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a good. job made for mines. it was nice for me my didn't know much about him it was just that he could play the violin really well. i know he lived that his grandmother's doesn't agree with small town. and i also found out he was in an orphanage some time before that as well for him looking from the vice no snoopy's in this. village he made a completely normal impression there didn't seem to be anything unusual to begin with i never thought there was something different about him.

he was to shorten the said fata i knew his father was a vietnamese soldier in the french army of the rhymes that i didn't know but i just accepted it it was what it was you know so he was an illegitimate child there were a few of those ups i knew from they always said he suspected something of course because sterilizations were always carried out under the semblance of some sort of examination when you know for a good moment. to do a bleak but he never said a thing about it. assays you neema as long as i knew him i didn't know. if you can't do the snitched i can still see him beaming with joy and holding his call up papers i'm being drafted for you and then he did it if you're more you can see from the pictures that he dead but only for 14 days after he finished training then he

was dead if not the most recent office of dark heart that i thought. was born in 1923 in always kishan he died serving in the german army somewhere in northern italy in 1944 there's not much left of him except for a few fading memories a handful of photographs and some dr vital statistics that was no accident the german state had decided that people like village would not be allowed to reproduce he and any memories of him was supposed to disappear along with him the same applied to others who shared his fate he was forcibly sterilized in the summer of 1937 before he had even turned 14 village he was one of several 100 children who had a german mother and a father who was a soldier from the french colonies. the

whole world collapsed in november 1918 prussia's miten chlorine were no more it was all over for kaiser god and fatherland after 4 years of slaughter 10000000 soldiers lay dead on the battlefield and as many people died on the home front as well both in europe and beyond. the moment of the victors had come on june 28th 1919 the allies received a small delegation of diplomats from germany the represented. civs of the german government signed an accord under protest because it was largely imposed without any input from them. in particular the french government led by george clooney also remained staunchly unbending never again was germany to pose a threat to france. the treaty put all german territory west of the

rhine under allied occupation for 15 years. allied forces moved into the area stretching along the river from the city of calle to cologne in january 920 of the 100000 troops in the french army of occupation more than a 5th of came from the french colonies algeria morocco tunisia senegal madagascar or vietnam german troops had encountered them on the battlefield and in the trenches a very. horror stories about the african soldiers savagery made the rounds on the home front as a result the germans were awaiting their french occupiers with no little trepidation during these days many germans saw people of color for the 1st time in their lives because you don't know you can well although until just before world war one there was no question of deploying black soldiers in europe then an officer

named shall march on wrote a successful and controversial book in 1000 tam called force the black force where he sent the senate police rifle men are good soldiers they've proven themselves in africa why should we deploy them in a war in france it was clear that france was afraid of germany in 1914 germany was a stable rich powerful country with a population of 65000000 and there were only 39000000 french to stand against them it was a foregone conclusion that the relationship was completely lopsided and that france was doomed to defeat militarily so they needed to find soldiers and sharman job propose that they relied on an immense reservoir of african troops also. is a one off the cuff. on m.t.v. and as a pug a national during the war they were already publishing propaganda warning that the french colonial troops would cut off the ears of german soldiers and wear them on strings around their necks that they were barbaric and acted like animals and were

being ordered to do so by their french to period. stories like this and all these fears were already being whipped up anyway now their focus was simply redirected onto these colonial troops in the rhineland island and then of course there was also deep seated racism that wasn't just confined to the germans the idea that troops from north africa senegal and vietnam were now in a position of power over the german civilian population well that was a reversal of the established colonial hierarchy wasn't it that these colonial subjects could now exercise authority over europeans who had once been colonial masters themselves but was perceived as extreme humiliation. in the. b.m.t. cation of kaiser vilhelm the 2nd whom the conservatives revered as a symbol of national identification on november 9918 merely compounded the sense of

crisis. village chinaman one of the social democrats leaders rushed to declare the end of the old order. by going up or down. but the fledgling republic was in danger from. the outset because what was old and rotten hadn't really disappeared in fact quite the contrary the guardians of the old order became the fellows of the new democracy they rejected the idea of the weimar republic and above all repudiated what they called the shameful versailles

treaty and those who in their opinion were responsible for it the german social democrats who signed it. in mansion 1920 general votto fun loot fits led the army in an unsuccessful push to overthrow the democratically elected government of chancellor goosed of power. in response french troops and then occupied cities east of the rhine as well moroccan regiments marched into frankfurt a mine on april 6th 1920 there were clashes with demonstrators and the moroccans opened fire killing 9 people and wounding many more the incident in frankfurt was exploited as a welcome opportunity to ignite the smoldering german rage against the french occupiers. from spring 1920 on words nationalists revulsion and racists used every available means of propaganda and disinform ation

