strain bridge officially opens this weekend in northern portugal hangs 175 meters above a canyon and is more than hoff a kilometer long local residents have already been allowed to try out the bridge in aruba ahead of the opening ceremony on sunday. are up to date and so much for watching. you feel worried about the. need to. be on the grid friends and so many of still remains. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation from a producer for the council. it

was nice for him i didn't know much about him it was just that he could play the violin really well. i know he lived his grandmother's doesn't agree to smoke dope. and i also found out he was in an orphanage some time before that as well for him looking funny vines and all scooby's this is. really about the philly 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.

it was to shorten the said though i knew his father was a vietnamese soldier in the french army of the rhine that i didn't know but i just accepted it it was what it was you know so he was an illegitimate child and 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 which would you know for a good moment. to do will believe but he never said a thing about it. as you need as long as i knew him i didn't know. if you can do was the saddest nishabd i can still see him beaming with joy and holding his call up papers i'm being drafted for you and 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 them which he was dead if not almost written off as i'm talking about the taut.

village band 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 crushes might and glory were no more it was

all over for kaiser god and fatherland after 4 years of slaughter 10000000 soldiers lay dead on the battlefields 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. heads 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 remain 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 battlefields and in the trenches of their down 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 you know let me take it you were you doing well on the open until just before world war one there was no question of their going 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 senegalese rifleman 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 $65000000.00 and there were only $39000000.00 french to stand against them it was a foregone conclusion that the relationship was completely law signed and that france was doomed to defeat militarily so they needed to find soldiers and shall manage our proposed that they rely on an immense reservoir of african troops moved . is one of the got. so m.t.v. and other propaganda 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 peer ears 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 extremely humiliation. in the. b.m.t. cation of kinds of vilhelm the 2nd whom the conservatives revered as a symbol of national identification on november 9918 merely compounded the sense of crisis. philip chinaman one of the social democrats leaders rushed to declare the end of the old order.

but the fledgling republic was in danger from the. 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 photos 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 wiranto fun

little bits led the army in an unsuccessful push to overthrow the democratically elected government of chancellor gustav by our. 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 woods 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 all 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 oist collision 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 surfeited 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 found to a martyr stake at the shrine that is the erect penis of a black man topped by a military helmet these were the central obsessions of the black shame campaign this piece is a typical example of black training propaganda which was very wide ranging we can't imagine how powerful this propaganda was today but enormous amounts of money were invested in it brochures were translated from english darts swedish french spanish and american english and so on there were post counts illustrations posters

medallions and. even made films about it if you move forward to new sources and. then via videophone. the company going we consider the role of the. 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 stylised 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

fantasies a violent brutal bestie all sexual compulsion i mean my distortion 6 will intervene most it's not just one of those words the lusts of these black soldiers they were the violent 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 that way it was with augustine. many 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 like.

the protests against the presence of colonial troops on german soil didn't just come from nationalistic or racist circles. high ranking politicians supported the opposition to your can as sniffed fresh green bytecode poor bill triton consul decent off good song and. busy trying conquering few cuts fabrication. of focus on boisterous flesh to conquer. under the smear dusty foggo end on far bigger talk media struck. her focus on from the horn guys didn't vote for him but gotten better i know linda and her own father on the file let's on drugs let's go over all pairs rights he believes it's your least. our noite indeed very often. procedures. as well d. company accounting 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 that influenced 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 recognised openly the black shame campaign didn't want to admit that campania. done so the blame for the defeat was projected onto the participation of african soldiers and it's a classic case of transmission if you.