this is russia 24 and we continue to report on... the main news for today 103 russian servicemen, released from ukrainian captivity, have returned to their homeland, our correspondent yegor grigoriev was among those meeting the special board, and he is now in direct contact with us. yegor, hello, so, were you able to talk to the soldiers, what are they telling us, what emotions are they experiencing? maria, hello, many of them had tears in their eyes, of course, emotions cannot be conveyed on television. 103 of our servicemen arrived

today and landed at the il military airport 76 delivered 103 fighters, they were in captivity for several weeks, they were in the kursk region, they were captured there, and those very first words, those very first emotions, when they set foot on their native land, let's listen. i am certainly glad, i don't know, emotions, in words, i didn't think that i would return home, that is, what is the worst scenario for you, well, i expected the worst, got the best, long, but we are glad that we finally returned home, we waited a month, a whole month, it was worth the wait, the girl is very happy that she even cried, i have the emotions were indescribable. ukrainian

militants were obviously trying to find out as much information as possible, they kept our servicemen in barracks, in the sumy and kiev regions, as the guys themselves said, all movements were blindfolded, they tried to make sure that our servicemen, of course, did not see anything, we were sitting. sumy colony, that is, in a barrack, in a prison, so to speak, ukrainian, they just put us all from cell to cell, and why they exchanged us like that, i have no idea, some were brought, some were taken for exchange, not for exchange, yeah, that is, somehow it was always cooler for you, yes, the exchange took place.

with the mediation of the united arab emirates, immediately after captivity, our servicemen ended up in belarus, there they were given psychological and medical assistance, and some needed it, in belarus the first calls home to their relatives and friends took place, there they tried to behave, well, as quietly as possible, so that you would not be seen at all, confidence in your freedom. also with the sumy region, no one is all in one place exactly where we were no no where in captivity held no in different as i understood we were somewhere near kiev were in captivity we were held in a basement there that is you somehow traveled far yes yes we traveled very far we ended up in the sumy region and from there we were transported by bus to kiev.

returning home, for many a pleasant surprise, of course, although they found out that they were being taken for exchange, many, when they were lined up, as they say, on the parade ground and told that now they would get on buses they would be taken to be exchanged, well ahead of 103 of ours servicemen, there is still a long rehabilitation process, maria. yes, thank you, egor, we are very happy for our guys, egor grigoriev, about the return to their homeland of russian servicemen who were released from ukrainian captivity. belkorod region is again under attack by the ukrainian armed forces for the second time in a day. in the village of bezlyudovka, a ukrainian shell hit a residential building, a woman was killed. in neighboring houses, as a result of the shelling, windows were knocked out, roofs and fences were cut. this was reported by the governor of the region vyacheslav glodkov. and in the village of maslo.

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, a people's conference was held in london. forty-one countries of the world, including delegates from great britain, france and the united states. the conference investigated a high-profile financial scandal related to the activities of swiss banks during world war ii. in early 1997, year, an employee of the swiss national bank michel meili discovered that his colleagues were massively destroying information about old accounts that had been opened on the eve of the war. they were receiving. "it was very actively used by germany for this, let's say, financial

support for the war, it served as such channels for the receipt, transfer, accumulation of funds, and as we know, swiss bankers carried out a lot of operations, using their banking secrecy, in the interests of clients from the fascist germany, including those who were responsible for the military-industrial complex." during the second world war, the nazis stole over 800 tons of gold, more than half of which was stolen from banks in belgium, holland, hungary, italy and luxembourg. 130 tons of gold were seized from the accounts of private individuals, residents of german-occupied countries. most of the stolen gold was kept in accounts at the swiss national bank. after the war, part of the reich's gold reserves were withdrawn from swiss accounts and are still in wanted. it is considered not without reason that it was through swiss banks

that a significant amount of funds, which are conventionally called the gold of the party, were withdrawn, and these funds by the end of the war, when germany understood that it would most likely lose, were accumulated and placed, invested in various assets in many parts of the globe, including the well-known south america, it is considered that to this day and not without reason this gold of the party. works for the specific interests of specific individuals. in 2009 , an independent commission was created in germany international experts. she had to study how nazi germany was financed and where the nazi party gold ended up after the war? officially, this investigation was never completed. however, it was established that during the period from...

czech tanks used the potential of czech defense industries, which manufactured ammunition, manufactured small arms, the industry of finland is not so strong, but nevertheless also worked for fascist germany. here is the potential united europe, which worked for germany. expanding and pursuing territories, it had, among other things, the task of creating a solid industrial and raw material base for waging a total general war. at the beginning of the 20th century, the german economy experienced an unprecedented rise. in terms of growth rates

and volume of industrial production, the german empire occupied first place in europe, overtaking such industrial raw material giants as england, france and russia. germany had become one of the leading industrial countries of europe. if we compare it like this, we can say that at the end of the 19th century germany was like a modern china, and germany was capable of producing very complex equipment in large quantities. after the end of world war i, the entente allies did everything to weaken the economic and military potential of the defeated germany. the country lost all its colonies and over 13% of its territory in europe with a population of over 6 million people. germany's national wealth decreased by twice, and the volume of production decreased by

43%. the germans were forbidden to build new guns, tanks, airplanes, submarines.