to orchestrate a campaign against what they dubbed black shame none of the slogans or images used back then could be called innocent the toxins viewed in this campaign continue to poison our lives until today old delusions in new guises that eat into the heart of our society it started out with fake news reports like this. at around 4 pm on sunday december 7th 1900 a colored french colonial soldier attacked 16 year old factory worker gatorade am from ice collision as she was crossing the dylan oyster shell railway line on her way home. the soldier grabbed the frightened girl by her hands threw her in the ditch and held her mouth closed to prevent her screaming. when i thought back he bit my finger and wouldn't let go. he peered into the flesh right down to the bone sucking the blood out so that it ran down from his mouth.

in the spring of 1920 it seemed as if overnight an army of african rapists he defiles had set out to systematically defile and dishonor german women girls and boys. the outrage over the allegedly barbaric conduct of the french colonial troops on german soil boiled over into bizarre and festering images. of the world here we can see an african with deformed lips who almost looks like an ape beneath a french helmet and when you turn the coin over you see a german woman bound to a martyr stake at the shrine that is the erect penis of a black man topped by a military helmet these were the sexual obsessions of the black shame campaign this piece is a typical example of black chain propaganda which was very wide ranging we can't imagine how powerful the propaganda was today but enormous amounts of money were

invested in it brochures were translated from english swedish french spanish and american english and so on there were postcards illustrations posters medallions and. even made films about it the few he saw were to lose your citizenship. and then via videophone. company when we consider the role though. women and women's bodies in this campaign and it's important to understand that most women who are not really victims of men black men who were colonial soldiers are but the promoters of the campaign in many cases men consciously stylize them into victims beyond vice or white european men needed this spawn they were the authors of

brochures the writers of novellas and books who subjected women to their own male fantasy is a violent brutal bestie all sexual compulsion i mean my distortion 6 will intervene most it's not just money those weren't the lusts of these black soldiers they were the violence sexual fantasies and the men who made up these stories one minute. because she was. of course some colonial soldiers did carry out isolated attacks but these assaults had nothing to do with skin color nor were they a problem confined to the colonial troops but it was depicted as well as would artistic. shiny europeans already had the concept of black shame in their minds before the 1st colonial soldiers ever set foot in the rhineland the idea that black men are

a threat to white women that their sex drive a stronger that they're unable to control their desires and that they come from primitive races those ideas were already widespread. the protests against the presence of colonial troops on german soil didn't just come from nationalistic or racist circles. high ranking politicians supported that opposition to your can as neat fresh green beauty could poor boatwright in concert decent ones of good song and. busy trying conquering few cuts fabrication. to conquer. under the smear justify vendôme far bigger talk needle stuck it's. a focus on from the horn guys on votes roughly can be bought on their own linda and her own father under fire let's own dogs etc it will perish at sea believe that's your least. annoyed in the very. privileged.

rice president. as a decompile you're going yeah you can view this campaign from 2 perspectives one is a propaganda campaign directed by the state that is the attempt to overturn the conditions of the versailles peace and influence the setting of further postwar conditions. it was aiming to reestablish international solidarity with germany germany wasn't in the league of nations at this point that on the one hand would be a classical political historical standpoint but on the other hand the question is why this campaign spread and appeal to so many other people declare war time the seat was viewed as a failure of the military leadership and the monarchy but also a failure of german soldiers although this was not recognized open late these are the black shame campaign didn't want to admit that campania. done so the blame for

the defeat was projected onto the participation of the african soldiers and it's a classic case of transmission if you wish or in a class or tag and sit on. the leaders of the campaign wanted to publicize reports of mass rapes of german women internationally a few days after the clashes in frankfurt in april 1920 an article appeared in england denouncing the presence of french colonial troops on german soil. the author of the article was the english journalist and labor member of parliament edmund deane mirelle. morrell felt website in deeson in his article more condemning the french occupation on the rhine and its use of black troops. which he described as a horror a terrible situation what's your one and he was already in contact with german

officials and was getting information from that office. went ahead in 4 months or. as far as influencing british public opinion about the occupation of the rhineland using black soldiers is concerned a number of english politicians and journalists staying in berlin in the last few months have been granted access to a large number of documents pertaining to the conduct of black troops in the occupied region mirelle has used the material he was given to publish a brochure of the horror on the rhine which he has written to great effect it was quite apparent that the horror on the rhine awoke feelings of physical and psychological discussed and everyone. does also get a gun to send the foreign ministry was always behind the scenes inviting visitors

