now he sets out on one last journey to visit the remnants of the vanished world. the captured in black and white rocks. last beauty dw, she's got any issues or thoughts say what? the berlin 1942 massive rooms dragon stand god, it's a center of power. it says you right, chancery we are talking here cause about the most impart inspectors of the 3rd right. during world war 2 dispatchers disappear without the traits for decades

until they turn up on the black market. to advise this practice, i know that in those circles there was talk of up to 8000000 euro is for both sculptures. when a major rage issues on site started in the early hours of may, the 24th of germany cost featuring nazis, the saw, the associate army and slope of cash. and then i got the call. we have the horses, the, the late 19th, thirty's, german, auto st. joseph tour at work and his studio painstakingly the model to launch the live style using play. if you had them cost in problems, 3 tons of the stuff of the commission for the sculptures was for none of us in the

sewer at all. feet long. 51 to the stallions near him and his new rock chance for william bell in the central power. during the darkest use of german history, the these policies were placed on the need headless office, so they cut the most prominent place in the 3rd, right. all it was very important for the nazis as a propaganda tool. i know this is a sudden ideology can be interpreted as of this extraordinary masculinity. they estallion has the neck, is extremely large and powerful. the muscle is completely exaggerated. the whole thing speaks to certain power divided almost with the horses, dogs, or even lion cods. animals play the major role for the nazis, especially the hitler and his commander in chief at the gym, an air force and forestry him and gooding. they used animals for propaganda,

either to make themselves appear home hostage or to demonstrate that power has with the horses at the rock chancery in berlin of the, the same place, a decades like shop billions vill homestar awesome. the street at the city center is now lined with klein prefabricated buildings on to the nazis. this area was a prestigious excess of power for the big ministry buildings and location if it was birthday march. and if he's new right, chancery today, a childcare center and playground, we hit once made his monstrous plans. it was also, he is the director of sculptures. if his ideal german soldiers find artist on who breakup on the private gods inside tour next to woking horses, they came to be known who horses,

lodges for life resources. so everything is very symbolic. in 1939, germany started the 2nd world war. 6 years later, the lin playing ruins pitiless 1000 year rise was his chance to re reduced to rubble. the fear committed suicide in his bunk of these 2 brands, horses were destroyed along with the city will sell it st for decades. until one day, heedless horses returned back to the home city of the name of how and where had they been between the disappearance and reappearance, lie of a 70 years of check, a german history and the crime story. a very german crime story. everything came together. you know, a mystery, the hand of the characters. uh,

people with nazi sympathies, the moment that got the 1st picture of the color picture of the horses when i started to realize them still might exist. at that moment. i hardly could brief. i knew if we are going to recover the houses, it will be the best story of my life. you know amsterdam. this is where a key figure of this crime story lives in woods. the legendary detective who once recovered a picasso with millions and oscar wilde's missing ring. i took brand is what is known without exchanges. i had to colleagues at the time and sometimes we have quite some evidence that we are being followed. we have to deal with people former staci agents and neo nazis,

people with a lot of money. and sometimes we have discussed this, and it was quite certain that we were dealing with maybe dangerous people, a good 600 kilometers away at the end stage office of criminal investigation. germany's top on club was also hearing them is that he was whole since had resurfaced. chief inspector renee, a launch was already known for bringing down germany's most bryce in the art for jeff. now the inspector was fascinated by the case. he list missing horses down months in november it started back in november 2013 when an elderly lady contacted us to and she reported that you didn't made an offer to buy the horses by 2 o'clock for an amount in the millions. and then you went in the top pick out interested when the lady also gave us a recent photograph in color photograph photo showing the hoarse cultures pop off

and on the roof theater squeaked when the offices in that got my attention for convict the fashion show to get this horses in front of the plastic, couldn't dictate as a numerous bronze sculpture suddenly appeared on the underground market on sale for millions of euros. renee, a launch and onto a branch stage off in search of the statues was the horses even the real deal? the immediate conclusion is that the sculptures must be a frank brand to shoot like everyone else that hitler school since had burned in the fire storm. at the end of the war, i thought, and most people felt that the horses had been destroyed during the battle of believe we thought they, they must have been for generation out now. so many forgeries in, in everything an odd, but also specially and, and we'll try to off. but then brian made the discovery in the last no, unfortunately, just the dictator weeks before his death. hitler,

once again for the last time least, the raft jumped slowly. it looks at his law solve this, and then i realize it was taken in the gods and of the rest and see where the hostage should be. but the officers, the god of headrest. so in 1945, the horses weren't even in the room like chance or a soon i found out now these must be the re losses. and then i started to realize if these are the real offices, i called about a story about the brand and the launch discovered that hitler did turn his horses to safety as early as 1943 before the start of the bombing rates of the building. he had been removed from the chancery. the nazis wanted to protect this so called error in us, like the works of use of tor x and honor. breakfast is what glorified strength and

