set repeatedly blocked traffic by 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. all right, as for me, for now coming up next dw documentary, looking at the legacy of german colonialism in africa, i'm part of from all of the news team. human bennett, the interest the global economy portfolio g w business. here's a closer look out the project to analyze the flight for market dominance

with dw business beyond the v, as in george started as a b c's, 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. um these guys have mention born in germany, i'm a german native speaker. i've been to africa once in my life as part of a package tour. it doesn't get more german than that mountain. come the,

the people will of course, ask me where i come from. and i say from concourse or to 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 it 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 interest to get in touch with canada, speak them. and this is exactly the right moment to look black german history on the easy and how it's always been a part of john long history and time and then the quotes and pods reaching out, trying to check the sheets the

if the the . ringback i've been, i'll demarco's family isn't it's 5th generation in germany. the these lovely odd sometimes the best fights. what do you see here? a typical on gym and household, i start with the wood paneling and fabric wallpaper stuff to peter. as best you can get a bit of something out of shorter jim and my son that i'm in 1896,

her great grandfather, monday. the became the 1st time for him to acquire german citizenship and humbling funding. amazing. kaiser that was fried because he was known to be very loyal to the improvement and very gentleman towards your job. and my family for me has a long history. i no longer see on its back as it would 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 there's 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 and 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 colonial 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 the refreshing the game for many different reasons? and several 100 people, for instance, were brought to over for the human zoos,

the turret germany or across europe in storage, some months smoke and i found 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 ethiopians were hired as contract workers. they were put on display, often with their families. visitors paid an entrance fee to see them. as colonists were committing genocide 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, let's take the family to the soon, like we know today, note from instead of looking at animals. so here we get to seek subject people as a king of each month are going to accept these people when representing the own

culture. oh, communities, photos, and dog started talking zone on um, it was a stage spectacle and had nothing to do with who they actually was foster dog instead. fuss, i just got it to you. and vicki hopkins, the, the 1st state organized colonial exhibition in germany, took place in 1896 and berlin, 106 men, women and children were brought in from german colonies. the photographs show how people were racially degraded and forced to be exhibited the plus builds. does the dodge of toenail colonial authorities wanted to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive stimulus the up? those came up to see what's inside an order they wanted to use this image to legitimize germany's colonial project as well. yeah, there civilizing mission. a kazi does

a civilizing mission dodson thing. the germans, bringing culture and civilization to africans include an awfully connor, 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. their parents paid considerable sounds 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 he could travel to humbug from the wall a camera room. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german even completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. the android,

essentially, he was expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop windows port whitfield and diana all by side. and that made him feel like he too was on display . the name is which made him feel very uncomfortable, hooked up to him at um, so in the end he changed his profession and became a merchant at some of the weeks for well traveling on business, deacons made 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 of 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 were of little interest and most historians until the catalina,

a good toys work appeared. she was the 1st to research the stories of afro germans, including that of monday and a deep sea stone because i was astonished to discover that he was granted citizenship to come up with those. it was so early that there weren't get objections from the colonial administration. also couldn't y'all have come item house, but most of the people who applied later wherever rejected in would have this 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 in the black shame that propaganda in turn fueled racism against all black people across germany into a far more dangerous form. the but from the very start, there was resistance. in 1919, germany's 1st black train driver mounting the bobo and other people of african descent, lifted their demands and a historic petition. the air bosh on tire. davis puzzled, 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 find, or stand up for the right. because these few years i stood, i use it. 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 the petition. equal rights for black people. 18 africans living in germany signed the petition to the german parliament, the divorce and us. you're awfully kind of want to jo africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college auction. they wanted the board probably for personal reasons to the recognition and some interesting, most ation on average is between black men and white women on our tents, boredom like a teen vaughn. when do you vote, i also want the determinants representative of the problem and type cop martin to both to be precisely to mock and 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 document. that's my great grand dad agendas. i think it's fantastic historical got his toilet. this must keep. no, it's such a good feeling to know the migrate. glen sava 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 and the bus. they always call it the grass skirt area, and shrub black man, how to walk around wearing a grass skirt. not a 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. the 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 ex drugs to play servants and a turkish power. the the role conforms to degrading stereotypes that further the nazis races, audiology the young and say, i do ivonya me style, play the sultan standing 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. those poosey t for the was only ever decoration uncomfortable because they needed exotic people impulse to dx or they needed those. so today, we know we were exploited by this month. misquote, quote, the,

