Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com/ RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. Tobyash Kuperveis was a resident of pre-war Warsaw, Poland. As a teen, he escaped death thanks to the fact he could play the piano. RT on Facebook: http://www.face book.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter. com/RT_com

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com/ RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. Anisya Zenkova shares her experience as a Russian field medical officer. We had a garrison hospital in Kazan. We were formed there and sent to the front. I was with the 160th infantry division: a senior medical nurse I was. My job was with a medical and sanitary battalion. I remember one day we were in a surgery ward. A lull in the fighting, no gunfire, no nothing... All of a sudden the door burst open and we saw a mud-covered man in a cape. We rushed to him shouting, "Where on earth do you think you are coming?!" Just like that. And then he collapsed. We picked him up and saw he had been hit by a dum-dum bullet into his belly. He mustered his strength and his guts in his dirty hands and struggled to the medical battalion. Thank God, he caught it not far from where we were based. The surgery was a very protracted one, of course. You had to rinse everything and put it in place, and to discard bits of the gut, and to sew it -- quite long operations these are. But I want to say that he survived it. He was holding out and he pulled through the surgery, and survived. And we had another case. A soldier had his toe smashed by a bullet. There was surgery, too, under local anesthesia. But he died on the operating table! He was so tense, so scared of his own blood and surgery that his heart gave way. We failed to save him. I saw a lot. Our forces liberated Majdanek, the death camp. The things that had been perpetrated in there... It was awful! Our hospital was converted to therapy by that time and we were accepting the inmates that hardly looked like humans. We were helping and treating them. Many had TB. People with TB have dilated pupils. It makes them quite beautiful. Their eyes and skin shine... Some even predicted their own death. They said: "I'll die tomorrow," and that's what happened. I saw people die after surgery, die in hospital, die from TB -- six or seven per night -- it's mind-boggling. RT on Facebook: http://www.face book.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter. com/RT_com

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com/ RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. In 1943, Mikhail Volkov was a naval cadet. He recalls the usual tasks he had to face when sent to the Northern Fleet to undergo training. RT on Facebook: http://www.face book.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter. com/RT_com

Add to EJ Playlist  The Battle for Moscow lasted from late autumn of 1941 to mid-spring of 1942. Some seven million people were involved, including all the residents of Moscow. The whole country united to fight for the main city. And finally, as a result of great moral power and excellent strategy, the Nazis were defeated. The battle for Moscow marked the first major defeat of fascist Germany in World War II.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness -- a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War. Leon Gautier belonged to the small group of 177 French joined to the British commandos who were part of the D-Day landing in June of 1944. RT on Facebook: http://www.face book.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter. com/RT_com

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness -- a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War. Dmitry Yazov, the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Minister of Defense, was severely wounded during the fight but stood firm as many other soldiers did and continued to fight on.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. US soldier John Pistone stepped into Berchtesgaden house known as Hitler's retreat... and kept a souvenir.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Russian fighter pilot Ivan Molchanov recalls giving air combat tips to French pilots from Normandie-Nieme n squadron.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Deputy commander of a Russian rifle company, Mikhail Popkov remembers the horrors of hand-to-hand fighting with the German infantry.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Vladimir Dyabin, squadron commander in the Soviet army, says there is nothing tougher in the whole world than life at war. But the worst thing is seeing soldiers, your friends, being killed.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Sergey Rogozhnikov was a political instructor and a senior lieutenant of the Soviet Army.

Add to EJ Playlist  The battle for Berlin lasted for two weeks. Three and a half million troops from both sides, Soviet and German, took part in the fight. Some ten thousand tanks, thousands of artillery, and eleven thousand aircraft were involved in the fight. There was no other operation of that scale in World War II, and it was won by the Russians. The Red Flag was risen atop of the Reichstag in May, 1945, and it became the symbol of victory over fascism.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. To fight against the Nazi Germany Jan Duda joined a special Polish division formed within the Red Army.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Raisa Dyabina, a nurse from the Soviet Army, recalls badly wounded soldiers she was taking care of during the war.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Member of the Czech resistance movement, Yaroslav Ruzhechka, risked his life on a daily basis to keep the faith among his compatriots.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Andre Baumann remembers, as a little boy, fleeing his home in France during the German invasion. He says the early days of occupation were a real adventure...

