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they want to express d. w on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch, follow us. ah, ah, museum launch sir. as we see as being german, as something defined by skin color, baseline is being german means being white. and those who aren't white are essentially new commerce and don't have the same right to be part of society as white people advisor mention ah, my daughter, i was born in germany. i'm a german native speaker. i've been to africa once in my life as part of a package to her. it doesn't get more german than that. um mm.

literally people will, of course ask me where i come from. and i say from cod bus or, and your mother all sate also from corpus does not answer your question or do you still need that little piece of the puzzle that explains why look the way i do this in a catfish onasia ah, and britain, they say we are here because you were there, i think is where you here because you were there. yeah, i think that's a very important part of the answer on society here. must take responsibility for what happened in its history. when was the does bus in the district to proceed with the siskin now devilish to commend this is exactly the right moment to look at black german history on v a z and how it's always been a part of german history and tylenol quotes, and part vicki got tied or trigger treated. ah

hm. ah ah, lou abena, under marco's family, is in its 5th generation in germany. oh, these lovely arthritis, but the fact that you see here a typical old german household, i do it with wood paneling and fabric wallpaper stuff to appear to as of, if you can't get a bit, a snapshot of jim and my son that i am in 1896,

her great grandfather, mondanca deek, became the 1st african to acquire german citizenship and humbug. this one's an amazing kaiser that was ride on nato cuz he was known to be very loyal to the emperor and very german though it is. however, i know my family for me has a long history and the longest on its back as it were in good pick. so to saddle, m d c las, which means having experiences all having survived a lot is so and the survival pot is especially important. oh, as is the fact that even back then they fought for their humanity to be recognized . tequila? hassan ah. the orchestra tom ah, and what became known as the berlin west africa conference in 18. 84. the european powers carved up the continent among themselves. without african participation,

germany then also became a colonial power ruling over togo, cameroon, german, east, africa, and german south west africa. even before the 19th century, germans had been profiting from the slave trade. now, colonists seized entire territories, culminating in a genocide in namibia in 19 o. 4. meanwhile, growing numbers of africans were arriving in germany. oh, probably akin is a british historian who researches the history of black europeans. o . d. clooney outside is mystic for the standing colonial period is important for the emergence of a black community. asked him because it was the 1st time that hundreds, if not thousands of black people were able to come to germany afterwards. on con, con, one is a nasty la for sheena. they came for many different reasons. those of ireland, several 100 people, for instance,

were brought over for the human zoos that turn germany or across europe, and thought on one small cannon from alba. from their 1st appearance in the 18 seventy's, these ethnic logical expositions proved extremely popular with the european public . at the hanover's, who in 1913 ethiopians were hired as contract workers, they were put on display, often with their families. visitors paid an entrance fee to see them as colonists were committing genocide and africa back home in germany, the middle class were being $1.00 over to the so called colonial adventure dd and dessert exhaust resize ation romanticize ation. this idea of, uh huh. let's take the family to the soon, like we know to day nought father. instead of looking at animals, say we get to see exotic people as a king out meet mother whom except these people went representing their own culture

. all communities so called open dog started hobbin zonen, and it was a staged spectacle in and had nothing to do with who they actually went and fast the dog stead. vasa and he got, he threw in and vicky gotten mm. the 1st state organized colonial exhibition in germany took place in 1896 in berlin, 106 men, women and children were brought in from german colonies. photographs show how people were racially degraded and forced to be exhibited thus builds dusty dodge antonia colonial authorities. wanted to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive civil as the of those hey my t onto zigler. one of them wanted to use this image to legitimize germany's colonial project as well. yeah, they're civilizing mission. ya, kazi, does a civilizing mission, dodson playing the germans,

bringing kosher and civilization to african student. awfully khana berlin was the capital of an overseas empire. the colonial administration needed craftsman, translators, and other specialized personnel. young africans were brought over to germany for training. most of the men and drawn from the african elite, some were still just school children and their parents paid considerable sums for their education. the new arrivals called one another compatriots, but they were not foreseen as a permanent part of german society with an $1891.00 monday. that deep traveled to humbug from de wala cameroon. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german. he then completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker ah,

