t, z highlight school every week in your inbox, subscribe now. ah, on this day it's been 6 months since russia started. it's unprecedented to talk on the summer and name, but on you crate. we are here. we talk to people on the ground with to politicians. we said light events and their consequences. 6 months that have changed ukraine on the will on all platforms brought to by g w. the san bloomed 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, you know,

we'd 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 the waiting list for coming before them. 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. along with the guns. i'm sick of people always bringing this up at mid afternoon. and what was the impact on the people who came under attack? the source? well, for those of us who experienced it, it does, it's had a lasting impact on our minds. our emotions are souls. you could say it's not visible from the outside,

like the sequence 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 when i'm gonna remember 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

mega data. this was the 1st building i lived in when i arrived from vietnam. oh, whom? fuck knew and arrived in communist east germany in 1989, just months before the fall of the berlin wall. the rust off apartment block a 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, my son nicholas, i'd come to east germany as a contract worker. bah, did ada m. the vietnamese were 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 $60000.00 paypal lubbock lamb of god, lamb of so i worked at the port in ra, stuck doing everything from shoveling loose cargo to loading and unloading ships.

the dow, everything good. it was physically demanding work on olsa glitch, anti bah, i was living on the 10th floor in building 18 didn't altogether with my colleagues . um, we were for to a room. wouldn't they 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, buckingham goulburg. i remember one time a group of 4 or 5 of us from the zoning bloomin house, went to rostock main railway station. i didn't look at, there was a change of schedule. so we couldn't get a train to lift and hug on that, norway. we didn't know the way back home. all we could do was draw 3 sunflowers on the ground island, either some locals understood and showed us how to get home back my

phone colette is now an intercultural advisor. she also arrived in raw stock as part of the contract workers scheme. fasten offense. can i still remember the date? siemens july? 27th. 1981. i don't see that i wasn't even 18 in there. beneath mid divide, i boarded a plane with 120 other women and men, hon. in fleet augustine or, and i landed in east berlin, suna feld, airport. only they're tough 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 outside akasha, we were kept separate by both sides under open law,

including by our vietnamese supervisors who believe who kept a very close eye on our personal lives and control yet. and the east german authorities didn't like to see as having too much contact with the local people and talks within within 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 related. oh, just months after the last vietnamese arrived, the berlin wall fell. ah fair, 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 on the hobby. afterwards i really noticed the negative aspects of being from vietnam when done. we felt at every single day and they said things like east germany brought you over here. now it's gone now. so get lost up on the go all kinds of verbal abuse, aarp be sinful, be sinful 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 forced, there is the sense of excitement in post communist is germany. i view he bore saying we have all these new opportunities and we're enjoying the feeling of no

longer being so boxed in the anguish. lynx was i initial mitzo, javion over deed octave, but it wasn't so straightforward and practice on on deserve the flourishing landscapes promised by chancellor kohl failed to materialize. dish tad 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 a dog. 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 shall case of communist urban planning. bon after german reunification in 1990 unemployment saud here to meanwhile, a growing number of refugees were arriving in eastern germany. mostly from the former yugoslavia. many ended up in ra 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 . or dolly done mafia. the people who were called gypsies faced a history of prejudices that went back generations in germany are shaunberger lots, jordan baker door. now it resurfaced off the other dish. beautiful who buys meal. but still, i would never have been able to imagine the things that happened then it was, it was stunned to safely pursued the apartment block. only had room for 300 asylum seekers and soon became overcrowded. oh. in april 1992, the refugees center said it was unable to take in any more people the newly arrived roma. and since he were forced to live outside, the apartment complex was

right here. i got on i and i go along leg the refugees lived in these alcoves. to look at the la manana, this one was a bit elevated. i looked up it all and they throw their stuff all around the place . and it became a problem. and with ang at yet doing the families spent 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, gave it, 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 and all.

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 was 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. my was in listen, hawkins practically every day in the snow. and you could feel this resentment becoming more and more aggressive. it's houston, the bullish bureau, bought bought receive. on august the 22nd, a crowd of people began to gather outside the san emblem in house. oh,

this fall in his or old school. there was this really aggressive and highly charged atmosphere. done both love 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 rodney. afraid? i was there. he just guessing you got 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, and i'd be happy to join in ah, oh my god, they all gathered here by and, and then they attacked us that 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 offices to the location. at 1st they didn't cross the gravity of the situation. the police kept sending reinforcements. one was michelle a but a just 21. he was head of a training unit dishwasher for him, inch distance. i was just a regular entry level police officer, the leadings and that man carrying out the job you're assigned on that day of isn't this isn't it as a bigger wanted us? it was, we went out on the operation with no idea of what we were getting into prem decrease . i'd never experienced hatred on this level before toward foreigners and people who fled from war zones in his oranges or form deseck immensely. for 2 days

aggressive crowds of locals protested the main target with aroma. 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. the safely cut all dishes. it wasn't sure it was chaotic vida tucked we had 0 tactical configuration eyes. it's i and heighten not and didn't have the right vehicles and equipment to be effective and daughter perfectly will ends. it's again given i completely forgot. 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, the roman and cindy. 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 over in this low miles were unclear from club they also hoped that the violent troublemakers from out of town would go back home to be at work on monday. talk your all by again . listen. but that monday evening there was more writing. ah, 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 though 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 if dante must not seem to work it, so again, the moment did you buy the calendar? if it isn't, should it abo alady of odds in the deaconess mist. huston read why, with those forces withdrawn from bond, disconnecting this kind of ins. but i don't know as if you put in the police was undergoing massive reorganization across the board in and looking back. i'd say the police were completely out of their depth. it's my waiting list for can,

