under stress, candace destruction be stopped. the future is being determined now. the europe revealed part 2 in our series. we roll about unbiased information. all 3 months. done, the berlin 1942 massive bron stagen stern 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 rise . during world war 2 dispatches disappear without surprise for decades, until they turn not on the black market. to advise this practice, i know that in those circles that 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 20th a story of germany cost speech for not sees the saw, the, the soviet army and lots of cash. and then i got the call. we have the horses, the, the late 19 thirty's, german, auto st. joseph tour at work and his studio painstakingly the model to launch the lifestyle using clay. if you have them cost in problems, 3 tons of the stuff. the commission for the sculptures was for none of us in the sewer at all feet long people wanted, the stallions need him and his new rock chancellor being built in the center of power during the darkest use of gentleman history of

the these policies were placed on the need hipaa's office, so they cut the most prominent place in the 3rd right. oh, 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. ok, they estallion has the neck is extremely large and powerful. the muscle is completely exaggerated. the whole thing suits a certain power divided also with the horses, dogs, or even line codes. animals play the major role for the nazis, especially the hitler and his commander in chief of the german air force and forestry him and good thing. they used animals for propaganda, either to make themselves appear home hostage, or to demonstrate that power as with the horses at the rock chancery in berlin of the, the same place,

a decades like shop buildings, wilhelm straw. so the street at the city center is now lined with plain 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 rock 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 honor breakup on the private garden side tour next to woking horses as they came to be known. who horses, lodges, sun life these horses, 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 chancel re reduced to rubble. the fear committed suicide in his bunker. it is 2 bronze horses were destroyed along with the cc 4 solid st for decades until one day, heedless horses returned back to the home city of the name of how and where had they beat 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 works. the legendary detective who wants recovered a picasso with millions and oscar wilde's missing ring. i took brand is what is known with a 100 stages. i had 2 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 as we well cried, so 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 it was whole since had resurfaced. chief inspector renee, a launch was already known for bringing down germany's most grace and 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've been 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 horse cultures pop open on the roof. theaters good to. and 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, takes off in search of the statues where the horses, even the real deal. the immediate conclusion is that the sculptures must be a frank brant assumed, like everyone else that he was, horses had burned in the fire storm. at the end of the war, i thought, and most people saw that the horses had been destroyed during the battle of believe we thought they, they must have been for generation, no doubt. so many forgeries and in everything an odd, but also especially in, in world war 2 off. but then brian made a discovery in the last known for the just the dictation weeks before his death. hitler once again for the last time least the raft generally it looks at his last hold. yes. and then i realized it was taken in the gathering of the rest and see where the horses should be. but the horses that were

a golf headrest. so in 1945, the horses weren't even in the room, i could transfer a soon i found out. now these must be the re losses. and then i started to realize if these are the re aussies, i called about a story about the brand and the launch discovered that hitler did bring his horses to safety as early as 1943 before the start of the bombing rates of the. and he had them removed from the chancery. the nazis wanted to protect the so called area. and us, like the works of use of torak and honor breakup is what glorified strength and power not undoubtedly as loud as the 2 main characters hit, law encoding, even their competitors. they still let you know,

everybody 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 all the works of od from berlin. and especially from the high chance that we saw it, the plan was to establish a kind of artist colony. so nazi out and read some kind of kind of like a head is meant of that as well as this culture workshops, which was very large. and the works of all remove them or to protect them points back. i was glad at that. so shirts and we drive to the rates in a small town in the older brook region, north of the land. 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 rates and was no coincidence on a breast to another. repeat was favorite artist slipped it. his man, a house has since been demolished, but his studio remains today. scope to use angle hot looks here, presented here. he good boy and this is the studio that was built during the war for and wayne county. and it was finished in 1943 coats each tragic of on the old pop crowns bridges. bob house and even his pool. a screw. here it seems like an ideal place to hide. the horses bought a new hot 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 so hitting this funny that so it seems unlikely brick who would have had to exclusives on his est pots of the old facts and workshops, and bleats a still standing. hitler's stallions must have been stored here at some point. but where exactly remains the mystery? in april 1945, the soviet army crushed the re the order reaching rates. 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 red army? olive 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, i'd be then they had survived the war. and now 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 the whole railway cars and bonds done with on may or 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, a word 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 of material. it isn't possible. that's what happened in the sense that it was the communist. so it'd be me who organize the transport and fest 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 emerged of soviet soldiers standing in front of him. was horses soldiers from the barracks and eva spelled just north of the land. one of the largest soviet army bases in east germany, an east german under and office called slants, and also secretly filled the tour at cost is in the 8th as well as the barracks. the horses, hard to believe,