from abroad to come to the rhine land and then go back home and report how horrible things were there before by the thing a 15. among the foreigners the german government recruited to support the campaign was re beverage from the united states beverage was raised in the white american upper class she became one of the most aggressive agitators spreading the tales of so-called black shame. have the men leading our countries lost their minds they are blindly throwing our white race our white women into the abyss i appeal to all of the world's women i peel to all men still worthy of the name. help white women white girls and white boys are in danger every day and every hour and this threat will continue as long as a black man is entitled to exercise power over whites in america they hanged each and every black man who molests a white woman these are these racist ideas were widely shared in common as they

came from the center is of international and european science and research that people went to conferences swedish german italian french and british scientists met at congresses to discuss these issues and the european population were aware of the importance of being white and stain white vice designed vice to be. yet the nationalists revulsion and racists were unable to prevent one thing after the war people along the rhine found love the men came from africa the philippines and vietnam the women from germany.

between 19191928 several 100 children fathered by colonial soldiers were born to german women in the german regions along the rhine the precise number isn't known but it could be anywhere from 402-8000 these children and their mothers and their families were socially ostracized from the start friedrich zits a senior civil servant wrote. unfortunately some of the female population did not know how to defend their morals or uphold the honor of their position and national dignity. with occupation troops in a disgusting way. and isolation was of course not without consequences in many cases. a position fronts rosenberger went even

further. should we silently tolerate this fact that instead of the light songs of white beautiful well bred intellectually superior lively young germans on the banks of the rhine we will hear the calling sound of dapple grey low brow the wide nosed chorus half animal syphilitic mulatto. someone. or when they speak of the latter's ation this is their presuming that a lot of women from the rhine region had voluntary relations with colonial troops and also bore them children and many nationalist propagandists campaigned against what they called white shame so that's a very massage and mystic anti women version that says it's bad enough that the french have brought these black soldiers into the country now we've also got all these german women with no sense of honor or patriotism lining up on mass to have

sexual relations with these colonial soldiers. the x. clothes you all the exclusion touched on there of the white woman from the collective of the germination is of course racist. be forced into the concept is that the german population of the body of the people regenerates from where they have and that anyone involved in racial the fall meant must be excluded from the body of the german people. on the it's not a list of any there is naturally also an assumption that if someone has a darker skin color. he or she can't really be german there you see a deep rooted belief that being german means having a specific ethnic identity. in entity so your german if your skin's the right color but what about those who have african or asian fathers but at 1st sight don't look like it for example village barred from their i dos on

a friend get the impression of him being alien or different and that was basically purely abstractly while he spoke abroad reports and dialects so that really like i said nobody annoys you could clearly work out his origins from his speech. if you his language defined him as a long established local and that was always what mattered for us when it was. in 1920 children used to seeing who's afraid of the black man and answer themselves nobody. but it wasn't the same for adults. these are the good born bad indeed the afro german children born from these relationships were in a tough position and the other know they were a reminder of their defeat in the war. on the bizarre tongue smile they were

a reminder of the french occupation forces. and they reminded people of the inability of german men to protect their women from a legit rapists highest so that means that the authorities already had these children in their sights by the mid 1925 they were perceived as a potential threat i know portents here with the bargain on one local politician had a radical solution the maturing of half breeds who will soon be capable of reproducing is causing great concern in the fonts so i'm asking you to listen to what's being said. the rhine ministry and the national health authorities to see if we can do something to ensure the race remains pure from colored blood in the occupied territories the privy council dr due to me has indicated that the sterilization of mixed race children could be carried out in an entirely painless procedure it is clear that such

a procedure would be inadmissible under current law that's this whole conflict and that side for this conflict goes back to before world war one the question was what is the status of legitimate so called mixed race children in the colonies did they inherit their father's german citizenship the racists naturally didn't want that initially this approach didn't take hold but i think there was a point when the nazis broke through for example and very clearly made citizenship a matter of race for the so called rhineland bastards it had a huge impact on their lives and physical safety on feel a couple of thoughts as it tied you have to see the modern weimar republic and an obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine baker was well going perlin audiences with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some of thora teas went as far as to

consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about greg or bards who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin. i was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 in a staunch we catholics or scientists where religion was dominant in that it was far more shocking. here's.

