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a life for his accomplice were sentenced to eighteen years jailed in one of the biggest convictions of its kind in russia. and the waterboarding returns to haunt the u.s. as officials claim it helped them get osama bin laden but human rights activists say brutal interrogation is nothing but needless torture demanding proof as to how torture techniques helped acquire valuable information. under celebrating its two decades open amazing maneuvers two of russia's top flight aerobatics squads are marking the twentieth birthday but teams are known for the death defying stunts such as flying less than one meter between each plane is way. more of those stories for you and in about thirty minutes time but next we take you to europe in the spring of one nine hundred forty five as remembered by those who survived the struggle against fascism.

it was a spring like many others in europe looks cherries and nightingales. but those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town can finish just a village remember it differently than one thousand. cherries and the women seem to keep. people in sheep stumped by night interruption of such an opportunity i started a syria he said you're a life v.a. but there would only be for we found hugh jackman national guard east welcome that separates us including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with . flowers and the woman braces. and 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 don't see through right into the air. nor the romance of welcome the liberators millions of civilians 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 and some still suffer to this day. the spring of one hundred forty four years ago 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 . a war of fear. perished vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation of.

a month or quarter of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tatters in 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 with sense outfits to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. we should that be i don't have health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the boss is bright the case and also direct will with us if they say so and that is his men like to say they've jus' seen a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in

terrorism. 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 terror as it. thank god to be release is where we washed we thought that there was no bathroom just a toggle and. only cold water and even then it was spotty. the 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. double that's what my transport numbers. edition shelf like

these were in not a great tragedy we paid for them in a prince haiti yes we can have breath of them put things on didn't mattresses 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 phelan's you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff telling you whenever the one above turned over security to 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 was a her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children little guys going to school learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not chance laughter.

szilvia money a mother this 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 won't sing watch on moscow over what we want to be moscow or soon as we can all but the bolsheviks feel all strength and look to wilder as his pave the way of hitler's men heading for russia. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song and. it was military chiefs had just want to kill down seems to me the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cup a few manton's to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to be released from its not saying eichmann. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria.

conan suffered laughs the hardest it's history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five were sent to brothels for their mosques so just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was years old will suck he was sent here night before for a. reason i told you i think that if you have occasion to meet in the presence of god. 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 crime of tory and chimneys it hailed the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. son's youth corps to just

they read out a list of people who was supposed to go 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 bungalow me. he had been a teacher before. till poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber to get in the. house fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles even 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 conflicts 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 crime authority amid. some might find it all but polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz it's aiming to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books added that. mean really editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention or 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 the 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 fracturing 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. he also wanted to hang. him but she didn't like them for my action. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be a hand. you know what. when an s.s. man was about support 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 your service has border you always had a razor in your hands will give might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am to that i respond yes i might have idea but it would have been the result. from oil they were just kills all my family and hell for the camps people. these people survived the concentration camps for they still don't understand how they made it through. because of us says teaches helps a lot educating youngsters in secret to try and 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. said sittin in

a hellhole called terrorising vary with three quarters of a breath no one can win with just to survive who can ask the more 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 martha goes 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. abbie please give me that one these are nice and i think i know for sure i'll take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through tara's in the gnome to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation.

culture is that so much about taxpayers' money materialization is it capital area english language continues to followers visit threatening other languages with one in three people speaking english is this promoting western. lives is just a parliament building in. that. sixty five years ago. it was the final target the last major offensive from the man army. his capture became the symbol on the form of fascist sort of. and the victory over nazi germany. the following archie.

belgrade and nine hundred forty four it was ubisoft is cut off 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 who fought back 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 military museum in something about great. i don't know why i know how you got a lot of the gist of it entered world war two with a few tanks ahead of those from france and you know this country was more noising its weaponry at the time. the locals could see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks 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 at 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 red army troops and the slavs resistance fighters liberated belgrade street off the street blocked off to block another town the town to freedom. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the 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 ninety four you want to that has a ring name beauty queen natalie street vision of change the name they should've left if he's entering the right 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 blue 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 know 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 oh. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy for music of.

poles. players was. told my. 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 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 their city stone by stone.

if out of trouble or so ease deserted i. the germans are driving people thought over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and it house after house and i buildings are being blown up and burnt all its ability plainly all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of old buildings that had survived air raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut chad tool they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not psy-ops experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. there's a little left in the entire all the castle was in ruins that's just you nineteen forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left all that in and that.

also separation 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 nineteen thirty nine but many historians on the war began much. to shift i've not brother effect or is nobody wants to discuss him long enough my dominik agreement for instance when chico slovakia was dismembered play might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war had another old song. could be

the and slows when a national socialist germany not swallowed up austria update. on march 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 destroyed traces of the anschluss welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltzes 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 nervous. system and said we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were aware enough armbands with the red 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 to. play with the final casualties of the war as days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general sherman are 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. pregnant 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 are now the germans had weapons with them. so 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 to freshen up the troops. soviet troops entered praga 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 here. all shun cemetery

it's here that red army soldiers who died liberating prague buried. the. i see you've laid flowers and this green. well. i first came here a long time ago a young girl of here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lies here there is some of it was a flower in her grave and the she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. which many of those who lie here live just long enough to hear the word victory their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the us and the remnants of the nazi war machine continued to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get

together. there it's so nice to see you all. so much chacon soviet soldiers meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to told . them to shut up yourself from italy please journey. where you know these men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires into as a keepsake. 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 which. the idea 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. not so good surely will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad 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. but we stuck to fire a german tanks. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. some a tumultuous to wed that 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 all this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country and 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 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 one nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the minutes for long the tanks will 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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