instead of just one. committed to me because i'm trying to find out what happened to the people who lived here in 1945 oh you know idea i've only lived here for 20 years or just your life the book you've given to me one of the neighbors might know about 3 got. to recognize anyone. movies but one man but then maybe. i mean i don't remember much from that time i hope it's just that one except that it's a whole lotta shorter's and so you know because they spoke german so that's what you mean so that is it back then when people had german they thought hitler was just around the corner. you know the doorbell rang an interpreter

asked whether i'd mind talking to a couple of germans who used to live here having us on the go that i said ok and invited them in so it was a man and his wife so they brought me some trousers i still have them. a pair of black trousers. that spotted. the problem is that the shutters did not leave a forwarding address so how can i track them down. i decided to try the german federal archives by reut. germans who were driven out of the eastern territory's after the war could qualify for compensation if they renounced all future claims they had to fill out an application and provide an address. stephanie works at the archive maybe she can help me. should

i see him in. ok ok says he owned a car a horse it was a used car. he bought it in 1937 for 3000 marks coughed. easy says the very mocked confiscated it 5 years later. here's a list of everything he says he lost us and alice for. we've seen that car in the film so maybe we can find a record of the car here in the file just as justice is over here in the. valley i get no option i ask in the documents he describes the cars he owned. it could be that the shway type family went with water off the family just into weekend trip with friends all relative so what happened but the other possibility

is of course that there was it was not their own cars so and you know the cars quite prominent in this picture fail so maybe if they made the film because they were so proud of the rental car. damn a rental car so it may not be the shirkers in the pictures after all but stephanie keeps looking. there is no thought of that yeah i'm a sham i should say that there is a name for. this is the this is really interesting the 18 year old son is named his name yeah it makes sense yeah i did much didn't appear in any of the finances and. there was a kind of logic at him because he would have been too young at the time to even 945 or 46 he would have been 10 years old. he has no property so he didn't fill out an application stand so this might be

a missing link to have those something. that's the one. if people are shorter was 10 years old in 1906 he still could be alive. maybe i'll be able to find him online. i'll see if he has any other relatives. the files show that dietmar was born in bad form brawn today it's called plates of the district of healing your corps i've managed to track him down to date to a place of birth match perfectly. that is definitely. he's an artist. i know i mean hello my name is me look here ditmar shirt is right for me. i'm looking for the shorter family from

harrisburg i have something that may belong to your relatives. would like to show it to you if i could. just. again. is this finally the family i'm looking for. the following it's nice to meet you. it's a mess like that it's. not enough and it's incredible to see lazy. here you know they can you know if you can you know how to stop for a 2nd so i can see the people you know that right there those are the be pushed on relatives. i sneezed i can't really identify any of those people and they're really much too small for me to recognize. me yet. and besides he was pretty young at the time that the film was shot this condition

that it would be you know shorter but i can't say for sure he gained more weight later on but it could be her. the stuff she brought to brewery and has back that it is there was huge and old i remember and. there were 2 vaulted sellers. that happened to get tough played on the brewery and my grandmother an uncle and some other relatives lived there. front there was a park in the taxis and buses used to park there. i made a lot of money i didn't have enough my family but there's backside. after the war all the shirkers left. i mean if you have a family photo album. this is that he's doing it here this year in the

mountains that's me my dad has my mom in it is key it's the war it ended by that i . spent a year under occupation and clicky fix that 1st the russians then the poles and i was our collective fate things were pretty bad i had no idea why this was happening to us i was just a kid so i didn't ask. when you get all this does not want us out of the house hands up and we had to find no place to live what was the involvement but when done time in a year later in 1906. they went through the district street by street and ordered all the germans to come out and say load us onto a train. guns i thought it was a great adventure. forcing anything like. that so if there's a freight train i set right up front ice is hanging out over an iron bar and the train moved really slowly and i just watched the scenery i think it was quite

a pleasant trip. feet i'm going to bother me at all a lot of people really said that some were crying. and there was a straw to sleep on the sanitary conditions were appalling. and them across the nicer river. we were still wearing the armbands that the poles had ordered us to wear from triton if we took them off and threw them away we were going to the west . continued north if he did but one. inspector the local farmers and residents didn't want us to stop there told us to go back where we came from. outside for a while and then found a place to stay stall in the barn after that things got a little more normal. dietmar family have to leave my family wanted to like

many with german groups in the 1980 s. it took a long time to do the immigration paperwork and then they aren't curtain came down so we stayed where we were tomorrow i'm going to meet sister hunter shorter powell maybe she can identify the people in the film. do you have a better late than never surely one late sorry. the zinj by really sorry i'm late shot there. she was ready to leave but i twisted her on ok. ok. ok so i'm going it's explained to you the story of why i'm here. oh oh no hitler no that's not hitler this is it is not hitler at a different nose. when you think so it's