alloy to us and who he was expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop window portrait to yolanda albert sidon. and that made him feel like he too was on display name as a which made him feel very uncomfortable to approval. madam so in the end, he changed his profession and became a merchant at san loaner vehicles. for while traveling on business, deacon met a woman called amelia. interracial marriages were banned in the colonies for reasons rooted in racist ideology. but in gdansk, then dancing and prussia, the couple married and had 2 daughters, africa, and toys, highly respected, afro german family. they ran a store selling tobacco and other colonial goods. ah, the lives of black people in germany would have little interest to most historians until katerina ogen toilet work appeared. she was the 1st to research the stories

of afro germans, including that of mondanca deek. ah, is this astounding? i was astonished to discover that he was granted citizenship. i'm hoping to come up at all, but those it was so early on that there weren't yet objections from the colonial administration of the colon. yeah, i have, i from house of, i also have people who applied later were rejected top in would it a thumb for via got after the 1st world war, german imperialist expansion was brought to an end, at least for the time being. the treaty of versailles resulted in germany seating its colonies. mm. and the same time french troops occupied the rhineland, among their ranks were african soldiers, which german nationalist saw as a humiliation. oh, they launched a racist smear campaign,

calling it the black shame that propaganda in turn fueled racism against all black people across germany into a far more dangerous form. but from the very start, there was resistance. in 1919, germany's 1st black train driver, martine de bova, and other people of african descent, listed their demands in a historic petition. when an vast sun tired day was part of the anti colonial resistance, which had always been there, how does this is god? i was never a time when black people didn't fight back. i will stand up for there. right. was the few. if ozetta angus, it's tom with natasha. a kelly as a scholar and activist who has documented the lives of people who brought about change in blue german history law. though martine dba had sworn allegiance to the

weimar republic, he wanted to achieve something new with the petition. equal rights for black people . 18 africans living in germany signed the petition to the german parliament. oh, the voicemail you left off the car, one to jo africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college. a horseman. they wanted devote probably for personal reasons to the recognition men, and legitimize ation marriages between black men and white women. ah, and i kents voted on legal team von or devoted. i also want a determinant representative in the parliament. i thought martin to bober to be precise to martin, to move us on the petition failed, but it marked the dawn of the 1st black movement in germany. mondanca deek was one

of the men who signed his name to day those events. i remembered on a commemorative pillar in downtown berlin thus, man, that's my great grandad. it's in the us. i think it's fantastic historical. yeah, historic as much as good. it's such a good feeling to know that my great grandfather was also part of the fight became tucked. ah, as the roaring twenties hit germany black american dancer josephine baker became a celebrated figure on the stages of berlin. ah, extended us emma, the best i always call it, the grass skirt to ears, and short black man had to walk around wearing a grass skirt. not a suit, licked with them, and so o furniture,

born in berlin in 1925 t a door. vanya mikhail was one of the few surviving black witnesses of the nazi era until his death in 2019. as a child, he was put to work in the circus, and in the so called human zoos. he hated being docked at, or when complete strangers would run their fingers through his hair. things got even worse with the introduction of the notorious nuremberg race laws. in 1935 colonial migrants were stripped of their citizenship. theodore vanya mikhail was issued an aliens passport and was rendered stateless. he lost his job at a hotel. ah, finding work became nearly impossible. one of the few exceptions was a niche market. the movies

the most expensive film of the nazi era. munchausen required many black extras to play servants in a turkish palace. oh, the rules conforms to the grading stereotypes that further the nazis racist ideology. oh that young theodore vanya me sheil played the sultan's fanning. boy, only later did he realize he'd been exploited the dams in a sneak, exploited in the sense that i never played a positive role, though, shows pussy t for a though, i was only ever decoration decor, i'd say needed exotic people. i'm how did the ex, or they needed us? and today we know we were exploited. chrisman misquote got the notion of white supremacy was celebrated in many nazi colonial films. the

