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happening to the global economy is causing reports on our t.v. . put out there it's time to take a look at the headlines out here not me but ten year old child who was pulled from the wreckage of a plane crash in the northwest of russia has died in hospital brings the number of those killed in the incident to forty four the news comes as aviation experts examine black box recorders from us and split into flames or any of. the greek government survives a critical vote of confidence in its austerity drive image furious protests really
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the people is being ignored parliament it's now decide whether to impose austerity measures worth billions of euros more to secure a second going down. and former soviet republics and when the twenty seven million victims killed in the fight against partners troops the state simply has not seen occasional simple union unleased keep another conflict in the region's history which we take known as a great truth to call. the next we talk to those who still remember not see germany's first offensive against the soviet union which took place in the city oppressed. and. rest fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of miller roofs formerly the soviet republic of belarus a fortress was once the western most outpost of the soviet empire each day school children in the town of brest take part in a ceremony by a local monument to commemorate what happened there. on june twenty second one
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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 after the end of the war and the rest 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 warplanes some ultimately dropped hundreds of bombs on the fortress soon after infantry assault groups launched the initial ground attack.
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is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. his doctor i.e.c. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of rest. this case he says was he look like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here what's failing me i see those events in my mind sighing as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case mates but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of libyan or shove 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 sudden it was a noisy scene that fonda had quite empty he had shown times the gradings and plunged into the red ribbons and germans began firing ask him that's
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a 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 someone else. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the hoping psychonauts. the sound of the explosions was deafening before that i had seen war only in films . i thought it was an earthquake i just couldn't believe it was a war going on. the first hours of june twenty second one nine hundred forty one. of
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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 walls. 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 have time to pull my coals downstairs with my platoon. only a few hours later the german plan to move through bella russian territory had stalled . every week covered from the initial shock and soldiers remaining in the garrison stubborn resistance despite being number nearly two to one by their attackers.
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one of our rifle regiments counterattacks the germans faltered and tried to roll back to the gates but they were met with a shower of bullets there are too. many of the fascists there. the beginning of the huns edmund shown back was born in munich on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred one he was among the german troops who entered 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 fourth terrifying wave of german. from also it's. interesting sarah chayes when they were done we knew we had to go in. another tanks initially. saw the first horribly injured german soldiers and it wasn't just me we all knew what would happen and it was terrible.
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the border between the poem follows the same line along which post were 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 billing the fortress garrison to organize its defense. yes and come on the german command allowed thirty minutes for the destruction of the frontier posts but some held out from one to seven days repulsing one attack after another. these pillboxes on the border 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
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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. love amir. i have something terrible to tell you. his thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me because. the war will break out tomorrow yes four in the morning. all this nine hundred thirty nine two years before the start of the war. between the soviet union and germany have become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states mullet of an ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in
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september nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded. this is german commander hines. his tanks capture the breast fortress at that time part of polish territory . this is rare footage i joined it in german military parades in accordance with a secret deal to divide the 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 you know solicits in the interim dispenser units will have gained valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe. and. ashore and we have the modern same knowledge ain't communicate between the tanks and it's like headphones. and i'm not allowed us to react small quickly.
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the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other whereas we could for example withdrawal and then it's not from the science. june twenty fourth one of the most tragic days for the defenders of the fortress during another attempted assault the nazis used the russian officers wife and children as a human shield on this bridge. because of the new measures. they told us women and children to lie down on the bridge close to watch every piece is there you can you imagine four or five guns firing it's a time it can shatter your brain. my son slava has one of his it. now he can't hit anything it's all in that's here that i saw my daughter's hand need turning gray one after another. she was only
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a little kid. worth. alexander mccall was only six years old in one nine hundred forty one he and his parents were living in brest 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 all since and the gravity of the situation the children didn't. was standing in this new age with that's when we got scared over who. and when also my mother and sister killed while sitting right here. i thought to myself away as far as a cool down of the feet of those who were in the cell of the. in essence the entire territory of the fortress is a monument to the victims of the wars that first day known as building houses
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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 and 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. in the autumn of one thousand nine hundred forty two the for. massacred fifty four children at an orphanage me abreast their parents had already died in the war. that my little french army commander was the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and killed all of them in. a vigil of combination and sorrow they splays 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
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former soviet union a slide show features pictures of the red army commanding officers in the defense of breast fortress after the ceremony border guard soldiers float reside in the western movie river to commemorate the people whose lives were cut short in breast fortress in june one thousand forty one the names of many of them are still unknown . question is that so much a given to each musician on the market from spring to the uprisings in at least arab states a fast becoming vicious civil war. if. twenty
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second. eight hours after the german attack most of the surviving defenders of the best fortress moved into cellars under the barracks. and his comrades spent about three days there back in the nineteenth century the cellars withstood direct hits in the aerial bombardment. for the year there was
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a hospital for the wounded here but one of the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corridor 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. the heat was so intense that even bricks began 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 cameramen were unable to film an emerging from sellers with their hands raised as a sign of surrender none of them did that. there were at this russian surrender it was german shot him through a loudspeaker or we know they will let you live don't be afraid they said.