a dead ringer no doubt about it you don't miss the does of to know if she. she was from through this we can see that he was in and is the piece i played the part of any nazi party for the shorters party members to fly me they were interested in politics my father my father joined the party because he had to work for the state he wasn't a true believer just a member. of the ship asking my mother to join but she refused to do it my does my mojo indeed but again she had more courage than my father did by my dad mahmoud. what sort of where is that. right. yeah yeah he caught it and an ikea license plate force lesia that's those were the

shirts are brothers cars it was their company this is no this film was shot while they were on a trip to the mountains in 1938 or 39 often because you would have none of that you know who own the camera and film did it have to do you had they always had the latest high tech gear. and i don't see yes. absolutely they were obsessed with their toys. the fans this do you recognize me when they. return please. let's just end this is that it stands martha and the more you can see it more clearly here no doubt about it your horse to know that high forehead she was always having headaches. so it's aunt martha who had a high forehead and suffered from migraines. a real person not just an

anonymous figure in a brief film clip. on a hand dietmar suggest that i visit their cousin peter who lives in the valleys or up lands region he's the last surviving shorter from the brewery. the horse car belong to dealers father i think i finally solved this case here is this is the post office that's post gospel style social is here the right. answer and the capital cinema was just a few steps away now. i can still remember 70 years. he certainly can remember the old part of harrisburg his aunt martha even their phone number at the time. have you ever been back there. 74 times. if that's the last time was 3 years ago mine's

a wonder why saddam wanted to see the place so off we went or doesn't. fall on my wife come from the press not all of us or so we visited professor oh. and of these and about the mountains as beautiful. as my home plant this is the fly felt at home again right away so it's a lot of fun. though. it's time for me to head back home. hif solve the artful puzzle. it started with a simple family story and turned into a german polish polish german saga. a complex history full of sorrow and personal loss. to share her brother who survived the war but they were forced to leave their homeland. there were many victims in my family too.

after the war the communists took over in poland and started to eliminating potential opponents. years ago so keep going straight answer you mean it here's the homestretch he was killed there's the gate. going to the secret police had a jail here comes you again was arrested for being an anti communist that said he tried to escape through the courts. and they shot it was that. you know. we cemeteries straight ahead now send us. no more we'll be there in a minute larger character yeah. alexander and league you assure us lieutenant of the home army code name born 1916 murdered

august 2nd 1905 by the polish date security piro. they're also mega actually it was august 6th they got the date wrong about their new. book i still can't believe the great example of just a little bit of sewing about it is they never told us where they buried him he just disappeared is that the file on him is close to my usual so you can't search for him we spent long days and nights at the cemetery so whenever they've buried someone my mother would take a look out to see if it was alec. that's right i never gave the body back to my sister that we don't know where they buried him. that year maybe here maybe there is all we can do is guess who. say they've got the fact of the matter is

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hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program police in hong kong have arrested several activists in the pro-democracy demonstrations that have roiled the territory over the last 3 months one of them is the well known face of the movement josh well authorities say wong and others are being investigated for their role in an unauthorized protest in june when protesters brawl created police headquarters police also arrested and each head in a founder of bad pro independence party. was one of the student leaders of major pro-democracy demonstrations in 2014 he was released from prison in june after serving a 5 week sentence related to those contexts. well for more on this developing story let's cross over to our asia correspondent sean to chell some pill she's in hong kong or can you tell us about the circumstances of joshua long's arrest and the justification for. well this has been

a big sweep of activists this morning terry what we know about joshua long is that apparently he was picked up in a in a column this morning in the early hours taken to this police station where i am right now shortly afterwards agnus chalo who is also within the same party as him was also picked up 2 you know what we're hearing is that they are suspected of taking part in an authorized protests in june 21st which school the surrounding of the police station they were also apparently accused of inciting those protests now those 2 arrests came a day off another prominent activist was also detained apparently on the way to hong kong international airport we're also hearing in the last hour or so the district councilor has been arrested as well so this is the most high profile collection of arrests that have taken part that have taken place a ball in the last 13 weeks let's be clear though that these are among 900

a rest of protesters that have happened in recent weeks so major sweet as you say police for cracking down how all the people in the hong kong reacting to these arrests. as a lot of anger on social media at the moment terry what's got to be pointed out is that protest is this protest movement started against that extradition bill which was later suspended that since a bold into something very different particularly a lot of anger at the way police have been handling these protests protesters so say that they've been extremely violent in that crackdown on those activists that's fueling this whole movement now these arrests are likely to incite even more anger among people on the streets they feel that the reaction from authorities has been extremely on just what will wall arrest in terms of the movement as. hole that he's

