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and. rest fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of belarus formerly the soviet republic of belarus the fortress was once the western most outpost of the soviet empire each day schoolchildren in the town of brest take part in a ceremony by a local monument to commemorate what happened there. on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred forty one german fashion forces invaded the soviet union without a declaration of war the defenders of the breast fortress found themselves in a dead end situation it is here that the myth about the invincibility of the german army was broken really end of the wall. abreast fortress as a name became synonymous to perseverance courage and belief in victory for years to come.

the early hours of june twenty second nineteen forty one german artillery unleashes a massive barrage from the breast garrisoned. german war planes some ultimately dropped hundreds of bombs on the fortress soon after infantry assault groups launched the initial ground attack. is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. his daughter i.e.c. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of breasts. shows was he looks like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here well it's funny i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case mates but in the first days of the real war the units under the command of luggin are shot lawsky was holding out in one of

them within two days the defenders had exhausted their ammunition. daughter saw the germans trying to capture her father. of the two thousand it was a noisy it seems that the head. he had chosen times the railings and plunged into the river by the germans began firing asked him not present death in captivity he shouted those were the last words he addressed to his soldier adamantly. in accordance with their plan to attack the soviet union the germans had amassed three armies close to the border among these army groups or was the most powerful its mission was to encircle and destroy soviet troops and belorussia and move on to moscow via small. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening cycles.

the sounds of the explosions was deafening. that i had seen war only in films. i thought it was an earthquake i just couldn't believe there was a war going on. the first hours of june twenty second one thousand forty one phone call to kenny g. of a member of the military band asleep in his barracks on the second floor abreast fortress . within minutes of the attack bullets and shells fragments had riddled the barracks wall. i remember just all over the place. well. i could barely breathe iraq myself open a blanket. when i heard an order from your rifles and get downstairs. now i barely had time to pull all my clothes before rushing downstairs with my platoon. only

a few hours later the german plan to move through the russian territory had stalled . every week covered from the initial shock the soviet soldiers remaining in the garrison offered stubborn resistance despite being outnumbered nearly two to one by their attackers. and one of our rifle regiments counterattacks. one try to roll back to the gates but they were met with a shower of bullets there too. money of the fastest side there at. the beginning of the huns edmund shown back was born in munich on june twenty second one hundred forty one he was among the german troops who entered the russia . shortly before that he had been called up from high school and sent to the eastern front to serve in a panzer unit. a huge force terrifying wave of germany.

from all sides. into russian territory and when they were done we knew we had to go in. another tank solicitor which gets us all the first horribly injured german soldiers and it wasn't just me we all knew what would happen and it was terrible actually. today the border between belarus and poem follows the same line along which soviet frontier post where once deployed. it was they who bore the brunt of the nazi invasion for several days small arms were the only weapons the border guards can nevertheless they held up the advance of german troops and tanks for some time and they willing the fortress garrison to organize its defense. yes to come on to german command allowed thirty minutes for the destruction of the frontier posts but somehow the health from one

to seven days repulsing one attack after another. these pill boxes on the board were built shortly before the war but they were never used supplies and ammunition for the machine guns had been scheduled to arrive the day after the nets invasion of soviet territory. was in command of one of the pill boxes he was officer on duty the day before the start of the war this picture shows or so i would encourage his friend nikolai a fellow servicemen returning from a night of dancing in breastplate on june twenty first. when used to fly. brother mir. i have something terrible to tell you which. shows thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me. that a war would break out tomorrow or in the morning.

