the barrage from the breast garrisoned. german war plane some of the drop 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. often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of breast. this picture shows what he looks like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here what's fail me i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case me but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of luck. was holding out in one of them within two days the defenders had exhausted their ammunition. her saw the germans trying to capture

her father. of the roof suddenly there was a noise it seemed the truth on the head. he had jumped onto the railings and plunged into the river by the germans began firing to ask him as a death in captivity he shouted those were the last words he addressed 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 and belorussia and move on to moscow vyas money. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening cycle. 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. a member of the military band asleep in his barracks on the second floor abreast fortress. within minutes of the attack bullets and shell fragments had riddled the barracks walls. i remember dosed all over the place. well. i could barely breathe iraq myself in a blanket. and i heard an order from your rifles and get downstairs. i barely had time to pull all my clothes before rushing down stairs with my platoon were. only a few hours later the german plan to move through a russian territory had. every week covered from the initial shock.

offered stubborn resistance despite being numbered nearly two to one by their attackers. but one of our rifle regiments counterattacks the germans faltered and tried to roll back to the gates. they were met with a shower of bullets there to. money of the fastest stuff. the beginning of 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 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 fourth terrifying wave of german artillery from all sides. into russian territory and when they were done we knew we

had to go in. the tanks initially but i saw 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. follows the same line along which. ones deployed. it was they who bore the brunt of the nazi invasion for several days small arms were the only weapons the border guards. nevertheless they held up the advance of german troops and tanks for some time and they billing the fortress garrison to organize. 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 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 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. the news. vladimir. i have something terrible to tell you. his thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me. that a war would break out to morrow she was four in the morning. on this nine hundred thirty nine two years before the start of the war. between the

soviet union and germany had become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states been ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in september nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded poland. this is german commander on 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 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. in the interim dispenser units will have gained valuable experience in successful offensive operations in europe.

and. ashore and we have the modern technology to communicate between the time x. headphones. i'm not allowed us to react small quickly. the russian tanks couldn't communicate with each other. whereas we could for example withdraw and then attack 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. then the measure. they told us women and children to lie down on the bridge close to want to be 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 arms bust

now he can't hit anything it's all in that's here yes i saw my daughter's hand nina turning gray one hand after another. 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 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 and the gravity of the situation but didn't. who. was standing in this new huge news that's when we got scared over who. and when i was so my mother and sister killed while sitting right here where i talked myself away as far as i

cooled on the feet of those who were in the cellar. in essence the entire territory of the fortress is a monument to the victims of the wars of the first day. on this building houses a museum. at its center a famous exhibit and alarm clock the stop ticking 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 year after german troops attacked the soviet union. total. one hundred forty two the for. massacred fifty four children at an orphanage breast their parents had already died in the war. amanda 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. in the western move 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.

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any second. 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 back in the nineteenth century the cellars withstood direct hits in the aerial bombardment. improve your mood there was a hospital for the wounded here but while the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corridor more. 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 the 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. this russian surrender. through a loudspeaker. that will let you live don't be afraid. when some of the spot of the loudspeaker that they hit it with a burst of machine gun fire is pretty real that was the end of the propaganda that's a particular. a shortage of water was the biggest problem the defenders faced. but german troops were in control of it still of another fight. to reach the river several times under the cover of darkness. to reach the west

we were sometimes crawling sometimes running. 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 for wartime ammunition in the west. 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. don't 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. divers pick up three to ten objects relating to the first days of the war. fortress

was long considered impenetrable they outer walls where. in the twentieth century it was in effect. all the fortresses gates were 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 here on june twenty second were able to leave the fortress and protect the border. on. the german plan to seize soviet territory. but most of the soviet leaders as hitler would target britain first before unleashing any attack on the soviet. one but a. stalin was already aware of the. february not

a. problem was that the germans regularly postpone the. initially it was fifteen min while stalin was trying to delay war until autumn. where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several. islands around the main fortification in. the eastern seaboard offered 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. a second rate person. that. even public tell this in hospitals could not be used by

