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protest against new measures that their voices are not heard. plus the former soviet republics remember the victims of the war against fascism wednesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. some twenty seven million people died to bring about victory on the eastern front. next on our t.v. talk to those who are still remember nazi germany's first offensive against the soviet union which took place in the city of france. and. rest fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of bella roofs formerly the soviet republic of miller russia a fortress was once the westernmost 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 hundred forty one german fashion forces invading 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 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 present garrison. german warplanes 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. dodger i so often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of rest. this case he shows what he looks like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here what's fanny 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 unit under the command of lucky. 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 a who doesn't it was a noisy scene that fonda had quote him because he had jumped on to 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 interests to his soul.

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 in the russia and move on to moscow via some of. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening seconds. 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 there was a war going on. the first hours of june twenty second one nine hundred forty one from cancer to any kind of a member of the military band asleep in his barracks on the second floor of breast fortress. within minutes of the attack bullets and shells fragments and riddled the

barracks walls. i remember tossed all over the place. well. i could barely braid. myself in a blanket. when i heard an order grab your rifles and get downstairs. i barely had time to put all my coals before losing downstairs with my platoon with . only a few hours later the german plan to move through the russian territory had stalled . every week covered from the initial shock soldiers remaining in the garrison offered stubborn resistance despite being a member nearly two to one by their attackers. one of our rifle regiments counterattacks the germans faltered one try to roll back

to the gates but they were met with a shower of bullets there too. many of the fascists tied there at. the beginning of the huns edmund sean back was born in munich on june twenty second one hundred forty one he was among the german troops who entered belorussia. 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 german artillery moved from all sides. and the russian territory and when they were done we knew we had to go in. another tanks initially or get blow so the first horribly injured german soldiers and it wasn't just me we all knew what would happen and it was terrible. the border between

belarus and poem follows the same line along which a soviet frontier post where once deploy. it was they who bore the brunt of the nazi invasion for several days small arms were the only weapons the border guards camp 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 can come on to 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 nats invasion of soviet territory. was in command of one of the pill boxes it 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. gather mir. i have something terrible to tell you which. shows thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me. the war would break out tomorrow she was four in the morning. on this nine hundred 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 moloko been ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in

september one nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded. this is german commander hines. his tanks captured the breast fortress at that time part of polish territory. this is rare footage joint saw that in german military parades in accordance with the secret deal to divide europe the german military hands breast over to soviet troops in less than two years' time leon will again launch an assault on breast fortress fighting against the same troops lives in the interim dispenser units will have gained valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe. and. ashore and we have the most insane knowledge ain't to communicate between the tanks because like hedge funds. that allowed us to react small quickly. the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other and whereas we could for example withdrawal 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 the nazis used 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 monterey pieces. can you imagine four or five guns firing is the time it can shatter your brain like. my son slava had one of his is. now he can't hit anything at all in that's here you know i saw my daughter's hand nina turning grey through the one after another. she was only a little kid. alexander mccall was only six years old in

one thousand forty one he and his parents were living in breast fortress he spent two days in the so-called powder magazine at the start of the war he was wounded and lost his entire family here. at. the gravity of the situation but didn't and who. was standing in this new age. that's when we got scared over who. and when i was told my mother and sister killed while sitting right here. but i took myself away as far as i cooled under the feet of those who were there in the cellars of the. in essence the entire territory of the fortress. as a monument to the victims of the wars of first day now this 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. nineteen forty two the fascists massacred fifty four children at an orphanage he had breast and their parents had already died in the war. while her friend tommy command was the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and oath them as the. 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

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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 because her potente co and its 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. the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the course of the war 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. and this is how german war

correspondents portrayed 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 their little german shell untrue loudspeaker or we know they will let you live don't be afraid they said. when some of the spot of the loudspeaker i hit it with a burst of machine gun fire that's where the real that was the end of the propaganda that's a particular. shortage of water was the biggest problem the defenders faced the western move river was nearby but german troops were in control of all approaches to it still could hear an echo 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 some fields. use their mess tins or helmets very difficult by trying to make no noise we had to do with the way the germans fired flares all the time they certainly would have opened fire if they spotted. no days mining engineers still look for wartime ammunition in the western. one of the latest 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 don't turn it over and 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 liberate 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 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. a german plan to seize soviet territory was ready in december nineteen forty but most of the soviet leaders as soon as hitler would target britain first before unleashing any attack and this will be. brought it. stalin was already aware of the

plan but they were not in one for the problem was that the germans regularly postpone the invasion initially was i proven my fifteen meanwhile stalin was discreetly trying to delay war until. the present fortress where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several forts situated on islands around the main fortification into the eastern 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 residents lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was now and. a second rate person. that could really even public tell this in hospitals could not be used by everybody johns had decent food it's the obvious we're not so lucky the

germans felt they would muftis of the domain everywhere you could see signs saying . it's only oh i intreat football now and trying to. 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 form groups of guerrilla warfare. because love learn new skills and those of a machine gun are here in the forest dugouts in june one thousand nine hundred one could have. children women were hiding in there and if all of us lived here and all of us were helping each other. the partisans stayed in the forests 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 under this track so that nobody could see them and. the germans 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 way in carrying military equipment to be blown up. quick and the wagon was no more. this image or a 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 spain with 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 worlds. we were the strongest anyone

invest and we believed it. mostly because of all successes in western europe like the operation in frogs but it was far from the truth. these four so with 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 asked locals where exactly the fighting took place what we're also to. many of our fighters particularly the cots isn't died in this home but i'm just looking through the woods you can see the dead lying in groups of ten all trials they never made a house in the forest. then a group of volunteers sets out on an expedition they call 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 to a flask. but the searchers regard so-called medallions as the most valuable time. these are small pieces 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. 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 are sent to officials a state archive each year adds more names to the list of breast fortress defenders . this is the personal record of one of the fighters still. keep his identity was verified just a few years ago. you know his name is inscribed on a memorial wall in the central alley of breast fortress it is replaced another place saying unknown soldier study slops he's nice is his only surviving relative just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate. and yes not see that which people once with me see the grief of somebody they loved least flourescent and think about it person there is nothing more painful than there were missing so when my uncle's name was finally reaching on a memorial plate it was a very touching moment for my family as 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 case mates of 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. nobody surrendered to their own accord. all of those captured wounded 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 there were. hitler and mussolini arrived in august one hundred forty one for a visit to breast fortress despite official reports claiming that there were no surviving defenders on present. it's a curious precautions were put in place. on the eve of the top level visit 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 before he 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 in brest fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside the dome. it was from here that the defenders of brest 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 that we should forget the past it must not be forgotten. but we might forgive.

children now play in breast 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 kacelnik of another survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith and the ultimate victory over fascist troops could make of his comrades live to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic events and rest fortress.

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