the notion of white supremacy was celebrated in many nazi colonial fountains. the regime had plans to re conquer former overseas colonies. clarkston honestly, was one of many films to the great black people and use overtly racist dialogue. so there was somebody even, you know, it's all over 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 lana from you and my family and a large number of a fricking people here only survived the nazi era with this because they would need it for these gym. and colonial fields. gosh, 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 language 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 gating disorders. 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 to enter the 1950s. the children were still the subject of anthropological research. that's let me try the outcome speech. so 1st thing in the field 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 the 5th 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 cause this problem. again, dost vida i might? i'm opening gosh. right. all right, on knowing 6 miss being in this archive will sound from 1950 to a west german parliamentary and use as a racist slower in reference to more than 3000 to buy

a 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 leslie from that. and then he found that we can see if it's the gallons of this is an illusion. piece by piece. yeah. on that, obviously mostly think your time. and then my other fields for last week was it's like, you know, 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 was, i was born here in georgia if you to be my mother is german. i field german, honestly to me for us for me playing for the german national team was the greatest . i'm a doctor and being cost, it was born in munster, in 1946. his 6 older siblings were all white. he never got to know his father. on his way to school, people would routinely give him the nazi salute. the countless racist remarks still haunt him today. the funny thing it

was fail, absolute health assumption says fall moments and even women. and when i go into a strong room and it may be misbehave a little when 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. was kinda honestly, she had got 6 white children, 6 and then a black one comes along to them. yeah. so and people pointed, you know, to trying to figure out enough on football offered a chance to escape the humiliation because of being close to the 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 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 the bumble, the brown bumper say, could have written the bomb or, and you know, so i'm not that brown bomber. there always had to be something i've awesome. you're welcome. to me in 1990 close 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 cut bus and couple of it. how was it? oh, i don't remember seeing a black person before it was can didn't. so new and trots mentioned was the, as i say, i didn't even know there was such a thing. so it skimmed got to the end of the boat, was born in communist each germany in 1962. her father, a student from gone left the g d r. she was raised by determined women, her mother, and 2 grand mother. she was a very good student and was selected to be

a school crossing guard. list is amateur footage of the proud family. john saw it was there was something different about me, but i learned that from others because 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. you know, something was different about me nearby and as it was not something that was discussed at home, it just wasn't important. and you could see it could be a 1000000 in a hotel o, as in one, not in the meal finish. months of what was that i was alabama. angela davis angela davis became the face of black power in east germany. the american scholar, civil rights activist and communist was wrongfully imprisoned in the us until her acquittal in 1972. all right.

engine, this is angela davis had a huge impact on my life. but when i look at the photos now, the for look was all the rage back time. and of course i had enough row and i work glasses and ment 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 in the world remains largely white, one spa and some machinist for because i know they weren't supposed to assimilate

into not to unplug the cloth, the foreign workers were housed separately from the rest of the population. so this, when they saw it wasn't like you were suddenly seeing a black person in the supermarket or the swimming pool. a lot. the stuff comes with what's in before the end of the bolts, studied medicine and was already 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. people protested destiny from 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. y'all in far too far to see 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 on so that i became one of 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, hold on this afternoon. she 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. i'm fully. i just wanted to give was a big shot sunday. yes, look for is easy and very awkward for her to about as well. so they asked me, it was the 1st time i realized it wouldn't be easy to do the job. i wanted them to also include an issue. i understood. 2 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 as far as the i'm the lloyd, it was like my piece. any of really good uh we were all there without. shyness needs oh, experiences of design as sadness, carson and so i was, it was great. la, enabled us to break house. is that isolation, or is it like soon to come or say is the next one? so come on in the sense of community carrie just as i talked on side guitar. yeah, i loved it. comes to us, and i know it was like we've been existing in a room with no air clunk 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 file. it's quite a big deal from miami, as we were still very young, and it seemed close to off garber good. and at the 1st meeting they would be 31st and they would be there excited. because to everyone, it would be the 1st time being in a group of apps on the apple gym and people who have the same experience the same yeah. could, without talking about it would understand you 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 lowered, urge them to self identify as bro, germans or black germans. as this, 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 houses cuz they did before we were the subject of various political and academic debate and put me to show the business office. we kept the button on the central think the showing our causes project was the 1st time we were leading the narrative using such a political voice to i in a putting me 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 from black women in germany. the 1989 saw the phone with the berlin wall in the time when many hoped for a free year and a better life. the

