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when to use the enemy is the most crucial thing in the world. uses of simpson's decisive in terrorism with those who understand it fully that you have to live this . real life stories from would need. to be true nineteen forty five goals don't come. nine thirty am in moscow he's here as he has arrived france is military spending on foreign operations have already accounted for the years defense budget the government's accused of turning a blind eye to people's needs at home by increasing its expense in the ventures of fraud. while the u.s. operation to kill osama bin ladin is widely hailed as a success some of the methods washington uses in the war on terror are facing
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criticism charges of torture and overseas prisons are feared to be motivating terrorists rather than making the world safer. and a russian soyuz rocket undergoes a simulated blast off at the european spaceport in the french guyana everything now in place for the actual launch which is part of a joint project the for russia and europe. a greatest victory and the greatest losses are report europe spring of one hundred forty five coming. it was a spring like many others in europe looks cherries and much again. for those who fold their way across the company liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently than nightingale sang like the cherries on the women seemed to. keep going and
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cheap stopped by made international officer came to his study decently and he said you're a life really but there would only be for we found hugh jackman at. least the bulk of its liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with bread and milk flowers and the women braces. and rushed to me and hugged me so hard i thought i would die i was so happy when she finally like go. everybody shot for any kind of weapon for signal pistols to machine guns right into the air. knowing ramadan to welcome the liberators millions of civilians caught 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 with a more realized in song still to this day.
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the spring of nine hundred forty four 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 snow down passes on them a war of fear great and bucharest. depeche the enter prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation of. the cause of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tennessee it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp and also was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to seal their fate more often than not people were sent to
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auschwitz to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that b. and i were hell setser and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and. as his men like to say they juice in a requiem for themselves thanks. this is how the secret music lessons were held in ted as in. these drawings belong to mother's friend vase of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images taken the vivid picture of life in there is it. thank god it beyond this is where we washed the thought that there was no bathroom just a dog and the only cold water and even that was spotty. the
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young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime goes 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. they are being five o five. oh boy that was my transport numbers. give me shelves like these were in not a great tragedy we paid for them in a brand teddy yes we gave breath for them put things under the mattress if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that the top bunk was the best place to sleep true most of the bucks for them but at least nothing fallon's you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff delany you whenever they want to tell that they figure two people slept in the space and terrorising but isn't a s. ten p.
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it all shared the same space it in auschwitz. says terrorism was a result compared to auschwitz was a her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of one nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish or gypsy children were being loaded in gas chambers german children little dogs going to school learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not charmed last. szilvia money another sees a collection of songs sung by members of people or you're going to do is 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 over what we want to be moscow or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks fuel all strength a little wilder oses pave the way of hitler's men heading for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. it was
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military chiefs had just won a couple down teams to the red army comes to a sense of on the frontline from a cop a few mountains to the black sea liberating european city. romania became the first country to released from its not seen item. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered died after the hardest hit its history men were executed all settled down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for them out so just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was. he was sent here night in fourteen for
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a. reason i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet the president said and. even the best guy in the world would be clueless about conditions here compared to a man who survived the ordeal for two years each day tell you so much in ski look to the black smoke billowing from the crime of tory m chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his turn the axons his call it just they were it out a list of people who was a poor student where he wanted a guest chambers. there were only thirteen of us left. the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied a bungalow me. he had been a teacher before. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber to get in the. auschwitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even
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human teeth everything was put to use toys were sent to german children german women it 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 conflict when the crematorium and the hassle. with their system in the service staff and ok surely 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 odd that polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of outfits its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books added that. mean really editor tells me she has done it on purpose in order to attract more attention while
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you're 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 i would go into he was polish and millions ima town was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old and he was trying to warm. 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 the just twelve days when they were then called . as was was hanged in bacon out. of the also wanted to hang. him 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 the s.s.