we're on an athletic 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 to men who since he sold the horses here hands, mine are full of men of avis. waldrook was one of the few who was allowed to enter the tightly got admitted to base i think does he have some idea of uh, the 1st time i was weird. i was not very surprised by these huge figure standing there. i thought, well, they're probably detecting some of the typical stolen estero it got back like, are you scheduled for decades? the horses stood here, but then one day they disappeared again. without a trice, the soviet command said it was for charity. i just go through yes. be when the big

earthquake hit alma i tackled, they were taken away and melted down as aide for the earthquake victims with no part in the and i lot of the command as well. it's were a lie. the truth was very different. all these good twins instead of sculptures, then disappeared in 1989 under very mysterious circumstances. once again, the story takes an incredible ton. and one series says that this man played a key role. alexander shall go to the club ski, colonel of east, germany's notorious secret police, the stones whose task to procure foreign count see for east germany by any means possible. including selling nazi on to waste gym and collect is it's believed that this might be how hitler force has made it across the inner german border of adults . but because it was clear that this was not actually lead to, he had them secretly sold a part or, and then that's the pods added to the,

to odds transports. and that's how they smart them across the, in a german boat. this one is horses sold into pieces and then hidden in a warehouse somewhere in west germany, for decades. in the seventy's and eighty's, the market was dominated by the russians understand, see, because after the war the russians had confiscated those with a lot of nazi odds. and in the seventy's and eighty's, they knew that house currency. so they started a trade secret lead to sell these confiscated nazi out to collectors in the west. sometimes the 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 market. and 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 not enthusiast

. but exactly who's hands and will remain a mystery until 2013. when they re surfaced on the secret market. now the hunt was in full swing. in berlin, chief inspector alone, she filled me to the shop space with evidence includes. so i saw that were leading no way be i meant to move on the 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 announced it in with all to a brand. suddenly had to lead a dubious out dealer code named stephen said he could help run 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 even that his client was serious. but who wants the secret cello? they never since america. and they just they left the restroom to smoke. both sides were cautious, but the deal seem to be going through the whole picture of the difficult of the shots. because it was still on korea who had the horses, but 3 suspects matched at once. the 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 this 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 still a feel for all silent 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 nazis and 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, sort of sitting there and i was given my testimony about fleet 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 last night from the z and, and what he thought about this case, he has a 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 come would have come from the store if you had it in the morning of may 20 of 2015 show down 200 police launched right on the 3 suspects. one of those rates took place and bought the 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 of a sitting in, in my chair, in the netherlands and i thought, oh my god, i have to go in hiding. this is the biggest mistake of all that. then. okay, the and then i saying we have the hot shit, let's horses from the new rice chance story was finally found in a warehouse inside the con, 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 when the way and

there was standing there, you know, somewhere hidden on an industrial area for all these years. the wall street journal called the, to the most interesting find in decades the recovered, hitler forces made headlines around the world. the vacuum. berlin, 2022 the she found out says a deal. the largest renee swans building most of the alps. the vast complex on the edge of building is where 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 know 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 8 for $45.00 to about june, 45 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 swedes most on the fire, but it is also possible that soviet soldiers deliberately shot at them again later goodbye. so the, the other marks on the house. i hear what it was welded back together after the collector had them smiled across the in a german border. and then we son goes to kansas, moving that someone can be there to them down to me. and so the next march 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 when this comes out. 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 exams, 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 once students confident symbols of the dictatorship that was soon to crumble and the detectives. renee a launch is investigating a spectacular new case training more odd 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 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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