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it's. a very warm welcome back it's all now in her moscow the week's top stories america's most wanted terrorists is killed by its troops bringing cheering crowds on to the streets but even some possible consistencies of the united states version of events also grow refusal to show you pictures all of us all about the dog and sporting a feeling conspiracy theory that's. they say members look inside getting support of a live in a revels with washington planning to release kids out these frames and says that
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russia won't see alliances involvement getting dangerously close to a ground invasion. troops at times on the west in syria would no signs of events of the fighting washington and the e.u. deploy sanctions to force the regime to end it spawning consol on its citizens some eight hundred people have reportedly been killed since the uprising began almost two months ago. last year proposed to roll out the big gongs for the annual victory day parade all season from the apostles talking to survivors and exploring how today's younger generations feel about the fight for freedom. well ahead of events halls he spoke to some of the survivors from the german concentration camps and still remembered the immense relief they felt on their liberation i saw its options .
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it was a spring like many others of my looks cherries and nightingales. but those unfold their way across the country liberating town after town infinite village remember it differently than one thousand. cherries and the women seen. before and cheap stopped by international assistance in the two i started hastening he said you're a life really but there was only before we found hugh jackman national guard east welcome its liberators including soviet soldiers and their rebuilt national armies with. flowers and braces. and rushed to me and hugged me so hard. i was so happy when she finally like girls just.
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everybody shot from any kind of weapon signal pistols to machine don't see fit right into the air. nor the romance of welcome to liberate us millions of civilians in concentration camps and occupied. lands 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 and some still to this day. the spring of nine hundred forty four. to go before the end of the second world war . has freed soviet territory from nazi occupation and is now pushing across the mountains the soldiers struggle through the snow passes. a wall of fear. hashed vienna and prague all still occupied by the germans and still waiting for
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the liberation. monster cultivar 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 was it was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to seal their fate more often than not people with sense outfits to face execution meanwhile terrorism's children were not allowed to read the pictures all saying. he would that be at our health sector and use it. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the gall to bryant's the case and also direct him with us in the case mason and i and as his men like to say they juice in a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in
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terrorism. these drawings belong to mother's friend of ace of a she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden their images paint a vivid picture of life in terror as it. thank god we began this is where we washed up that there was no bathroom just a job and water only cold water and even that it was spotty. the young girls quarters were here they were kept separate from their parents in the daytime goes 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. they are five zero five. oh boy that's what my transport numbers use. you dish me else like these were not
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a great traction with dates put them in a bread thirty yes we can breath for them to put things under the mattress face if we needed to sniff them out there was no irony that that was the best place to sleep most of the bucks for them but at least nothing feller's you while you were asleep but on the low a bunk all kinds of stuff to you whenever the one above turned over 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. her brother and parents and her friend helga was sent to auschwitz in the autumn of nine hundred forty four. while czech polish jewish gypsy children could be getting gas chambers german children little girl guides going to school and learning to draw cans and sing the songs they sang were not chance laughter. szilvia money a mother sees
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a collection of songs sung by members of hitler yoga and the boys know that it was published in nineteen thirty six one of the songs goes something like this one we want sing watch on moscow for what we want to be moscow or soon as we can let the bolsheviks feel all strange and little wilder oses pave the way of hitler some men getting for russia will flood. but by late one nine hundred forty four hardly anyone sang this song and you know. it was military chiefs had just want to cut down things to make the red army post an 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 nazi nightmare. then soviet troops brought peace to bulgaria.
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conan suffered laughs the hardest it's history men were executed or sent down as slaves women aged between fifteen and twenty five percent to brothels for verma soldiers old women were sent to factories or gas chambers. he was a boy. when he was made you suck it wasn't your fault you for a. present i told you i think that you have you had occasion to meet a prisoner who survived 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 urgency and look to the black smoke billowing from the credit or him chimneys it hailed the noisy aging sweet odor and waited for his turn. songstress cora just they read out a list of people who was opposed to where the gas chambers. there were only thirteen
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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 reaching. poland about how we died he said and went to the guest chamber 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 german children german women was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. they had begun. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the cloth conflicts when the crematorium and the hassle. with their system in the service staff in occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and the danger would be
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a performance knowing full well that people were being burned in a crime a tory a minotaur. some might find it odd but polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz it's aiming to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books at 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. penus if knew the stories characters personally edward golinski was polish amalia's him a town was a jewish woman a 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.
