moving themselves to roads in cities across germany. the group say their unusual stance are designed to highlight environmental damage and press for more decisive action to counter global warming. and here's a reminder of the top story. the hollywood actors union has unanimously voted to go on striking the axis of demanding that 1st shot of streaming profits and regulations on all sufficient intelligence. that's all for me coming up nice dollars. documents you see resists of the legacy of done and german colonialism in africa. thanks for watching this, the i sorry, so one on 6 times to please come and see more people than ever on the move worldwide. in such a better price than mine. and one time it is very hard to say very

difficult john to find out about time on store info. mike runs the v as in dog started as he sees being german as something defined by skin colors of iceland. that's 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. and these guys have mention why was would warn in germany, i'm a german native speaker. i'm, i've been to africa once in my life as part of a package tour. it doesn't get more german than that can come the

or to these people will of course ask me where i come from. and i say from concourse or, and your mother. i'll say also from comp us does not answer your question or do you still need that little piece of the puzzle that explains why look the way i do in that kept these o, c, u, in britain, they say we are here because you were there. i think is where are you here because you're there. yeah, i think that's a very important part of the answer on society here. must take responsibility for what happened in its history with name was the desk of the 6, the 5th the 5th can now speak. amend this is exactly the right moment to look at the black german history on the easy and how it's always been a part of german history and time and then the quotes and pods reaching out, trying to check the sheets the

if the been on demarco's family isn't its 5th generation in germany, the these lovely odd size, the best facts with you see here a typical own gym and household. i start with the wood paneling and fabric wallpaper stuff to appear to as a business. you can't get a bit of something up shorter jim and my son that i'm in 1896,

her great grandfather, monday and got the became the 1st that for 10 to acquire german citizenship and humble funding. amazing. kaiser that was fried because he was known to be very loyal to the end product. and very gentleman, george chava. i know my family for me has a long history. i no longer sit on its back as it were pick. so it says on a d. c list, which means having experience or having survived a lot to and the survival part is especially important to us is the fact that even back then they fault for the humanities to be recognized as on the the of the state of tom at 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 tow go camera room, german, east africa and german south west africa. even before the 19th century, germans had been profiting from the slave trade. now, colonist sees the entire territories, culminating in a genocide in the media in 19 o 4. meanwhile, growing numbers of africans were arriving in germany. the probably akin is a british historian who researches the history of black europeans the the clooney outside of sophistic for the interesting colonial period is important for the emergence of a black community. asked them because it was the 1st time that hundreds, if not thousands of black people were able to come to germany and of course on come con. why do you send us feel refreshing the game for many different reasons? some i'm several 100 people, for instance, were brought over for the human zoos,

the turret germany, or across europe in storage, so much small cannot find out from their 1st appearance in the 18 seventy's. these logical expositions proved extremely popular with the european public at the hanover. so in 1913, the openings were hired as contract workers. they were put on display, often with their families. visitors paid an entrance fee to see the colonists were committing genocide in africa, back home in germany. the middle class were being one over to the so called colonial adventure d e d. and these are exhaustive sizes ation. romanticize ation. this idea of top, let's take the family to the soon, like we know today, note from, instead of looking at animals, we get to see exotic people as if you're open each month are going to accept these people when representing the own culture or communities,

photos colton. dr. straight hoffman is on on um, it was a stage to mexico and had nothing to do with who they actually was in foster dog instead, boss, i just got it to human. vicki hopkins, the, 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. the less builds, does the dodge of the colonial authorities wanted to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive stimulus he of those k my t owns inside an order they wanted to use this image to legitimize germany's colonial project as well. yeah, they're civilizing mission. a kazi does

a civilizing mission, dodson thing, the germans bringing culture and civilization to africans, including awfully con. the 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 the school children. and their parents paid considerable psalms for their education. the new arrivals called one another compatriots, but they were not for seen as a permanent part of german society, the in 1891 funding that d could travel to humble work from the wall a camera room. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german cuban, completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, the android to essential. he was

expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop windows portraits feelings on our side. and that made him feel like he too was on display name is which made him feel very uncomfortable, hooked up to a home at them. so in the end, he changed his profession and became a merchant assembly under vics for while traveling on business, deacons met a woman called in media. interracial marriages were banned in the colonies for reasons rooted in racist ideology. but didn't get that. then dancing and prussia, the couple married and had 2 daughters, and always highly respected uh, fro german family. they ran a store selling tobacco and other colonial goods. the lives of black people in germany would have little interest to most historians until the catalina olga

and toys work appeared. she was the 1st to research the stories of afro germans, including that of monday and got deep sea stone because i was astonished to discover that he was granted citizenship. i'm to come up with, you know, because it was so early that there weren't get objections from the colonial administration of the clinton. y'all had some items house, but most of the people who applied later wherever reject it, invited us done 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 the at the same time, french troops occupied the rhineland. among their rank sport african soldiers, which german nationalist saw as a humiliation. they launched a racist smear campaign, calling the black shame that propaganda in turn,

fueled racism against all black people across germany into a far more dangerous form. the blood from the very start there was resistance. in 1919, germany's 1st black trained driver mounting. the bobo and other people of african descent, listed their demands and a historic petition. the f boss on tire. dave was part of the anti colonial resistance, which had always been the how does what is it got? there was never a time when black people didn't find a box or stand up. so the rifles, the few years i stood in because it's to tasha a kelly as a scholar inactive as to as documented the lives of people who brought about change in black german history. although martine debo but had sworn allegiance to the

weimar republic, she wanted to achieve something new with a petition. equal rights for black people. 18 africans living in germany signed the petition to the german parliament, the divorce sent us. you're awfully kind of wanted young africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college auction. they wanted the board probably for personal reasons to name the recognition. in some interest, the most ation are just between black men and white women uh, on our tents, voted on like a teen vaughn warranty. but they also want the determinants representative of the parliament tied martin to bobo to be precise, to mocking to move as the petition failed. but it marked the

dawn of the 1st black movement in germany monday. and the date was one of the men who signed his name today, those events are remembered on a commemorative pillar in downtown berlin testament, that's my great printed agenda. i think it's fantastic historical. got his toilet, this must just keep. now it's such a good feeling to know that my great grandfather was also part of the fight to construct the. as the roaring twenties hit, germany black american dancer josephine baker became a celebrated figure on the stages of berlin. extended this m a, the bus, we always call it the grass skirt era. in short, black man had to walk around wearing a grass skirt, lots of suit mixed with them on board

number line and 192510 door. vanya and the child 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, and the so called human sues. 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 note in bag race laws . in 1935 colonial migrants were stripped of their citizenship. pandora vanya and the child was issued an aliens passport, and was rendered stateless. he lost his job at a hotel. the finding work became nearly impossible. one of the few exceptions was a niche market. the movies, the,

the most expensive film of the nazi era moons, housing required many black extras to play servants and a turkish power. the the role conforms to degrading stereotypes that further the nazis racist audiology the young and say, i do ivonya me style play the sultan's fanning. boy, only later did he realize he'd been exploited in dm's, in a speech exploited in the sense that i never played a positive role. bush of pussy t for the was only ever decoration, uncomfortable because they needed exotic people impulse dx or they needed those. so today, we know we were exploited by this month. misquote, the quote, the,

the notion of white supremacy was celebrated in many nazi colonial fountains. the regime had plans to re conquer former overseas colonies, clocks and nicely. kara was one of many films to the great black people and use overtly racist dialogue. so those are not even a total of the events in this clip. the protagonist suggestions to the people approaching and says he's seen them before. quote at the berlin zoo, afro german after 4 routinely cast and such rules. the medicine man was played by louis brody, the grand father of abena, under michael manda from you and my family, and a large number of freaking people here, only survived the nazi era. because they would need it for these gym and colonial fields got something 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 monday and that these 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 the 2000 were killed in concentration camps. the fro, german community was being eradicated by the nazis or doesn't zoo is book place. does this kind of the i'm was to ensure that there wouldn't be another generation of black people in germany, even sort of more importantly. mia that there would be no black europeans or p. a gaming source, the in the wake of the 2nd world war. the allied occupation forces in germany included a number of black troops from the united states. the

