uncle wong says he'll keep returning to the streets as long as the protests continue. one man and his walking stick now an icon in the mint. you're watching d.w. news our documentary films coming up next focusing on the hebrew unification in germany that's it for me sumi will be with you at the top of the next hour thanks for being with us. welcome to the butt is the game here for d.w.i. . we have plenty to talk about some. coverage. 3. little we have. let's have a look at some of them look so you don't want to. be w i.

i. i 3 words i need trying to crash on friday night unity justice and freedom. what are these words mean for democracy. because in his talk we have different histories. that's what makes us so diverse but we need a basic level of cohesion a country needs to stand together despite all its differences if you've heard. and i mean come on we can only reach consensus and the same goes for the bundestag as well for me except the fact that different people have different interests and they have a right to pursue the investigation of supervision. i. what

are the things that unite us. and who are we. there are stuck in berlin the political centerpiece of our state dedicated to the german people it's symbolic of 2 states having come together but for citizens to come together and speak as one it takes political debate to mccarthy is an equal number see is a great idea and it's based on the notion that we might not all be the same but we are equal and we have the same rights. it suggests that we've currently agree upon how we want to live together without anyone being allowed to dominate or walk all over others when being under the dominion but to make that happen we need

a sense of belonging like fans at a football match. in a speech such as was. written. like that i'd love. for their 954-2014 when it comes to football we are one people like a big family our sense of belonging comes naturally. i missed ties to al the unity also means people coming together in a cohesive society. and it means that everyone who comes here is a part of that society that's the good yet. in 1905 at the end of world war 2 everyone in germany had to pull together. but then their solidarity was put to the test there were massive shortages of food

and other essential supplies and hundreds of thousands of people start arriving from the eastern territories regions that had belonged to germany before it started the war. it was a mass exodus of millions of refugees and displaced persons came from east and west prussia pomerania so lazy or was or didn't land and even as far as the regions are but not and transylvania. in some over 12000000 people looking for a new home. couldn't possible i was born in breslau during the war but it was after the war ended we had to leave. we didn't flee we were driven out of fuel and food we were catholics and we ended up in the state of cheering and. there everyone else was protestant we

spoke a high german dialect i felt out of place in so many ways one could start my childhood and adolescence i always felt like an outsider like a minority the others were different and i didn't belong but if you have a niece who does a male. german society was not prepared for so many new arrivals. in east germany people driven from their former homes soon made up more than 24 percent of the population in the west it was about 16 percent. the small village of 1st time in southwestern germany. in 10517 year old monica fetterman arrived here with her brother and parents after a long and difficult journey from the east. the family had been forced to flee from so lazy. they assigned us to that apartment upstairs it

had a kitchen in the bedrooms in the back there facing the street to sluff the men. but when they arrived what they experienced was far from any kind of culture of welcome . the woman who owned the house was adamant she did not want to take in a family that had children and she fought hard to keep them out. before that when the woman who lived there didn't want to have to put up the children she had no kids of her own and she didn't want any around. she started making a scene saying she wouldn't let us in that we'd have to stay outside. so we just stood there until the police arrived and forced her to take us in. and that set the stage for how we were treated afterwards to. overflow so i was no exception throughout the country millions of people needed to be resettled

. momus he doesn't force you often have 3 families living in a 4 room apartment most conflicts originated in the kitchen where they argue over who was allowed to use it when and who could use which foods. they were often fuelled by religious differences and the prejudice that prevailed was perhaps even greater than you'll find today against muslims so it's going about mostly more to. the former primary school and all but for a time has been turned into a museum. so for the children monica met here became her lifelong friend. despite her rough start. to lead guitar not me or my 1st day at school it was painful the teacher wasn't trying to be mean but she said now i'd like to introduce monica she's a refugee girl and she's going to read for us. but i didn't know how to read all i could do was start or what the how so of course all the kids started laughing at me

again on the mac. but thank goodness my teacher realized what was going on. now and she started giving me private reading lessons one and i tell myself that those kids will never laugh at me again. integration can only succeed step by step from one person to another and it often starts with the youngest in society. these girls never experienced any of the tensions that marked the early stages of german unity they grew up as part of a more solid community. millions of displaced people and left behind everything they had the government did its best to help them start over. and into got going to fit the integrating all the displaced persons was a great achievement for everyone involved. but it was not a simple as it seems in retrospect. today the entire effort is portrayed as

