in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route, a race linked to military interests, a race linked to political and military, christie, but also linked to many financial resources. and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death. magellan journey around the world, starting september 7th on d. w. b . zone and blooming house is an ordinary apartment block in the city of rostock, in 1992, it was the scene of one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence in germany's postwar history. ah,

good now and we've been living in that building and they said fire to it would in bondage day. how could such an outrage have happened? as it he put it side down, looking back. i'd say the police were completely out of their depth. it's my dog weightings east for comical photo. what do local residents say to day about events back then? ah thursdays because i still don't understand it. i still feel bad. sorry about it. it's hard to talk about. robert. it was justified simple as that, as long as it can guns. i'm sick of people always bringing this up at mid after to me and what was the impact on the people who came under attack the school as well. for those of us who experienced 30, does it had a lasting impact on our minds. our emotions are souls. you could say it's not visible from the outside like the seed.

hey home, fuck no n was in the building at the time. how you knew that in the vietnamese here, still remember what happened, but nobody wants to talk about it. i know jenny lit up why i can't forget about it because i was there where linda, meaning i to walkin this is the 1st time he spoken publicly about the attack. he speaks german, but finds it easier to recall the events in his native vietnamese make it out of this was the 1st building i lived in when i arrived from vietnam. oh,

whom falcon who and arrived in communist east germany in 1989. just months before the fall of the berlin wall, the rust off apartment block of san to vietnamese workers was part of a complex called the zone in bloom and house, named after the sunflower murals on its walls. ah, i sang, i'd come to east germany as a contract worker. bah, did ada? the vietnamese will recruited by east germany together with workers from other socialist nations on contracts lasting at most 5 years. the largest share of contract workers at the time were from vietnam. almost 60000 people level um, oh god la moves. i worked at the port in ra, stuck doing everything from shoveling loose cargo to loading and unloading ships.

the that everything it was physically demanding work on hosa go which and i ha, i was living on the 10th floor in building 18 intel together with my colleagues what we were for to a room warden. their contracts required them to live in dormitories at the zone and bloom and house they had just 5 square meters per person, but home was glad to be living in rostock watching yearbook, a good book. i remember one time a group of 4 or 5 of us from the zoning bloomin house, went to rostock main railway station. but it looked like there was a change of schedule. so we couldn't get a train to lift and hug on like norway. we didn't know the way back and ball we could do was draw 3 sunflowers on the ground. i am having some locals understood and showed us how to get home back.

my phone call at is now an intercultural advisor. she also arrived in raw stock as part of the contract workers scheme. first nathan's, can i still remember the date and siemens july 27th, 1981. i don't see that i wasn't even 18 and they've been east mid divide. i boarded a plane with 120 other women and men, hong in fleet augustine. oh, and i landed in east berlin, suna feld airport, only that hash with a 4 year contract here. yeah, ha, ha ha! and for years meant for years, the east german authorities intended the contract workers to go home afterwards. the wonderful owls i'd appreciate, we were kept separate by both sides under open law, including by our vietnamese supervisors, believe who kept

a very close eye on our personal lives control yet. and the east german author parties didn't like to see us having too much contact with the local people impacts would in said and did air google ha ah, he's chairman. television was keen to paint a picture of comradeship among peoples. so saying the new arrivals attended a 2 month german language class intended only to prepare them for their work for lee. oh, just months after the last vietnamese arrived, the berlin wall fell. ah for east and west germans. it was a time of elation. but for vietnamese workers, it was

a disappointment. as communist east germany crumbled, they faced an uncertain future. their job contracts came to an abrupt end. part of end of on the dock there the the for the fall of the wall we were kept separate but safe in the hobby. afterwards, i really noticed the negative aspects of being from vietnam, but then we felt at every single day, kind of, they said things like east germany, brought you over here. now it's gonna, so get lost on the go, all kinds of verbal abuse, aarp bison through bison form owner in during his turbulent time. vulcan rich to move to rostock. he remembers the mixed feelings of many of his fellow east germans. as far as i know for sure there is the sense of excitement in post communist east germany, i view people are saying we have all these new opportunities and were enjoying the feeling of no longer being. so boxed in the i english links was i initial mitzo