1945 about 5000. the children were born to black americans, soldiers, and german women in west germany, into the 1950s. the children were still the subject of anthropological research. that's let me try the outcome speech. so 1st thing in the future is very important to understand that this idea of so called races being unable to mix stem from earlier in colonial times. and this was google involved on think this was an idea that prevailed well beyond the 2nd world. hold on even became enough. suddenly it was the children of the allies that now caused this problem. again, dost vida i might, i know of an industrial right . right on north 6th. miss being in this archive all sound from 1950 to a west german parliamentary and use as a racist slower in reference to more than 3000 to buy racial children. she says

they quote, present a special type of human and racial problem. even our countries come back, the conditions are unsuitable for them. and quote, hundreds of children were given up for adoption, mostly to families in the united states. this west german television report from 1957 featured a single mother the lessons before less likely from that. and then he found that we can see if it's the end of the gallons and this is an illusion piece by piece. yeah. on that, obviously most of the things you've done to help get it to them. i think the last time you was, it's like, you know, a lot of the,

you know, being cost. it was one of these children born after the war in the he would go on to become the 1st black man to play for a german national team. his father was an american g i. and here to go on, i was born here for you to be. my mother is german. i feel german, honestly to me for us, for me playing for the german national team was the greatest. i'm a doctor in the industry and being cost. it was born in munster and 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. the countless racist remarks still haunt him today. the funniest it

was, hell, absolute health destruction says fall moments and even women. and when i go into a strong room and it may be misbehave a little, i'm of them. they'd say come on, black kid, how do i go back to africa? definitely god, it was. that was how it was day in day out. actually saw julian time it was meant to be put in a home, but my mother refused to send me away. and honestly, she had got 6 white children, 6 and then a black one comes along to them. yeah. so and people pointed, you know, just trying to figure out enough on football offered a chance to escape the humiliation because it didn't cost. it was good. extremely good. he played center forward in germany's top division. the building is leaking and scored the goal of the season in 1974 for kickers opened by

later that year he played for west germany's national team in a european championship qualifier and the hospital. but back home, sands of arrival teams continued their races to chance unabated the miracle, there's always been nasty remarks. trust me. you need to be pretty tough in germany sometimes. that's why and there was a section in which all we shouted, 10 gays and one of the things a little under the media celebrated him, but always as an outside or one of them, the brown bumper say, could have written the bomb or, and he also, i'm kind and not the brown bomber. there always had to be something of awesome. you're welcome to me. in 1990 comes to the 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. cost of them was acquitted after spending 6 months in custody. the us, i think i was the 1st black child to start school and caught bus. and couples had a population of probably $40000.00 at the time. the just happens that you know, i don't remember seeing a black person before it was, can you tell me and trots mentioned because he as i say, i didn't even know there was such a thing. so a dusky comedy and available was born in

communist each germany in 1962, her father, a student from gun 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. list is amateur footage of the proud family john small. it's because there was something different about me from that i learned that from others by the cost, 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 . yep. something was different about me, yoga and does. it was not something that was discussed at home. it just wasn't important. as you could see, it could be a 1000000 in a hotel o, as in not in the media finish. lots of what was that was alabama. angela davis angela davis became the face of black power in east germany. the american scholars

civil rights activist and communist was wrongfully in prison in the us until her acquittal in 1972. all right. angela angela davis had a huge impact on my life. but when i look at the photos now, the for a look was all the rage back time. and of course i had enough row and i work glasses on most men to wherever i went in the east. somehow i was always angela davis. there was a political struggle taken up by the ged or that was good for me. what time do you mean? in the late 19 seventy's, eastern germany recruited a growing number of workers from vietnam, angola, mozambique, and other fellow commune to nations. more than $200000.00 people total by the time of german reunification. but they were obliged to go back home after