a great success story and it is but it was also very difficult. to come from then germans unity was put to a new test after the war the our allies agreed to divide germany into 4 occupation zones but as the occupying powers increasingly disagreed the cold war began. and left germany torn between east and west. in 1988 tensions escalated in an attempt to pressure the western allies the soviet union blocked off all access to west berlin in response several western countries led by the us started supplying the city by air this created a new sense of unity between west berliners and the united states the famous raising bombers supplies to west berlin until the blockade ended in may 1000. in 49 . men 2 german states emerged on

may 23rd the federal republic was established with comrade i don't know our best chance for. an october the 7th the german democratic republic came into being with. us president. doesn't make it all it is basically to sleep when we had. a daughter start and at 1st both states claim to speak for all of germany because of east germany backed by stalin claim to be the state that would unify the country. but the federal republic believed it had disappear a system of governance kit and doubleness oblique people. today and the unification would have simply meant the nixing east germany i'm sure most dead. in 1961 just 12 years after the 2 german states were founded east germany sealed

off the last open part of its mordor the wall deep into germany's divide german unity seemed further away than ever. in fears of another war the world looked to berlin breathless as u.s. and soviet tanks faced each other along the city's border. west berlin's mayor billy brunt tried to ease tensions. all of the. harder i did not know. escaping from east germany had become a deadly endeavor. ah unless i'm in safety in 1961 after hundreds of thousands have fled east germany the government sealed its borders in an act of self preservation. because they imprisoned their own people because they

had come to the very realistic conclusion that they couldn't make the rest stay otherwise. germany's division created an unusual situation of the 1964 summer olympics in tokyo. internet for it to signal peace and unity the international olympic committee had determined that an all german team was to compete neither state was happy with the ruling but they had no alternative and so a combined team of 370 athletes represented both east and west germany in tokyo. met team included the famous swimmers frank began from east germany and gun crime up from the federal republic all of germany was rooting for them. that. at the 1964 olympics both men competed for germany but although they were in the

same team they weren't 18 any personal contact between the east and west german athletes was discouraged. in the us in tokyo all german athletes stayed in the same building in the olympic village but were kept in separate floors. we swam in the same team so obviously we had to train together to practice the relay 100 offs. as was the other sports officials told us to keep contact to an absolute minimum. a day go by there's nothing else for you to discuss they said this was of course that was just ridiculous. i'm somewhat in the evening we pass each other in the hotel lobby and say let's meet in room 318 and everyone would show up there they even filled the battle but soviet champagne we. could future bronstein good food.

while the officials were trying in vain to keep the team apart from beyond 13 silver medals sports fans throughout germany were elated. as usually it's about. 4 years later at the 1968 summer olympics in mexico city began 10 kramer were back but on separate teams the olympic committee had recognized the separation of east and west germany but still obliged both teams to enter under a single flag black red and gold plus the olympic rings. begun crema along with their teams were now competing against each other. the finals of the man is followed by 100 meter freestyle relay. at the bottom you can see from vega and is doing very well so far and the main 6 play much of west

germany is looking strong as well. in mexico as is us in mexico city the 2 german teams were housed in separate buildings so it was difficult to keep up our old contacts. we had to be even more careful when we were dealing with the close enemies as our team officials constantly drilled into was. it also a little. bit they didn't refer to them as fellow athletes but as clus enemies. so we couldn't meet like we didn't tokyo. the only time that we saw each other was at the pool. yet despite district separation the german teams not only shared a common flag but also

a common anthem the same theme that was 1st played for the west german team at the 1952 olympics be told when it's over to joy. when. you think that when i hear that music i still get goosebumps it always takes me back to mexico city. when we speak in mexico. since the early 1950 years west germany had been enjoying an economic boom in 1955 the 1000000 books bargain beatle rolled off the assembly line in voyage school. stuff that. make it funny.

as the economy continued to expand the industry needed more workers to keep up. it soon became clear that germany didn't have enough people to fill all the new jobs that were being created and that's when they started recruiting workers overseas. come on. it was a good deal for both sides germany got the laborers it needed mostly for unskilled positions and the foreign workers escaped unemployment at home. the guest workers arrived in west germany from all over southern europe from italy from greece spain portugal and turkey. but in 1965 west germany it brought on a total of $1200000.00 additional workers. the one millionth guest worker to arrive was among the order biggest aside from portugal he received

a new moped to welcome him but that didn't mean he was accepted into west german society. to spout off his ear and it was a distinctly male migration most of the newly arrived workers were men who had left their families behind for a long time the idea was that they would work for a few years and then go back to work. the v.w. plant involved book began employing italian guest workers in 1960 to one of them was sort of tottering who was 20 years old at the time but it took years for him to feel at home in west germany. rocco started out working on the assembly line. in peace were he and his west german coworkers turned out a huge number of beatles in the 1960 s. . why would that feel nazi 284 beatles came down the assembly line for shift. a lot of people work to put them together because that's.

