outdoor sports, all of our scoring we say there about never giving up sports flies every weekend on dw, the berlin, 1942 massive rooms stag in stand. god, it's a center of power hits is new, right. chancery we are talking here cause a balance of most and for some sectors of the 3rd, right. during world war 2 dispatches disappear without the tribes for decades, until they turn not on the black market. to advise this, but this, i know that in those circles there was talk of up to 8000000 euro is for both sculptures. when

a major raid issues on site started in the early hours of may, the 20th a story of germany cost featuring nazis, the styles, eat, associates, army, and lots of cash. and then i got the call. we have the horses, the, the late 19 thirty's, german artist, joseph tour at work and his studio painstakingly the model to la to the life style using play. if you had them cost in problems, 3 tons of the stuff. the commission for the sculptures was for none of us in the future at all fit, loves people during the darkest use of german history. the these policies where play is underneath hitler's office. so they've got 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 size. the neck is extremely large and powerful. the muscle is completely exaggerated. the whole thing exudes certain power divided also with the horses, dogs or even lion cups. animals play the major role for the nazis, especially the hitler and his commander in chief at the gym and, and for some forestry him and good things. 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 billions wilhelm strauss up the street at the cities center. it is

now lined with plain pre fabricated buildings on to the nazis. this area was a prestigious excess of power for the ministry buildings and location of hitler's birthday, much. and if he's new rock chancery. today, a childcare center and playground. we now 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 gods inside tour next to woking horses as they came to be known who horses lodging in life. these horses so everything is very symbolic. in 1939, germany started the 2nd world war 6 years later, the lin playing bruin's pitiless 1000 year rice was his chancel,

re reduced to rubble. the fear committed suicide in his bunker. it is to bronze horses were destroyed, along with the city also st for decades, until one day, heedless horses returned back to the home city of the name. but how and where had they being 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 once recovered a picasso with millions and oscar wilde's missing ring. i took brand is one is not without it's dangerous. i had 2 colleagues at the time, and sometimes we have quite some evidence that we were being followed. we had to deal with people former staci agents and neo nazis, people with a lot of money. and sometimes we have discussed this and or we 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 hostess,

had resurfaced chief inspector renee, a launch was already known for bringing down germany's most grace in the art for jeff. now the inspector was fascinated by the case, hitler's 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 want them to talk, pick out interested when the lady also gave us a recent photograph and the color photograph photo showing the hoarse cultures pop open on the field is good to and the offices in that got my attention for convict the fashion shows you 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,

6 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 hit the school since had burned in the 5 storm. at the end of the war i, salt 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 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 jumped slowly. it looks at his law solve this and then i realize it was taken in the gathering of the rest and see where the policies should be. but the whole system was a golf hipaa stem. so in 1945,

the horses weren't even in the room chancery soon i found out. now these must be to the 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 bring his forces to safety as early as 1943 before the stuff, 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 allowed us. 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 all need

all 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 what brought us to the town of fleets and ponds book that i for the protection along with all the works of od from the lane. and especially from the nice chance that we saw it to the plan was to establish a kind of artist colony for 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 when move them to protect them, points back, i was glad ones associates and we drive to rates in a small town in the old brook region. most 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 it 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 coats each tragic of on the old pop crowns bridges off house and even his pool. a school. here, it seems like an ideal place to hide the horses and engelhardt 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 dates and the horses were probably there, especially in the style too much to rise,

right to m tour at competed for hitting this fine. so it seems unlikely brick who would have had to exclusives on his est parts of the old facts and workshops and police 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 soviet army crushed the result order reaching greets, and looked at the rate army do with nazi ok. and specifically use of torrents. brawn stands. so a lot 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, but the soviet troops and it was and how much on the soviet army loot 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, i'd be sent. 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 a whole railway cars and bonds done with on may or may have been art in them. kind of cool stuff. i get reasons, i'm with 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,

the word trophy commissions to examine specific painting, sculptures and so on. dustin in august on, so name one and then they were taken away as quickly as possible. pick up tons, frontier phone. is it possible that's what happened in season that it was the communist. it'd be uh me to organize the transport and theft of heat. let's not see horses. that's exactly what seems to have happened. unknown to the detectives in the 1980s, photos had a much dive. soviet soldiers standing in front of him was horses. soldiers from the barracks, in a pa, spelled just north of the land. one of the largest soviet army bases in east germany, of an east german underground office called slants and also secretly filled the tour at close is in the 8th as well as the barracks. the host is hard to believe. we're on an athletic field. the image is shaped in blood, but clearly recognizable the statues from the new roof chancellor rate. now in