everybody johns had decent food this were not so lucky. if they don't name every way you could see a sign saying. only oh i. know and. already during the first days of the war many people in breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the force of russia they form groups of guerrilla warfare. learn new skills those of a machine gun are here in the forest dugouts in june one thousand nine hundred thirty could have. children and women. and if all of us lived here. all of us were helping each of. the partisans stayed in the forests for three. 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. that nobody could see them. the germans sent reconnaissance parties to check the tracks but that didn't help. as the train came closer we singled out the military equipment to be. quick and the wagon was no more. than the german forty fifth division. after the assault on the. german troops and already swept across poland. and much of europe. russia they encountered the most ferocious today. and. told us that all weapons were the best in the worlds. we were the strongest anyway.

and we believed it. of all successes in western europe and in france but it was far from the truth. these for so with memorials commemorate fighters whose bodies have been recovered by search parties. 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. what with there are also. many of our fighters particularly the partisans died in this home but i just. 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 comb the site 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. to base the objects are carefully examined. medallions as. 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. there just so happens there were from the same places the dead soldier 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 which each year adds more names to the list of breast fortress defenders. this is the personal record of one of the fighters stip. his identity was verified just a few years ago. you know his name is inscribed on the memorial wall in the central alley of breast fortress it has replaced another plate saying unknown soldier. he's nice is his only surviving relative just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate. that people want to at least see the grief of somebody they loved least flower whisenant 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 a very touching moment for my family. the last defenders of breast fortress 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 the eastern for an inscription discovered on it dates from july twentieth one thousand nine hundred forty one scribbled with a knife and said. i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. nobody surrendered to their own accord in the way all of those captured people's. will run able 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 on president. curie precautions were put in place. on the eve

of the top level visits to german soldiers patrolling an area near the fortress had disappeared. hitler and mussolini entered the fortress through a bridge that used to be right here what hitler saw here is known to have made a strong impression on him even took a stone lying amongst the ruins. after the fall of berlin the stone was found in hitler's office at the chancellor of the third reich. church fortress. there are traces of shells on the walls and inside. 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 that we should forget the past it must not be forgotten. we might forgive.

children 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. of another survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith in the ultimate victory troops. comrades lived to see that victory in one thousand nine hundred five nearly four years after those tragic events and rest fortress.

the death of a boy survivor brings the number killed to forty five after a plane crash in northwestern russia as investigators started internal airliners black box recorders. and terrorist operations russia's north caucuses is underway with reports suggesting the seven special forces officers have been killed and at least sixteen others wounded the fierce fighting began when over a dozen militants broke through a contingent of federal forces moving in on but. the president of the european commission manual barroso says the e.u. will be behind greece in helping it through economic crisis if. of reforms it follows the new greek government narrow victory in a parliamentary vote of confidence despite widespread public opposition to proposed

austerity cuts. plus the former soviet republics and remember the victims of the war against fascism wednesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the nazi invasion of the u.s.s.r. over twenty seven million people died to bring about victory four years later. and up next the kaiser report in which max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert find out how international monetary fund will actually make money on european states in crisis such as greece. max kaiser this is the kaiser report we are back from athens where we were able to stand up to an onslaught of tear gas from provocative tours what's a provocative or that's a cop dressed up like an anarchist hastings arab or what's happening max in fact i

believe they were i.m.f. agents stressed out as anarchists and they are they tear gas canisters had c.d.'s written alongside collateralized debt swap on of tear gas canister that is financial terrorism i think is called credit default swaps all right i'll go with that there are so many different names for these derivatives these days and that's actually the big topic of the day is all the debt circulating around the economy but first i want to show you this little image because we return from greece bearing gifts and this is artwork colonel pop and dry oh the people love me those who are causing all the trouble are terrorists the people hate them you know they're outside of the parliament building and screaming. brought all draw off all the people embrace the hate the parliamentarians they hate george papa and i notice you're showing him the palm of your he's going in the palm of my hand this is for you george. little george as they call him so well.