what's germany's economic miracle would not have been possible without these foreign workers an estimated 6000 italians worked at the voice work plant alone alongside their west german colleagues. but the italian workers were housed in a fenced off area outside the factory the german public was to know as little as possible about them they remained isolated from the rest of society and cut off from any sense of belonging you know i know one does and i had a bed in one of those barracks. there were 3 of them in the room. but there's no one of them at 1st. so they were for it as we all had to get used to living together. on the weekends we were all there and that the sure the 18 cooking plates but about 100 other people. feel on the flight that. the foreign

workers were not intended to become part of west german society later some of their family members started arriving adjusting to their new life was especially hard for the children. ask up hours and there were special schools for foreign children they weren't allowed into the regular classrooms. they called them cough econd suitcase kids and right from the beginning education officials decided they should have their own classes where they would keep learning their own language so their family could pack up and leave it any time i play he does take me in coffee devic good kind. during the 1970 s. the living conditions of the italian workers slowly improved. tally practised his german and was the 1st foreigner to be elected to be w.'s workers' council to this day he enjoys the respect of his former coworkers italians and germans are like.

you know. at the same time brokaw matter german girl named hunter or. young ones for the mess and break the spirit it was love at 1st sight. but when her father found out that she was seeing it at sally and guy he hit the roof. all night really should cock sure. he for better to go out. he grounded her its good reached. her common law as mother defended the relationship and in 1964 the couple finally married. they moved into their very own apartment just like many other italians did at the time. it had been determined that they could stay they had become a key part of the economy. but another group of foreign workers and their families faced more prejudice people from turkey most of the muslims.

by the time the children arriving were allowed to apply for german citizenship they had already grown into adults and had kids of their own it was made especially hard for them to become part of german society and take on positions of leadership the problems this caused echo on to this day. the best actual news over for decades the west german governments have been lying to itself and calling these people guest workers. secretly everyone knew that they were here to stay but no one dared think that led and some didn't want them to stay so the government made no real effort to integrate these people they didn't encourage them to learn the language or demonstrate any cultural openness at the same time many of the workers didn't seem willing to integrate themselves into society either at least not those from the 1st generation in the. east germany was also recruiting foreign workers here

they were called contract workers and they came in from cuba mozambique and many from vietnam by $989.00 the total number of foreign workers stood at about 94000. vietnam was a socialist sister state whose economy had been ravaged by years of war. the at timmy's workers were employed in the east german industry for 2 to 6 years they too were discouraged from staying on any longer their families were not allowed to join them women became pregnant or sent home at once. and they did it up as there was a labor shortage it east germany started in the 1960 s. . and it got worse in the seventy's and eighty's. that's because of the 1950 s. hundreds of thousands of people had left the country of so the government brought in more workers from africa and vietnam for vietnam but they were kept separate from

the local residents we didn't have much contact with them you can talk to. one true to arrived from vietnam as a contract worker in 1976 today she runs her own restaurant in the town in very good order in central germany but it took a long time for her to feel that she had become part of the local community. even though she had loved these germany since she was a little girl. except that when i was 9 years old someone gave me a beautiful white flower dress that was made in germany i. recall. i just love that dress. and i thought that germany must be great because they had such beautiful dresses there. newly arrived to be at timmy's workers 1st time to get used to a new shopping experience. for these into that it's time grandma

do see in these critics are here to see it came true demand. like i was using these app and feel. equally a comment it's a house i can tap. you know they may see our boss and my flashers in and as i was they say sh. there's a rabs n. . when death is through a cigar cipher. in vietnam i was hungry all the time but when i came to east germany i saw that they had all kinds of food i was especially fond of chicken legs. lek this. one was 18 years old when she came to east germany she was assigned to a vocational training program at a truck factory in sudan she was a hard worker and studious later she became the only one in the graduating class

who was allowed to continue on to university but when one finished her studies in 1981 the east german authorities decided it was time for her to go back to vietnam manhattanites that also kept me a little they were so worried that we were planning to stay after we received our diplomas. so they would book flights for us back to vietnam and simply told us when they were scheduled. they took us to the airport and only gave us our diplomas after we got into the departure area. on star so canoes we were at the gate. one was one of many we had to me as workers who were ordered to leave no matter where they wanted to live. scott and i believe that there was a strange contradiction between the government's official policy of supporting the international working class and their actual policy toward foreign workers.