harvey over the doctor's rooms, but it wasn't so straightforward in practice. one on deserve the flourishing landscapes promised by chancellor kohl failed to materialize. dish and certainly not as fast as people had expected. golly, so slow v thus magick sloped harden. all right, isn't it? there's no chance of a job. so how can we be happy and it's all just helpless. as of all, this isn't what we took to the streets for lift and hug and was a new housing estate in raw stock built in the 19 seventy's as a showcase of communist urban planning barn after german reunification in 1990 unemployment sword. here to meanwhile, a growing number of refugees were arriving in eastern germany. mostly from the former yugoslavia. many ended up in raw stock where the regional reception center for asylum seekers was housed in the same apartment complex as the workers

dormitory for the vietnamese dishonest lemon house. with ali done mafia, the people who were called gypsies faced a history of prejudice that went back generations in germany are shown neuberger lots jordan baker door, now it re surfaces offline altogether. beautiful. who buys me? but still, i would never have been able to imagine the things that happened then of us. i was stunned to safely pursued the apartment block. only had room for 300 asylum seekers and soon became overcrowded. oh, it in april 1992 the refugees center said it was unable to take in any more people the newly arrived roemer and since he were forced to live outside the apartment complex

was right here. i got on it and i go along it. meg, the refugees lived in these alcoves to look at the lamina. this one was a bit elevated. i looked up, they told them they'd throw their stuff all around the place. and it became a problem. and with i not yet to leave the families spend weeks, he with no access to sanitary facilities or washrooms, the mood among local germans took a disturbing turn. me out. i'm not racist, but the way these people behave is simply unacceptable in germany, diesel gated or to law. so we have another busing and even more of them get them out of here into the forests. and they bonum. when i go in and take some photos

on. yeah, i saw there cropping all over the place here. i found the ones when you go to work in the morning, you have all these asylum seekers and romanians in your way. mom was on you worry about maybe getting whacked over the head. this is not ok. it has to change. when i'm done with the as events escalades, i was in listen huggins practically every day in the snow. and you could feel this resentment becoming more and more aggressive. it's houston, the bullish bureau, bought mark chrissy. on august the 22nd a crowd of people began to gather outside the san emblem in house. oh. as well. and as or old school, there was this really aggressive and highly charged atmosphere done. both of you

had young men smashing up pavement slabs boldly, emotion stuff, and then starting to throw chunks of them towards the building. i wish to love this house. he's middleton 90 savage, one afraid i was there. he just guessing that my 14 year old son was there to it and i said to the police, i don't care what you do. if my son throws a rock and hits an asylum seeker, but not a police officer, i'd be happy to join in ah, oh my god, they all gathered here then by and. and then they attacked us and gumble they

i was up above and saw it all. it was like in a movie, the police, his 1st response was to send a couple of dozen officers to the location. at 1st they didn't cross the gravity of the situation. the police kept sending reinforcements. one was michel a but a just 21. he was head of a training unit. it's far, far in ancient eastern sky was just a regular entry level, police officer, leadings. he and that man carrying out the job you're assigned on that day of isn't this isn't it as a sticker on it? as it was, we went out on the operation with no idea of what we were getting into come to court. i'd never experienced hatred on this level before toward foreigners and people who fled from war zones in his or indies are formed. it is at the men's want for 2 days, aggressive crowds of locals protested their main target was of roma. and since he

refugees, the local residents were soon joined by neo nazis from other parts of the country. the situation began to escalate it twice as, as we cut all dishes. edwards was sure it was chaotic vida tucked we had 0 tactical configuration, eyes of and heighten normal and didn't have the right vehicles and equipment to be effective daughter perfectly well and that's again, give an anglican focus. it wasn't a job. we were supposed to be doing by them, but staffing shortages meant that they ended up sending and training personnel. so on the morning of the 3rd day, august, the 24th, the authorities relented and evacuated to rome. and since he they hoped this would bring the sweet end to the protest

