one thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headline dozens are believed to have been killed in syria as security forces opened fire on protesters friday the e.u. and us threatened more sanctions on the government for the crackdown. tanks and armored vehicles rolled through central moscow ahead of a major military display a parade in red square will be the highlight of upcoming victory day celebrations in russia. the number of shootings in us schools and streets are not

dampening the enthusiasm of thousands to defend their second amendment liberties pro gun lobby in the country argues that freedom to carry weapons even extends bringing them on planes. next we remember the victims of knots and death camps ahead of the anniversary of victory in world war two we speak to those were saved by soviet troops in the spring of one nine hundred forty five that extended report coming up stay with us. it was a spring like many others a light looks cherries and nightingales. but those who fold their way across the country liberating town after town can feel it just a village remember it differently the nightingale sang like the cherries and the women seemed. to fifty billion

sheep stumped by made interruption of the searching of the two he started a syria he set your ally v.a. but there were dead nandi so nearly before we found hugh jackman ashley. easton locum it's liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuild national armies with bread and milk flowers and women braces. and rushed to me and hugged me so hard i wouldn't die i was so happy when she finally let go of rick. everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine guns right into the air. normal romantic welcome the liberators millions of civilians who died in concentration camps and occupied. some soldiers have missed the every true day of those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five with

a more realized song still to this day. 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 compilation mountains the soldiers struggle through the snowbound passes . a war of fear. depeche 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 it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp martha was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to see in 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. should that be what i read else actor and musician. excuse me now he really has a lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and that as his men like to say they've juice in a requiem for themselves thank you. this is how the secret music lessons were held in terrorism. these drawings belong to mother's friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elgar enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden and their images paints a vivid picture of life in terror as it. can be release is where we washed i thought there was no bathroom just a towel and water the only cold water and even then it was spotty.

the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents and the day time 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. eight are five o five. that was my transport number. you dish michel's like these were another great treasure we paid to put them in a print teddy yes we gave breath for 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 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 to people slept in the space and terrorising but isn't a s. ten p.

it all shared the same space it in auschwitz. says taro's in 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 herded in gas chambers german children live normal lives times a school learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not child last. show of pneumonia mothers is a collection of songs sung by members of hitler you're going to. know that it was published in nineteen thirty six and 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 all the bolsheviks feel all strange and little wilder oses paved the way of hitler's men 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 touchdown teams get 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 be released from its not some nightmare. themselves the troops brought peace to bulgaria. i wouldn't suffer to have the hardest of its history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for their mouth so just older women were said to factories or gas chambers. he was the. one he was he years old will sulky with and night you for

a while these political prisoners i told you i think of you have you had occasion to meet on the present itself 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 regions he looked at the black smoke billowing from the criminal rims chimneys inhaled the noise gating sweet odor and waited for his term. just they were it out the list of people who was opposed to where you 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 a bungalow me. he had been a teacher before. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber. 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 women 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 cone through tween the crematorium. 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 burned in a criminal oriented. some might find it all the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz it's a need 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 here you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground. penus if new the stories characters personally edward vilinsky was polish amalia's 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 twenty one. the fact they found all over the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given that with a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. as well as was hanged in canal. where he also wanted to hang. him but she didn't let them for my action. 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 has 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 bargain they say they're ok you service her says bill of the year old wiese had a razor in your hands you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat. today as i respond yes i might have had a buzz would have been the result. moira you know they would have killed all my family and of all the camps people. these people survived the

concentration camps but they still don't understand how they made it through. the course of us says teachers helped 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 didn't you know how to hold cold terrorising very with three quarters of a breath no one can win it was just to survive who can ask will know it stings its wild its war. on 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 where not to go 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. every 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 known to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. of the future covered. wealthy british scientists and.

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belgrade and nine hundred forty four it was you the saudis capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been fiercely resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from inside. the gems often send the best of visions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshall tito who fought back basically despite a lack of weapons all the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open at military bases in central great. i don't know we were. just elvia and had world war two with a few tanks it had gotten from france i mean your best country was more the noise in its weaponry at the time and over here. 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 is 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 to suffer systems fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block until the town which was to free. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the health the they enjoy it because it makes them feel 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 hundred forty one took that as a ring namely the queen natalie street vision of change 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 it 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 a total eight thousand russians died in serbia was. all the time i'll tell you was. true is where there is in a very large pit dug did it when this monument on the list place that was two days after the liberation of belgrade. a convoy of twenty four tanks went through the streets tank bearing itself and with the body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy musical.

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. it was just 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.

event of war so ease deserted now you. the germans are driving people thought over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street in a palace after house and the buildings are being blown up and burnt all its ability plainly and all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with it's 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 earth higher all the castle was in ruins that's the list you nineteen forty five zero free and then some small structural elements were left open 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 nine hundred thirty nine but many historians on the war began much. to shift i've not brother a factor is nobody wants to discuss your morning about my dominican ring when for instance when chico slovakia's was dismembered play might well be considered an

earlier starting to eat for the war crowd another oldster. good beauty and slavs when a national socialist germany of swallowed up austria. 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 thirteenth the german surrendered in vienna the city of smoke saddam straus was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere destroyed the traces of the anschluss welcomed 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 war's last hours. a bad time sloss 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 wearing armbands with the red cross on them reliving. when do you plan to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves undefined. 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 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. really proud 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 melt but are not 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 time and they were scared to freshen troops. soviet troops entered prado made the mountains today's progs 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 prague buried. the body. i see you've laid flowers and is green. well. i first came here a long time ago a young girl out here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lies here if she was something that was a flower on her grave and leaf she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. which many of those who live here live just long enough to hear the word victory 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 continue to

slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's a nice to see you all. so much chacon something a song does need help sometimes to celebrate public holidays all simply to. underachieve help yourself in the tolly please journey. to. bring those men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires as a keepsake. 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. 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 in a tree. hugger sounds well well no idea looking at here

is a sheer pleasure in the years. you may recall the last days of the war and victory day and such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. in mosul good sure you will. given good food you just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk will avoid bones there so for a short you can squeeze them and they pop bunch of the original shape that's what i call a feast othello reduced what we stuck to fire a german tanks popped out to just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips one of those. summer to multis to wed them medals others take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they end 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 unity the middle ward why do you go slow people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed that victorious shot of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the mike to gail sing in the spring of nineteen forty five who couldn't watch the minutes for long the tanks 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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