for the germans cielo was the last defensive line before berlin so the german soldiers defended the highlands with deadly determination petri tism aside the german army had still other reasons to keep finding to the bitter end despite the desperate situation. that a soldier fleeing his position might be shot in killed by an officer on the spot so many soldiers hanged on poles for attempting to leave their position are propaganda and hammered into our heads that we must avoid being taken prisoner by the soviets at all cost and. the soviet forces expected to overrun the seal heights in a matter of hours. to the germans clung to their defenses for nearly three days and nights. after a head on thrust failed to take the heights soviet troops fly into the german defenses only vended the defending army led by general boo say fall back now nothing stood in the way of the red army's advance towards berlin. the cost of the assault was a very high. the soviet forces lost tens of thousands of men in a tiny center near the order. to move the it's going i've never seen so many dead bodies as i sold the sai

they face continuous german fire. half of the sailors who were there to secure the crossing died in the shadow of the right stop . sniffing the seven sailors were given the titles of heroes of the soviet union this is so muslim and then one of them was nikolai. manzer faust a rocket snapped a controlled so there was nothing left for him to do but grip the two ends of the cable with his teasing you turn he done in that position. the race dog was defended by remnants of elite s.s. units personal bodyguards. there were also french volunteers from the charlemagne division men of the scandinavian division nordland and a latvian battalion of the fifteenth s.s. deficient. i mean i'm pretty sure they were crying out from the basement hey yvonne surrender you where many you are of jewels the rules come out of it in the evening of the first of may they changed their tune yvonne we want to surrender they shot it. on april thirtieth hitler committed suicide in the reich chancellery but some s.s. units continued resistance. in the

of the german breakthrough. when we rushed out we saw fireworks going up in celebration of victory so i don't need to tell you that we finished off that bottle. lasted for sixteen days. up to two hundred thousand. according to. the soviet army lost from eight. between one thousand nine hundred forty five. a total of twenty seven million soviet people died in the war with germany. and great britain came to nine hundred thousand people. was a result of all casualties and the heroism of fathers and grandfathers it was the result of self-sacrifice and heroic deeds. of force in europe not just in africa. hundred thousand victims come to compared to twenty million lives. history of mankind was over sixty five years have passed since no. survivors still remember the victory like it was yesterday they still live with victory in their hearts. a group of at least seven people charged with illegal organ trafficking in kosovo fueling speculation of legs to alleged organ theft by the kosovo liberation army during the one tho

germans also took advantage of the delay. yeah reserves around them were brought up here this was the place where the army's strongest units were concentrated in the wars final weeks after the germans also built formidable defenses extending twenty kilometers westward from the forward positions or six and a half kilometers from us. soviet into german forces were being amassed along the author for the most massive military operation in world history. of three and a half million troops from both sides some ten thousand tanks schools of thousands of assault guns and eleven thousand some of those know all the operation of that scale in world war two you know could there be any building was at stake. meanwhile the leaders of the soviet union the united states and britain had not yet agreed on which army would take the german capital the british prime minister winston churchill called on the us president franklin d. roosevelt to start the sultan berlin in a letter addressed to roosevelt on april first one thousand nine hundred five

german shares retreatedor the second day. renewed attention on the korean peninsula and continued concerns that europe's a debt cris will continue to spread. our correspondent says this summary from frankfurt. >> investors did not manage to respond positively to a lot of positive economic indicators this tuesday. the gfk index for consumer climate came in stronger than expected. and the purchasing managers' indices for germany and eurozone, also. and the u.s. gdp for the third quarter was revised upwards to 2.5%. still, the news that artillery fire was shot from north to south korea overcast all of this. what also might have played a role is that the thanksgiving weekend in the united states is coming nearer. american investors are refraining from any risk ahead of this. >> all right, we stay in frankfurt for a closer look at the numbers. the dax index finishing sharply lower at 6705. the euro stoxx 50 experiencing an en more dramatic sell-off, sliding all the way down to 2739 points. new york, the dow jones experiencing trip

the german public seems to be taking the news in stride. that has to do with the country's track record. time and again, the government has managed to shut down terrorist plots. >> so far, germany has been spirit terrorist attacks. in 2006, two suitcase bombs failed to detonate. security officials are on constant alert. in april of 2010, the head of the federal police said in an interview, never have there been so many investigations into suspected terrorists ben there are now, more than 300. that includes attacks on soldiers in afghanistan. increasing numbers of young germans are heading to islamic training camps in afghanistan. other countries are watching what happens in germany closely. in october, u.s. and england issued a travel advisories for inland europe. they say the constant travel advisories are not useful. >> at the moment, we have no solid evidence of imminent attacks in germany. there is a raised abstract threat. >> that has become more evident in recent weeks. in late october, al qaeda sent two parcel bombs from yemen. one b

i new era in postwar german history. to mark the anniversary, the president, the premier, unveiled a thing as a bridge outsidberlin. -- unveiled a new bridge outside berlin. the fall of the wall in 1989 to the world by surprise and led to german reunification must than one year later. stay with us. stay with us. we will be back with in depth in >> hello. welcome back. as germany continues its debate over the role of islam in society, it is looking at ways to help migrants moved in -- move into the mainstream. it does not want to develop so- called open book parallel society is." a pilot program is taking place and in the southn german city of nuremberg. it is called imams for integration. it is showing early signs of success. it is based on the idea that integration can only work if imams are familiar with german language and culture. 130 imams will take part in the program over the next year. we have an accompanying one of the imams who just completed the course. >> this imam is accompanying a man from his community to

