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market why not. why no one should really happening to the global economy with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. week top stories now here on aussie america's most wanted terrorists is killed by its troops bringing cheering crowds on to the streets but leaving some puzzled by the consistencies and united states version of events also refuse all to shape pictures of the solid good and sporty a feeling conspiracy theories. they say members look at sign fitting support for the libyan rebels with washington planning to release kids out these frozen assets but russia wants the alliance involved but it's getting dangerously close to browns
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of beijing. troops and tanks under arrest in syria with no signs of an end to the fighting washington around the e.u. deploy sanctions to fulls the regime to end its violent crackdown on its citizens some eight hundred people have reportedly been killed since the uprising began a ways to go on it's ok. let's go to paris to roll out the big guns for the annual ground victory day parade all season looking at the highlights of the rehearsals talking to survivors exploring how today's younger generations feel about the fight for freedom but i had all the events also you spoke to some of the survivors from german concentration camps who still remember the immense relief they felt on their liberation i solve its assumptions.
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it was a spring like many others in europe like looks cherry's images. of those who fold their way across the company liberating town after town and village after village remember a different place the nightingale sang land the cherries and the women seemed to. be poised and cheap stopped by made international efforts to change the tuning he studied easily and he said you're a life really but there were dead bodies only before we found hugh jackman ashley. easton welcomed its liberators 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 was so happy when she finally like go just.
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everybody shot for any kind of weapon or for signal pistols to machine don't see fit right into the air. nor romantic welcome to liberate us millions of civilians caught in concentration camps and occupied. some soldiers had missed their victory day of those who had not lived to see the spring of nine hundred forty five when the more realized and some 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 mountains the soldiers struggle through the snowbound passes. a war of fear great in bucharest. depeche vienna prague all still occupied by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation.
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monster kosovo i checked 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 decision to seal 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 same. as if that be what our health sector and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the lot of bright the case and also the requiem with us in a space and. as his men like to say the juice in a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in tatters
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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 their images paints a vivid picture of life in terrorism. thank god it began this is where we washed i thought there was no bathroom just a town and water the only cold water and even that 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. eight r five zero five. that was my transcript number use. you dish me shells like these were in not a great treasure we paid for them in
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a brand teddy 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 true most of the bucks for them but at least nothing felons you while you were asleep but on the lower bunk all kinds of stuff bellone you whenever the want of off turned over security 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 and gypsy children would be getting gas chambers german children little girl guides turning to school and learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not charmed last. show of pneumonia mother this is
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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 a mosque or soon as we can all the bolsheviks feel all strength and little wilder oses pave the way of hitler's men heading for russia will flood. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song anymore. the dismal of the chiefs had just want to calm down things 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 some nightmare. then soviet troops brought peace to the area. conan suffered laughs the hardest of its history men were executed or sent down as
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slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for very mouth soldiers old women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was it was this. one he was in your old will so he was on your night and for you for a while he called and i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet on the phrase little said i and. even the best guy 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 urgency and look to the black smoke billowing from the criminal rinse jimmie's inhaled the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his term. just they were it out the list of people who was supposed to go where you wanted
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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 yeah good and here. 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.r.v. john. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone through tween the crematorium and the hassle. with their system in the service staff and ok surely the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed the performance knowing
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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 its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books at that. meanwhile the editor tells me she's done it on purpose in order to attract more attention over 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 story's characters personally it would alinsky 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 french born. the fact they found love of the death factory as auschwitz was known was remarkable that they could escape was incredible an s.s.
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officer had given atwood a german uniform his happiness with malia lasted just twelve days when they were then called. a couple of years as word was hanged in big canal. he also wanted to hang. it but she didn't let them. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be at hand. you know. when an s.s. man was about to put a 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
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one question. more upon the bargain they say are 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 today as i respond yes i might have on a bus would have been the result. noir of you know they would have killed all my family and hell for the camps people. these people survived the concentration camps and they still don't understand how they made it through. the verse says teachers help the last educating youngsters in secret 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 quarters of bread no one can win with
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just to survive cook an eskimo it stinks it's wild it's war. terrorism surviving children of 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 but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. abbie please give me that one these are nice and i think i know for sure that i'll take these two and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went through terrace in the norms of death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation.
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in one nine hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been facing resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from inside. the germs of them 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 air ministry museum in something about great. but i don't know why i know how you got lucky if you get selfish and said world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france i mean you know this country was more than noising it's weaponry at the time and always hear hear. buckles 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
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they saw the enormous monsters of tanks with his numbers and capabilities well well above any of the tanks that had appears in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. in october nineteenth forty four red army troops and isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street off a street block after block and tough attack attack 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. rubio honest see what they've done to our popular front street where there was a victorious uprising in one hundred forty one named queen natalie street so they should have changed the name they should've left it's easy to write 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 something about local people so called it read on the street to avoid confusion the authorities decided to put up signs bearing both names. i hear it's all old eight thousand russians died in serbia you could go all the time i'll tell you was. a tank crews were buried in 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. bearing a culvert with the body of a soviet tanks man. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy.
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told. the. players. oh 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 city razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruise 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. over from a war so ease deserted i. the germans are driving theobald are
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a little out of the bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and at house after house buildings are being blown up and burned out all it will plainly are all the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made inventories of old buildings that had survived air raids 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 not the arts experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is an equivalent to the entire old castle was in ruins that's the just you not seen a forty five zero three and then some small structural elements were left open and that. also
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separation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and ends of 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 here the second world war started when the nazis attacked on september the first nine hundred thirty nine but many historians argue the war began much. to shift the war you have not probably refer to as nobody wants to discuss him lying about the munich agreement for instance when chicas slovakia was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to be for the war got another olds. could be the.
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when national socialist germany of 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 towns in the spring of one nine hundred forty five on april the thirteenth the germans surrendered in vienna the city of mozart and stress was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere distillate traces of the anschluss welcomes 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
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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 slots a fourth of a was a seventeen year old thomas. 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 living. one where you went to collect some metson for the wounded we found ourselves on decide to and there were many dead in 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 seana we're gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance chynna knew that the red army was approaching. and he had no
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desire to surrender to soviet troops. because there were a german troops in want to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right here at. his hospital trains but in fact they were not that are not 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 armored there was scared of fresh troops there were. soviet troops entered praga made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given to the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died.
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cemetery it's here the red army soldiers who died liberating praga buried. nobody knows how. nice to see you of late it's great. i first came here a long time ago a young nurse historic here i don't even know if her relatives know that she lives here there is a symbol of what a flower in her grave and leaf she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from home. and many of those who lie here lived 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 years and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to soar to seoul just weeks after the german surrender. but those who survived still get
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together. there's a certain mr senor. for my check i'm soviet son just me tough sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk. i'm going to shut her help yourself in the tolly please journey. to. where you know these men out there let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires into as a keepsake. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know new orleans 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 no dear looking at here this is sheer pleasure in the years it was there. they recall the last days of the
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war and victory day and such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. most will go 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 could squeeze them and they cut back to their original shape that's what i call a feast i thought we did but we stuck to fire a german takes. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. summit to moses to wed them 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 obvious middle is for valor this one is for services to the country and this one is for brotherhood and unity the medal awarded why do you
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go slow people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed victorious shortfall about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the night in jail singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the lights form the tanks see those who kissed the liberation soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to these war heroes they didn't live to see the piece of them every lives on in. l. . mission free cretaceous and free comes for charges free from h m m's free
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