we've afforded as the racially motivated riots entered the 3rd day, the city's commission of a foreign, as vulcan grifter 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. move up, done. so cold. so 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 what's up till the riders came closer and started throwing

fire bombs against the windows. like the fire began on the 1st floor and then moved up and looked into ha with the rumor. and since he gone, the rioters turned their attention to the vietnamese. ah the name of mow, the only telephone was in the porters officer, lucia would us answer to the forged on i called the local police station to tell them we were alone and under attack and of police. i'm not ours of yankee could from the album digging fog dissipated so they said, or is the fire really bad enough to send in the fire brigade and the foil bianca pole drilled. and at that moment, there were people breaking the windows in the entrance doors to the dormitories

tools with his boss. and i realized once the windows are gone, the attackers will be coming in here. and then from des enclave all this house who's . c ah, gaudy, been on the rioters have gotten inside with people. i've called the police. but they don't realize what's going on here. i'm is this because my hulu. we decided to go up to the 10th or 11th floor. oh no challenge in which meant that breaking down the door to get up to the room. my more bet. that's how when did my dad? oh

oh yeah. why? they thought it was because once we cracked open the lock on the door, we made it up to the 10th or the 11th floor. linton that natalie didn't. and then on to the roof, you tongue, let them remote it. melinda denied and go then the awesome disabilities. from up there we could see what was happening and once turned off my and is a dock and uncontrolled ones and often bo, we carefully crawled on our stomachs to the edge of the roof to fork a coffin and looked down was all guns could up it was his account to tribble they could cooked and from that wouldn't him desert, and we could see the marble t. a door, thousands of people shouting and applauding me of the toes and lawyer to take a coiled or good clutch. there were a daughter who might not have thrown fire bombs themselves, home concerts,

but they were egging on the younger people. listen, i'm of you, the anger for your 2 m khatri marble. the so torn and audio home and we couldn't believe what was going on at von von or be fossil floss, dust dust thus press young can we never would have believed we'd see something like that with our own eyes. but vassar, agnes, sure. as for her, sure. foolish on moves which gathered what do people in the lift and hearken, district say about the racial rights of 1992 to day. and some of them were asking people about the attacks on the zone in bloom in house almost 30 years ago. what are your thoughts? was it out of my glass? yeah. tell me right. how long have you got way too, as it was just appalling and yeah, mm, yeah. yet cynthia, for decades we lived his neighbors alongside the vietnamese here. can split, leaving him and, and her. yeah. get it the thursday. if i still don't understand it,

i still feel bad. sorry about it. it's hard to talk about it. rosanna is good. it's part of the history of listing, harden, and of roster high school and it always will be doesn't it? as of lyme disease, i'm sick of people always bringing this up with me as i had gotten it, but i've often all this but just let it be stopped stirring it out a thing. what do you think about the attacks on this, on in bloom in house back then? well, well, believe justified, simple as that was on a 2nd. it was never racist or the phone did light, isn't there so much aggression? most people keep saying, just forget about it. but it was awful and had never be forgotten. i guess i saw it with my own eyes stuff i. i noticed it was open season and the vietnamese lloyd's daddy via amazing didn't as that 1st night. he knows we went to see what was going

on. and it was just horrible for bathroom fish daily. ah ah, to one agonizing hour the fire department couldn't make its way through the crowd. the writers were deliberately blocking them from reaching the building. wilson none of this doth interested fly bill after reaching the roof to know if we were able to access the blocks where german families lived aboard, get gun on album and we rang at people's doors single. and we had vietnamese women with us for, with children to get the music phones for the on the 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. i think 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 tell 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 what's want almost omit,

it must be from about that time. her thick letter cont, autumn. there is no day in history, but when i see how the vans are parked in reverse, outside our station would animals that needs to border student us that most omit by so it must have been around the same week as pollution hog and riots want him to harden your shuttle from the schnells image done. you can see how young i was. 21. i don't one fish. like martha one pick him up. 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 end up of ignorance on 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, excellent 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. they're used 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. he found to keep that memory alive and make sure it never happens again. where 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 works 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, i have differing perspectives. am i my i am, i'm

a former contract worker, but i was also a resident of our stock for 30 years and file a vehicle that isaac 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 muslim, yahoo half and lincoln hung fired as his 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 upright to the present day besides ruling and move 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 and no to day, my full on colette lives in berlin, where she helps other vietnamese people to settle in germany. although on those

demos with our voice and our story have to be heard through above in and people need to be aware that a lot of what we've contributed to this country, we think bother been seen on the left hand side. but 3 could. 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 bear a responsibility to ensure that nothing even remotely like that ever happens again . it's a murderous ideology, costing the lives of millions of people who close the top for that. i do bear or responsibility and figure doffed off your hobby, civil with the phone full to tell you that they were really tough times to times will never forget my priority. now is concentrating on my work every day in order to get by a so that's ill. bmw

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