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when some of the spot of the loudspeaker they hit it with a person a machine gun fire is pretty real that was the end of the propaganda that's a critical. shortage of water was the biggest problem the defenders faced. the western blood river was nearby but german troops were in control of all approaches to it still haven't other fighters managed to reach the river several times under the cover of darkness. to reach the western boogie we were sometimes crawling sometimes running some fields or used our mess tins or helmets. by trying to make no noise we had to do with the germans fired flares all the time they certainly would have opened fire if they. know days mining engineers still look for wartime ammunition in the western wall one of the latest
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finds is a german two hundred ten millimeter artillery shell. is just as dangerous today as it was sixty eight years ago. careful slowly slowly turn it over. to shell could go off at any moment if it's not handled properly if it does judging by its size it will obliterate 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. 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
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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 parisian barbarossa the german plan to seize soviet territory was ready in december nineteen forty but most of the soviet leaders as soon that hitler would target britain first before unleashing any attack on this will be. brought to. stalin was already aware of the plan by february not in forty one the problem was that the germans regularly postpone the invasion. initially was i proven my fifteen meanwhile stalin was desperately trying to delay war until autumn with. breast fortress where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several forts situated on islands around the main fortification in the center of the eastern
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seaboard offer the most stubborn resistance. most of the fortress defenders still expected reinforcements down to the end they did know they are already well behind enemy lines germans has seized the town of brest within hours. abreast resident lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was now and. a second rate person. that. even public told this in hospitals could not be used but everybody johns had decent food the obvious we're not so lucky. to see if they don't name every way you could see signs saying. only oh. no entrance it's already during the first days of the war many people in breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the forests of belorussia they formed
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groups of guerrilla warfare. learn new skills and those a machine gun here in the forest dugouts in june one thousand nine hundred one the . children women were hiding in there and. 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 frontline. exposes were placed on this track so that nobody could see them. the german sent reconnaissance parties to check the tracks but that didn't help a lot of scouts and a little bottle as the train came closer we singled out the way in carrying military equipment to be blown up. quick and the wagon was no more.
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this imagery 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 bit solace that all weapons were the best in the world's alex. we were the strongest anyone invest and we believed it. loosely because of all successes in western europe like milk ration in france but it was far from the truth. these for so with memorials come rate fighters whose bodies have been recovered by search parties since the war searching for missing soldiers is
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a long and complicated process. first the head of a search group asks locals where exactly the fighting took place. what with their also what it is on many a firefight says particularly the partisans died in this home but i'm just looking through the woods you can see that at langley of ten or twelve they never made it housing the forest. then a group of volunteers sets out on an expedition they combed the site meter after meter. weapons and other objects made of metal keep 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 and. the searchers regard so-called medallions
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as the most valuable. these are small cases containing all important papers they carry the information that will help identify the soldier his age range and the name of town or village where he was called up. it just so happens that we're from the same place as the dead soldier we're 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 as more names to the list of brest fortress defenders. this is the personal record of one of the fighters stick to any sloughs keep his identity was verified just a few years ago. no his name is inscribed on the memorial wall in the
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central alley of breast fortress it has replaced another plate saying unknown soldier study slops his niece is his only surviving relative just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate can yes not see that people want to at least see the grief of somebody they loved least plough a senator and think about that person there is nothing more painful than their wits missing so when my uncle's name was finally reaching on a memorial plate it was a very touching moment for my family. the last defenders of breast fortress repel 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 chase 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 farewell. i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.
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nobody surrendered to the run a cold. all of those captured people that if it was there were unable to use their weapons. but nobody raised their hands before to the death to the last minute. hitler and mussolini arrived in august one thousand nine hundred one for a visit to brest fortress despite official reports claiming that there were no surviving defenders unprecedented security precautions were put in place. on the. even the top level visit two 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 even took a stone lying amongst the ruins with him. after the fall of berlin the stone was
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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. that we must live in peace. it's not always to forget the cost it must not be forgotten. because we might forgive. children now play in 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 theater could see any coven other survivors of
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the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith and the ultimate victory over fascist troops attorney covet his comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic events and rest fortress.
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