just over a year later, not long after german reunification, eastern town of eva, it's about the made headlines. a model of more than 50 neo nazis attack 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 always in demand to as i do, the looking back very well. i just feel really heavy to mail causes bear with me is being a colleague and brother who lived with us died more sane. just because he was black out. put it in there with like his friend. i'm a day on tonio, yona minoza state in the country after the collapse of the communist regime. they

both come to east germany from uncle as contract workers in 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 fell in love with a german woman and was looking forward to soon becoming a father and building a family. on the 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 price. if i went out on the street, the same thing could happen to me. when did the moment vocalist for me?

it was, it was a really bad time for us to whom is august. and the kid was like, for the ones that are under the war, hasn't been. 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 only retire with 5 bucks, 10 and deval c and c, a gross good. the it was around this in certain time that content on 'em was born in the east german city of gain. today he researches radicalization and as a social worker, the

t grew up with the feeling that something bad could happen to him at any time to seize fuel 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 with 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. is this put into the field to as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi and that's you 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 said that he was seldom truly safe for. ready the routine violence of the 19 ninety's may have subsided, but not the racism. in

2016 corner lot of them 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 but the ability to stop this good while you got when the officer refused to come and remove them. so, you know, i tried to explain again why i thought that was necessary losses differently, but they were racially abusive. there might racially abuse other people that day do some talk with the plan from calling this to swing drops for violence models and 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 help us get food, you like multiple 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 executive 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. i'm just going there and seeing so many black people will take up everything a completely different atmosphere. it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching polish on the defaults. and mentioned the sublime people. i know now one is clifton who had already been to these national meetings as children and say it was crucial for their own development. um, you know, i will tell you so to have the space full retreat and empowerment to home to know you have these awful experiences all year long. really just gone. see all of you. but then there's this one period in the year was give you some where you can reach, charge your battery, which caused tight 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's motivated the community who absolutely have to compile. remember my childhood as being rightful of life. i never experienced the time and refugee housing is anything bad nor did. i'm select that image. people like to create for me who was born there. it was completely normal house and i was at home. there were lots of kids, as it was only over time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing, police, you know, malice, outbox is in 2019. i mean not that till he 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 reminded of the fact that you don't look like

everyone around you. they're soft on dawson's adults, especially makes you feel that, like they're interesting to know where you're from a distance stores some interested 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 i had come to, i mean, not to to say it was born in refugee housing after her parents fled molly in 1992. at the age of 12, she became a german citizen. as a student leader, she showed an early commitment to combining disagree, a nation. today as a politician, initialize the coast time state parliament. she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society at me and tell us about your racist experiences. i'm off of mass, 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 that and tell me their coincidences, coincidences that have been piling up for 26 years, which top off throughout the whole try dated so awesome. miss julie, you're always talking about racism, but you yourself have made it to deputy speaker tanka, and i think boston, what does that have to do with the fact that at this very moment you to put someone somewhere is probably having problems with integration authorities are being racially abused on the street, my heart would cost us the slightest bit of this class and it's a tool that is attending 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 until they encourages minorities to become politically active. the escape of 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? so in the words of, i feel german poet to my young i who instead of asking questions simply states,

this is bad. 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 where my sisters and brothers stand before our freedom begins, is that i will go yet another step further and another. and 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 and condensed 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 roots. yeah. where are you from or do you speak german?

what are you doing here any way about? what do you then say? i'm john. good. it's $10.00. shift is why is that like the black engine and the descendants of london, the deed showed 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. the city off of the for gone, just slow, but this, we're not going to let this read kind of woman. that's nevada. we're here to be a 1000 on and there's no changing that. that was kind of income the

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