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in india qualities of a double in the move go into joint be her children's a movie that's the case for her to the ground in period shouldn't the top western push coromandel you can let her tell her to say don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her child as a treat. international news live from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day this is stories this hour the pressure mounts on syria's washington threatens press sanctions if the violent crackdowns on demonstrators don't stop it comes as reports emerge of troops and tanks storming the heart of anti-government protests. it's a victory day parade preview of moscow's russia gears up to not the defeat of fascism with its annual show strength thousands of soldiers marched through the heart of the russian capital with some of the country's military hardware. and american gun
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owners get openly carrying a weapon saying it's the last line of defense for them on home soil despite claims that it encourages violence armed citizens say they have a right to protect themselves from an increasingly dangerous society. and a more news stories more developments on this and thirty minutes from now here in the next we recall the events of nine hundred forty five and what it meant to fight fascism the stories of those who survived next on our team. it was a spring like many others in europe likes cherries and lots of gals. but those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town and village after village remember it differently the nightingale sang louder the cherries are
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sweeter and the women seem to. people in sheep's don't buy it and to russian five to six in the two she started a serious reply he said you're a life being but there were dead bodies only before we found you. east locum that's liberates was injured in 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 the rick. everybody shot for any kind of weapon with a single pistols to machine guns in from right into the air. normally román to welcome the racist millions of civilians who died in concentration camps and occupied territories. millions of soldiers had missed their victory day but those
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who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realized in song and still suffer 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 struggled through the snow down passes on them a war of fear great in bucharest. depeche vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. calls of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tatters it it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp martha was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting
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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 do a pictures all same. as would that be at our health sector and musician. excuse me nothing here has the loss of bright the peace and also the requiem with us in this case and. as this man likes to say the jews sing a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters and. these drawings belong to martha's friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her art sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden the images paint the vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god the big release is where we washed up that there was no bathroom just
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a towel 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 p a five zero five. double that was my transport number. if we should be shelved like these were in not a great tragedy we paid for them in the brutality yes we can breath for them to put things under the mattress case 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 fenner's you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff bellone you whenever they want to tell that to people slept in the space and
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terrorising but as many as ten people 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 and the autumn of nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish gypsy children were being murdered in gas chambers german children little rides going to school learning control cams and sing the songs they sang were not sound like a. 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 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 look the bolsheviks feel all strange and little wildrose is paved the way of hitler's men heading for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly
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anyone saying this something. that is military chiefs had just won a touchdown seems to put the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the copy to mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to release from its not sing like manner. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria. conant suffered perhaps 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 soldiers older women were said to factories or gas chambers. he was the what the. when he was made he will suck you with them you're not you
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forty four as a political prisoner i think that if. you had occasion to meet in the prison if that life 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 credit or imps chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just because they were dealt a list of people who were supposed to go where we even suggest chambers they were only thirteen of us left. and the man who went to the guest chamber was the one who had occupied the bungalow me. had been a teacher before. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber. i was fitz was operated like
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a well oiled machine nothing was wasted trousers shoes spectacles given human teeth everything was good to use toys was sent to germany children german women was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. a.r.v. jan. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the claude cone three tween the crematorium and the hess dealer with s.s. men to service staff and ok surely the officers' wives in attendance. in danger would be performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a criminal. some might find it odd that polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz it's a human to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books added that. the editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order
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to attract more attention you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again. on a. 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 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 it would a german uniform put his happiness with mallya loss to just twelve days when they were then called. as was was hanged in bacon now. he also wanted to hang in. there but she didn't let them for biafra. she cut her
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veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand if you did. you know what. when an s.s. man was about to put the noose around her neck she hears 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 commander rudolf hess for years people have wanted the onset of just one question. more a positive bargain they say are ok you service has as gold or you always had a razor in your hand you might have taken him by the head and cut his throat i am to that i respond yes i might have. but it would have been the result. moira you know they would have killed all my family and hell for the hams people.
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these people survived the concentration camps but they 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 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 it in a narrow hole called terrorising very three chorus of brett no one can win with just to survive couldn't ask for more it stings it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children are 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 when martha goes
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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. avick please give me that one these are nice and i think i know for sure then i'll take the stew and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrorise in the norm to daft camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation.
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download the official anti allocation jodhi phone i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. jaunty life on the go. video on demand policies mindful of costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the poxy dot com. fifty. fifty. five. belgrade in one hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's council the country had
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already enjoyed three years of occupation you could slow 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 marshall tito who 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 tricky sea of consumption great. settlement or we won't know how you got a flood of yugoslavia and says world war two with a few tanks it had gotten from france as country was modernizing its weaponry at the time of. a previous. 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 sold enormous monsters of tanks his numbers and capabilities were well above
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any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned to solve its tanks. in october nineteenth forty four red army troops isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block of the town to free. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for that health but 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 that is a ring name to the queen natalie street they should have changed the name they should've left it. right they have no business changing names history shouldn't be changed. for quite
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a few streets of belgrade bearing two names it so happens that one of the streets is officially known as southern 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. all the time i'll tell you was a tank crews where there is 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. bearing a culvert with the body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy. form.
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places. 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. it was just the polish capital was to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruise determination. today it's hard to imagine but 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
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bank of the river in one city and the city has been systematically destroyed street after street in a palace after house has been our buildings are being blown up and burned all it will plainly all the season razed to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of old buildings that have survived their raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut chad duell they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not the 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 zero three and then some small structural elements were left all in 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 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 a cuboid 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 i felt sure is nobody wants to discuss with him one of us not immunity agreement for instance when he was dismembered late might well be considered an earlier starting to be for the war god another old song. could be the.
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national socialist germany of swallowed up austria after the. 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 cow a full 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 distillate traces of the anschluss welcomed 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 wars last hours. of that time a force of hope was a seventeen year old nervous. system uncertain 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 she living. when the un to collect some metson for the wounded we found ourselves on the five two 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 shona who gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance chynna knew that the red army was approaching. and he had no desire to surrender to
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soviet troops. 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. they were not going to surrender even though they were war was over. they wanted to get to the americans at any cost and they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered praga made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given. the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here the dreaded army soldiers who died liberating progress.
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of be now. well. i see you've laid flowers disagree. with you i first came here a long time ago a young nurse historic here i don't even know if your relatives know that she lies here it was simple it was a flower in 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 that 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 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 checking
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soviet scientists need help sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. i'm going to shut can't help yourself in the tolly please journey. as it were 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 the 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 to transfer. larger sounds well well no idea looking at here is a shell pleasure in the years i was in. they recall the last days of the war and victory day in such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. most
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surely will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones there 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 it is but we stuck to fire a german takes. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips a lot of both. some were too modest to whet their medals others take pride in wearing them they're always happy to tell about how they had each of. the veterans insists that the young must learn about that. war is obvious middle is for valor this one is for services to the country jim this one is for brotherhood and unity the middle awarded by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young
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people about the stories of those who missed vet victoria short of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the mighty gail singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line its form 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. 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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