a few years. and the authorities did not envision their broader social integration . gabrielle, available to world remains largely white, one spa and solution focused on the, the one supposed to assimilate into not to go into the cloth. the foreign workers were housed separately from the rest of the population. so this one is, so it wasn't like you were suddenly seeing a black person in the supermarket or the swimming pool. a lot of this comes with what's in the for the unavailable and studied medicine and was all ready, a qualified doctor when this footage was taken in the early 19 ninety's. she always wanted to be a guy and ecologist, but the local authorities stipulated that she's specialize in hi, janet care, despite the country shortage of gynecologists at the time. vailable protested the, this was of course, i suspected it was because of my skin color. prusio enjoy, but it's gonna be me 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 fields or tessa. she took the issue to the next level, threatening to send a complaint to the east german head of state and east konica young proxy products, which 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 and so i became one. yeah. the other michael 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 g. o. as a young woman in the 1980s, she wanted to become an optician and asked a friend for help in finding an apprenticeship. yeah, and then comes it said 6 nurse, she was very embarrassed when i asked again whether she could find someone to take meal and as an apprentice leo, ma'am, who done this up to me said no. unfortunately, they told me, yeah, we know you, but people aren't ready for black hands to be poking around in a white person's face and an advice and desist form for me on this one or 2. and it was a big chunk sydney shock for disease and very awkward for her to about as well. so are they asked? it was the 1st time i realized it wouldn't be easy to do the job. i wanted them to also include an issue of hon. mister been under, michael 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 career 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. the sizes 5, the, i'm the lloyd, it was like kind of tiffany, a really good uh we role there without shyness needs oh, experiences of desire as sadness, carson. and so i was, it was great law and it enabled us to break house at that isolation or is it let soon to chrome or isn't that soon? so come on in that sense of community carried us as i talked on side guitar. yeah,

i loved it. comes to us and i'm, it was like we've been existing in a room with no air conk status. and i felt when we met audrey lord, the african american poet, and she was simply interested in our lives, it would not suggest that we introduce ourselves to each other folks logged on to the world. when that was flushed in this pilot. quite a big deal from miami, as we were still very young and it seemed to close the off campus. and at the 1st meeting, they would be 31st and they would be very excited. because to everyone, it would be the 1st time being in a group of us on the african means people who have the same experience the same. yeah. who could, without talking about it would understand you make the

together with activist my i am contacting the organ toya and wrote a book called showing our colors. the project helped them to develop a positive self image. at the same time, audrey lord, urge them to self identify as pro germans or black germans. as is, um, it was important because until then stopped, we'd always been objectified in society of the dental. and these are cafe. shocked how people talked about task is completed before we were the subject of various political and academic debate and put me to shaw the business office, reach out to boston. let me throw think this showing our causes. project was the 1st time we were leading the narrative, using such a political voice to an appointment to assist. it was the start of the 2nd black movement in germany with the founding of the initiative of black people in germany. and later it's sister organization a day for, for black women in germany. the

1989 saw the phone with the berlin wall in the time when many hopes for a free year, and better like the just over a year later, not long after german reunification, eastern town of eva as well. the made headlines, a model of more than 50 neo nazis attacked young african contract workers outside the local restaurant. on the day on tonio from angola was beaten into a coma with one of the attackers standing on his head on tony who died 2 weeks later, at the age of 28. for you wasn't meant to do the looking back very well. i just feel really heavy on mail causes bear with me is being a colleague and brother the style,

the more sane or just because he was black out. put it in there with like his friend. i'm a day on tonio, you'll never know the state in the country after the collapse of the communist regime. they both come to east germany from angola as contract workers and 1997. both had hoped to study on tonia wanted to be an aircraft engineer. instead, he ended up working at a meat packing factory. the on tony will fell in love with a german woman and was looking forward to soon becoming a father and building a family. of 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. i'm

a new guy, remembers the atmosphere back then by system it to me. yeah. i 0 finish of what about me? yeah. i so it's kind of passive. i went out on the street. the same thing could happen to me when did implemented bob populace for me. it was, it was a really bad time for us to whom is august. and the kid was like, more like one's about and doing more of it. and we don't know when you're going to die. find 2 steps or door when you lose a leg or an arm. but that's all this is josie meant to or we were terrified, buxton and devout fiancee, a gross good. the it was around this in certain time that coated on him was born in the east german city of you know today he researches radicalization and is a social worker. the

