the, the culture information, this is the, the news dw mines. these places in europe are smash, stepped into a venture. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of us record breaking site on google maps to and now also in book form the artifacts looted under colonial rule are increasingly being returned to the original owners. in 2022 germany began we patch creating the same as spinning bronzes to nigeria. today,

this is the earlier i came from, cameron came to building, requesting the return of these peoples mother goddess the indigenous army people in finland are also seeking. they were patch creation of artifacts from germany. put the in ton c, beethoven's 8 symphony or she was doctoral faces for time, from poland. things around the world wide, but it's a complex issue. the in the nigerian capital bu joe, an airplane from the german government touch down on the 18th of december 2022. it's priceless cargo a message to the world that germany was following up as in reply to reading benning

bronzes to nigeria, a 125 years off today was seized by the british. the 2 government ministers attended the ceremony for the official hand over it was designed to be the 1st of many such deliveries the we didn't find out what this key most useful. maybe to unlock a shrine, maybe tell us store. but what do we know is that off to being rob from the knee, it was brought to oppression, but not only to bridge, and finally ended up in the city of kudos. today a, this key is fact the treasures included a smaller version of a famous mosque held by the british museum. its return added to the pressure on the

former colonial power own 230 by commission is the cause has come this moment in germany. and often we'll gradually re penetrate the artifacts the owners will tell us when they want, which objects in which order can so to call them point. the historical kingdom of bending was located in what is now southern nigeria. the bronzes were looted by british forces in 1897, when they re did the royal palace and what has now been named city that included the controversial queen mother 80 a mosque that london has so far refused to return. other bronzes was sold to buyers all over the world. could they return now? boost opinion cds, reputation as a cultural center, and draw more visitors to the trip by the john and delegation with the company

media attention could certainly help. others have been opening new studios in the city, adding to the momentum spelled carts so should i do believe that our visit here in the cargo we brought is historic. and the other important point is to think about what cooperation between museum should look like and scope of a to visit our about modern art from here, that is still powerful. we want to bring it to us, of the kind of african film, for example, coming to germany. we need to come down from our euro centric throne. but not everyone is applauding germany's decision. some say the bronze is, have actually being returned to the descendants of slave trade, is that they have blood on the this is the law, the stupidity, it's clear that the beginning royals were not just victims, but also perpetrators of the kingdom ebony and regularly went to war against

neighboring groups, they plundered, killed and took slaves for splost communi most and every king, after ascending the throne they would have had to basically wage a war the old. and so there are huge areas in the territory surrounding the kingdom where people suffered us or pocket size and income. many of those captured was sold to trans atlantic slave traders and shipped to the american east coast today. many of the defendants in the us, a highly critical of the decision to return. the bronze is one of them when they set up a restitution study group in new york and has been following the developments closely . they demanding a say in the current restitution process. the bronzes themselves are kate, as they were made by melting down currency and from the slave trade, we call this blood metal. this is a manila, this was a form of currency that the been

a came them was paid and exchanged for inflated people. people that they sold into the trans atlantic slave straight to your opinions these manila is we're a 50 page per woman, $57.00 per man. okay, so the bronzes are actually contain this metal and we consider them part of our legacy is part of our wells. we should be co own is because this is, this is precisely the thing that our ancestors westlake, the descendants of the slaves do not want the bronzes to return to been in the city . they say they should be kept where they are in various institutions, like philadelphia's pen, musing, and they want museums to use the bronzes to tell the victim story of suffering. the key right of the collection is a strong proponent of involving the descendants of the slaves in the shaping of the exhibition and has reached out to the community. we want it to make the story the

narrative about as slave man a little more complex. so this is a, a, a image that is very well known as a diagram that shows how the africans enslaved were placed in the bowels of the boats. when we asked people in the community, what did they want to see here? that's what they wanted to see. what is the connection between slaves and what is the connection between colonialism? what is the connection between african independence the black lives matter movement has served to highlight the systemic injustices suffered by people of color and increase the desire to address the rooms at the past. the humbled form in berlin still has many ben in bronzes. the museum was named of the german naturalist, alexander phone, humbled a man who despised the slave trade. so shouldn't the museum make