all those nineteen thirty nine two years before the start of the war relations between the soviet union and germany had become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states mullets of an ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in september nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded. germany to mend. his tanks capture the breast fortress at that time part of polish territory. this is rare footage joint so that in german military parades in accordance with the secret deal to divide your german military hands breast over to soviet troops in less than two years' time. will again launch an assault on breast fortress fighting against the same troops solicits in the interim dispenser units will have gained

valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe. and. assured we have the modem same knowledge aint to communicate between the time it was like headphones. that allowed us to react small quickly. the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other and whereas we could for example withdraw and then attack from the sides. june twenty fourth one of the most tragic days for the defenders of the fortress during another attempted assault by nancy hughes russian officers wife and children as a human shield on this bridge. they told us women and children to lie down on the bridge close to monterrey pieces. can

you imagine four or five guns firing it's a time it can shatter your brain. my son slava had one of his it. now he can't hit anything it's all in that's here yeah i saw my daughter's hand nina turning grey. after an elder. she was only a little kid. alexander was only six years old in one nine hundred forty one he and his parents were living in breast fortress he spent two days in the so-called polar magazine at the start of the war he was wounded and lost his entire family here. at. the gravity of the situation the children didn't. who. was standing in this nation with that's when we got scared over who. and when i was so my

mother and sister killed while sitting right here where i took myself away as far as i cood and the fate of those who were in the cellar. in essence the entire territory of the fortress. as a monument to the victims of the wars of first days known as building houses a museum. at its center a famous exhibit and alarm clock the stop kicking as soon as the war began. another exhibit is dedicated to the children of red army commanders who fought in the fortress many of them were murdered by s.s. task forces in one thousand nine hundred two a year after german troops attacked the soviet union. forces in the else in the one nine hundred forty two the fascists massacred fifty four children at an orphanage me abreast their parents had already died in the war. my friends on

a command was the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and all of them just. a vigil of commemoration and sorrow takes place each year in the breast fortress on the night of june twenty first candles are lit in the embers yours veterans come here from all over the former soviet union a slide show features pictures of the red army commanding officers who took part in the defense of breast fortress after the ceremony border guard soldiers float to reside in the western movie river to commemorate the people whose lives were cut short in breast fortress in june one thousand nine hundred one the names of many of them are still unknown. wealthy british style.

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june twenty second midday eight hours after the german attack most of the surviving defenders of the breast fortress moved into cellars under the barracks. and his comrades spent about three days there build back in the nineteenth century the cellars withstood direct hits in the aerial bombardment. for the year there was a hospital for the wounded here but while the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corners or more the german command demanded that the defenders lay down their arms and surrender when they turned down the ultimatum german assault

groups used flame throwers to flush them out. rather. the heat was so intense that even bricks begun to melt. the fighters continued their resistance as they shifted from one place to another. this is how german war correspondents pro-trade the event but cameraman were unable to film an emerging from sellers with their hands raised as a sign of surrender none of them did back. this russian surrender german shelter loudspeaker or no we'll let you live don't be afraid they said. with some of the spots of the loudspeaker they hit it with a push to machine gun fire. that was the end of the propaganda that's a pretty. a shortage of water was the biggest problem the defenders faced

and western river was nearby but german troops were in control of all approaches to it still can think of another fighters managed to reach the river several times under the cover of darkness. to reach the west we were sometimes crawling sometimes running. a mess tins or helmets then we were told by trying to make no noise we had to do it on to a the germans fired flares all the time they certainly would have opened fire if they. know days mining engineers look for wartime ammunition in the western. one of the latest findings is a german two hundred ten millimeter artillery shell. is just as dangerous today as it was sixty eight years ago. careful slowly slowly don't turn it over. most of the shell could go off at any moment if it's not handled properly if it

does judging by its size it will deliberate everything within a radius of about five hundred meters. on the average day divers pick up three to ten objects relating to the first days of the war. build in the nineteenth century the brest fortress was long considered impenetrable they outer walls were two meters thick. in the twentieth century it was in effect a death trap for the seven thousand strong soviet garrison. from the start of the war all the fortresses gates were continuously under artillery and machine gun fire they were also blocked by attacking enemy troops as a result fewer than half of the men who were sheer on june twenty second were able to leave the fortress and protect the border. on permission barbarossa the german plan to seize still the territory was ready in

december nineteen fourteen but most of the soviet leaders as soon that hitler would target britain first before unleashing any attack on the soviets. but a. stalin was already aware of the bob plan by february not in forty one. problem was that the germans regularly postponed the. initially was i proven my fifteen min while stalin was desperately trying to delay war until autumn with. fortress where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several forts situated on islands around the main fortification in. the eastern seaboard offer the most stubborn resistance. most of the fortress defenders still expected reinforcements down to the end they did know they were already well behind enemy lines germans has seized the town of brest within hours. abreast residents lived

under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was not an inch a second rate person. that. even public tell this in hospitals could not be used to everybody johns had decent food the obvious we're not so lucky. they tell me every way you could see signs saying. it's only. no answer and it's already during the first days of the war many people in the breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the force of belorussia they formed groups of guerrilla warfare by cd because love learn new skills those a machine gun here in the forest dugouts in june one thousand nine hundred one could have. children and women was hiding in there and if all of us lived here.

