this is our moscow recap our top story out of washington war in syria to stop the bloody crackdown on protesters or face pressure sanctions this comes as reports emerge of troops storming a hub of unseen government protests comes a day after demonstrators took part in what they called a day of defiance that left thirteen people dead and it's ready aim for russian troops who are putting the finishing touches to their massive annual display in

moscow ahead of a victory day thousands of soldiers marched right through the heart of the russian capital with some of the country's finest military hardware. and american gun owners getting fired up over openly carrying their weapons saying is that last line of defense on home soil claims that it encourages violence armed citizens say they have a right to protect themselves from an increasingly dangerous society. we'll have more of those stories in about thirty minutes time but next we recall the events of nine hundred forty five and what it meant to fight against fascism the story of those who survived are next right here on arts. it was a spring like many others in europe lilacs 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 sunlamp the cherries and the women seem to. keep going in jeeps don't buy into russian of the section of the two she started recently and she said you're a life really but there would only be for what you found hugh jackman at. least the bulk of its liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with bread and milk flowers and 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 a single pistols to machine guns right into the air. not a romantic welcome liberates us 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 the sun still sun 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 combination mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow bound passes. of fear in bucharest. depeche vienna and 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 tatters and 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 decisions of 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 b. i don't have health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the loss of bright the peace and also the requiem with us in a space and. as this man likes to say the jews sing a requiem for themselves thank you. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters and. 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 and their images paints a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god it began this is where we washed i thought that there was no bathroom just a tub and water 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 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. a a r b a five o five. the boy that was my transport number. edition the shelf like these were in not a great traction we paid for them in a print daily yes we gave breath for them to 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 felons you while you were

asleep but on the run 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 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 one nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children little girl guides going to school learning to draw cans and singing the songs they sang were not child's last. show of pneumonia mother says a collection of songs sung by members of people or you're going to the boys 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 we want to be moscow or soon as we can

or let the bolsheviks feel all strength and little wildrose is pave the way of hitler's and then heading for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. it was military chiefs had just won a touchdown to escape the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cup a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to released from its not sing like manner. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffolk parish the hardest of its history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very modest so just older women were sent to factories or gas chambers.

he was before this is one when he was made he was lucky with a night you forty four as a political prisoner i told you i think that you have you had occasion for the need for the presence of god and. that 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 it hailed the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term the axons just cora just could they read out the list of people who are supposed to go where even suggest 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 he. auschwitz 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. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with the s.s. men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed their 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 outfits it's aimed to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books at that. meanly the 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 the ground on i. can use if new 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 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 edward a german uniform his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. as well as was hanged in.

all my hair but he also wanted to hang in. there but she didn't let them. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand let's hear it. you know what. when an s.s. man was about to put the noose around her neck she hears him. and josefa 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. we're a part of the bargain 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 idea but it would have been the result. moira you know they would have killed all my family and hovel exams people. these people survive the concentration camps and they still don't understand how they made it through. the course of us as teachers helped a lot of educating youngsters in secret to try and retain their dignity. and most as friends helped her by composing songs and making jokes but the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. say sitting in a hellhole called terrorising very three quarters of bret no one can win it was just to survive who can ask the more it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children have vowed 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 we're not a ghost for 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 i think i know for sure i'll take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrorism in the gnome to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation.

we'll. bring you the latest inside stanford knowledge from the realm for sure. we've got the future covered. if. it would be soon which prices if you knew about someone from finest impressions. his friends stance on t.v. dot com. belgrade and nine hundred forty four it was you the salvias capital of 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 to fall back bitterly despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open at military bases in something about great. book i don't know why i know how you got you just selfish entered world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france when your best country was modernizing its weaponry at the time and always your. 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 is numbers and capabilities well 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 one thousand forty four red army troops and isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block the town to freedom. 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. rubio honest see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in nine hundred forty one took the ring namely the 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. for quite a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern blue about local people still call it red on the

street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. from about i hear it told eight thousand russians died in serbia. all the time i'll tell you was me tanks troops were buried in a very large pit dug kiddish when 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 easton bearing a coffin with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy. form. pleasures was. 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 but no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. a citizen does the polish capital has 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. developed of war 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 and it ourselves her house and i buildings are being blown up and burned it would claim the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived their rights and blew them up in accordance with it's clear cut chad duell they made 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 an acquittal of the entire old castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five only dream of three 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 the red army drove the occupiers out and ends with 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 the war i've not protheroe a fair measure is nobody wants to discuss such an one of the many kids agreement for instance when. was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting date for the war another old song. could be the onslaught went national socialist germany not swallowed up austria after 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. 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 just told traces of the anschluss welcome of 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 for 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 miss. eastman said we were targeted even when we went out to pick up the wounded for example although we were wearing our bands with the red cross on them reliving. when were you planning to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves on. and there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. play with the final casualties of the war's last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana who 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 summon to soviet troops.

there were german troops in what c.p.a. 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 and. 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 and. soviet troops and said praga may the ninth 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 dying . cemetery it's here the red army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. the body.

i see you've laid flowers is great. i first came here a long time ago a young nurses spirit here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lies here through a sentence with a flower and her grave and the she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from. many of those who live here live just long enough to hear the word victory among their ranks and even had a brief chance to celebrate but they were killed by german snipers who stayed behind after the exams the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to soar to seoul just weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. it's so nice to see your. former check on a soviet sub just me tough sometimes to celebrate public holidays will simply to.

cut going to talk yourself into telling police journey. to. bring those men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's 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 cousins photos of their children their grandchildren and of course themselves in these photos their in their prime wearing them in a tree. under their own well well no dear looking at here is a sheer pleasure in the years of the. they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. not so good

surely we will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones they're so fresh you could squeeze them and they talk back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. but we stuck to fire a german tate's. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips all of the. some a tumultuous 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 that. war is abysmal is for valor this one is for services to the country 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 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 minutes form the tanks to 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 in. l. . mission free credit take three months for charges free to make amends free risk free still free.

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