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oh, ready knows. welcome to take told me about hackers, paralyzing the tire societies. computers that are similar to you and governments that go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work, how they can confirm, and that's how they can also go terribly. watch it now on you to the san bloomin 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,
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and we'd been living in that building and they said fire to it wouldn't longest 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 can we go for it? what do local resident 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. our role moving guns. i'm sick of people always bringing this up at midnight . that's me. and what was the impact on the people who came under attack? this was blown for those of us who experienced 30 does it's had a lasting impact on our minds. our emotions hold our souls. you could say it's not visible from the outside like the seed.
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hey home, fuck no end 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 it's gonna be meaning that a woman 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
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maker 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 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, my son nicholas, i'd come to east germany as a contract worker. bah, did ada? 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 people lever lamb, of god. language that i worked at, the port in ross stuck doing everything from shoveling loose cargo to loading and
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unloading ships. the that everything it was physically demanding work on hosa, which anti bah, i was living on the 10th floor in building 18 intel together with my colleagues. we were for to a room one 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 raw stock. buckingham book a book i remember one time a group of 4 or 5 of us from the zoning bloomin house, went to rostock main railway station. let it look. there was a change of schedule. so we couldn't get a train to lift and hug ana loyally. we didn't know the way i can ball we could do was draw 3 sunflowers on the ground island, either some locals understood and showed us how to get home back.
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my phone colette is now an intercultural advisor. she also arrived in raw stock as part of the contract with his scheme. fasten offense, can i still remember the date in siemens? july 27th. 1981. i don't that i wasn't even 18. and i've been east mid via. i boarded a plane with 120 other women and men, hong in fleet augustine or, and i landed in east berlin sooner fed airport only. they're tough with a 4 year contract year. yeah, i was photography and for years meant for years. the use german authorities intended the contract workers to go home afterwards. we have wonderful outside up. gotcha. we were kept separate by both sides under open law,
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including by our vietnamese supervisors. really, who kept a very close eye on our personal lives and control yet. and the east german authorities didn't like to see us having too much contact with the local people. impacts within, within did a google ha. ah, he's german. television was keen to paint a picture of comradeship among peoples. so say 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. bought for vietnamese workers, it was
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a disappointment. as communist east germany crumbled, they faced an uncertain future. their job contracts came to an abrupt end, part of end of under dogs and 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, and then we felt it every single day. kind of, they said things like east germany, brought you over here. now it's gonna, so get lost up. i'm a go all kinds of verbal abuse. apple biz, info, bison from owner in during his turbulent time valve gang rich to move to raw stock . he remembers the mixed feelings of many of his fellow east germans as far owner, oh, 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
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being. so boxed in the i english links was i initial mitzo harvey over the doctor's office, but it wasn't so straightforward and practice one on deserve the flourishing landscapes promised by chancellor cor failed to materialize. dish tad and certainly not as fast as people had expected. golly. so slow, ve those monjeek 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 hog and was a new housing, a state in raw stock built in the 19 seventy's as a show case of communist urban planning. bought 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 raw stock where the regional reception center
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for asylum seekers was housed in the same apartment complex as the work is dormitory for the vietnamese dishonest lemon house. with ali done mafia, the people who were called gypsies faced a history of prejudices that went back generations in germany are shown neuberger lots jordan in 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 it was, it was stunned to say such pursuit. the apartment block only had room for $300.00 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
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was right here. i got on it and i go along and nag, 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 hang it 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. and germany often gave the daughter in law. so we haven't had their 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
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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 and i 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.