powers in february 1933, hitler was appointed to the post of reich chancellor of the weimar republic. hitler's main slogan is "let's break the shackles of versailles." as soon as he comes to power, he abolishes all restrictions with the help of the same england and france. the restrictions were related to the production of weapons, the army, the construction and impossibility of building submarines, tanks, that is, he begins to actively revive the german industry. what else does he do? he refuses reparations. payments under the versailles treaty, which kind of creates a certain basis for such an industrial recovery of germany. hitler needed huge amounts of money to carry out reforms. germany did not have a rich gold and foreign exchange reserve. the country had no raw materials that could be sold. where to get

billions of rex marks and not allow inflation to rise? the solution was found by the german minister of economics and president of the deutsche bank hjalmar schacht. he proposed to introduce two parallel monetary systems. one of them served the german people, and the other - the military economy. schacht announced to german industrialists that from now on internal settlements between them would be made not in cash, but with special bills of the reichsbank, which...

after the ban on the construction of aircraft, the plant barely stayed afloat. with the arrival of hitler, the concern received large and regular contracts for the production of weapons, artillery guns, aircraft engines and motor vehicles. in a short time. aircraft engines, radars, electrical equipment for the german army and navy. the manufacturer of mercedes-benz cars , the benz concern, supplied the wehrmacht

with a variety of military equipment, supplied engines for tanks and submarines, as well as components for small arms. the founder of volkswagen, german engineer and designer ferdinand porsche, was also friends with hitler. he took part in the development. as in the days of the last kaiser wilhelm, this is strict control by the state, encouragement of domestic

industry, attention to the military industry, unemployment was eliminated thanks to the boom in production, in addition, attention was paid to the fact that there was no desperate poverty, reichsbank securities... were issued only to military factories, to finance light industry, the germans actively attracted foreign loans. in may 1933, hjalmar schacht visited the united states, where he met with president franklin roosevelt and bankers from wall street. america allocated germany loans in the amount of 1 billion dollars. private companies also willingly invested in german industry investors. rockefellers, morgans,

financed the american automaker of hitler's germany. the nazi party henry ford. for his participation in the development of the german economy, ford was awarded the order of merit of the german eagle, the highest award of the third reich for foreigners. germany had very active ties with the united states, and these were economic ties associated with the investment of money, this allowed, firstly, to greatly raise the automobile industry a new industry, which had military significance, western companies invested money in germany, believing that it was a good, profitable business, and that everything was developing quickly there. ford contributed greatly to the development of the engine-building industry in germany. the french helped create aircraft manufacturing in germany. this is also no secret. by 1939

, germany had taken first place in europe and second in the world after the united states in terms of industrial production. in the five pre-war years , the country's gross domestic product had more than doubled, and the growth of military production had increased 10-fold. if in 1931 in the country produced only 13 aircraft, then in 1939 8,295, the construction of military and civil infrastructure began, four-lane autobahns stretched across germany, which at that time had no analogues in europe, hundreds of airfields and ports were reconstructed. grandiose construction projects put an end to unemployment, which decreased by ... times. universal labor service was introduced in the country, the entire working population was united in the german labor front instead of trade unions. improving the standard of living

of german workers was the basis of the people's support of hitler. in germany , mandatory payments to families for the birth of children were introduced. hitler declared that every german worker should have a car worth 990 marks. this amounted to three monthly salaries of a skilled german worker, all social benefits of the hitler regime extended only to the german population of germany. in 1935, in nuremberg, hitler signed a law according to which all jews, slavs and other peoples of europe were called racially inferior. the nazis banned them hold any government posts, marry germans and conduct business with. yes, the population actively supported hitler, especially at first, and hitler's propaganda, in a certain sense, played

on this populism. the issue of new money, which would inevitably lead to economic catastrophe. on january 7 , 1939, yalmar schacht sent a letter to hitler, in which he pointed out that the course pursued by the government would lead to the collapse of the financial

system of germany and hyper... inflation. two weeks later, schacht resigned as president of the deutsche bank. and the paradox is that it was precisely by 1938, 1939 that the regime was actually turning into a soap bubble, because the entire economic miracle that was, so to speak, created thanks to finance minister yalvar schacht, it had to burst in 1938-1939, because those military orders that existed were not paid for with money, the state paid for them with short-term financial obligations, the maturity date of which was about to come, so the paradox is that people began to believe in a regime that was about to burst like a soap bubble, because it was not financially secured. in order to avoid a financial crisis, hitler urgently needed to replenish the country's gold and foreign exchange reserves. the mass robberies and deportations of the jewish

population organized in germany did not bring in the necessary income, in order to replenish the treasury, the nazis began to sell off art objects, from one and a half about 16 thousand paintings and sculptures were confiscated and sold from hundreds of museums and private galleries, but this did not help. the urgent need for gold reserves became one of the reasons for the anschluss of austria and the occupation of the sudetenland of czechoslovakia in 1938. the germans not only confiscated all the gold from the banks of the captured countries, but also achieved the transfer of czechoslovak assets worth 6 million pounds sterling from the accounts of an english bank. in march 1939, hitler completely incorporated the czech republic and moravia into the reich. hitler acted very pragmatically. and why he started with czechoslovakia? he later honestly admitted that i didn't care about all these czech issues, they were of no use to me, as it turned out later, and the rights of the germans themselves,

the sebet people, were second. i needed the industrial base of czechoslovakia, its minerals and its industry. equipment worth 20 billion crowns of military property and equipment alone was taken out of czechoslovakia. this is a huge amount, which seriously strengthened germany's economic potential. in captured czechoslovakia, hitler got rich trophies. the germans received one and a half million rifles, 400 guns and mortars, over. thousand tanks and self-propelled guns. on june 22, 1941, armored vehicles produced by the czech concern skoda constituted a quarter of the fleet of german tank divisions of the first echelon. and czechoslovakia, being.