the authorities could have done and should have done a lot more to promote integration and a true sense of camaraderie. instead foreigners were looked down on as competition that had come from abroad so it's become sent. in 1987 upon return to east germany she worked as a translator at a clothing factory in brown to go order but to the local residents she was still a foreigner. coming up i remember one incident to this day. i was at a market and wanted to buy some bananas. when i tried to pay the clerks that i couldn't so i asked her why and she said they were reserved for east german citizens only. long as experienced similar indignities over the years but she was determined to stay she took a big risk when opening a restaurant she won't let anything stop or.

today one also supports immigrants as they adjust to their new lives in german society and is part of a network that promotes better understanding between germans and foreigners because it intercuts owns of consecration goes both ways the 1st foreigners who come to germany should be encouraged to feel at home here but. 2nd german citizens should not have to feel like phoners in their own country both parts of the process are equally important and life was the. november 9th 1989 the end of the wall and the beginning of a new sense of unity after 40 years of separation germany could not have set a course for politically unification.

all along bornholmer tosca and so on another day and checkpoint charlie everyone came together to celebrate that day the people of germany experienced a newfound sense of community. to many it felt like a miracle. no one knew how long this excitement would last and that didn't really even matter. how did it us i was made a fire unification is one of the most amazing and joyous events in german history we're grateful it happened but in spite of all or a few zeroes and we must also remember that during reification serious mistakes were made and many people were left behind few dimensional he can get us. and not see the monday demonstrations continued some demanded immediate reunification.

while others wanted east and west germany to remain separate. it was go up there was a growing disappointment over how many changes were taking place in the east but not in the west and west german families simply got a new postal code and thats it. but for east germans the thing stayed the same and that is it alice it soon became clear that east germany's economy was in bad shape and it would require fundamental structural reforms. it was. you don't know what's going to happen next and that's frustrating is your job just going to disappear or not. the growing uncertainty did nothing to promote any sense of unity. among us and visit me and we were hoping for a bit more than this but we never would have expected that it would get this bad we have to pay 5 times more for goods from west germany with our income that's

a bit much we're human beings too just like those in the west. in july germany's monetary union went into effect 3 months later on october the 3rd 1990 it was followed by their formal political reunification. germany was now one country again but the german people were still a long way from true unity and the politicians seem to sorely lack the necessary tact to bring east and west closer together with insisted that they could have introduced some of the positive aspects of east german society into this new united country. that would have shown the people of east germany that at least part of the system had had value even if they had lived in a dictatorship there were still parts of the society worth preserving for the entire country yes that would have boosted their confidence and that in itself

would have been so important that western society would have seen their lives improving thanks that is positive aspects curried over from east germany but they were denied that experience. the consequences of currency conversion and privatisation in the eastern states were disastrous the economy in the east declined sharply from 190-2994. in 1906 more than 1300000 people were unemployed in the newly formed german states it was a major downside of the reunification process the consumer cooperatives work it especially hard this is the cons are meant department store in leipsic known to the locals as the tin can it was a relic of east germany's past. shortly before the currency change over the store started selling more and more western products to meet a sharp increase in consumer demand no one wanted to buy east german goods anymore

. this forced many former east german manufacturers to cut production or shut down altogether in the consumer cooperatives had to deal with increased competition something they weren't used to. feel a lot of people thought their lives were state at the same mix that they'd have a new currency and be able to travel freely but they were wrong the mechanisms of the free market took hold because. martine bagnet took on the difficult challenge of downsizing the consumer cooperatives was a painful process in 1990 about 200 of them were grouped into one organization today there are only about 30 laughed. off the east german cooperatives had 230. 1000 employees but during 199-318-0000 of them lost their jobs. the main problem was that the cooperatives had been left out of the unification

treaties they were considered a gray area that could stand in the way of reunification the cooperatives own their own buildings but the land the buildings were are now belong to the federal government if the cooperatives wanted to stay they'd have to pay a huge sum to the government becomes a man was also affected but there was a loophole perignon fought long and hard lobbying politicians to reduce the bill. comes in view we finally caught their attention with a public campaign that we put together packages of goods from our member companies and sent a package to each member of the bundestag and bone. we also gave interviews with public broadcasters. over time the pressure grew in the politicians to preserve more jobs so we ended up holding negotiations with the ministry of finance. and the result of that was we were able to reduce the original demand of $336000000.00 marks to $12000000.00 touch marks we will suppose your name. and so after