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. Veterans share their experiences of the war - from how it began to how it ended. Jean-Jacques Loos is a Frenchman from Alsace, a French province annexed by Germany in 1940. He was forcibly drafted into the German army. People like him were labelled 'malgré-nous', which means 'in spite of our will'.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. Veterans share their experiences of the war - from how it began to how it ended. Alphonse Hueber is a Frenchman from Alsace, a French province annexed by Germany in 1940. He was forcibly drafted into the German army. People like him were labelled 'malgré-nous', which means 'in spite of our will'. After escaping from the German army over to the Soviets, Alphonse was sent to a Russian PoW camp with a promise of repatriation. The promise was never kept and he had to remain in the camp till the end of the war.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War. World War II veterans recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Hildegard Bildt was a young girl who fell in love with a Soviet soldier who came to liberate Europe from fascism.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Antti Henttonen, who was a lieutenant of the Finnish border guard troops during the war with the Soviet Union, said that the Soviets were not ready to fight on foreign terrain in harsh conditions of the Finnish Winter.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Lars Loflund, border guard officer from Finland, remembers the bravery of Soviet soldiers.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Nikita Krivocheine was a young boy, the son of a Russian émigré family, at the time the Germans invaded France.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Luis Dorff of the Royal Tank regiment, who was a POW from Great Britain, remembers the difficulties of serving in the Middle East.

Add to EJ Playlist  http://victory1 945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended. Henri Schaub is a Frenchman from Alsace, a French province annexed by Germany in 1940. He was forcibly drafted into the German army. People like him were labelled 'malgré-nous', which means 'in spite of our will'. Schaub deserted the same day he arrived on the Eastern Front. He became a Soviet PoW, and made a long journey from Russia to the Middle East and Europe to join Allied forces fighting the Germans until the end of the war.

Add to EJ Playlist  Ivan Molchanov is a living legend of Russian aviation, flying 278 combat missions as a fighter pilot throughout World War II. He recalls taking down two German fighter plane with a single salvo in a diminutive I-16 Polikarpov, a legend of its own.

Add to EJ Playlist  Exclusive footage from onboard cameras on ground vehicles and planes taking part in the Victory Day Parade in Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2010.

Add to EJ Playlist  More War Witness stories at http://victory1 945.rt.com/ Galina Kulikova, a child of besieged Leningrad, Russia, recalls that when the siege of Leningrad began she was only three years old.

Add to EJ Playlist  On the 30th of April 1945, at the height of the final battle for Berlin, Soviet soldiers stormed into the Reichstag - the heart of the Nazi Empire. The battle went on for another week, but the flying Red Banner above the German capital meant victory for the Soviet people. RT's Yekaterina Gracheva now reports about the man who witnessed - and immortalized - that historic moment...

Add to EJ Playlist  (Part 2 of 2) RT is bringing you full coverage of the Victory Day parade from Red Square, the heart of Moscow. This year's parade is the largest commemoration since 1945, when Nazi Germany was defeated by the USSR and the Allies. Today, for the first time ever, France, Britain and the U.S. have sent their own soldiers to parade past the Kremlin wall. Narrator Peter Lavelle

Add to EJ Playlist  (Part 1 of 2) RT is bringing you full coverage of the Victory Day parade from the Red Square, the heart of Moscow. This year's parade is the largest commemoration since 1945, when Nazi Germany was defeated by the USSR and the Allies. Today, for the first time ever, France, Britain and the U.S. have sent their own soldiers to parade past the Kremlin wall. Narrator Peter Lavelle