hold wine in such a better life. so why do i want to go back to 9 ga like i don't have any reason to but there's no reason that's moving from the bit. yeah, i believe something great is coming very, very soon. and yeah, can we learn more about la valise story in for my grief, reliable news from my guidance, wherever they may be. i to kinetics. net push a push nickel shape and then it took me more fish like unless his teeth. i witnessed his report, but she still go to that the i said that the mary, you pull a story of resilience rushes more. you crazy. one years since the invasion began we take a look back into the future. in the new media, slowing in february on d,

w. ah ah ah, ah, museum dodge sun, as we see being german as something defined by skin color, bison 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. if you buy some mention, ah, the daughter i was adorned in germany, i'm a german native speaker. i'm. i've been to africa once in my life as part of a package to her. it doesn't get more german than that. mm hm. mm. ah 20 people will of course ask me where i come from and i say from

campus or to and your mother all sate also from comp us. does that 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 hear because you were there. yeah, i think that's a very important part of the answer. i'm society here must take responsibility for what happened in its history when it was the death in vegas, if the pacific bowl into siskin, now devilish to commend this is exactly the right moment to look at black german history or vizier and how it's always been a part of german history and tylenol, quotes and pot vickie got tied or trigger shifted. ah

hm. ah ah. lou abena demarco's family is in its 5th generation in germany. oh, these lovely old photos but fact what 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 funds. an amazing kaiser that was ride on nato cuz he was known to be very loyal to the emperor and very german to it. which hava i huh. my family for me, has a long history on the longest, on its back as it were in pick. so tucson, m d seamless, it means having experiences all having survived a lot 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 person or the alpha stay tom. oh. and what became known as the berlin west africa conference in 1884. 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. ah, robbie 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 isn't us feeling a sheena that came for many different reasons. this is an island,

several 100 people, for instance, were brought over for the human zoos that turn germany or across europe and thought on one small cannon funnel from their 1st appearance in the 18 seventy's. these ethnic logical expositions proved extremely popular with the european public. at the hanover, 2 and 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 one over to the so called colonial adventure. d. d and dessert exhaust a sized ation. romanticize ation. this idea of ha, let's take the family to the soon. like we know to day nought follow. instead of looking at animals, say we get to see exotic people as a king out meet mother gone except these people went representing their own culture

. all communities so called o copeland dog started hobbin zonen and it was a staged spectacle in and had nothing to do with who they actually were vast dog instead. boss. and he got, he threw in and vicky carton. 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 antonio colonial authorities. wanted to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive civil as the of those hey, my t onto zigler on van. wanted to use this image to legitimize germany's colonial project as well. yeah, there civilizing mission ya, kazi, does

a civilizing mission, dodson playing the germans, bringing culture 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. 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 monday that deep traveled to humbug from to walla cameroon. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german. he then completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker blue as lloyd to her sensual.