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officer had given edward a german uniform his happiness with mallya lasted just twelve days when they were then called. edward was hanged in. my prayers he also wanted to hang. me but she didn't let them for my ashes. she cut her veins with a piece of irony that happened to be a hand if you did. you know what. when an s.s. man was about to put 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 rudolf hess for years people have wanted
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the answer to just one question. more upon their part will they say you're ok you service has 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 had a bus 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. cultivars says teachers help the last educating youngsters in secret to try 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. a safe seat in
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a national hole called terrorising view that with three quarters of breath no one can win with just to survive who can ask them oh 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 to a restaurant childers a lot of food she has still not yet overcome her fear of hunger. but she certainly still has a sweet tooth. avick please leave me that's one reason i asked if i know for sure i'll take the stew and just one more day. of the fifteen thousand children who went from terrorising unknown to death camps only ninety eight survived to see liberation.
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culture is that so much i was about to fail and i think the message of a really incredible what is happening to be anti-war movement there are plenty of wars being fought though with far fewer protesters was the anti-war movement just. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. belgrade in one hundred forty four it was yugoslavia's capital the country had already enjoyed three years of occupation yugoslav freedom fighters had been
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fiercely resisting the nazi regime and its collaborators from. the germans often send their best divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were under the command of marshall tito who fought back 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 military museum in central great. book i don't know why no how do you just know if it ends as world war two with a few tanks it had bought from france in your best country was more the noisy its weaponry at the time. you. 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 any of the sayings that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply
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stunned by the soviet tanks. nine hundred forty four red army troops and the stuff resistance fighters liberated belgrade street off the street block after block of the town for. these veterans like strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for the health but they enjoyed it because it makes them feel young 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 nine hundred forty one octave it was a renamed it queen natalie street they should have changed the name they should've left in its history the right 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
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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. true is where there is and 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 tank. with the body of a soviet saying from it. there was a band playing at the front of the convoy musical. form.
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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 says he's but no other city in eastern europe suffered as much as. it was the polish capital was to be razed to the ground and those instructions were carried out with 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 by a city stone by stone. so is deserted now you. the germans are driving people thought a little out of the bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and
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a callous after house and i buildings are being blown up and burnt all plainly the ceiling is being raised to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of old buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear culture jewel 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 an acquittal if he 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 open and that. also is liberation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and enter warsaw but unlike elsewhere the
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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 nineteen thirty nine but many historians argue the war began much. to shift the way it had not probably refer to as nobody wants to discuss him one of us might immunity agreement for instance when chicken slovakia's was dismembered way might well be considered an earlier starting to eat for the war in other oldster. could be the onslaught went national socialist germany not swallowed up austria if.
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almost the thirteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight hitler triumphantly ends of 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 and strauss was free again austria regained its independence people everywhere distilled traces of the angelus welcomed the soviet liberating troops and dumped waltz's 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 hardships of the wars last hours.
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of that 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 hearing. when will you plan to collect some medicine for the wounded we found ourselves on to find. and there were many dead and wounded people that we have been. they were the final casualties of the wars last days german troops under the command of the experienced field marshal general sherman gradually pulling back westwards as they continued fighting with the resistance gena knew that the red army was approaching and he has no desire to surrender to soviet troops. there were
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german troops in what to pee had to be three hospital trains. they were right. they were knocked his hospital trains running but in fact they were not the germans had weapons with them. 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. soviet troops entered prado made the mines today's progs still dotted with small memorial markers like this hand raised to given of the inscription says we will stay committed they signify the resistance fighters died here. cemetery it's here that red army soldiers have died liberating praga buried. of the man. i see you've laid this agreement.
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when. i first came here a long time ago a young girl and here i don't even know if her relatives know that she lies here she was simply put a flower on her grave and the she was about twenty two years old i think. such a long way from home. with many of those who lie here and live 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 off of the lows and the remnants of the nazi war machine continue to slaughter soldiers weeks after the german surrender. and those who survived still get together. there's it's interesting to see your. former champion soviet son just me tell sometimes to celebrate public holidays well simply to talk
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. rubbish can't help yourself from the trolling please journey. said here there were no these men otoh let me give you the medal of czechoslovakia's legionnaires until i was a keepsake which of course. i'm quite happy although i don't wear them you know and i believe you 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 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 in such painstaking detail it's as though it was only yesterday. not so
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good surely 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 can squeeze them and they pop back to their original shape that's what i call a feast. restock safira german tanks. just the earth of my country and it stuck to my lips. somewhat to notice to wed that medals others 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. war is over ismail is for valor this one is for services to the country and this one is for brotherhood and unity them into a war that by the yugoslav people's army. veterans tell young people about the stories of those who missed their victorious shot of vodka about those
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who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the mighty gale singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the minutes form the tanks the sea 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 that memory lives on in. this.
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