this is catalina kyra greg was mother this is a miracle i am my mother she was born in 1914 and i think was about 11 or 12 in this picture and that. those were the 3 sisters that's my grandfather used. and here we have cut out or you know kyra my grandmother and this is great in here looking or. because like i said it was a scandal normally it would have meant total ostracism from the village community but it never came to that of. course of my grandfather and our family. my grandfather was one of the founders of the social democratic party here. and he was a really strong individual. he didn't usually throughout the people. but also played

a role in the village eventually accepting him. man in 1927 catarina kyra married petabytes a man shown here. she made sure she got away from my grandfather the minute she legally became an adult it seems the 2 really didn't get a lot of work on the talk to mr clinton. the family and village community protected greg or as long as they could but they couldn't shield him from all injustice and persecution greg also 5 the war and was accepted in the community as an adult but he would never have his own family. adult hitler had personally made sure of that when the national socialist seized power a sea change in german demographic policy brought people like greg under increased scrutiny the nazis relied on concepts of racial anthropology that had emerged a long time before to support their position the father of racial anthropology in

germany was the zoologist and eugenicist and heckle. into the snow and groups the end of the 19th century when many publications were looking into the exotic and the wild people visited museum collections to see glass cases full of skeletons and skulls and asked themselves for are we all really one unified human race how do we differ from each other they had already started cataloguing these exhibits and now they began to categorize them in the 1st phillip genetic trees that haykel introduced in the 8 $160000.00 showed an established categorization and hierarchy of to be better worse higher or lower in. media and dust motes and that became clear when tabular overviews of categories based on data about skulls hair color and structure and eye color were published

for the 1st time they noted the course hair of the papuans or hottentot and rank them at the lower end of the table. then came the mediterranean and the europeans and then later on the caucasians on top and in meditative on and in spirit and think oh cause you know understood the kinds of vilhelm institute for in 3 g. was founded in berlin dull him in $1027.00 during the nazi period he became the center for research in eugenics and racial hygiene its director was an anthropologist oig an official. fischer also became the intellectual father of the draft law that the national socialists aim to use to implement their racial hygiene policies it laid down that anyone posing a threat to the help of the german race should not be permitted to reproduce this is the slogan on the sets of you don't know who exist for this was called the law for the prevention of offspring with hereditary diseases of july 14th 1933

published by one of the s.s. his favorite publishing houses in 1934 was it contains the entire legal text and who was responsible for what is it says. this inhumane legislation was purely about sterilization and its aim was to legalize amber genom eyes eugenic your forces massed their allies ation functionaries you only got the syrian lickety media to get to me and. exhibitions promoted public acceptance of the new law their reign was to familiarise germans would be idea of racial hygiene. the need for forced sterilizations was even justified economically but fear for the racial purity of the german people was the main issue. surveys were launched in the nazi heartland of turin jia to help set up a comprehensive database of racial biological characteristics covering the entire

population it was the 3rd reich version of big data. at the end of july 19th 33 just a few days after the law for the prevention of offspring with hereditary diseases was passed both a young anthropologist travelled from berlin to the rhineland. garble was a member of organ fishes staff of the kaiser vilhelm institute the objective of his trip was to gather anthropological data on the so-called rhineland bastards arbel measured and photographed $33.00 children ranging from 5 to 11 years of age he had found the children's personal data in earlier studies from the 1920 s. .

arbel photographed and measured almost all of the children without their consent or that of their parents which is why the images have been my. unrecognizable here. published the findings of his examinations in a scientific journal the children's privacy was violated for a 2nd time. was the not so not sort of just what the national socialists did using no shape and hair and eye color that was pseudo science because race is nothing more than a societal construct. it lacks any scientific foundation in the division of humanity into races was and is 1st and foremost a societal and political classification. and if skin color is added as a differentiating characteristic then as present day scientists we must say that

skin color is the poorest characteristic you could use to ascertain races on all of us and fists new research shows that everyone was dark skinned until around a 1000 years ago africa is the cradle of humanity for all peoples africa is for elimination d.v. get a mention the main point of this is that the concept of race should never be used again if there have never been races so gave them the same constructor these are constructs on and it is impossible to create an artificial hierarchy of categories using something like hair skin and i color. under her in her need of a window should you wouldn't vagabonds induce digging in the eye and putting in. an interview duncan and clark. function or if you see the bust. in foster vice or lawsuits or stool when you are called to then on pulley titian who.