regime had plans to reconquer former overseas colonies. clocks in africa was one of many films to degrade black people and use overtly racist dialogue with the blue kenny. i don't have anybody not o, as in any event in this clip. the protagonist gestures to the people approaching and says he seen them before. quote, at the berlin zoo, afro german actors were routinely cast and such roles. the medicine man was played by louis brody, the grandfather of a bene, auto mako, plaintiff amune, and my family and a large number of african people here, only survived the nazi era. because they were needed for these german colonial phelps. from from 1939 onwards, daily life became increasingly dangerous for black people. the dks were among many

families who lost their home and had their passports revoked. mondanca dx business went bankrupt. interracial couples faced persecution. around 400 children, fathered by black french occupying troops. were for sibley sterilized, many black people were forced to go into hiding. at least 2000 were killed in concentration camps. the afro german community was being eradicated by the nazis or does zeal is vogue pushed us as kind of young was to ensure that there wouldn't be another generation of black people in germany on cuba, soil, and more importantly, mia that there would be no black europeans or here gayden soil ah, in the wake of the 2nd world war, the allied occupation forces in germany included a number of black troops from the united states. oh.

after 1945, about 5000 children were born to black american soldiers and german women in west germany into the 1950s. the children were still the subject of anthropological research. thus finish had o'con sweetie to 1st stand a fuse. it's very important to understand that this idea of so called race is being unable to mix steadily from earlier german colonial times. and this will go on vol . on the bid was an idea that prevailed well beyond the 2nd world war and even be kidnapped, suddenly it was the children of the allies that now pose this problem. again, da, state vida, i might, i know glean gosh, tighten. ah, i in of a sudden little group, her beard, and either i talked, i don't know. and seeking missing in this archival sound from 1950 to a west. german parliamentarian uses a racist slower in reference to more than 3000 by racial children. she says they

quote, present a special type of human and racial problem. even our country's climactic conditions are unsuitable for them and quote, hundreds of children were given up for adoption, mostly to families in the united states. lou. this west's german television report from 1957 featured a single mother living between them, i guess would be western before leslie from the ben van. the here you go, found that we consider please feel the ground to this is an illusion. piece frenzy in this for my certificate with michelle. yeah. oh, absolutely. thank you. thank you to see them or other themes for losses. i was expecting now a little me. well, this is with us. we can, i can, ah,

in costa was one of these children born after the war he would go on to become the 1st black man to play for a german national team. his father was an american g. i have been here born. i was born here in georgia. i should have been. my mother is german. i feel german, honestly to me for us, for me playing for the german national team was the greatest. i'm on georgia muslims. restaurant. evian costa dad was born in munster, in 1946. his 6 older siblings were all white. he never got to know his father. on his way to school, people would routinely give him the nazi salute. with countless racist remarks still haunt him today. it

was hell, absolute hell destruction which do you hello. there's fall numbers from even women . and when i go into a shock, ruben and may be misbehave a little. hm. um they'd say come on black kid, how do i go back to africa? awfully god. that was how it was day in day out, actually. so genes hi me. i was meant to be put in a home. okay. but my mother refused to send me away, which can honestly, she had got 6 white children, 6 and then a black one comes along, wanted on october and people pointed you lodge, returning your finger off on football, offered a chance to escape the humiliation. because ab in costa was good, extremely good. he played center forward and germany's top division the buddhist league. and scored the goal of the season in 1974 for kickers. often by, with later that year he played for west germany's national team

in a european championship qualifier in moscow to put them up, posted a, but back home fans of rival teams continued their races to chance unabated. remarkable, there have always been nasty remarks. trust me, you need to be pretty tough in germany sometimes want. there was a section which always shouted go $110.00 gazed and $120.00 a little under the media celebrated him. but always as an outsider, the owner of the brown bomber. they could have written the bomber y'all, shall i'm not the brown bomber. there always had to be something of awesome. yours . internet. in 1990 castaneda was wrongly accused of robbing an arcade. a football fan claimed to have recognized him from

