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let me tell you the lenders who tilted the buses inside the hotel pool for its pleasures and who would princess to be split in tight you would certainly touch your grill the pizza and google how would international journalists flood the cheese every green little he killed in total. nine thirty am in moscow here are the headlines the u.s. and e.u. threaten the syrian government with fresh sanctions after its latest crackdown on protesters around thirty people thought to have played killed mantei government demonstrations across the country friday. russian troops hold a final rehearsal for a major parade in central moscow the display will be the centerpiece of the upcoming victory day celebrations in russia. the number of shootings in
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us schools on the streets not doubting the enthusiasm of thousands to defend their second amendment rights pro-gun lobby in the country argues their freedom to bear arms is also a way to protect themselves against authorities. up next we look back at the victims of nazi concentration camps and ahead of the anniversary of the victory in world war two we speak to those who were saved by soviet troops in the spring of one nine hundred forty five. it was a spring like many others in europe like looks cherries and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the company liberating town after town can finish just a village remember a different place the nightingale sang louder cherries on the women seen.
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people in sheep stopped by nate and to russian officer came to study decently and he said you're a life v.a. but there were dead bodies only before we found hugh jackman at a party east of locum it's 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 let go. everybody shot from any kind of weapon for signal pistols to machine guns and for going into the air. normally román 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 or more realize that some still to this day.
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the spring of nine 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 snow down passes . of fear great in bucharest. depeche the enter 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 tennessee 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 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 the pictures all saying. is it bad be that our health sector 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 that says men like to say the jews seem to requiem for themselves thanks. 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 elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden their images paints a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god we began this is where we watched and thought that there was no bathroom just a dog and the only cold water and even that was spotty.
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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. a r five o five public transport number. edition yourself like these were in not a great tragedy we paint for them in a brand yes we can breath with them we put things under the mattress ace 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 fellers you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk oh kinds of stuff delany you whenever they wanted both to tell that 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 taro's in was a resort compared to auschwitz. 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 gypsy children are being herded in gas chambers german children live normal lives going to school learning control cams same to the songs they sang when not child last. show of pneumonia mother sees a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to the boys know that it was published in one thousand nine hundred thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want to march on moscow over what we want to be moscow or soon as we can or let the bolsheviks feel all strength to belittle wildrose is peeved the way of hitler's men getting for russia will flood. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song again. it was military chiefs had
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just won a touchdown teams to pick the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cup a few mountains to the black sea liberating european city. romania became the first country to released from its not saying i met. them soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffer tyrants the hardest it's history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very modest soldiers older women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the bought this. when he was made. he was sent here. for
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a political prisoner i told you i think of you have you had occasion to meet in the presence of god 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 and look to the black smoke billowing from the criminal reem chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. as cora just they read out a list of people who was supposed to go where you wanted a 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. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber again and here. i was fitz was operated like a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles given
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human teeth everything was put to use toys were sent to german children german women was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone through tween 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 all the 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 i read that. the movie the editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention but
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here you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the wrong. pen yousif 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 outfits she was twenty six years old when 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 atwood a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. as was was hanged in big canal. he also wanted to hang in. there but she didn't let them for my ass and. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand let's hear what you know what. when
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the s.s. man was about to put a 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 will give might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am greeted as i respond yes i might have at a bus would have been the result. moira do you know they were killed all my family and of all the camps people. these people survived the concentration camps and they
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still don't understand how they made it through. the course of us as teachers helped 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. and said sitting in a hellhole called terrorising vary with three quarters of bread no one can win just to survive cook an eskimo it stinks it's wild its war. on terrorism and 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 were not to go 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 they are take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrorism in the known to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. in.
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the commission is free cretaceous three. judges free. range free risk free. free. free blog. projects and free. british scientists. markets. happening to the global economy. belgrade and nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation. of freedom fighters had been facing
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resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from. the german. divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were. despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open minutes of museums in central about great. i don't know we've. had world war two with a few tanks from france. 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 with his numbers and capabilities well
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above any of the tanks that had a p.s. in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. in october nineteenth forty four red army troops who suffer systems fighters liberated belgrade street off a street block off the block i'm tough attack attack to freedom. 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 on it see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious surprising in nine hundred forty one they're going to remain between natalie st they should have changed the name they should've left it for at least she's three right they have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed . there are quite a few streets in belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets
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is officially known as something of a 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 news corp i'll tell you was me tanks troops where there is in a very large pit dug kid 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 of east tank bearing a coffin with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy for music of. polling.
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places i 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 says he's but 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 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. there's a lot of trouble or so ease deserted i. the germans are driving people out over the left bank of the river once again the city has been systematically destroyed street
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after street and at house after house this and i buildings are being blown up and burned all it would claim like all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived their rates and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut charitable 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 only a cruel if he leans higher all the castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five only it's even free and then some small structural elements were left of it and that. also separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five
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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 in 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 brother effect or is nobody wants to discuss one of my dominik agreement for instance when chicken slovakia's was dismembered late might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war crowd another old son. could be the onslaught when the national socialist germany not swallowed up austria.
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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 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 waltzes in the town squares. the fighting continued in neighboring 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
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hardships of the war was lost 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 directly. when were you going to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves under five. and there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. play with the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana 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.
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there were a german troops in what to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right here. they were mocked as hospital trains running but in fact they were not that are the germans had weapons with them. they were not going to surrender even though the war was over. they wanted to get to the american satanic cost they were scared to freshen up troops. soviet troops entered praga 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. cemetery it's here the red army soldiers who died liberating praga buried.
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the body. i see you've laid flowers this green. 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 through a simple it was a flower on 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 after the walls 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 your. former checker
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solving a song just meet up sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. further to share my life help yourself i'm actually pleased journey. that way you know these men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires into as a keepsake which of course. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. leaves or 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. larger sums well well no dear looking at you 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. surely which
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will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk will avoid bones or so for a short while you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast i thought we did what we stuck to fire a german tanks parked out to just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips one of the threads if for. some a tumultuous to wed their medals others take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they and each of them. the veterans insists that the young must learn about that. war is all this middle is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity image award why do you go slow people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those
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who missed vet victorious shots 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 line it's full on 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 and using. this. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.
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