by the germans i'm still waiting for the liberation. of a check you was waiting for the liberating soldiers she was fifteen years old and living in tent as in it was called a town but it was actually more of a concentration camp monza was one of one hundred forty thousand people waiting for the decision to seal their fate more often than not people were sent to auschwitz to face execution meanwhile tellers and children were not allowed to read draw pictures all saying. that be at our hands shatter and musician. but i'm an excuse me nothing here has the lot of bright the keys and also the requiem with us in a space and the s.s. men like to say they juice in a requiem for themselves. this is how the secret music lessons were held in ted as in. these drawings belong to martha's friend. she slept in the adjacent bed elder enjoyed her art sketching everything around her but keeping it hidden or images paint a vivid picture of life in terror is it. that the places where we washed that there was no bathroom just a towel. the only cold water an

he's deserted the germans are driving. bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street and her house buildings are being blown up and burnt all. the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. trees of all buildings that had survived and blew them up in accordance with it's clear. they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority. prepared a special register just for this purpose. the entire all the castle was in ruins. that's the gist you nineteen forty five could only dream of three men in some small structural elements who are left and that. also is liberation was different from other cities in january nine hundred forty five the red army drove the occupiers out and entered warsaw but unlike elsewhere the local population didn't line the streets to welcome soviet soldiers the polish capital was a deserted city only a day after the german retreat the first refugees began returning to what was left of their capital poland suf

the german. divisions to overpower the freedom fighters who were. despite a lack of weapons or the most basic military technology. today the story of the resistance movement struggle is found in the open air. in central great. i don't know why you just know if you entered world war two with a few tanks you had bought from i mean your best country was modernizing its weaponry at the time. the locals could see and hear telltale signs of approaching soviet tanks in the girl first they had a deafening noise then they saw smoke and dust rising above the horizon and finally they saw the enormous monsters of tanks with his numbers and capabilities well above any of the tanks that had appeared in the balkans before the serbs were simply stunned by the soviet tanks. forty four troops and isaf resistance fighters liberated belgrade street to street block after block. return to freedom. these veterans strolling through belgrade doctors recommended for their health but they enjoy it because it makes them feel through the streets where they used to fight the ger

children german women it was sold weeks made from the hair of the dead. from my block i could see the cam band playing on the plot cone three tween the crematorium and the hassle. with their service men in the service staff and occasionally the officers' wives in attendance. and they enjoyed the performance knowing full well that people were being burnt in a crime a tory i'm in. some might find it all the polish publishers have produced a comic book about the history of auschwitz its aim to get the message across to those not interested in either museums or history books that. meanwhile the editor tells me she has done it on purpose in order to attract more attention you know people read all the books and put them aside but they leaf through this book again and again the ground on the. penus if new the stories characters personally edward golinski was polish and millions in the town was a jewish woman the comic is called the romeo and juliet of auschwitz she was twenty six years old the names twenty one. the fact they found love of the death factory as au

she is facing a bill from german industry. has highlighted the serious challenges facing the single european currency in the wake of the financial woes facing ireland and greece. speaking at the annual conference of german employers, merkel said the eurozone is in an extraordinarily serious situation and reemphasized the importance of restoring adherence to the stability and growth pact. meanwhile, the message from employers to the chancellor was the german industry news the government to create a better business climate to help foster the economic recovery here. >> this cell phone controlled mini copter provided it amusement for delegates during breaks at the conference. but representatives from industry and more than just executive toys to smile about this year. >> we are now creating new jobs, and the fall of unemployment is the first payback for all our efforts. >> the both business leaders and chancellor angela merkel are worried about the shaky state of the eurozone countries. as an export-driven economy, germany needs a

that the share of russia in german x. or its is a two point five percent to manipulate you all the all german exports idea with japan the figure is just one point three percent of them which of the i think the overall volume of german sales in the russia you think it is comparable to that of leading economies in the euro zone this means a lot. and because we're also successful of developing our into creative cooperation in industry infrastructure and high tech and with a go at it if we have agreed with madam chancellor to provide political and organizational support to various businesses the initiatives that we are looking we are trying to move on from merely trade cooperation to food loan your mouth to your industrial technological cooperation to create turn to be interesting here ski areas use three of them when we have a high level working group politically working in this area and we have issued a joint declaration on our and your attention it would be to us we paid special attention to developing small and medium siz

through their german russian lines to safety into into territory. later the jews nicknamed partisan nicholai q c.e.o. who was put in charge of the march the moses. he was the commander i think he had was a fifteen or sixteen part your sentence was was weapons and the rest of us where at about two hundred seventy two hundred seventy people. children. who started this beak unprecedented and unique march. we covered about thousand five hundred kilometers despite all the precautions on several occasions germans almost discovered them one time to see oh nearly ran into a nazi patrol the germans opened fire and several people were killed but the nazis decided not to pursue the group the participants of the march were very much afraid of being discovered. underneath all gold sure most probably about two years old or three years old. and she used to cry and at night the crying was a very dangerous thing because we could have been discovered by the enemy so. that people start or forcing their parents of this girl to drown her to kill her it was. reported to

most of it was paid by the german government. if convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison. >>> players, coaches, and top managers from the world of german soccer have been commemorating robert enke, who took his life one year ago. germany's coach was among those who laid a wreath at the goalkeepers grave. the shock of anke's suicide led to a new awareness of the pressures of professional sports and depression among athletes. >> the movers and shakers of german football paid tribute at the grave. the family requested the number of mourners be kept to a minimum. at his former club also paid tribute with a small memorial. the anniversary also brings back questions about how professional soccer treats its players. >> i assume that little or nothing has changed. it was not realistic to expec that. i don't think he could jt flip a switch and say everything is different and that it simply works. we still need a lot of time. >> enke felt he had to keep this depression a secret from his teammates and club management. the german socce