a special effort to involve the descendants of the slaves? and the restitution dialogue covers this week? because i think it's important that everyone who's involved in this process who feels involved in some way or feels they should be involved and should be given a voice on the bottom. so then why shouldn't that be possible here? thinking, i think that's important and which doesn't mean that we don't consider the repatriation process, correct? well, could we still do that a couple times, but we're open, the humbled for him is a place that is evolving using to often just some things will continue to change here and why not give these people a voice and go to misuse and understand maybe in the home board for them is giving a voice to many in the debate by the restitution, but not yet to the descendants of african slaves that is about to change the phone. but it's not just of black white divide. we had now to the finals of finland with

the thousands of use, the annual rain, the migration cycle shapes the lives of the sun mean nomads. today, they one of the last indigenous peoples in europe. but climate change is transforming the landscape in which the herds depend. mining companies are also competing for the natural resources under the permafrost, and new railway lines and cutting of randy rhodes. the saw me a struggling to preserve their way of life, language and culture. we are fighting. we apply thing at the moment for all a saw me parliament act. we are fighting the magical northern lights were traditionally seen by the saw me as a dock i'm and send from their ancestors. but today they use the fascination of the overall to promote the annual film festival. the scott

mug about it's held in the finished village of inquiry for the past 25 use. the 7 saw me communities here have screened films showcasing the history the saw me way of life was almost wiped out completely on more than one occasion. whether it was through the takeover of the land force christianize ation russian annexations language bands or pressured to assimilate. but since the middle of the 20th century resistance amongst the cell me has grown, there is a determination to preserve their culture long or uncle as he to be. he is in other, some is a tiny language. there are only about 404-0450 people who speak this language.

so it's been a huge thing to realize that anything you do in such a small language has a huge impact. the see the museum in energy showcase is a collection of semi artifact, but many of them can only be viewed on computer screens. that's because the original was a scatter, the museums all over the world. this sherman's drum is at the museum in germany. many drums were destroyed by the christian priests. archaeologists took other treasures from an island in lake erie that was sacred to the summit. so the evans from prison found a silver head band here. it is now returned from oxford to energy, but internship has still not been transferred to the summit. we call it the 1st symbolic repeat creation at that the see the museum had,

and it is in the museum as a long time, low. many most ami cultural artifacts can be found in billions, museum of european cultures. the museum has now started a research project with the saw me to study the cultural treasures together around $1600.00 objects and models, photos, and paintings to be sifted through over the next few years. did so when, when for both sides. if christina, new land control on the wealth of somebody exhibits for her post doctoral research at the same time, she's an ambassador for a culture that few in europe's museums know much about stuff on it. but i'm convinced that many museums are not fully aware of everything in their collections. i need to sign on something. and it's the same for me, especially when it comes to exhibits where the culture is so different from our own

home decide it's like so me culture advocacy, which is so old that we're just not familiar with the lightest. as i said up on a lot of things, but that's not enough, is if it is i'm the lease of odessa high space protective suits are a must in the museum storage. that's because many of the objects have been treated with pesticides. they wouldn't have survived all these years otherwise. now every single pace has to go through with the detox. the researches find a number of sacred objects in the collection. so based on the last here have been sacrificed given as a gift to the natures they come from the in the area and they plus a place where you would give, give to the thunder god, i don't want to touch them if it's not necessary. it's very touching to think that they are here in berlin,

and it would probably be good if they could be returned. the museum agrees that the time has come. stewardship implies there's a look of depression. cultural heritage foundation is open to the idea of restitution. the can we need to work with this, tell me. and we are taking a 1st step by studying the provenance of the stomach collection. but that's why ava christine a new lender is here to look through everything on the album. shine named. it's very, this is very interesting. in the see them use am back in energy is in the process of organizing and putting on display the finish national museums sonic collection which was returned from helsinki 2 years ago. this fight to preserve, they called true heritage also highlights the role of women in some a culture here, the facts and not repack created. for example, the re max creative british damage the shape of the women's traditional holland cap,

