and then legacy. how could it come to this? the biggest racist attack in postwar, germany, foreigners, out, close up. next on d, w. these places in europe are smashing all the wreckers stepped into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of europe's record breaking sites on google maps. youtube and now also invoke form . the zonen 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,

demand. 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 put site down, looking back, i'd say the police were completely out of their depth. it's my dog waiting leashed for comical fordham. 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. world war was justified. simple as that of ozone moving 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? us was blown 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 sequence.

hey home, fuck no n was in the building at the time. how you knew that in the vietnamese here, still remember what happened to her, but nobody wants to talk about it. and her gently lit up why i can't forget about it, because i was there where linda, we mean nearly 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

baker. now 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 and bloom and house, named after the sunflower murals on its walls. ah, my sang luca, i'd come to east germany as a contract worker, ha, nevada. the vietnamese, who 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 live at lam delgado la moves. i worked at the port and raw stock doing everything from shoveling loose cargo to loading and unloading ships. indeed,

everything. it was physically demanding work on home sla glitch and i ha, i was living on the 10th floor in building 18 in altogether 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 clickable. 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 i've come back on ball. 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 call. it is now an intercultural advisor. she also arrived in raw stock as part of the contract with his skein faster than is can i still remember the date in siemens july 27th? 1981. i don't see that i wasn't even 18 and i've been east mid divide. i boarded a plane with 120 other women and men, hong, 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 owls, i'd appreciate them, we were kept separate by both sides under open law,

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 our google ha, ah, aisd, german 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 collision. 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

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 for the fall of the wall, we were kept separate but safe in the hobby after parents, 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. so get lost happ. i'm a go all kinds of verbal abuse, apple biz, info, bison from owner. during this turbulent time, valve can rich to move to raw stock. 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 we're enjoying the

feeling of no longer being. so boxed in the i english links was i initially met so arvin over deed practice. but it wasn't so straightforward and practice on desert. the flourishing landscapes promised by chancellor cor failed to materialize this tad and certainly not as fast as people had expected. golly so slow v those magic 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 showcase of communist urban planning barn 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

for asylum seekers was housed in the same apartment complex as the workers dormitory for the vietnamese desantos lumen 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 of little or the or the dispute tarpon who buys meal. but still, i would never have been able to imagine the things that happened then it was, it was stunned to stacy's procedures. the apartment block only had room for $300.00 asylum seekers and soon became overcrowded. oh, it. in april 1992, the refugees sent to said it was unable to take in any more people the newly arrived roma and cindy were forced to live outside. the apartment complex

was right here. i got on it and i go along and nag. the refugees lived in these alcoves took of the lamina. this one was a bit elevated to i looked up it all and they throw their stuff all around the place. and it became a problem in with an agenda. 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 is often gated or to law. so we have another busing and even more of them get them out of here into the forests than they bonum. when i go in and take some photos on.

yeah, i saw there cropping all over the place here, toys. i found the ones when you go to work in the morning, you have all these asylum seekers and romanians in your way or mom was on, you worry about maybe getting whacked over the head. this is not okay, it has to change when i'm done with the boy. yeah. the as events escalade, it's my was enlightened harkins practically every day in the snow. and you could feel this resentment becoming more and more aggressive. it's hoofed under a bullish bureau. boy mark received on august the 22nd, a crowd of people began to gather outside dishonorable in house. oh, as well 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, wildly emotion stuff and then starting to throw chunks of them towards the building . i wish to love this house. oh, nineties on the edge, rodney afraid? i was there just guessing that my 14 year old son was there to is i think, 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, then buy it, 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 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 by him inch distance. i 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 in as it's bigger. wanted us. it was, we went out on the operation with no idea of what we were getting into from the group. 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 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. this as we cut all dishes, it wasn't sure it was chaotic vida tucked. we had 0 tactical configuration eyes and heightened not and didn't have the right vehicles and equipment to be effective and doughty, technically 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 room. and since he they hoped this would bring the sweet end to the protest

when 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 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 i'll by again loosen 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 dance must not seem to work it. so again, the moment that he really couldn't, if it isn't, should it abala l. a. d of odds in the deaconate mich, huston. we. why with those forces withdrawn from mom, this condition ish, this kind of ins, but i don't know. as it, he put the police was undergoing massive reorganization across the board and, and the looking back, i'd say the police were completely out of their depth. it's my not waiting list for can we before

as the racially motivated riots entered the 3rd day, the city's commissioner for foreigners, 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, ah, up done. so called so just before 9 pm, the and i noticed the police had disappeared and that the mood down below was becoming increasingly hostile. a mommy? oh 1st there were chances 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 of the fire began on the 1st floor and then moved up and looked at the helena with the roman and cindy boon, the rioters turned their attention to the vietnamese. ah, done the need of my the only telephone was in the porters office, lucia would us answer to the forged on. i called the local police station to tell them we were alone and under attack, and the police are 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. she also does and board. and i realized once the windows are gone, the attackers will be coming in here. and then from des enclave all that sells. who's with. c already been in the rioters have gotten inside with people. i've 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. oh no challenge in which meant that breaking down the door to get up to the room. my more bet. that's how when jim, my dad. oh

you quality thought bought it got to go 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 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 and, 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, google there could caulked aunt and from that wouldn't desert and we could see the marble tear 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, the concerts, but they were egging on the younger people with them. 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, yvonne von or be fossil floss, dust, dust, dust 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 today. and some of them were asking people about the attacks on his unemployment house almost 30 years ago. what are your thoughts? was he said my dad's down would 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 in montana if you live in the fifty's. i still don't understand it. i still feel bad,

sorry about it. it's hard to talk about it. rosario 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 lyme disease, 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 attack 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 ask that 1st night. he knows we went to see what was going

on. and it was just horrible for bathrooms, fish, daddy, ah, ah. the 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 done of this dog and stood vital. after reaching the roof of we were able to access the blocks where german families lived, borne gun on halton 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 home 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 onto the bus day. the lights went out and we headed out of town only 4 days on line 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 ebert is now the chief of the regional riot police division. the smooth and does it what's wound almost woman, 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 border student us, the small or mid by so it must have been around the same week as volition hug and riots in hong. your schleiden from the schnells image done. you can see how young i was 21. i don't one fish like martha's 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 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 spread in ah, excellent missiles, extremism and radicalism is something that keeps happening and even via the shore, people have the right to take to the streets and peacefully express their views.

also to plan they should to him, 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. we're none is neevadolla machine. sir johnson 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. as golf does, what does effective historical remembrance look like from sunni it. he can also i have differing perspectives. his own, i my i, i'm, i'm a former contract worker,

but i was also a resident of our stuff for 30 years. and file a vehicle that i was at yog along in las looky leapt. i am happy i had for so i have the right to demand this at, in, in remembrance for me to me is more than just marking the anniversary of listen, harden, newsome, yahoo, half and lincoln hung fired as this new campus. he had a 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. besides luling and murray rolling in with men or players better and more recently, holler and ha, now hi, ha, know this is there's a continuity there. and one that has a very broad impact and no to day my full on coal that lives in berlin, where she helps other vietnamese people to settle in germany. although although

still mom with our voice and our story have to be heard her by van. and people need to be aware of what we've contributed to this country. music bother been seen on the left hand side, but see 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 to own or not to own. what about a sharing economy instead of a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something new

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