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 or the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given it with a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. edwards was hanged in. the also wanted to hang there were but she didn't let them. she cut her 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 hears him.
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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 the 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 rudolf hess for years people have wanted the onset of just one question. more upon the bible they say are ok you service says as baba you always had a razor in your hand you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am ready to that i respond yes i might have idea but it would have been the result. moira you know they would have killed all my family and of all the hams people. these people survived the concentration camps but they still don't understand how they made it through. because of us as teachers helped
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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 sitting in a hellhole called terrorising very with require lists of brett no one can win with just to survive who can ask for more it stings it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children a vow to wear but of lightens on their jackets and 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 when not to go to a restaurant childers a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. and she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abby please give me that one these are nice and i think i know for
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sure they are take the stew and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrorism in the norms of death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. download the official anti obligation show i phone on called touch from the on choose option. cianci life on the go. video on demand all keys my blog costs and all residents feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com.
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belgrade in nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing resisting the nazi regime and its travel agents from the inside. the germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshal tito who fought back bitterly 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 military museum in central great. little we were. handed world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france and us country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. could see and hear telltale
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signs of approaching soviet tanks nigro first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they saw the you know most monsters of tanks his numbers and capabilities were well above any of the tanks that had appears in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned to solve its tanks. in october nine hundred forty four red army troops and isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block of the town which was to free. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for that 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 that was a ring name between natalie street they should have changed the name they should've
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left in its history right they have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern nevada but local people still call it red on the street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear it told eight thousand russians died in serbia you could go all the time i'll tell you was only telling the truth 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 tanks. with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy musical.
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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. hitler's orders the polish capital was to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with crude 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 their city stone by stone.
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over a shovel or so ease deserted i. the germans are driving people god over the left bank of the river once again the city has been systematically destroyed street after street and it shows after house and i buildings are being blown up and burned all it would plainly are all the c.d.'s 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 chad duell they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not the arts experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is only cool if t.v. means higher all castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three and some small structural elements were left open and that.
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also separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and ends in 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 protheroe a fair measure is nobody wants to discuss the munich agreement for instance when
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chicken slovakia's was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to be for the war god another old song. could be the un's floods when a national socialist germany of swallowed up austria up to. almost the thirteenth one thousand 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 distillate traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltzes in the town squares. the fighting continued in neighboring
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czechoslovakia all made a face 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. of the time slot a force of hope was a seventeen year old thomas. eastman 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 reliving. when do you plan to connect some that soon for the wounded we found ourselves undefined. and there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. they were the final casualties of the war's last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana
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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 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 are the germans had weapons with them and. they were not going to surrender even though they won't was over. that they wanted to get to the americans at any cost and they were scared of fresh troops and. soviet troops entered praga may the ninth today's prague is still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given it the inscription says we will stay committed they signify
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the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the red army soldiers who died liberating praga barrett. be now. i see your plate is green. well. i first came here a long time ago a young nurse is buried here i don't even know if her relatives know that she lies here she was simply put a flower in her grave and the she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. many of those who lie here live just long enough to hear the word victory possum on their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind for the exams the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter
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soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's interesting to see your. former check and soviet side just me tough sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. i'm going to share my going to help yourself on a cold please journey. where you know these men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires as a keepsake which. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. believes or do i you can see i've only got one on. the show each other newspaper cuttings photos eventual drink their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime wearing them the transforms. under
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their arms well well no idea looking at two years is sheer pleasure but here it was in which they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. surely we will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk will avoid bones they're so fresh you could squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. but we stuck to fire a german takes. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some a tumultuous 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 that. war is obvious middle is for valor this one is for services to
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the country and this one is for brotherhood and unity image award by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victorious shot of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the nightingale singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the minutes form the tanks see those who kissed the liberation soldiers. 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.
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