underlined the strong position in society. so we came that also like to cost data is 16 bird for thursday day and uh yeah, i think it's wonderful how we say that that the re met we a, some starts from where the petri ation does not reach the priests says that the demo lives in this protrusion and the priest used to burn and then of course today to the refers to my 3 out of colors in malls. so it, it a to kind of list up the role of indigenous woman in this case time a woman as a caretaker of, of the society is christina new land joined forces with autism otp scheme to express the use of research through the medium of contemporary art the exhibition that the seed immunization looks at the hatch is something worn with pride by previous generations of women. the exhibition

is an appeal to all the saw me to reclaim the heritage, the but when it comes to the restitution of cultural assets, seemingly irreconcilable differences exist even between members of the european union. since the end of world war 2, the polar city of cracow has held the so called bellanca collection. it comprises many outstanding works of the german language, including henry to manuscripts from good to the green brothers dictionary. frederick schiller's ducks, real faces beethovens and symphony and drawings by alex on the front, humboldt windsor heights and our position. and the position of the german government is that there are of course, the legal property of the prussian cultural heritage foundation in this, in this. but the germans did terrible things in poland to pull in. and when you

think about that history and then start talking about the restitution because you get a not in your throat for at least i do see might see my friends accomplished, placed since 1999 german researches who hold a ph. d can look at the manuscript store of the kaloni and library in krakow. but even now in 2023 german televisions to con, get permission to film here. it's politically too sensitive. we were told of the record that the link is odyssey began in 1941 when the most valuable books and manuscripts were removed from the oppression state library in the event to protect them from the steadily worsening air. raids, as they would taken further were used to the huge costs and loved 1st and stein or shawn as it's known and polish. she was told that the building code would be safe. i so often got a known thing whole. so from 1941 beginning in may i, they started transporting cultural treasures here from berlin. mean taskbar, the,

there were supposedly 505 boxes. but some say it was 605 boxes as to the bottom. 6 conduct the $0.50. but at the end of the war, a few paintings of prussian kings brought here from braswell was all that remained of the vast treasure drive. the boxes in the hole, ways containing the famous manuscripts had disappeared in my notes. and when the as late as may 1945 polish researchers looked for various cultural assets here who they just sent everything to cracow and talked to the ag alone in library. so the university library in cracow take us on. do you want us to think to be taken care of? but after arriving in cracow, they officially disappeared without a trace. for many decades of i'm hopeless.

it was a very sensitive issue in poland them and they knew exactly how valuable the collection was, how. but until the 1970s, no one was allowed to talk about it at all. but he was on the state a surprising me. it was the east german communist leader, eric konica, who started exciting pressure on the polish government. as a result, some books and a manuscript for mozart, what cost to east germany. but then in the mid 19 eighties published, president general joseph's key put a stop to the process. and the point i got this one. so that was a turning point toward this, and there was a commission of polish historians and legal experts and that concluded the collection should belong to paula. important, let's look for phone guns or hopes for a return of the building car did not resurfaced until off to german reunification when get hugged, screwed up promised germany support to poland rapidly joining the youth in return. a bible translated by martin luther from $1522.00 was returned to bill and that's

got by employee to the point to where there was a project where both sides were supposed to return each other's cultural assets from finish, picked it up and it didn't work because germany didn't return many polish assets pointing to show it to a good product and gave them very, i mean, do you have any examples escape trusted in the good man? there were various paintings from renaissance artists that were stored in unit convention, some in hamburg. so they were spread around what was the hearing 1st prize then last year, just loved kitchen steve, the lady with poland, governing law and justice party. and now it's to poland, would say 1.3 trillion euros in war time, reparations from germany. clearly not a good time to getting the building to return your call. do you think not just about reparations? it's about settling a moral definitely. oh my gosh. i finished. i guessing we mustn't forget that an estimated 70 to 75 percent of poland is cultural. heritage was destroyed in the