on the 12th or to norm, how's the regional government and the police were basically saying, or of, we've got this under control. even if there are further attacks, an open islam mode. so unco from club, they also hope that the violent troublemakers from out of town would go back home to be at work on monday. talk your up again mostly but that monday evening there was more writing ah habit. but let me, let me. i kept going to work during the day and coming home in the evening. on the 3rd day, a friend of mine drove me home in migail tow gotten at once we arrived. we just got out and ran. i'll go. and this mob set fire to our car and then a police car and then other cars to look that. yeah.

i a police unit brought in to disperse. the crowd was also attacked. a number of offices were injured. but suddenly at around 8 p. m. the police retreated you stance must not seem to wicked soak, or can the woman that ubiquitous if it isn't, should it abo, a lady of odds, and the coroner's nest huston read why, with those forces withdrawn from bond, disconnecting this kind of ins. but i don't know as if you put the police was undergoing massive reorganization across the board in an the looking back. i'd say the police were completely out of their depth. it's my not waiting list for call me before

as the racially motivated riots entered the 3rd day, the city's commissioner for foreigners false gang richter agreed to talk to a television crew. they had come to interview a vietnamese family. everything seemed calm when he arrived at the apartment complex, but that soon changed. ah, up done. so called just before 9 p. m. c. and i noticed the police had disappeared and that the mood down below was becoming increasingly hostile. a mummy? oh 1st there were chance real and then they started throwing stones the us and cheyanna don't know up till the rioters came closer and started throwing fire bombs against the windows. about the fire began on the 1st floor and then moved up. i'm

not in the ha with the room and since he boon the right is turned their attention to the vietnamese ah. done finished of mo, the only telephone was in the porters office, lucia was answer to the forged. i called the local police station to tell them we were alone and under attack and the police, i'm not ours of your m go from the album digging foggy discipline. so they said, or is the fire really bad enough to send in the fire brigade and the for your bianca poll world? and at that moment there were people breaking the windows in the entrance doors to the dormitories,

to also disney bought. and i realised law once the windows are gone, the attackers will be coming in here. and then companies enclave. all this house who's ah, you know, even underneath it, the writers have gotten inside with people. i called the police. but they don't realize what's going on here. with me and we decided to go up to the 10th or 11th floor. now challenge in which meant that breaking down the door to get up to the room. my more bet. that's how when did my that? oh you

quality thought it got because once we cracked open the lock on the door, we made it up to the 10th or the 11th floor that linton that natalie didn't. and then on to the roof, your tongue, let them remote it. melinda denied. and go then the awesome disability from up there we could see what was happening and once turned off my and is a duck kind of on good holden's enough to bow. we carefully crawled on our stomachs to the edge of the roof to forget. coughing and looked down was all guns could up. it was his account approval. they could cooked and found that wouldn't desert and we could see the marble tear door. thousands of people shouting and applauding me over the toes and lawyer to take a coiled or good clutch. there were a daughter who might not have thrown fire bombed themselves home upon sets, but they were egging on the younger people with them. of you the anger for your 2 m

khatri marvellous. sutrene went on to your home and we couldn't believe what was going on at von von b. fossil floss does the stuffs press young can we never would have believed we'd see something like that with our own eyes. but basil agnes. sure. as for her sure foolish on moves is gathered what do people in the lift and hearken, district say about the racial rights of 1992 to day. and secondly, we're asking people about the attacks on the zone in bloom in house almost 30 years ago. what are your thoughts as he said, my glass down will be right. how long have you got way through as it was just piling on the i'm yeah, yet, cynthia, for decades, we lived as neighbors alongside the vietnamese here. can sleep leading in by monday . i believe the 15th, i still don't understand it. i still feel bad. sorry about it. it's hard to talk