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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, wildly marshal stuff, and then starting to throw chunks of them towards the building. i wish to love this house. he's middleton 9. he's on his one. 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, i'd be happy to join in it. oh my god, they all gathered here by the end and then they attacked us and gumble they
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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 michelle a but a just 21. he was head of a training unit. it was for 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. the business isn't in as a bigger wanted us because we went out on the operation with no idea of what we were getting into from the 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,
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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. the sofa. cut all dishes, edwardson. i'm sure it was chaotic vida, tucker, we had 0 tactical configuration, isaac and heighten normal and didn't have the right vehicles and equipment to be effective daughter, perfectly with. 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
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on the 12th or t 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 miles were unco 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 up 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
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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 dance must not cease to work at soak, or can the woman that ubiquitous good isn't? should it abo alady of odds and the coroner's neat huston. oh, why with those forces withdrawn from on the scottish this kind of engine. 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 waiting list for
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coming before as the racially motivated riots entered the 3rd day, the city's commissioner for foreign as full can. 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 moment. oh 1st there were chance real and then they started throwing stones the us and cheyanna don't know up till the riders came closer and started throwing fire bombs against
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the windows so much. the fire began on the 1st floor and then moved up. i'm not in the ha with the room and cindy, boon the right is turned their attention to the vietnamese. ah. done. the niece of mine, 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. i'm get close 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 pole? drilled. and at that moment there were people breaking the windows in the entrance
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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 world and souls. ah! you know, even underneath the, the rioters have gotten inside of breaking down the door to get up to the room. my more bet. that's how when did my oh you why they thought bought it. 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, you tongue, let them remote it. melinda denied,
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and go then the awesome disability from up there, we could see what was happening and once turned off my and is a dark, kind of an good hold on. and often bo, we carefully crawled on our stomachs to the edge of the roof to 40 coffin, and looked down was all guns could up. it was his account approval. they could caulked, went and found that wouldn't him 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 bombs themselves, kind of concerts, but they were egging on the younger people with them. of you the anger for your to an m khatri. marvin the, so twin went on to your home and we couldn't believe what was going on at von von or be fossil floss does the stuffs press young can we never would have believed we'd see something like that with our own eyes. but vasqua,
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agnes sure. as for her sure foolish on moves which gathered what do people in the lift and hearken, districts say about the racial rights of 1992 to day. and 2nd, 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 too, as it was just appalling and yeah, mm, yeah. yet, cynthia, for decades we lived his neighbors alongside the vietnamese here can sleep leaving him 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 it as of lime music. i'm sick of people always bringing this up with miss tiffany.
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but as of all this, but just let it be stops during it up when i think what do you think about the attacks on this on in blooming house back then? well, well, believe justified, simple as that was on a 2nd, it was never racist or the fun delight isn't there so much aggression? most 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 vietnamese didn't ask that 1st night fellows. we went to see what was going on. and it was just horrible. for fish, daddy ah ah, to one agonizing hour the fire department couldn't make its way through the crowd.
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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 the album and we rang at people's doors fling and we had vietnamese women with us for with children to get the music phones 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 to building it unions and what we got on to the bus day,
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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, lord, hello. 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 everett 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. 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, the small or mid by so it must have been around the same week as volition hoglan
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riots want him to harden the ocean right on from the schnells image done. you can see how young i was. 21. i don't one fish. like mark this 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 having 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, it's the missiles, extremism and radicalism is something that keeps happening and even via shore. people have the right to take to the streets and peacefully express their views. also to plan. they should pool, 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
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neevadolla machine solution 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? he can also, i have differing perspectives. his own. i'm a, i'm a, i'm a former contract worker, but i was also a resident of our stock for 30 years and file a vehicle guys that yog along, and was lucky, leaped. i am happy i had for so i have the right to demand this at,
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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 if you can't see it as some singular event something that just dropped out of this guy. if iron does this week, there is a continuity taking us upright to the present day beside him. oh i gotcha. so so, so the ruling and merge, rolling in with men on players better and more recently, holler and her now hi ha. know that there's a continuity there. and one that has a very broad impact in know, today my full on colon lives in berlin, where she helps other vietnamese people to settle in germany. although one though simon was 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 music bother spin,
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sedar lost him sled blakely, cuz 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 ultimately, 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 responsibilities and figure doffed off your hobby. simple 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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