he was expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop window portrait to yolanda anna albert sighing. 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 st. loaner vehicle 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 get danced than danzig 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 toys 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 and help those. it was so early on that there weren't yet objections from the colonial administration or said colon. yeah, i have, i from house of i also have people who applied later were rejected. todd, in would it a son 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 nationalists saw as a humiliation. 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 and a historic petition. when at vos san tyre, davis paused the anti colonial resistance, which had always been there. hot as this is got, i was never a time when black people didn't fight back or stand up for their right was the food . if ozetta angus, it's town with natasha. a kelly is 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, divorce. eula, africa wanted jo africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college hortshoi. they wanted div all it probably for personal reasons to read the recognition and legitimate zation marriages between black men and white women. ah, and i, kent's wooden on leg a 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 as iron. 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 are remembered on a commemorative pillar in downtown berlin. thus, man, that's my great grandad agendas. i think it's fantastic historical. yeah, his tool is as much as get mad. 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 had germany black american dancer josephine baker became a celebrated figure on the stages of berlin. ah. extended us in the bust, 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, madame ansuka, ah no furniture born amberlynn 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 norman bag 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 and a turkish palace. the rolls conforms to degrading stereotypes that further the nazis races audiology. ah, the young theodore vanya mikhail played the sultan's fanning. boy, only later did he realize he'd been exploited under 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 ye, excell 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. and they blew yet he can, he don't have anybody not. so they have 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 miko plaintiff anew. and my family and a large number of african people here only survived the nazi era with that because they were needed for these chem and colonial films from ah, 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. mandingo the business went bankrupt. interracial couples faced persecution. around 400 children, fathered by black french occupying troops were forcibly 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 and cuban soil. and more importantly, mia, that there will be no black europeans or pia 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 that spanish had all kinds sweets of firsthand a fuse. it's very important to understand that this idea of so called races being unable to mix stems from earlier german colonial times. at least moscow born 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 gleam dash, dash o i n of a sudden the rug broke her beard and either i told her, i don't know in seeking miss linger in this archival sound from 1950 to a west. german parliamentarian uses a racist slower in reference to more than 3000 bi 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. this western norman television report from 1957 featured a single mother, a group of everything that my guess would be western before leslie from the ben van . the here you go, found that we can ship, we will the gong to this is an illusion. piece friends in the spring unless you to consider with us. yeah. on the i'm seen me. thank you. thank. we help you to see them are of the dns for losses. i'm mostly. thank you. now. a lot, only 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 been here born. i was born here. do intellectual freedom. my mother is german kelly. i feel german, honestly to me for us, for me playing for the german national team was the greatest. i'm out of georgia muslims for nationwide. evian costa 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. that countless racist remarks still haunt him today. it

was hell, absolute hell disruption which do you hello. does fall numbers from even women and when i go into a shock, ruben and maybe misbehave a little. hm. what they'd say come on, black kid, how do i go back to africa? awfully job. that was how it was day in day out actually. so genes, jaime, i was meant to be put in a home, but my mother refused to send me away. what can honestly, she had got 6 white children, 6 and then a black one comes along, wanted on october and people pointed you lot to trying 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 bond is legal and scored the goal of the season in 1974 for kickers. often by

later that year he played for west germany's national team in a european championship qualifier in mancha. to put them posted a, but back home fans of rival teams continued their races to chance unabated. remarkable, there have always been nasty remarks. trust me. look, you need to be pretty tough and 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, devona romo the brown bomber. they could have written the bomber gal, so i'm not the brown bomber. there always had to be something i've also, we all came to me. 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. bmw shy club at us. i think i was the 1st black child to start school and caught bus. and cutlass had a population of probably $40000.00 at the time. lou . shut it off. i don't remember seeing a black person before i was handed any interests meant causing i said i didn't even know there was such a thing, so it escaped. ah gabrielle,

available was born in communist east germany in 1962. her father, a student from ghana and 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. so it was, there was something different about me if on, but i learned that from others, i agree, 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. me of a and as it was not something that was discussed at home, you know, it just wasn't important. and you could see it as yoga z m. ah 1000000 in the old to low isn't on no, no, i the mia finish about civil as i was alabama. angela davis to this is endeavor to live with happy. angela davis became the face of black power in east

germany, and the american scholar, civil rights activists and communist was wrongfully imprisoned in the us until her acquittal in 1972. all right. angela davis is angela davis had a huge impact on my life. but when i look at the photos now the time, the afro luck was all the rage back down. and of course i had an afro and i wore glasses. and austin and wherever i went on the east, somehow i was always angela davis. it was a political struggle taken up by the g d r. that was good for me. rooted 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 as nations more than 200000 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 thought information needed for augustine. i know they weren't supposed to assimilate into not until go past 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 of ox august, that comes with what's in the 4. ah gabriella available 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. vailable protested, does if a move to this was of course i selected it was because of my skin color parisians over it. 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. 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 his 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 all to own. so i became one yon spinning hits that even of gone 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 and finding an apprenticeship. and then come to see that suck nurse. she was very embarrassed when i asked again whether she could find someone to take me on as an apprentice little neighborhood 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 advising position. on full moon. on this one or 2, it was a big shock for me, shock for z, z 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 both assumed in ish mahan . mr. benner 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 far the i'm a lawyer, it was like an epiphany of relief. ah, we were all there without shyness, our needs our experiences, our desires, sadness owned a swag or it was great shows la m. it enabled us to break out of that isolation. what is the last one? so comb or a is a lead soon. so come on. did that sense of community carried us out of time on site gotten? yeah. you love, it comes the us, and i,