power not. undoubtedly as loud as the 2 main characters, headlong encoding, even their competitors. they still let you know everyone knew of their store of and they did love out of cost. they did only law of a special off. they didn't like model, not while jimmy was losing world war 2, the horses would no longer in the chancery. but where were they? and how could sculptures of that size and significance simply disappear. they've had the houses where brought to the town of fleets and ponds and book that for that protection, along with other works of od from the lens and especially from the ice chest, every value to the plan was to establish a kind of artist colony for nazi out and read some kind of kind of like a head as men of that as well as his culture workshops, which was very large and the works of all remove them or to protect them points

back. i was glad i don't think so. shirts and we drive to the rates in a small town in the old brook region north of berlin. it was here that the nazis feels a gigantic artist calling in the early forty's. the plan was to supply the entire gym and roy with nazi od lynn new room book, munich. the choice of read, so there was no coincidence on a breast. another repeat was favorite artist slip to his mind. the house has since been demolished, but his studio remains today. scope to use angle hot looks here because he left here. he good boy and this is the studio that was built during the war for on. okay. konica and it was finished in 1943 cool. it's a tragic of on the old pop crowns bridges. bob house and even his pool a school here. it seems like an ideal place to hide the horses. and

a little hod has his own idea where they would get a key for the horses were definitely not here on the estate carpet and they were workshops and states and the horses were probably there. lashania stop the might to rise, break and tour at competed for hitting this funny event. so it seems unlikely, brett, who would have had to exclusives on his est parts of the old facts and workshops and weeks and a still standing. hitler's stallions must have been stored here at some point. but where exactly remains the mystery? in april 1945, the son pete ami cross through the order reaching greets and what did the rate army do with nazi ok and specifically use of taurus bron stallions

fell out of an asset questions. in this case it's a black hole. how it ended up the of the land. with so many unanswered questions, we go to see someone who knows a lot about the red army. the museum building calls is dedicated to germany in the soviet union in world war 2 states of mind, the soviet troops and it was and how much ok, did the soviet army lose? it was in this house. the gemini surrender in the presence of the allies was signed on the 8th of may 1945. the 2nd world war ended right here at this table. what does that mean for the read ami live was investing students the top. everybody knew that this was the last stage of the that's what they've been told us gets they expected that if they survived this, then they had survived the war and it's not what we know is that there was an order

that members of the red army were allowed to send parcels home for the generals, it was probably a whole railway. cars and bonds done with on there may have been art in them. kind of couldn't stop by give reasons on. was the orders from style and himself to steal . ok. let's get guns. could see which one likes fun, i'm from right from the start and they were trophy commissions to examine specific painting, sculptures and so on. dustin in august on sunday, and then they were taken away as quickly as possible. pick up tons, frontier told me is it possible? that's what happened in season that it was the communist beat. me organize the transport and fast if he had, let's not see horses. that's exactly what seems to have happened. unknown to the detectives in the 1980s, photos had a much of soviet soldiers standing in front of him. was horses soldiers from the barracks and eva spelled just north of them in one of the largest soviet army bases

in east germany, and east german under and office called slants and also secretly film the tour at cost is in the 8th, as well as the barracks the host is hard to believe, we're on an electric field. the image is shaped and blood but clearly recognizable the statues from the new rock chancellor rate now and so if he attends where else to eva smiled on the hunt for eye witness accounts. and we made a man who since he sold a horse's here, comes mine a full of men of abe as well. that was one of the few who was allowed to enter the tightly got admitted to base i think that's it. yeah. somebody of on the 1st time i was leer, i was not very surprised by these huge figure standing there. i thought, well, they're probably depicting some of the typical is darwin,

this tear really got back like all the central for decades. the whole so stood here . but then one day, they disappeared again without a trace, the soviet command said it was for charity to disclose it yet the when the big earthquake had alma i tackled, they were taken away and melted down as aide for the earthquake victims were not in the am i lot of the command as words were a lie. the truth was very different. these good tunes in those sculptures then disappeared in 1989 under very mysterious circumstances. once again, the story takes that incredible ton. and one series says that this man played a key role. alexander shall go to the club ski, colonel of east germany is notorious secret police, the stones, his task to procure a foreign count, see from east germany by any means possible. including selling nazi on to west gym

and collect is it's believed that this might be how hitler force has made it across the, in a german border. i don't because it was clear that this was not actually lead to, he had them secretly sold a part or, and then that's the pops edits to lead to odds transports. and that's how they smart them across the, in a german bought this house is sold into pieces and then hidden in the warehouse some way in west germany, for decades. in the seventy's and eighty's, the market was dominated by the russians understands the. because after the while the russians had confiscated those levels now to you out and in the seventy's and eighty's, they need a tough currency. so they started a trade secretly to sell these confiscated nazi out to collect as and it was sometimes leo analyses. all bodies can you imagine coming is selling secretly, nazi of to old nazi's. so it was a very big market and it still is