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man was about to put the noose around her neck she hears 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 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 answer to just one question. more upon her part will they say they're ok you service her says daughter you always had a razor in your hands will give might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am we to that i respond yes i might have that area but it would have been the result. of noir and you know they would has killed all my family and all the camps people. these people survived the concentration camps and they still don't
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understand how they made it through. most of cultivars says teachers help the last educating youngsters in secret trying to retain their dignity. and not as friends helped 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 vary with three quarters of bread no one can win with just to survive you can ask them oh it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children a vow to wear butterfly pins 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 nasa goes to a restaurant she orders
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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 sure our take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in the norms of death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. cultures that so much about the taxpayers' money image is a charade in particular areas english language continues to followers as it threatens other languages with one in three people speaking english does this promote quest. for some this is just a parliament building in. than. sixty five
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years ago. it was the final target on the last major offensive from an army. its capture became the symbol on the form of fascist silliness. and the victory over nazi germany. the following argy. belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was you the salvias capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from 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
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resistance movement struggle is found in the open and minutes in a sea of consumption about great. book i don't know why i know how you got lucky just elvia entered world war two with a few tanks ahead those from france when you know this country was more than noising its weaponry at the time. the locals could 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 saw the enormous monsters of tanks with his numbers and capabilities well above any of the tanks that had a p.s. in the balkans before the serbs were simply stones to solve its tanks. in october one thousand forty four red army troops who suffer systems fighters liberated belgrade street off a street block off the block i'm tough attack times to free.
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these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the health of they enjoy it because it makes them feel young as they walk through the streets where they used to fight the germans. radio on and see what they've done to your popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one nine hundred forty one that there was a ring namely the queen natalie street they should have changed the name they should've left in its history the right have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite a few streets in belgrade bearing two names and 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's all old eight thousand russians died in serbia you could go all the time i'll tell you was the tanks troops
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were buried in a very large pit dug here between this monument and willis place that was two days after the liberation of belgrade. a convoy of twenty four tanks went through the streets. with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy for music of. the. places i was. told my. pleasure and 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 of no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. it
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was the polish capital was to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruel determination. today it's hard to imagine but 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. trouble more so ease deserted now you. the germans are driving people out of the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and house after house and the buildings are being blown up and burned out all it would claim leave all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived air raids and blew them up in accordance with it's clear cut chad duell they made
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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. is only cool if teens hire old castle was in ruins that's just you nineteen forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left over it and that. also is liberation 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
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also all compiled longer than others here the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians on the war began much. to shift i've not probably were fairly sure is nobody wants to discuss humoring about my dominik agreement for instance when chicle slovakia's was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war card another old song. could be the onslaught when a national socialist germany not swallowed up austria or money up the. amounts the thirteen thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna but the un truce was not a civilized action it was a powerful military absorption.
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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 distorted traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltzes in the town squares. of 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. of that time slot a fourth of hope was a seventeen year old nicholas. 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
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cross on them three letting. when do you plan to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined. and there were many dead and wounded people that we had. they were the final casualties of the war days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general 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. really proud there were a german troops in what p. had to be three hospital trains. they were right chance. they were mocked as hospital trains but in fact they were not that are not the germans had weapons with them. they were not going to surrender even though the war was over. that
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they wanted to get to the americans at any cost they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prague made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to give an. inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died. symmetry it's here the red army soldiers have died liberating praga buried. to be now. i see you've laid flowers so this is great. i first came here a long time ago a young girl out here i don't even know if her relatives know that's allies here
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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 her own. and 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 after the exam the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there's a certain mr senor. former chacon soviet scientists meet up sometimes to summer break public holidays will simply to talk. about the mission was a coke yourself an utterly pleased journey. to. bring those men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's
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legionnaires as a keepsake which. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. leave you 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 the tree. hugger sounds well well no idea looking at here is a sheer pleasure in the years. they recall the last days of the war and victory day and such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. you know so good surely will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones there are so fresh you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast of the beauties but we stuck to fire
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a german tanks called delta just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips through. some a tumultuous to wed that medals others take pride in america 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 the country and this one is for brotherhood and unity him in awarded by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victorious shortened for good above 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 to see those who kissed the liberating soldiers. hundreds of songs
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