owns a boat so you can have an off switch to. mine comes. in april 9. $137.00 chancellor addles hitler personally gave the secret order to forcibly sterilized the rhineland so-called occupation children a special unit was set up under the nazi secret police the gestapo to carry out the order. it was called special commission number 3. special commission number 3 was the body that organized the illegal forced sterilizations that all the documents pertaining to the children in question were made available to special commission 3 interests and is thus what's interesting is that the children's data were supplied by the state authorities responsible for hereditary issues as part of the information gathering process they had written to

our district commissioners and mayors ahead of time. young gregg or bards from plight also fell into the clutches of special commission 3 he was just 16 years old . and i know that there were already a few fascists here in the community is specially in the local police and there was a local propaganda leader who was an absolutely committed nazi i believe they're the ones who reported grego. the widow of the doctor that they pressured mothers by telling them if you refuse to allow your sons to be sterilized then we're going to have to educate them as i was that man to concentration camp the mothers knew well well that meant. of that that's also on predicting the children would be sent to live in a nazi camp in a fort on the most of. us. in june

$937.00 special commission 3 summoned to grego and his mother to cologne. to stop o h q cologne after consulting with a senior civil servant mr thorne the next appointment will take place at the protestant hospital cologne via tar on june 3rd at 7 30 am. for wards of the health authorities and. dusseldorf where they are usually ordered to appear must be picked up and brought to cologne by car. if contrary to expectations one or more of them fails to appear before the health authorities at the appointed time then the driver will have to collect them. i had to go to cologne to via tal hospital that's what it's called today it's a protestant hospital you know most of the catholic hospitals refused to perform

these operations so they went to cologne and i had in the family that both of them stood on the bridge over the rhine and thought about throwing themselves in. lifeboats and. i was asked if i was straight in was 50 s you cannot emphasize enough what this forced sterilization meant for these under-age children above all it destroyed their future prospects in life. it meant abdominal pain painful scars and persecution that left them traumatized that was all part of the program and the feelings of these children whose owner had been taken who had been told they were a disgrace or that they were only half human that traumatized them for the rest of their lives i'd say. is this oblivious and.

elizabeth hellman wrote about her operation in her book. at 1st i heard the rustling of clothing of people hurrying over. that i felt a dim ceiling light had my eyes i tried but failed to get a clearer picture of what was actually happening fell away again and again and i floated in a fog of nothingness. my body seemed confined. i reached for carefully. i felt the sack of sand weighing down on me and the pads beneath my knees. all at once i knew what happened you have to undo it i bellowed into the operating room. i was mortally wounded. a 1000 times i had thought how happy i would be if i got pregnant. and what i could wear in order not to give my secret away the nurses words now you can't have

intercourse so. i've recorded this because there will be nobody left who knows my true story after i die. perhaps it will help someone who had a similar experience maybe i can bring some light into the darkness. young villa never got to tell his own life story but his boyhood friend rudolf miller preserved some of it for us 80 years ago in december 940 rudolf and villi performed in a concert held to mark the day of german family music years ago rudolph wrote down his memories of that day now. how 1000000 did my village

came after me in the concert. hall though like i said he wasn't a member of the hitler youth club this evening he wore the uniform the brown shirt with the belt and shoulder strap and the black tie he was almost a bit defiant as he entered in the auditorium adjusted the music stand to the correct height and tuned his violin without haste so his friend was the same age and was already waiting to accompany him on the piano called they performed a piece by bach to nod untitled ave maria small village didn't seem to be nervous hardly at all the movements of his upper body were smooth and as the piece ended on a long note he looked over to his partner on the piano who nodded in approval of his and forth i could die then when the audience began to applaud loudly he had 1st looked helplessly to the side and then left in a sudden panic and fled the stage with big rushing steps as if he were running away

from something but fans who had hurried off after him forced him back on stage. only then did really look at the audience and see all the friendly faces and sense the wave of support that was washing over her. and them and yes it flowed over him like a warm wind. free he took a deep breath with an awkward little movement. it wasn't until he heard the bravos of some of the girls that the tension drained from him and he felt himself beginning to look forward to a life that offered him more opportunities than he had previously hoped for. and hope to talk to.

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place. to go. it's about billions. it's about our work. it's about the foundation of the border the silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so the conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable and the can is because of the fake aims the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal gibson and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world he said the bolivian china is promising its 1st rich profits but in europe there's a sharp warning or whatever accept money from the new super power will be coming to

an end to. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on. such. place. blame blame. this is d w news live from berlin and after weeks of protests on the streets of india farmers wind their battle in the war against to do agricultural loss india's supreme court putting on laws that have led to widespread protests for nearly 50 days from farmers who now have their voices heard in the highest court in the land.