a big markets. i think we're talking about tens or hundreds of millions not to sculptures from the new rock chance right now in the hands of nazi austin sees yes, exactly. sous hans and will remain a mystery until 2013 when they re surfaced on the secret of market. now the hunt was in full swing in berlin, chief inspector, and launch filled me to the shop space with evidence includes. so i saw that were leading no way be i meant to move on. now i'm the investigation was pretty much stalled. after several months of intensive research also failed, the sales offers didn't lead us to have a good idea. this. one of the partners was that we still didn't know who had the sculptures when investigations died down for a bit of a,

but things started moving again in like 2014 people in these entire things with different apps to then we all to a brand suddenly had to lead a dubious out dealer code named stephen said he could help brian by the horses, steve, and seem to know exactly who had the brand showed up to their appointment with a hidden camera on his jacket. the detective said he had a witch client from the us who wanted the horses and that he was just the middleman making a restaurant. brand convinced agent that his client was serious. but who wants to see could sell. they never since america. and they just they left the restroom to smoke. both sides were cautious, but the deal seemed to be going through the whole, the difficult of the shot.

because it was still on korea who had the horses, but 3 suspects matched at once. and 3 persons which we focused on and i discovered that some of them had relations to strange people. people who have a big name and a neo nazi circles like lawyers and other people also to a group called steely hills, which is neo nazi group. i always suspected that some of these money might have gone to the wrong people brand suspected that the seller had tries to put to do if it's a supporter. deep stream is group still a feel for all side and help known as the nazi princess booth. it's was the door for the ss low to high and wish him low. but if it's marshal looked at the money to

support not sees a neo nazis facing prosecution. with that suspicion from trouble to building in 2015, becoming a launch is most important with this try when there it was at night i was in building it was dark. sometimes i forget something in a long chance. remember, well, think, think again. so it was sitting there and i was given my testimony box sleek and body style because he needed that as a witness to make these, these rates of young done him. we questioned arthur brand here in berlin in may 2015 for the month. that was very important testimony assignment, because for the 1st time she was able to describe to us in detail the people he'd been in contact with. what, he'd perhaps already seen the flight from the z and, and what he thought about this case, he has it, but he's in finding the most and from all of those things, and 3 persons of interest emerged for us and speech people. we thought we might

have the horses become, would have come from the store. the fear that sufficient is and in the morning of may 20 of 2015 show down 200 police launched right on the 3 suspects. one of those rates took place, confined to con, in the south of germany. the search was finally on, but they would know horses inside what's the worst day of my life, the worst day? i could not be there because i was the main witness. and i got more, i'm on the sitting in, in my chair in the netherlands and i thought, oh my god, i have to go with hiding. this is the biggest mistake of all that then the cold. okay. the and then i saying we have to hosted hitler's horses from the new rice chance story was finally found in a warehouse inside the kind in south west germany. in the position of

a respected businessman, identified as ryan and w. the statues recovered 70 is off to, they went missing, were immediately confiscated. all the panic went away and there was standing there, you know, somewhere hidden on an industrial area for all these years. the wall street journal called it to the most interesting find in decades. the recovered, hitler forces made headlines around the world. the vacuum violin. 2022. the she found out, she said, well, the launch is 2 nice ones. building most of the alps. the vast complex on the edge

of building is with the horses were brought from put on display for the 1st time. as part of the unveiled exhibition the traces of the history remained visible. a decision was made no to restore them . said the house is a cabinet in story. it really has traces of history all over it unless you wanted to proceed to the photo and logically, you can start with the bullet holes, which were probably made around april of $45.00 to about june, 45 uh for me to place this order, say i need some assignments done for the tunnels i need is possible that the bullet holes were made for leads and most on the fire. but it is also possible that soviet soldiers deliberately shot at them again later goodbye. so then the other marks on the horse, i hear what it was welded back together after the collector had them smiled across

the image um and bought it. and then we son goes to kansas. moving that someone can give you that to them down to me and to the next month that were made of the abrasion marks from the red about st. lucie, which you can actually see because i, when the police transported them, they was stretched to the vehicle with wrecked bells and bottles has crush night ones and the law says, raise the question. what should be done with nazi on the back office with the question of where the such a thing as toxic art is a big discussion and i'm glad it's being with us comes out on i don't want to give a conclusive answer because i think it's the discussion that's so important. i think society has to deal with the controversial monuments being seen in public, not only in his adams, but in the case of the houses. i do think it was right that they are in a protected space where people can decide if they want to see them or not. and

where they cons have the effect that was originally intended use without the or of how the whole suspense, it corrected one in the exhibition. the also in the case might a suspend. now see, so they'll see this host to will be unpacked and present it to the public. the and so in this very gym and tale of hit, this whole says just a 10 columbus a b line from the new rock chancery. with a one students confident symbols of the dictatorship that was soon to crumble and the detectives. renee launch is investigating a spectacular new case training more on criminals to a grand wrote a book about the case that's being translated into 15 languages. and he's still

working, searching for missing out. and the final chapter, a hollywood studio has secured the rights to the material, the thriller about the horses, the choice of the way through the 20th century german history. one day we will very likely see the stallions again. this time on the big screen. ok, that's inseparably linked to a murderous audiology. the the,

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