his skin color. there was no actual evidence to support the case. custody was acquitted after spending 6 months in custody. do enjoy. i love it as i think i was the 1st black child to start school and caught bus in compass had a population of probably $40000.00 at the time lou lou it off. i don't remember seeing a black person before i was can didn't see any and trots mentioned, causing i said i didn't even know there was such a thing. so at a ski, ah, daddy and a veil. boat was born in communist east germany in 1962. her father,

a student from gonna left the g d r. she was raised by determined women, her mother, and 2 grandmothers. she was a very good student and was selected to be a school crossing guard. this is amateur footage of the proud family. ah. yeah. i saw it was, there was something different about me fun. but i learned that from others by ago, but it wasn't anything i felt myself. what i saw was they all play like me. i do math and gymnastics the same way they do yet. something was different about me yoga and as it was not something that was discussed at home yet, but just wasn't important. and you could see it as yoga z. m 1000000 auto. oh, isn't on no. no, i'm the mia finish was it was that was the alabama angela davis to this is angela davis became the face of black power in east germany. the american scholar,

civil rights activists and communist was wrongfully imprisoned in the us until her acquittal in 1972. all right. with angela, this is angela davis had a huge impact on my life. i've been hit when i look at the photos now with the afro luck was all the rage backed and, and of course i had an afro and i wore glasses. and austin and wherever i went in the east somehow i was always angela davis. if there was a political struggle taken up by the g d r, that was good for me. the futon, demi, who taught in the late 19 seventy's east, germany, recruited a growing number of workers from vietnam and gola mozambique, and other fellow com destinations. more than $200000.00 people total by the time of german reunification. but they were obliged to go back home after a few years and the authorities did not envision their broader social integration.

gabrielle, available to world remained a largely white one as la information needed for augustine. i know they weren't supposed to assimilate into not until the ball, the foreign workers were housed separately from the rest of the population as well as money. so it wasn't like you were suddenly seeing a black person in the supermarket or the swimming pool. a lot odd to say, this comes with what's in the 4. ah, gabriella. ve bold studied medicine and was already a qualified doctor when this footage was taken in the early 1990 s. she always wanted to be a gynecologist, but the local authority stipulated that she specialize in hi, janet care, despite the country shortage of gynecologists at the time. vill, bold protested. does. if allude to this was of course i selected, it was because of my skin color, was he and obey it's group being and gynecologist means close physical contact with

people. and while as a hygiene specialist, i'd be sitting in an office and basically out of sight me, i said i could see absolutely no reason to not be working in my chosen field. so it her she took the issue to the next level, threatening to send a complaint to the east german head of state and ish hanukkah. busy yachts, he brought us ish, the upshot was 2 or 3 weeks later i received a letter informing me that they were happy to comply with my request. because the city really did need more gynecologists was caught on. so i became one yon has been fixed or even of on ah avena auto mako grew up at the same time as gabrielle available. but in the other germany, in west berlin. after jobs in paris and london,

she started working for an international and geo as a young woman in the 1980s. she wanted to become an optician and asked a friend for help in finding an apprenticeship. and on kansas zia sock nurse, she was very embarrassed when i asked again whether she could find someone to take me on as an apprentice little name. hold on this afternoon. she said no. unfortunately, they told me here we know you, but people aren't ready for black hands to be poking around in a white person's face in an am vice and desist on full moon. on this one or 2, it was a big shock for me soc, who's easy and very awkward for her to about as wazell they asked it was the 1st time i've realised it wouldn't be easy to do the job. i wanted them off. oh, super din ish. mahan merged her, a bene under marco wanted to stop feeling like a stranger in her own country and went looking for people who felt the same way.

