bush is singing the world. uses of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully that if you have to live a. real life stories for him would need. to treat nineteen forty five goals on t.v. talk to comb. one thirty pm in moscow these are your r t have riots in france is military spending on foreign operations may have already accounted for the years defense budget the government accused of turning a blind eye to people's needs at home by stepping up expensive adventures a broad. well the u.s. operation to kill bin laden is widely hailed as a success and methods washington uses on the war on terror facing criticism charges of torture and overseas prisons are feared to be motivating terrorists rather than

making the world safer. from court sentences to russian nationalists to life and eighteen years respectively for the murder of a human rights lawyer and a reporter in moscow stanislav mark a lot of us and i'm a star i'm sure the words gunned down in broad daylight in the center of the capital two years ago. the greatest victory and the greatest loss is our special report europe spring of one hundred forty five coming up. it was a spring like many others. looks cherries and nightingales. but those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently the nightingale sang lamp to cherry's music and the women seemed to. be poised

and cheap stumped by night interruption if searching the tuning he started hastily as he said you're a life v.a. but there would only have before we found you in a national party system locum it's liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with. 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 signal pistols to machine right into the air . romance a welcome deliberates us millions of civilians from the concentration camps and. the soldiers had missed their victory day of those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five with a more realized some still sun to this day. the

spring of nine hundred forty four. to go before the end of the second world war. has freed soviet territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the country. the soldiers struggle through the snow passes on the saffir. hashed vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. month or quarter of 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 also was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to sealed their fate more often than not people were sent to

auschwitz to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read the pictures all saying. that be that our hell shakhtar and uses. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the laws of right the case and also direct will with us if they say so and. as this man likes to say the jews sooner requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tellers in. these drawings belong to mother's 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. that video this is where we watched with her there was no bathroom just a tub and water the 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. they are. owed phone life. that was my transport number use. edition yourself like these were another great traction we paid for them in a brand j.d. yes we gave birth to them we 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 telling you whenever the want of up turned over security two people slept in the space and terrorising but isn't a s.

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 going to school learning to draw can't sing the songs they sang were not translated. szilvia money a mother says a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to the boys know that it was published in nineteen thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want to watch on moscow what we want to be moscow or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks feel all strength and look to wildrose is paved the way of hitler's men getting for russia with one theme. but by late one nine hundred forty four

hardly anyone saying this something. that was military chiefs had just want to kill them seems to me that the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cup a few mentions to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to get relief from its not some nightmare. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered laughs the hardest of its history men were executed or sent down the slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five were sent to brothels for verma soldiers old women were sent to factories gas chambers. he was the. one he was years old was ok with them here for you for

a while and i told you i think that if. you had occasion to meet the president himself. 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 and look to the black smoke billowing from the criminal rims chimneys it hailed 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 where he went to 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. he had been a teacher before richard. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber you know. i was fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even

human teeth everything was put to use toys was 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 cloth cone things 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 burned in a criminal oriented. some might find it odd that polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books i read that. really editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention you know

people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again. ten yusif 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 transformed. 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 edward a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. edward was hanged in birkenau. breath he also wanted to hang. him but she didn't let them. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be a hand here did. you know. when an s.s.

man was about to put the noose around her neck she hit 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 their part will they say they're ok you service her says daughter you always had a razor in your hands you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am due to that i respond yes i might have an idea but what has been the result. of noir and you know they would have killed all my family and hell for the camps people. these people survive the concentration camps but they still don't

understand how they made it through. the quarter of a says teaches helps a lot educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and most his friends helped by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in tara's in. the same season in a hellhole called terrorising via their with three quarters of bread no one can win with just to survive who can ask for more it's things it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children have vowed to wed 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 dead bugs and even today where not a ghost to a restaurant childers

a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. avick please leave me that one these are nice and i think i know for sure out a place to live and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in the known to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money materialization into hot areas english language continues to followers visit threatening other languages with one in three people speaking english does this promote western. lives is just a parliament building in berkeley and. then. sixty five

years ago. it was the final charges on the last major offensive from the red army. its capture became the symbol on the form of fascists. and the victory over nazi germany. the following r.g.p. . belgrade and nine hundred forty four it was you the sufi's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from him side the germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshall 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 minutes of museums in central about great. i don't know why i know how you got lucky just elvia entered world war two with a few tanks he had bought from france i mean you know this country was modernizing 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 no most monsters of things his numbers and capabilities were well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. in october nineteenth forty four read on the troops to suffer systems fighters liberated belgrade street off the street block off the block of the town to freedom.

these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for their health but 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 our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one nine hundred forty one name between natalie street they should have changed the name they should have rented for its history they have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names and so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern move up the 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. all the time i'll 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. with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy. told. players. oh 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 was because the polish capital was to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruel 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. trouble or so is deserted now you. the germans are driving people out over the left bank of the river once again the city has been systematically destroyed street after street in a house after house this and i buildings are being blown up and burned all its ability claiming all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived damn rates and blew them out in

accordance with its clear cut shadow they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not see arts experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is a little of the entire all care so 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 separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and the ends of 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 all keep i'd 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 brought there are factors nobody wants to discuss your morning about dominik agreement for instance when chico slovakia's was dismembered late might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war got another old song. could be the and slows when national socialist germany not swallowed up austria up to the. 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 german surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroyed traces of the anschluss welcomes 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. of that time slot a fourth of a was a seventeen year old mess. 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 collect some medicine 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 was last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general were gradually pulling back westwards as they continue fighting with the resistance general knew that the red army was approaching and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. and 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 notes that are now the 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 they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prague made the mines today's crowd is still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given an inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the great army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. the body. when. i see you later disagree. with you i first came here a long time ago a young nurses here i don't even know if her relatives know that she lies here so i

sent it was a flower in her grave and leaf she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from home. 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 soar to soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's so nice to see your. former checker soviet side just meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays will simply told. her chappaquiddick help yourself on the telly please journey. that way you know these men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's

legionnaires as a keepsake which of course. 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. they show each other newspaper cuttings photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime wearing them which for. the idea sounds well well no idea looking at two years is 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. not so good surely which will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones are so fresh you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's

what i call a feast authorities but we stuck to fire a german takes. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. summit to notice to wed that medals take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they had each of them. the veterans insists that the young must learn about the. war is over this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unit see him in a awarded by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victoria short and forget about those who guard 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 lilacs form the tanks and see those who kissed the liberating 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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