tea grew up with the feeling that something bad could happen to him at any time to cease for music. do you like to be that man? no detours for them. she will not go into the playground or somewhere else after school, but going straight home. if you met with friends, then at their home, is it possible i do you know some of these can 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, it was potentially dangerous. it's just putting certain feelings to as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi n s u group forming in his neighborhood, where future members be out to shape up and move and one, los attended the youth club on the corner. somehow adam sense that he was seldom

truly st. ready the routine violence of the 19 ninety's may have subsided, but not the racism. in 2016 corner lot, 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 footage to stop this good while you got when the officer refused to come and remove them. you know, i tried to explain again why i thought that was necessary, that they were racially abusive or might racially abuse other people that day do some talking with the plan from calling this to swing plots for violence models, least then the police officer said something like when i was after the same as you're just making a big deal about the color of your skin, you helped us get food you like and the most i'll hold, hold on like young black people of his generation and the former

west germany lacked the community and felt his was alone 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 executives, b, i s d have had annual meetings for the last several decades. calling about 1st attended one in 2019 the this will finish classes that i can succeed, was suddenly real just going there and seeing so many black people will take up everything a completely different atmosphere. it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching. partial defaults and mentioned to you some black people i know now with this cliff who had already been to these national meetings as children and say it was crucial for their own development. um, you know, i can tell you so to have the space for retreat and empowerment to home to know you

have these awful experiences all year long or they just gotten see all of you. but then there's this one period in the year was kept decent. where you can reach charge your batteries on which cough tide, immerse yourself in another world. and you know, i'm looking at it and talk the human rights to a life free of racism. that's a key political issue that motivated the community. when i remember my childhood as being all of lives, i never experienced the time in refugee housing has anything bad like that image, people like to create like i just like for me who was born there. it was completely normal house. when i was at home, there were lots of kids, as it was only over time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing punish. no malice. all foxes in 2019, i mean not that to hey, it became the 1st arrow german deputy speaker of

a regional parliament. 3 years later, she became the 1st black state minister on that, i'm going to come from an early age. your reminded of the fact that you don't look like everyone around you. they're soft on decimals. adults especially makes you feel that like there itching to know where you're from. a distance to a stomach stood with some boys, one or 6 or 7 years old. and think i live here and you don't ask yourself all these questions about identity or ancestry. they have come to mean not that to say it was born and 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 combining discrimination. today as a politician initially as the coast time state parliament, she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society

that's being held also about your a racist experiences. i'm often asked and usually i have absolutely no desire to do so for 2 reasons. firstly, because many believe that these experiences are individual, they start to, excuse it, and tell me their coincidences, coincidences that have been piling up for 26 years. which top is will call throughout the whole try to do it. it's so awesome. miss julie, you're always talking about re a system that you yourself has made it to a deputy speaker. that was think, and i think boston, what does that have to do with the fact that at this very moment to put someone somewhere is probably having problems with integration authorities are being racially abused on the street, my heart would the cost of the slightest bit of this class i'm look for tonight is pretending that these issues are all fixed just because you have some individual figurehead is very problematic. so putting tomatoes today, one 5th of all germans have migration background. i mean not that to away

encourages minorities to become politically active. escape and can, that's where it is. the heart of the issue is the question of who's allowed to be part of society. and what does it actually mean to be german is so in the words of, i feel german poet, my 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 blacklist does not suit you, so that i will go get another step further to the very edge. for my sisters and brothers stand before our freedom begins, is that i will go yet another step further and another will return when i want. how i want borderless and brazen. thank you. the, the 3rd and 4th generations of an afro german family have been on demarco's mother. beryl was born in good dance in what is now poland,

where the family's european chapter began. even now at 82 years old. she's still sometimes confronted with questions about her routes. yeah. where are you from to do you speak german? what are you doing here any way about? what do you then say? funny john? good that it's $10.00 shift is what i like the black engine and the descendants of london indeed show that this was never a contradiction in terms of being under michael's daughter currently in london is now the 5th generation of the deep family. it's their history and it's german history, the habit of who does have the feeling that we'll be seeing more progress going forward than we did in the past.

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