all of us were helping each other. the partisans stayed in the force for about three years in the daytime they carried out reconnaissance and secret monitoring of the enemy in the evening they were engaged in special operations. forces use this railway to bring military hardware to the front line. exposes were placed under this truck so that nobody could see them and. the german sent reconnaissance parties to check the tracks but that didn't help a lot of scouts and a little as the train came closer we singled out the wagon carrying military equipment to be blown up. quick and the wagon was no more. this image array for soldiers of the german forty fifth division appeared soon after the assault on the fortress and takeover of the town of brest german troops had already swept across poland france and much of europe but in storming the russia they

encountered the most ferocious resistance to date. and. the best solace that all weapons were the best in the worlds. we were the strongest anyone invest and we believed it. mostly because of our successes in western europe like the operation in france but it was far from the truth and. these four soviet memorials commemorate fighters whose bodies have been recovered by search parties since the war searching for missing soldiers is a long and complicated process. first the head of a search group asks locals where exactly the fighting took place. when there are also a good. many a firefight says particularly the partisans died in the small it's now just looking

through the woods you could see the dead lying in groups of ten or twelve they never made it out of the forest. then a group of volunteers sets out on an expedition they call the site a meter after meter. weapons and other objects made of metal fairly well underground. this is a soviet helmet it was a direct hit. you can see where the shot entered and exited. the returns to base the objects are carefully examined the latest expedition has turned up. a flask. but the searchers regard so-called medallions as the most valuable. these are small cases containing all important papers they carry the information that will help identify the soldier his age rank and the name of town or village where he was called up. or stored it just

so happens there were from the same places the dead soldier were going to look for his relatives now one more fallen soldier has a name. if papers identifying the dead are found they're sent to officials us state our comps each year adds more names to the list of breast fortress defenders. this is the personal record of one of the fighters stiff arm studies lofsky his identity was verified just a few years ago. no his name is inscribed on a memorial wall in the central alley of breast fortress it has replaced another plate saying unknown soldier study slops he's nice is his only surviving relative just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate. tiniest message that people want

to at least see the grief of somebody to please plough isn't it and think about a person there is nothing more painful than the wit missing so when my uncle's name was finally written on the memorial plate it was a very touching moment for my family. the last defenders of breast fortress repelled german attacks for nearly a month in the one nine hundred sixty s. the museum received a fragment of the inner wall of one of the chiefs mates of the eastern for an inscription discovered on it dates from july twentieth one thousand nine hundred forty one scribbled with a knife and said very well. i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. nobody surrendered to their own a code. all of those captured tables that if they were unable to use their weapons. but nobody raised their hands before to the death to the last man. hitler and mussolini arrived in

august one thousand nine hundred one for a visit to brest fortress this point official reports claiming that there were no surviving defenders unprecedented security precautions were put in place. on the. even the top level visits to german soldiers patrolling an area near the fortress had disappear. for fear of hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through a bridge that used to be right here where hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him and even took a stone lying amongst the ruins with him. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor e. of the third reich. church and rest fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside the dome. it was from here that the defenders of breast fortress launched their first counterattack. scores of

german and soviet soldiers died here. the time has come for mutual forgiveness. we must live in peace. it's not always to forget the constant it must not be forgotten. we might forgive. children now play and best fortress where military hardware dating back to the one nine hundred forty s. is on display they knew about that war only from books and films. on holidays veterans told tourists about the war or. any coven other survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith in the ultimate victory over fashions troops could make of it his comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic

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