soviet hands. we are off to eva, smiled on the hunt for eye witness accounts. and we made a man who since he sold the horses, him tons might fall in the midst of abe as well. that was one of the few who was allowed to enter. the tartly got admitted to base i think that you have somebody, giovanni, 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 stolen, esoteric epic, already scheduled for decades. the whole says stood here, but then one day they disappeared again without a trace. the soviet command said it was for charity. i just go through yet the when the big earthquake hit all my odd tackle,

they were taken away and melted down as aide for the earthquake victims with no part in the am i lot of the command as words were a lie. the truth was very different. as these good twins instead of 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's notorious secret police, the stones whose task to procure foreign count see from 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, in a german border. i don't 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 the ops trans folks i'm, 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 war, the russians had confiscated those lot of nazi odds. and in the seventy's and eighty's, they needed the house currency. so they started to trade secretly to sell these confiscated nazi out to collections. and it was sometimes neo nazis. all bodies can you imagine coming is selling secretly, nazi off to old nazi's. so it was a very big market and it still is a big market. i think we're talking about tens or hundreds of millions not see sculptures from the new rock chance right now in the hands of nazi 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, she to inspect a launch build meters of shelves. space with evidence includes sofa that will leading no way be able to move on. now in the investigation was pretty much stalled. after several months of intensive research also failed, the sales offers didn't lead us to a good idea of this. one of the partners was that we still didn't know who had the sculptures when the investigations died down for a bit of a, but things started moving again in like 2014 people indecent side of things with different enhanced events. well, to a brand suddenly had a lead, a dubious ok dealer code named stephen said he could help. brandon by the horses, stephen seemed 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 meeting and a restaurant brand convinced steve, and that his client was serious. but who wants to see could sell the medicine for america? and they just they left the restroom to smoke. both sides were cautious, but the deal seemed to be going through the hope that the difficult because it was still on korea who had the horses but 3 suspects imagined 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 laurie is another people also to a group called steely hills, which is a neo nazi group. i always suspected that some of these money might have gone to the wrong people. brian suspected that the fil, a head ties to put to move. it's a supportive, deep stream is group. still a few folks all silent, help known as the nazi princess booth. it's was the door of assess lead to heinrich him low. but if it's marshall looked at the money to support nazis, a neo nazis facing prosecution. with that suspicion from trouble to building in 2015, becoming a launch is most important. witness try when there was that 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 conflict about this time 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 funded because for the 1st time she was able to describe to us in detail the people he'd been in contact with quite. he'd perhaps already seen the flight from busy 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 some people we thought might have the horses become would have come from the store to the shed itself. 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 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. okay, the and then i saying we have the hot hit, let's horses from the new rice chance 3 were finally found in a warehouse inside to 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 mediately confiscated, all the panic went away and there was standing there, you know, somewhere hidden on an industrial area fall. the she is the wall street journal

called the to the most interesting finding decades the recovered, hitler forces made headlines around the world. the vacuum violin. 2022 the she found out she said, well, the largest are nice ones building most of the alps. the voss complex on the edge of building is with the horses were broken and put on display for the 1st time. as part of the unveiled exhibition the traces of the history remain visible. a decision was made not to restore them.

this kind of sad, the house is covered in story. it really has traces of history on all wait, unless you wanted to proceed to the photo logically. you can start with the bullet holes, which would probably make around 8 for $45.00 to about june $45.00. so if this order, say i need someone to sign inch done. com it is possible that the bullet holes were made, but we'd symbols on the fire. but it is also possible that soviet soldiers deliberately shot at them again later goodbye. as of the other marks on the horse. i hear what it was welded back together after the collector had them small notes across the in a german border and then re assembled to kansas moving not someone can do that because i'm down denise. and so the next march that were made on the abrasion locks from the read about safely see what you can actually see because i when the police transported them,

they was stretched the vehicle with the red but didn't bottle has because night runs in the law says raise the question, what should be done with nazi on the back office with the question of whether there's such a thing as toxic art is a big discussion and i'm glad it's being with us. comes out and 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 cm's, 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 can't have the effect that was originally intended. without the or of power, the whole suspense of right to one in the exhibition. the also in the case might a suspend now says they'll

see this host to will be unpacked and presented to the public the and so in this very gym and tale of heat as horses, just a 10 columbus, a bee line from the new rock chancery where they once stood as confident symbols of a dictatorship that was soon to crumble and the detectives renee launch is investigating a spectacular new case. trailing 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

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