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day celebrations in russia thousands of troops marched across moscow's red square in a final rehearsal before monday's tree. and ahead of the event we caught up with the survivors of german concentration camps who still remember the joy and relief of liberation by solving soldier's story coming up next. it was a spring like many others in europe like looks cherries and nightingales. but those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town can feel it just a village remember a different place and once again sang land of cherries and the women seemed to.

move people in jeeps don't buy made into russian physician or the two he started easily and he says you're a life really but there were dead bodies only years before we found hugh jackman ashley. easton locum that's liberates us including soviet soldiers and their rebuild 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 just a different day everybody shot for any kind of weapon or for signal pistols to machine guns you fit right into the air. nor the wrong hand to welcome the liberators millions of civilians who died in concentration camps and occupied territories. millions of soldiers had missed their victory day but those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five women more realize 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 compilation mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow bound passes on the saffir the great bucharest. depeche vienna prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. not a cause of a 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 and 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 tellers and children were not allowed to read the pictures all saying. that b. and our health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the loss of bright the keys and also the requiem with us and they say stand. as his men like to say the juice in a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tellers in. 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 of her images paints a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god we began this is where we washed out 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 of. eight a r p a five zero five. public that's was my transparent numbers. edition michel's like these were in not a great tragedy we paid for them in a print telly yes we can breath for them we put things under the mattress if we needed to smooth out there was no irony that the top bunk was the best place to sleep most of the books with them but at least nothing fellers you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff delany you whenever they want to talk to until that two 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 and learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not complicated. show of pneumonia mother this is a collection of songs sung by members of people or you're going to. 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 what we want to be moscow or soon as we can all look the bolsheviks feel all strange and little wilder oses pave the way of hitler's men heading for russia with love. but by late one nine hundred forty four

hardly anyone suggests summoning. the dismal italy chiefs had just won a touchdown teams to take the red army goldstone offensive on the frontline from the cop a few mountains to the black sea liberating european cities. romania became the first country to be released from its not some nightmare. then saw the troops brought peace to bulgaria. conan suffered perhaps the hardest did it history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for them not soldiers old women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was the what the. when he was. old will suck he wasn't your knight you vote for a political prisoner i told you i think that you have you had occasion for me in

the prison if ever i 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 to the black smoke billowing from the credit or imps chimneys inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his turn. fifth corps just they read out a list of people who were 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. 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 german children german women who sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. a abidjan. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the cloth cone three tween the crematorium and the hair. with their system in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and the danger would be performance knowing full well that people were being burned in a criminal. some might find it odd that 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. 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 on a federal. pen yousif knew the stories characters personally 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 his happiness with mali a loss to just twelve days when they were then called. as was was hanged in big canal. he also wanted to hang. him but she didn't let them. have veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand. you know. 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's commander rudolf hess for years people have wanted the onset of just one question. ponder boggle they say they're ok you service has as big of a you always had a razor in your hands you might have taken him by the hair and cut his throat i am today 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 hell for 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 that the humor was dark like this song written by children in terrorism. and said sit in a narrow hole called terrorising very three quarters of bread no one can win with 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 when martha goes 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. abbie please give me that one these are nice and i think i know for sure our take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen families and children who went through tara's in the norms of death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation. the price of freedom from the most polluted fascist regime in history. those who fought to win the war stand proudly. against the tide of history

being rewritten. sixty six years of victory on our cheek. if. bush is would be soon which bryson if you only bounce around from phones to impressions. whose phone starts hot seat belts come. to.

belgrade in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had 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 germs often send the 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 at military bases in central great. i don't know why i know how you got a lot of yugoslavia ends as world war two with a few tanks it had gotten from france minuets country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. a preview of. 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 sold enormous monsters of tanks at 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 forty four red army troops and the slavs resistance fighters liberated belgrade street after street block after block the town at times to free. 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. radio on and see what they've done to your popular france truth where there was a victorious uprising in one hundred forty one occupant of the ring namely the queen natalie street they should have changed the name they should've left it at

once he's entering the 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 it told eight thousand russians died in serbia. all the time i'll tell you was. true is where there has been a very large pit dug here 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 tanks. with a body of a soviet tanks man. there was

a band playing at the front of the convoy musical. form. of. 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 to be raised to the ground those instructions were carried out from the terminations. 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.

trouble or so ease deserted i. the germans are driving people go to the left bank of the river once again the city has been systematically destroyed street after street and it can also after house has been our buildings are being blown up and burned all it would plainly all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of all buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut checkable 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 only cruel if the entire all the castle was in ruins that's just you know nineteen forty five zero three 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 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 a cuboid longer than others. 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 protheroe effectors nobody wants to discuss him long enough to mimic

a dream and for instance when chicken slovakia's was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to be for the war god another oldster. could be the and slums when a national socialist germany of swallowed up austria or money of the. almost the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly entered vienna but the entrance was not as 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 danced 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 the time lost 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 armbands with the red cross on them three letting. when do you plan to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves on to find. there were many dead and wounded people that we had. they were the final casualties of the war's last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal

general shell are gradually pulling back westwards as they continue fighting with the resistance gena knew that the red army was approaching and he had no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were a german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right here . for three and they were marked 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 won't was over. that they wanted to get to the americans a to any cost armor and they were scared of fresh troops there were. soviet troops entered praga made the ninth today's progs still dotted with small memorial marcus like this hand raised to given. the inscription says we will stay

committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here that red army soldiers who died liberating prague barrett. have been. i see your great flower is great. when. 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 i simply put a flower on her grave and be 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 off of. the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter seoul

just weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get together. there it's so nice to see all. form a check and something that some just mete out sometimes to celebrate public holidays will simply to talk. i'm going to shut. yourself in the tolly please journey. that you're. going over these 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. neither 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 in a tree. hugger sounds well well no dear looking at here

this is sheer pleasure but here it was. they recall the last days of the war and victory day and such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. surely we will. given good food just imagine a regiment enjoying the siege of leningrad here the guys are given milk. bones they're so fresh you can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. restocked safira german takes. just the earth of my country and it's stuck to my lips. 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 all this medal is for valor this one is for services to

the country this one is for brotherhood and unity emmet awarded why do you go slow people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed victorious shows and forgot 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 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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