i know it was like we'd been existing in a room with no air con creators. and i still only met argy lord, the african american poet, and she was simply interested in our lives. it wouldn't hurt an adjusted that we introduce ourselves to each other for which long and the world when to have it. it's washed in her that's violent, quite a big deal for my and me as we were still very young and it's seamless. yeah. cause that off garber. ah, and that's the 1st meeting there would be 30 person and they would be very excited . her because for everyone it would be the 1st time being in a group of other afro remains. people who have the same experience the same. yeah. who could, without talking about it would understand you. i know it makes you smile in la garza. together with activist my i eme katerina ogen toya,

wrote a book called showing our colors as 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. a says it was important because until then star, we'd always been objectified and societal stellan. and these are cuz they're shocked how people talked about us discovery that we have what we were the subject of various political and academic debate. puny to shove this and softly had to button on the. and i think the showing our colors project was the 1st time we were leading the narrative still using such a political voice to, oh, i know, put me to shem. mm. it was the stark 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. lou. 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, the eastern town of abs, father made headlines. a mom of more than 50 neo nazis attacked young african contract workers outside a local restaurant. i'm a day on tonio 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 jojo, since men to bizarre, do looking back vague. i just feel really heavy mail. cornersville camille is seeing a colleague and brother who lived with us die the mod saying up just because he was

black, our air book it, and it enabled oh, like his friend, i'm a day on tonio. 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 passive i went out on the street yet the same thing could happen to me when dismal meant vocalist for 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 only 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. the seas feel miss if 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. lemons. eastman, if you met with friends, cliff then at their homes, if possible ideas. and then once it's 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 in southfield? so as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi and as you group forming in his neighbourhood, where future members piazza, champa, and of a month, los attended the youth club on the corner. somehow, adam sensed that he was seldom truly safe. ready

oh, 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 put it's this is giovanni 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, you can talk to play from columns to swing and plots for was models east 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. we have the screwdriver memorial, hopeful. unlike young black people of his generation and the

former west germany and lacked a community and felt his was a lone struggle in the former east. but he changed that in 2018. he found that 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 customer relations. quote was unreal, just going there and seeing so many black people experiencing a completely different atmosphere. it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching. hi, sean defaults mentioned in the black people. i know now we 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 her not to have the space for

retreat and empowerment for her 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 decent, where you can recharge your batteries on which coffee, tight, 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 suzanne the pot to can tie, remember my childhood as being i, full of life. luckily, i never experienced the time in refugee housing as anything bad or did i 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 over there. it was only over time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing, polish no malice. oh facts. in 2019, i me not at all. hey,

became the 1st afro german deputy speaker of a regional parliament. 3 years later, she became the 1st black state minister own from the damage. 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, an uber in distance to was them understood this and boy and will man, 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 by hack, holmes ami, not a to. 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 combat discrimination. today as a politician and the shell is mich, holstein state marlin she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society etc. and her us about your racist experiences.

i'm often asked, and usually i have absolutely no desire to do so that for 2 reasons, the house li, 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. bishop was will part of go out, hartwell hated. so i am miss julie, you're always talking about racism that you yourself have made it a deputy speaker, double anchor, 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 and order houses that belied it. would of the classroom little toilet is, were tending 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 me, natalie,

encourages minorities to become politically active. escape am cannot release 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 deal from in the words of arrow german poet, my a young i who instead of asking questions simply states is 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, that i will go yet another step further to the very edge my. when my sisters and brothers stand, where our 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 athena, under marco's mother. beryl was born in good dance in what is now poland,

where the families, european chapter began. even now at 82 years old, she still sometimes confronted with questions about her roots. here with something. where are you from dog? do you speak german? what are you doing here anyway? well, what are you then say i'm german. that it window? sure is what i say, ah, black and german. the descendants of mundane, the deep 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. aah! is harbor the school, does have the feeling that we'll be seeing more progress going failure than we did

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