been living has such a prominent figure and what does that mean for the protest movement in hong kong. which is a very prominent figure internationally the key role that he played in the 2014 umbrella me let's be clear this particular approach does mean these 13 weeks have been leaderless protests have been organizing different protests nonny on social media a lot of different individuals springing up to organize separate protests just to one hasn't had the same profile the same role in these protests this time around and for that reason a lot of people particularly angry but it's also an explanation why these protests are likely to go on because they don't need a figurehead like all the other activists to continue. thank you so much. pilger in hong kong. can the british parliament use

legislation to prevent its own suspension opposition leader jeremy corbyn says yes he plans to introduce a bill to block prime minister boris johnson from suspending parliament just ahead of britain's scheduled exit from the european union johnson says parliament needs to call in september and october to allow the government to work on its domestic agenda tone and say that's an undemocratic attempt to stifle debate about pricks more than 1000000 signatures were gathered within 24 hours against the forced recess of parliament many britons are furious with their new prime minister boris johnson. including businesswoman and auntie breaks at activist gina miller she has launched legal action to defend the rights of parliament in the courts. we're not questioning whether having that power using it is illegal or not what we're questioning is that the use of this power in parliament for such a long time 5 weeks greg said hardliners however don't understand what all the fuss

is about jacob reese mog told reporters the move was democratic. for years. behind the scenes at westminster opposition parties are forging alliances under great pressure to try to politically thwart johnson's plans they are focused on bringing forward legislation to prevent a no deal breakers that. will use every policy devise that we possibly can and if it has to include at some stage a vote of no confidence that will still be open to us that will be on the table what we won't do what we won't do is allow boris johnson to act like a dictator. but politicians only have 4 session days to get any measure through parliament it is a tight race against time. well for more we're joined by european affairs analyst and he breaks a campaign of john worth john the parliament the clock is not working in

parliament's favor in the u.k. right now does parliament still have enough time to block boris johnson's effort to suspend it. docking it to suspend it perhaps not to broadcast no deal breaks it probably it does that's going to be the focus of what's going to happen next week they've got 3 main sitting days tuesday till thursday next week when that where the big fight is going to happen essentially because already the week after is when parliament we suspended due to this this move that boris johnson made to 2 days ago so he stopped on suspending parliament probably not to stop and no deal breaks at a crash outbreaks it there's probably still a chance what options does parliament have 1st of all in terms of blocking the suspension that it's facing because boris johnson is trying to block to block parliament there to stop parliament for 5 weeks to suspend it which of course everyone very angry what options does parliament have to to block that so essentially the difficulty in the u.k. is the u.k.

doesn't have a written constitution so exactly what palme its powers are in such a circumstance we ultimately don't quite know what we do know is to use this power which has existed for a long time and is moving to just stop a problem and you can stop the next one is never normally been used to basically take palm and out of seating for 5 weeks could you imagine if anglo machall said which is going to stop the german parliament sitting for 5 weeks that credit will cry so ultimately we don't know the answer to whether polman can actually stop this suspect shot of the city what we do know next week however is palmed is going to try legist of route to stop boris johnson's plans is going to try to 1st and as we heard with the clip this 2nd effort if that fails maybe to bring a vote of no confidence in boris johnson's government but the members of parliament know that just stop boris johnson's breaks it plans is easier than stopping boris johnson himself and so that's what's going to be the focus next. well you mentioned a vote of confidence if that happens if it gets to that point there's

a vote of confidence in parliament regarding boris johnson you think you'd win it i think there's a chance he would win it because the difficulty is is many conservatives who are unhappy with boris johnson dislike the leader of the opposition jeremy colvin even more than they dislike boris johnson in 2 month's time the crazy that members of parliament of the conservatives don't want boris johnson's key policy his new deal breaks it but they would still soon to have him and then jeremy called in as prime minister and that's why legislative efforts to stop their deal breaks it are a clever option than trying to go for a vote of no confidence vote because everyone understands that the lives of it to stop never do breaks it is much more likely to succeed than a vote of no confidence and so that's the game is going to be played out particularly in the next week then they'll be another round after the suspension of palm and in october the difficulty of course is all this is against a ticking clock britain is supposed to lead by 31st october and that's already under 70 days away so therefore it's very very difficult to see exactly how these things will work and in which order just briefly does this parliamentary suspension

of boris johnson has engineered does it strengthen his hand in trying to negotiate a better break to deal with brussels no i don't think it does because i think brussels is essentially said hang on a minute but 1st of all that's a big democratic question over the way that the u.k. is behaving and 2nd what we saw particularly yesterday was have some how much that kind of strengthened the opposition to boris johnson i think actually probably if anything we do says the chances the boris johnson would get a deal from the european union john thanks so much consultant and campaigner john works. some of the other stories making news around the world today just have to contact has accepted the nomination of italy's president as prime minister designate he will try to put together a new coalition of the populace 5 star movement the center left democrats the 2 parties aim to avoid new elections that the far right led by material salvini would likely win. ukraine's president a lot to me as a lenski has put together

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