6 years of hard work american i was able to save a total of $4000.00 jobs at 30 companies and those companies were now in good financial shape nevertheless many in eastern germany still felt disadvantaged. had to actually send their truly is economic inequality in former east germany households in the west have more than twice as much wealth as those in the east and pension levels are not equal but what's more 80 percent of the top executive positions in the east are held by westerners if you can put it so and if you ask me situations like this are a real threat to democracy to the faffing democrats he is they have. another serious threat to german democracy is enough phobia in 1901 and higher as valid a right wing extremists want to a series of attacks on immigrant workers and asylum seekers one year later

a mob stormed refugee shelters in rostock and 1200 spectators gathered outside a shelter and applauded. a number of police officers who responded to these incidents were injured fortunately no one was killed. goats of. history is shown is that those who are disadvantaged or who feel disadvantaged or marginalized usually do not channel their anger into efforts to try and make society better just. to fit mr instead they often take out the frustrations on those who are least able to defend themselves. like asylum seekers and other foreigners they turn them into scapegoats who develop with susan ma in late 9092 those opposed found their voice to respond as

scorpions lead singer of cows minus said. listen my guides listen listen to what was even if i was there stuff that. sells unspoken for more civil courage to take action against racism and injustice. they claim the frankfurt concert featured well known german artists including lyndon bad and mali is more a best or not well came with the same message anyone who lives here should feel like they belong. huge demonstrations against you know full be it took place in major german cities protesters demonstrated solidarity with the victims of right wing terror. in may 9934 skinhead set fire to the house of a turkish family insulting and in western germany 5 people were killed and 14

others including several children injured. in a just thought that attack wiped out an entire family in just one fire. and it did not take place in eastern germany so to say that such incidents only ever occur in the east means we're just fooling ourselves with our liberal society has a serious potential for racism and we need to call more attention to this problem some political parties are skillfully exploiting the situation yet. racism is you know phobia and anti semitism manifest themselves in attacks against muslims jews refugees politicians and the media many who no longer feel represented in the political spectrum turn to far right political movements enter piggy to the patriotic europeans against the islam as ation of the occidental. done this movement appeared almost overnight. and mobilized

a lot of people who took to the streets. normally i'm all for movements that can move people like that's. but then it became clear where this organization was headed and who was controlling it here. where it is now clearly directed by right wing extremists radicals islamophobia homophobes nationalists earned racists and that's a serious cause for concern and says. this before. this tense situation was made even more complex in 2015 with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants many of them had fled conflicts in the middle east about 800000 sought protection in germany european countries and the german public squabbled over our best to distribute all the new arrivals how could so many people be integrated into german society. under the most when large numbers of people

suddenly arrive in a given society it becomes a major challenge and a painful challenge when things change for the people who already live their lives and that's to come but as you know for europe and other forms of intolerance are not the only threats to german social unity we now have to deal with a number of new challenges in a globalised digitalized world people are once again struggling to find their place in society. many turn to social media to bend their worries. vulgar remarks on the so-called social platforms have become increasingly commonplace while the vast majority silently watches. but not bridge a yard she refuses to stay silent. the monday when people lose their minds on line just because someone famous has expressed an opinion about something or maybe even

just some ordinary person the whole thing makes me physically sick. i can't believe stuff like that can remain on. line. does. in let's i'm 15 come. later joined a group called h.p. and here i am here numbers try to take the edge off hate speech with fact based comments. this is and it comes only fairly well and what we do can get risky i've received notifications where people have threatened to rape me. and not only in the comment sections but also in direct messages message can be done all. still britain to spend several hours every day trying to counter what she considers inhuman remarks when news broke about refugees drowning in the mediterranean she came across one particularly cynical comment now where fish not only contains

plastic but also human flesh but its response was clear and measured what a disgusting comments these are human beings we're talking about. this country sign if you disagree with someone you can't just shout at them or insult them or verbal abuse them. i believe that we should be much more civil when we engage with one another that's very important to me. being here has grown to over 49000 members in 2017 the group was honored with the german government online award for its contribution to promoting constructive dialogue on the web. unity means people living together side by side without hatred or violence unity welcome to social and ethnic diversity since 1949 it has been a cornerstone of german life as it will remain for generations to come.

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