schoolchildren three. three. three stooges three. three volunteers call it video for your media project a free media john darche john tom. good to have you with this is artie commission live from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day top stories now for you the pressure mounts and syria's washington threatens fresh sanctions if the violent crackdowns on feminist phrases don't stop it comes with reports emerging troops and tanks storming the harbor antique government protests. it's a victory day parade preview in moscow as russia gears up some not the defeat of the nazis can you show of strength thousands of soldiers marched through the heart

of the russian capital with some of the country's military hardware. american gun owners get caught up over openly carrying their weapon say it's their last line of defense on home soil despite claims that it encourages violence on citizens say they have a right to protect themselves from an increasingly dangerous this is something. that's it for me today. she'll be here with more on those stories in less than thirty minutes from now but in the meantime we recall the events of nine hundred forty five and what it meant to fight fascism the stories of those who survived the next. it was a spring like many others in europe looks cherry's and nightingales. for those who fold their way across the country liberating town after town confining

village remember differently the nightingale sang the cherries and the women seemed to. be poised and cheap stopped by made international efforts to keep the two started easily and he said you're a life v.a. but there would only be for we found hugh jackman ashley regarding the stimulus locum it's liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with bread and milk flowers and women braces. rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally let go. everybody shot from any kind of weapon was a signal pistols to machine don't see fit right into the air. nor the romance welcome liberates us millions of civilians in concentration camps and occupied.

millions of soldiers have missed their victory day of those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five with a more realized in 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 combination mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow down passes . to feel great and bucharest. depeche the enter prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. monster kosovo i check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tennessee and it was called a town but it was actually more of

a concentration camp not it was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to seal 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 or saying. that be around health chatter and musician but i'm an excuse me nothing here has a lot of bright the keys and also direct women with us and they space and. as this man likes to say they juice in a requiem for themselves thanks. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters and. these drawings belong to mother's friend. she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden the images paints a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god we began this is where we

washed the thought that 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 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 r he thought i owed five. the bull that was my transport number. you dish me shells like these were in not a great tragedy we paid for them in a branch only yes we can breath for them to put things under the mattress if we needed to sneak them out there was no irony 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 all kinds of stuff telling 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 taro's in was a resort compared to auschwitz was a 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 live normal lives going to school learning to drive cabs and sing the songs they sang were not child last. show of pneumonia mothers is a collection of songs sung by members of hitler yoga and as was noted it was published in the nineteen thirty six line of one of the songs goes something like this one and we want to march on moscow over what we want to be moscow or soon as we can feel or let the bolsheviks feel all strength get

a little wilder oses pave the way of hitler's and then heading for russia will flood. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song again. it was military chiefs had just won a touchdown teams to the red army launched an offensive on the frontline from the cop 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 suffered laughs the hardest of its history men were executed or set 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 that what this is why when he was nineteen years old and so he was on your night before you for a well the reason i told you i think. you had occasion to meet all the prisoners will subside 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 rich in ski and looked at the black smoke billowing from the criminal rims chimneys inhaled the nords gave him sweet odor and waited for his turn. just they were it out the list of people who were supposed to know where you 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. poland about how we died he said oh and went to

the guest chamber. i was 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 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 three tween the crematorium and the dealer 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 burnt in a criminal. some might find it all the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books added that. 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. penus if knew the stories characters personally i would go into he 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 deaf actory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s. officer had given it with a german uniform but his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. as word was hanged in birkenau. he also wanted to hang. but she didn't let them. she cut her

veins with a piece or viral that happened to be a hand. you know. when an s.s. man was about it but 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 rudolph hess for years people have worms of the answer to just one question. more upon her part will they say are you 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 to that 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 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 help the last education youngsters in secret are trying to 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 corners of bread no one can win or just to survive you can ask for more it stings 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 and this is because they never saw butterflies in

the concentration camps and stead 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 of these and i think i know for sure then i'll take this to her 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.

the price of freedom from the most move fascist regime in history. those who fought to win the stand. against the tide of history being rewritten. sixty six years of victory on our team.

belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation. of 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 and for bad 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 minutely museum in central got a great. book i don't know why no one. else has world war two with a few tanks ahead or from france you know this country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. you. can 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 any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. in october nineteenth before red army troops and isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block of the town for. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the 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 name between natalie street vision of change the name they should've left if it's history right they have no business

changing names history shouldn't be changed. there are quite 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 you could have all the time out to tell you was. true is where there is in a very large pit tell a kid between this monument and well 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. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy for music of.

polling. places. of almost. 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 some of the hitler's orders the polish capital was to be razed to the ground and those instructions were carried out determination. today it's hard to imagine that here where these beautiful streets swears and restored castles now stand they used to be just broken rocks people completely rebuilt their city stone by stone.

there's not a threat of war so ease deserted now you. the germans started driving people out over the left bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and it house after house has been our buildings are being blown up and burned all plainly all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that have 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 if the entire all the castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left over and that. also

is liberation 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. the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians onto the war began much. to shift i've not probably refer to as nobody wants to discuss him one year off my dominik agreement for instance when he was dismembered way might well be considered an

earlier starting to eat for the war crowd another oldster. could be the un slimes when a national socialist germany not swallowed up austria after. 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 sounds in the spring of one nine hundred forty five on april the thirteenth the germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart some strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere distillate traces of the angelus 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 wars last hours. of that time plus a fourth of a was a seventeen year old in the us. 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 hearing. when were you plan to collect some that sing for the wounded we found ourselves undefined to. there were many dead and wounded people that we had to. they were the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general seana we're gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance chynna knew that the bread amin is approaching. and he has no

desire to summon to soviet troops. there were a german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right hand. they would mock his hospital trains but in fact they were not but are 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 that to any cost they were scared of fresh troops. soviet troops entered prado made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given it was the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery

it's here the red army soldiers have died liberating praga buried. the body may have only. i see you great flowers some of this group. i first came here a long time ago a young girl right here i don't even know if your 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 think. such a long way from. many of those who live 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 girls and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to soar to soldiers weeks after the german surrender. of those who survived still get together

. there it's interesting to see all. from a check on the soviet side just meet our sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. i'm going to shut up yourself from a trolling police journey. going oh these men are through a litany give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires into as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know. believes 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 well well not here looking at you this is sheer pleasure with your mother. they recall the last days of the war and

victory day and such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. sure you will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad but here the guys are given milk. bones or so for a short order you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast authorities restock safira german tanks delta just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. for. some a tumultuous to wed that metals 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. or is this medal is for valor this one is for services to the country this one is for brotherhood and unity emin 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 mighty gal singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the lights for long the tanks. 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 that memory lives on in. honor of. download the official implication. i pod touch from the i.q.

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