more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images. seen from the streets of canada. china for asians to rule today. parties latest headlines on the top stories from the week the death toll rises to forty seven following monday's passenger plane crash in northwest russia as two more die in the hospital one of them a few major girl the flight came down just a kilometer from the airport but investigators say there is no sign of mechanical failure. casualties in the libya conflict continue rising while rebel forces are accused of forcing civilians from their homes in benghazi tripoli says fifteen people were killed in a nato air strike in the eastern town of breda

a claim the alliance denies. skeptics in brussels staged the euro's funeral and as greece faces public anger over deeper cuts in the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy a vote is expected tuesday and if the greek parliament passes the austerity measures athens will get another bailout to stave off default and economic growth. up next week for the past and present a place where one of the most bitter battles of the second war a second world war took place. and. dressed fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of belarus formerly the soviet republic of belarus 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 thousand nine hundred forty one german fascist 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 garage from the breast garrisoned. german warplanes some ultimately dropped hundreds of bombs on the fortress soon after infantry a some groups launched the initial ground attack. captained leg. is one of the officers in charge of the fortress defenses. is

dodger i so often visits the monument to her father on the outskirts of breast. this picture shows what's he look like me at the even today i guess nervous when i come here was fanny and i see those events in my mind's eye as if they were yesterday. today children play war in the old case meet but in the first days of the real war the unit under the command of luggage. 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 noisy scene that phonogram he had jumped on to the railings and plunged into the river the chairman's began firing to ask him as a death in captivity he shouted those were the last words he attracts to his family

. in accordance with their plan to attack the soviet union the germans had amassed three armies close to the border among these armed groups or was the most powerful its mission was to encircle and destroy soviet troops and belorussia and move on to moscow via as money. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening seconds. the sound 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 nine hundred forty one. a member of the military back on the street 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 in a blanket. can i heard an order grab your rifles and get downstairs. now i barely have time to pull my coals before listening downstairs with my platoon but there's. only a few hours later the german plan to move through bella russian territory had stalled. every week covered from the initial shock of soldiers remaining in the garrison offered stubborn resistance despite being up numbered nearly two to one by their attackers. and one of our rifle regiments counterattacked the germans faltered and tried to roll back to the gates

but they were met with a shower of bullets there to. naani of the fastest side they're. getting 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. 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 german artillery move 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.

the border between belarus and poem follows the same line along which soviet 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 willing the fortress garrison to organize 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 proposing 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 next 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 hear. i have something terrible to tell you. his thoughts. where when i was there my girlfriend told me. the war would break out to morrow she 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 mullet of an ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in

september one nine hundred thirty nine german troops invaded. this is german commander hines on his tanks captures a breast fortress at that time part of territory. this is rare footage i joined i saw it in german military parade in accordance with the secret deal to divide 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. therefore we have the modern technology to communicate between the tanks hedge funds. and 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 science.

june twenty fourth one of the most tragic days for the defenders of the fortress during another attempted assault used russian officers wife and children as a human shield on this bridge. going up. they told us women and children to lie down on the bridge close to want to make peace is. can you imagine four or five guns firing is the time you can shut your brain. my son slava had one of his it transpire now he can't hit anything it's all in that's here yeah i saw my daughter's hand nina turning gray one after another. she was only a little kid. alexander mccall was only six years old in one

thousand nine hundred 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 all since and the gravity of the situation. didn't. come later it was standing in this nation with 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 in the cellar with. in essence the entire care of her the four press. this is 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 let's talk 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. was this. awesome of nineteen forty two the fascists massacred fifty four children at an orphanage they have breast and their parents had already died in the war. my friend tommy command was the children's teacher she and the children the phone just out of the orphanage and skillets oath them to. a vigil of commemoration and sorrow takes place each year in the breast fortress on the night of june twenty first candles are lit and then brushed 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 a reason 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.

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the 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 with direct hits in the area. improve your mood there was a hospital for the wounds here. one of the makeshift mortuary was over there at the end of the corners or more. and 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 a russian surrender german shot them through a loudspeaker. we know that we'll let you live don't be afraid they said. when some of the spotted 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 another five years managed to reach the river several times under the cover of darkness. to reach the western goob we were sometimes

crawling sometimes running some fairly. well those used our mess tins or helmets then we would go back to 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 spotted else. no days mining engineers 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 but don't turn it over. to the only one of the 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 rest 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 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 the soviet. one but

a. stalin was already aware of the plan by february not in forty one little problem was the germans regularly postponed. initially was i proven my fifteen meanwhile stalin was desperately trying to delay war until autumn with. the present 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 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 resident lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was now and. a second rate person. even public

told this in hospitals could not be used but everybody johns had decent food the obvious we're not so lucky joe misspelled the word muftis of the time name every way you could see signs saying. only 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 belorussia they form groups of guerrilla warfare by cd because love learn new skills those of a machine gun are here in the forest dugouts in june one thousand nine hundred one could have. children and women were 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 year just 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 the district so that nobody could see them and. the german sent reconnaissance parties to check the tracks but that didn't help a lot of outfit 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 tracer 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. 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 our successes in western europe ration 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 locals where exactly the fighting took place. when there are also. many of our fight says particularly the partisans died in this moment but i'm just looking through the woods you can see the dead lying in creeps 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. returns to base the objects are carefully examined the latest expedition has turned up. a flask and. 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. or it just so happens that 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 there sent to officials a state or conscious each year as more names to the list of breast fortress defenders. this is the personal record of one of the fighters stick on 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 his niece is his only surviving relative of just recently did she learn of her uncle's fate. and yes not sick that people want to at least see the grief of somebody to love to place flowers unaids 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

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 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 my. i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. the key word here is that nobody surrendered of their own a code in the army about all of those captured wounded people to the fullest and the run able to use their weapons. but nobody raised their hands before to the death to the last man. hitler and mussolini arrived in august one nine hundred forty one for a visit to breast fortress despite official reports claiming that there were no 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 had disappeared. 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

past 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. kenny cove and other survivors of the first battles in the fortress regard these rooms as the cornerstone of their faith in the ultimate victory over fascist 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 brest fortress. wealthy british style seinfeld's.

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