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the facebook ads i pass on the course of the delegates from yesterday please write back and let us know if you have any success with this and i was that's are so this is adam koch us from washington d.c. you've been watching the show your parents. today children play war in the old case to me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barriers and announce the troops on their way to moscow. centers and arrests were dying one by one under siege this. morning.
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in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words. farewell mother. but i'm not surrendering. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images go girl has been seeing from the streets of canada. for a show the day. well
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with max cons are for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. and. rest for trips today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of belarus formerly the soviet republic of belarus a fortress was once the western most outpost of the soviet empire days school children in the town of brest take part in a ceremony by a local monument to commemorate what happened. on june twenty second one 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
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come. the early hours of june twenty second nineteen forty one german artillery unleashes a massive barrage from the breast garrisoned. german war plane some ultimately dropped. of bombs in the fortress soon after infantry assault groups launched the initial ground attack. is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of rest. where this patient shows once he looks like. what's found me i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old
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case mates but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of lucky lawsky was holding out in one of them within two days the defenders had exhausted their ammunition she loves his daughter saw the germans trying to capture her father. of the sudden it was a noise it seemed the father had cramping he had time to the gratings and plunged into the river. and began firing ask him this and death in captivity he shouts if those were the last words he attracts 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 group center was the most powerful its mission was to encircle and destroy soviet troops and other russia and move on to moscow elias money. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to
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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 thousand nine hundred one from georgia 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 and riddled the barracks walls. i remember dosed all over the place. well. i could barely breathe iraq myself on a blanket. can i heard an order grab your rifles and get downstairs.
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i barely have time to pull my clothes before rushing downstairs with my platoon were there. only a few hours later the german plan to move through bella russian territory had stalled. every week covered from the initial shock 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 the germans faltered and tried to roll back through the gates but they were met with a shower of bullets there too. many of the fascists there were. 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 belorussia
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. shortly before that he had been called up from high school and sent to the eastern front to serve in a panzer unit. it's 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 tanks initially when i saw the first horribly injured german soldiers and it wasn't just me we all knew what would happen and it was terrible actually. the border between the poem follows the same line along which soviet frontier posts 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
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fortress garrison to organize its defense. yes can come on the german command allowed thirty minutes for the destruction of the frontier posts but some held out from one to seven days 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 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. the news. doesn't near. i have something terrible to tell you. his
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thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me because. the war would break out to morrow she was four in the morning. on his nine hundred thirty nine two years before the start of the war. between the so the union in germany had become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states than ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in september nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded. this is german commander . tanks captured the breast fortress at that time part of the territory. this is rare footage i joined it in german military for a in accordance with the secret deal to divide the german military hands breast
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over to soviet troops in less than two years time. well again launch an assault on breast fortress fighting against the same troops. in the interim dispenser units will have gained valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe. and are assured we have a modern saying all it seems to communicate between the time it was like headphones . i'm not allowed us to react small quickly. the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other. whereas we could for example withdrawal a minute sacked 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 russian officers wife and children as a human shield on this bridge. and among them imagine
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. they told us for a million children to lie down on the bridge close to watch every piece is. can you imagine four or five guns firing is a time it can shatter your brain like. my son slava had one of his it. now he can't hit anything it's all in that's here. i saw my daughter's hand turning grey through 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 brest 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 all since an arrest the gravity of the
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situation the children didn't. who. was standing in the. way that's when we got scared over who. and when i was so my mother and sister killed while sitting right here where he would talk to myself away as far as i cooled on the feet of those who were in the cellar with. in essence the entire character of the fortress is a monument to the victims of the wars of first day numbers 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. in the autumn of one
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thousand forty two this. massacred fifty four children at an orphanage breast their parents had already died in the war. was the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and. a vigil of combination and sorrow takes place each year in the breast fortress on the night of june twenty first. candles are lit in the brush your 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 marines in the western 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
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unknown. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. issues that so much know there's a huge music issue on the market from spring to be uprisings and it leads me to becoming vicious civil.
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june twenty second. eight hours after the german attack most of the surviving defenders of the best fortress moved into cellars under the barracks closer to ten because of 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. the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corridor 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. the heat was so intense that even bricks began to melt. the fighters continued their resistance as they
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shifted from one place to another. 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 a russian surrender it was a german shelter a loudspeaker or will they will let you live don't be afraid they said. with some of the spot of the loudspeaker they hit it with a person of machine gun fire. that was the end of the propaganda that's a critical. 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 of another fighters managed to reach the river several times
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under the cover of darkness. to reach the western goob we were sometimes crawling sometimes running some filled flasks with water or mess tins or helmets then we would go by trying to make no noise we had to do it on the way the germans fired flares all the time they certainly would have opened fire if they'd spotted else. 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 turn it over almost mostly only willing 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.
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objects relating to the first days of the war. in effect. continuously under 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. the german plan to seize soviet territory. but most of the soviet leaders. would target britain first before unleashing any attack on the soviet.
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stalin was already aware of the. problem with the germans regularly postponed the. initially it was fifteen meanwhile stalin was trying to kill. where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several. islands around the main fortification in. the eastern seaboard offer the most 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 not. a second rate person. there's
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a toilet that will even public toll this in hospitals could not be used but everybody johns had decent food the others were not so lucky joe misspelled the word hostis of the town name everywhere you could see signs saying. it's only oh i . know and it's already during the first days of the war many people in breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the forcible russia they form groups of guerrilla warfare by cd 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 work hard you know and if all of us lived here. all of us were helping each other. the partisans stayed in the forests for. a time they carried out reconnaissance and secret monitoring of the enemy in the
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evening they were engaged in special operations. forces use this railway to bring military hardware to the frontline. exposes were placed under this truck so that nobody could see them. 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 imagery for soldiers of the german forty fifth division at 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
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all weapons were the best in the world's alex. we were the strongest anyone invest and we believed it. mostly because of our successes in western europe bloody operation in france but it was far from the truth and. these four so would 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 protests on many a firefight says particularly the partisans died in this home but i'm just looking through the woods you can see the dead lying in groups of ten or twelve they never made its house in the forest. then a group of volunteers sets out on an expedition they call the site meter after
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meter. weapons and other objects made of metal keep fairly well underground. this is a soviet helmet but 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 find. 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. 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
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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 stick ski 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 his niece is his only surviving relative and just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate tiniest netzach that which he told one to at least see the grief of somebody they loved least law listening to and think about that person there is nothing more painful than the missing so when my uncle's name was finally written on the memorial plate it was
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a very touching moment for my family. the last defenders of breast fortress repeal 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. nobody surrendered to the rona code. all of those captured people. will run able to use their weapons. but nobody raised their hands before to the death to the last minute of. it really and mussolini arrived in august one thousand nine hundred one for a visit to brest fortress despite official reports claiming that there were no
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surviving unpresidential defenders. security precautions were put in place. on the eve of the top level visits to german soldiers patrolling an area near the fortress and 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 them. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor e. of the third reich. a 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
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mutual forgiveness. we must live in peace. it's not always to forget the past it must not be forgotten. 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 or. any coven other survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith and the ultimate victory over fashions troops. but genic of his comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic events in breast fortress.
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