about it. rosanna is good and it's part of the history of listing, harden, and of roster hostile and it always will be doesn't it? as of lime movies, i'm sick of people always bringing this up with it, miss on destiny. but as of all this, but just let it be stopped, stirring it out a thing. what do you think about the attacks on this unemployment house back then? well, well, believe was justified, simple as that was on a 2nd said it was never racist or the phone did light, isn't there so much? aggression was people keep saying just forget about it, but it was awful and had never be forgotten. again, i saw it with my own eyes. society noticed it was open season on the vietnamese lloyd's. daddy via amazing. didn't ask that 1st night. he knows we went to see what was going on. and it was just horrible. for fish,

daddy ah ah, to one agonizing out, the fire department couldn't make its way through the crowd. the writers were deliberately blocking them from reaching the building. wilson of decent doth interested fly bill. after reaching the roof of, we were able to access the blocks where german families lived board gun on album, and we rang at people's doors fling and we had vietnamese women with us for with children to fit the music horns for the on parking lot better by on for and of all the apartments we tried is what's what only to open the door to us. it took until 11 o'clock at night for the police to finally return. that was about the same time,

the fire fighters were able to help the traumatized victims evacuate the building to ins. and what we got on to the bus day, the lights went out and we headed out of town only 4 days, ally until we were out of sight of the people who were after us. like hell. the authorities opened more than $250.00 criminal proceedings in the aftermath of the attacks. but there were only 3 prison sentences. the longest was just 5 years. michelle effort is now the chief of the regional riot police division. the smooth and does it once want. almost one mill. it must be from about that time thick. let a kind autumn, there is no dain hits with you,

but when i see how the vans are parked in reverse, outside our station would animals that needs to border student us. that's most omit by so it must have been around the same week as volition, hoglan, riots, demolition harden, the ocean right on from the schnells image done. you can see how young i was. 21. i don't one fish like martha one become. and also i might look pretty relaxed for a 21 year old, given the situation of discussion, looking back, it took a while to really grasp what happening at the, the end up of eager and so on. and that it's not something you come to terms with in a day or one week. it's a long process that leaves its mark on you. this will put in, ah, extra missiles, extremism and radicalism is something that keeps happening and even via mature people have the right to take to the streets and peacefully express their views.

also to plan they should tune but not with violence, 0 to novel. for me, our job as people in positions of authority also entails the responsibility you found to keep that memory alive and make sure it never happens again. we're none is neevadolla shane, citizen my phone call. i didn't experience the attacks 1st hand sheet moved out of this unemployment house here earlier, but events back then left a mark on her today, she was as an intercultural counselor and takes an active stand against racism. she's a prominent voice in the local vietnamese community. us golf does, what does effective historical remembrance look like from sunni? it it can also i have differing perspectives. am i my i am, i'm a former contract worker, but i was also

a resident of our stuck for 30 years. and file invite vp, the guys that yog along, and was lucky, leaped. i am happy i had for so i have the right to demand this at, in, in remembrance for me through me is more than just marking the anniversary of listen . harden loosely. i was half and lincoln hung, fired as this new canvas. he had as some singular event, something that just dropped out of this guy. if iron does this big, there's a continuity taking us up right of the present day. miss hayden serrato, luling and murray, rolling in with men on players better and more recently. holler and ha, now hi, ha, know that there's a continuity there. and one that has a very broad impact, tender today. my full on colette lives in berlin, where she helps other vietnamese people to settle in germany. although on though

simon was our voice and our story have to be heard through about van. and people need to be aware of a lot of what we've contributed to this country. music bother spin, see not lost him sled clique. i was born 10 years after the end of the 2nd world war outside. i'm not responsible for what happened in the nazi era, but i certainly do barrow responsibility to ensure that nothing even remotely like that ever happens again. it's a murderous ideology, costing the lives of millions of people get close to time for that. i do bear or responsibilities and figure that off off your hobby. several of the phone fold, telling me that they were really tough times to times will never forget my priority . now he's concentrating on my work every day in order to get by as hell. that's ill. blue.

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