in 1985, she met a group of women connected to the american poet and queer civil rights activist. audrey lord, lord was a guest lecturer at the free university in west berlin, who encouraged black women to discover their communities history and celebrate their heritage. as as harvey, i am a lawyer. it was like an epiphany of relief. ah, we were all there without shyness, our needs our experiences, our desires, sadness owned m, swagway. it was great shows la m. it enabled us to break out of that isolation. what is the, let's one, so com or that is a lot so on. so come on in that sense of community carried us out of touch on site guitar. yeah, i love it comes to us. and i,

i know it was like we've been existing in a room with no air con creators and only met argy lord, the african american poet. and she was simply interested in our lives when her and her just at that we introduce ourselves to each other for which logged onto the world when to have it. it's washed in her as well as quite a big deal for my and me as we were still very young and it's seamless. yeah. of course off garber. ah. and at the 1st meeting, they would be 30 person and they would be very excited her. because for every one it would be the 1st time being in a group of other africa, women's people who have the same experience the same. yeah. who could, without talking about it would understand you. i know it makes you smile with my grandma. together with activist

my, i am katerina ogen toya, wrote a book called showing our colors as the group. the project helped them to develop a positive self image at the same time, audrey lord, urge them to self identify as afro germans or black germans, as is it was important because until then star, we'd always been objectified and societal ph dello. and these are the fair shocked people, talked about us discovery that the of what we were the subject of various political and academic debate. put me to show you this and softly kept the button on the and opening the, showing our colors project was the 1st time we were leading the narrative of using such a political voice to oh, i know put me to shem. mm. it was the start of the 2nd black movement in germany with the founding of the initiative of black people in germany. and later it's sister organization, a defra for black women in germany. 1989

saw the fall of the berlin wall. and the time when many hoped for a freer and better life just over a year later, not long after german reunification, eastern town of abba's, father made headlines. a mom of more than 50 neo nazis attacked young african contract workers outside a local restaurant. i'm a dale antonio from angola was beaten into a coma, with one of the attackers stamping on his head. antonio died 2 weeks later, at the age of 28. for your sins, man, to bizarre. do the looking back vague? i just feel really heavy mail. cornersville camille is seeing a colleague and brother who lived with us, tie the mod,

saying up just because he was black, our air book, and it enabled ah, like his friend. i'm a dale antonio yona mancha, stayed in the country after the collapse of the communist regime. they both come to east germany from angola as contract workers in 1987. both had hoped to study antonio wanted to be an aircraft engineer. instead, he ended up working at a meat packing factory. antonio fell in love with a german woman and was looking forward to soon becoming a father and building a family. on a day on tonia was the 1st murder victim of right wing violence and re unified germany. more attacks would follow in both the east and the west. yona munger remembers the atmosphere back then. vicinity mia?

as your vinnish, what about media as it is can pass that i went out on the street, yet the same thing could happen to me when dismal meant vocalist from that was that was a really bad time for us to homozygous us via i could was like war by owns of a and in war, as of, if you don't know when you're going to die on 2 steps or door, when you lose a leg or an armed up with us or that says 0 v mid to all we were terrified by then . and devolved z a z, a gross. oh, oh oh, it was around this uncertain time that convent adam was born in the east german city of gena. today he researches radicalization and is a social worker. and

he grew up with the feeling that something bad had happened to him at any time to cease film is do you like to be that meant no detours foolish? you're not going to the playground or somewhere else after school, but going straight home. lehman's, mom, if you met with friends, cliff than at their homes, if possible, ideas going on from one to 10. when you met outside and then only very close to home or in groups. i would also does. you knew that every time you left your home for the i, it was potentially dangerous. is this pot and silicon valley? so as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi. and as you grew forming in his neighbourhood where future members be out at champa and of a month, los attended the youth club on the corner. somehow adam sensed that he was seldom truly safe. ready oh,

the teen violence of the 19 ninety's may have subsided, but not the racism. in 2016 conrad adam was racially harassed by a group of drunk people while on his way to the supermarket. he called the police for assistance asking they be removed from the square when the police this house is provided got when the officer refused to come and remove them. so clearly i tried to explain again why i thought that was necessary office that they were racially abusive or might racially abuse other people that day and talked to play from collins to swing and plots for was models, least of then the police officer said something like when, as after the seems you're just making a big deal about the color of your skin, the up, the screwdriver, memorial, hopeful. unlike young black people of his generation,

in the former west, germany adam lacked a community and felt his was alone struggle in the former east. but he changed that in 2018. he founded a local branch of germany's oldest civil rights group for black people, with only 4 people in the beginning. today, he's a member of the executive. the i estie have had annual meetings for the last several decades to convert m 1st attended one in 2019 this will finish cousins. kate wasn't real, just going there and seeing so many black people experiencing a completely different atmosphere. it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching behind on defaults mentioned he's a black people. i know now we'll just left who had already been to these national meetings as children and say it was crucial for their own development. am your agnes will tell you to have the space for retreat and empowerment for home to know

you have these awful experiences all year long leap was gone? see all of you. but then there's this one period in the year was grouped where you can recharge your batteries on which coffee tide. immerse yourself in another world in the, in the under the vote on talk on the human right to a life free of racism. that's a key political issue that's motivated the community with susanna can thailand of my childhood as being i, full of life. luckily, i never experienced the time in refugee housing as anything bad. i didn't like that image people like to create that for me who was born there. it was completely normal household. i was at home. there were lots of kids and ethan of it. it was only of a time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing, polish, no malice. oh, facts. in 20. 19 i me not at all. he became the 1st afro

german deputy speaker of a regional parliament. 3 years later, she became the 1st black state minister own from the dominant, come from an early age. you're reminded of the fact that you don't look like every one around you. there's often docile adults, especially make you feel that like there itching to know where you are on your investment stores from augusta this and boy will my, you're 6 or 7 years old and think i live here and you don't ask yourself all these questions about identity or ancestry my hair combed? i me not at all. he was born in refugee housing after her parents fled molly in 1992. at the age of 12, she became a german citizen. as a student leader, she showed an early commitment to combating disc the nation to day as a politician in the shall, is mich holstein, state parliament. she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society and see about us about your racist experiences. i am often asked,

and usually i have absolutely no desire to do so. for 2 reasons. they are asleep because many believe that these experiences are individual. they start to excuse that and tell me their coincidences, coincidences that have been piling up for 26 years. which app through part of go out what we're hated. so awesome, miss julie, you're always talking about racism that you yourself have made it a deputy speaker. dobrinka and i think, but what does that have to do with the fact that at this very moment to put someone somewhere is probably having problems with immigration authorities are being racially abused on the street, my heart, or order as a specialized would of the classroom as will toner, this would pretending that these issues are all fixed just because you have some individual figurehead is very problematic. so problematic to day one, 5th of all germans have migration background. i mean i totally encourages minorities

to become politically active. as gave them can literally had the heart of the issue as the question of who's allowed to be part of society. and what does that actually mean to be german? 4, in the words of arrow german poet, my i young i who instead of asking questions, i simply states it that i will still be african line even if you want me to be german and i will be german. even if my blackness does not suit you is about, i will go yet another step further to the very edge. my. when my sisters and brothers stand, where i freedom begins, it that i will go yet another step further and another and will return when i want . how i want borderless and brazen. thank you. ah, the 3rd and 4th generations of an afro german family. a bene, onto marco's mother. beryl was born in good dance and what is now poland, where the family's european chapter began. even now at 82 years old,

she's still sometimes confronted with questions about her routes via would convey where are you from? do you speak german? what are you doing here anyway? well, what do you then say? i'm german, that it's been dollar sure is what i saw like them are black and german. the descendants of monday, and it does show that this was never a contradiction in terms of been under marco's daughter. currently in london, is now the 5th generation of the deep family. it's their history and it's german history ah, is hobbled, the school does have the feeling that we'll be seeing more progress going failure than we did in the past. the city out with

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