whole thing, and that was no coincidence. and for there was a real intention to inoculate polish culture, going to go to it for, for ignition the wrongs of the past to continue to cloud the presence. one consolation for germany, at least some of the menus groups and now available in digital form, including the original of beethoven's eighths, infinity, and frigid schiller's medical faces. * the sketches from adults, south america, expedition are also available. but what about the originals? where they had a return to building it is not on the agenda right now. the collection will very likely remain in poland. from a political view point, there is nothing more that can be done. an exam on the,

even in this age of digitalization, the whole debate of a restitution shows that it is absolutely about the originals, the or the symbolic value. and the respect for the original loan of a spiritual leader from cameron took a 12 hour flight to boom in last year to visit the original sculpture. all these people was mythical, founding goddess the phone of the song. people went to the building and humbled for him. to see the in going. so if you go for the very 1st time it's been in germany for a 120 years in the eyes of the phone. the in gun. so is a spiritual being the end for the 1st time in a 120 years. she was hearing the voice of a priest he brought in water and vegetation from his homeland to revive the to

this ritual also included a royal spokesman who inhaled and then further lies the woods of the font. the conclusion is that he, he will not change his hon. touchscreen going so now, but we will do what it's when going so far. now, the allies in so a palace which is the life this initial one. so 2 months later, outside the national museum of you, i one day, the capital of time around the fund received. so it is for traditional celebration known as the toy funds, the, the impending return have been gone. so was the subject on everyone's minds here and phone stage to the message to bowman was clear,

the so people are waiting. they wanted to know when will the mother of the nation finally returns cameron? the to him of that message on the phone even broke with royal protocol and gave an impromptu interview. he said he couldn't understand why the and gun so is still in berlin. is my does this is for the length of time done guns or has been a we many things have happened in the line due to the absolutely. so i'm going so because it happened, disrupted this peach while it see on the, on the people his 5 is was. but when the gems came, the acute,

his father, the honest people. and then one of the consequences which you would like to people to know is the device to think if it's of the, of a phone practices on his lot, having some good news that when they return on going. so certainly some piece will come for 6 years. war has been raging in the land of this so largely forgotten by the outside world. a devastating standoff between cameron's english speaking minority and the frank assigned majority. thousands of so have had to leave that homeland. moving to neighboring regions, all the capital one day to cities desperately over crowded. sorry filmmakers. sylvie jabante was one of those forced to flee. her film school had to close because of the civil war. she has worked hard to have the incoming

server time to come over and it was a social media campaign bring back and gone. so that got everything moving you know, i at come to the understanding of home gonzales and so is today and i was really very angry. so the address, let us, they went to the gym on presidente, who has been around 20082010. so i said to myself that these crimes were committed in public and they were proud of it in today just to a holding that mentality, that mindset reactions. so why not talk about it as well in public? also, you know, influence public opinion to also let those who don't know, understand the impact of colonialism. and i, i must say that the social media company and really pushed for things to happen was that the pressure of that campaign that finally caused 1000000000 to rethink its position on the in guns. so, oh, sylvia to bodies personal trips to germany,

as an official restitution commission up rented by the fund. either way, in the end, the official decision was taken to return the and gone. so to cameron, the pressure and cultural heritage foundation that was holding the statute relented see one second here at the bottom. they explained to us why this figure is so important to them. and then i can show, and then it was quite clear to us that we wanted to return it and that we should return it again. but we've always said that for us there are 2 types of restitution for 2 reasons for returning items. what's in the 1st week when i get the items were taken in the clear context of injustice, extortion or robbery, then good talking to you in north america. and then secondly, if we notice in the dialogue that certain objects often of original nature have key significance for the identity of the countries and societies of origin for the origin figure to contend detailed thomas. i remember when he was handing over the

decision to return during the process of reading this letter he, he really went for emotional, nice thing, but that is progress. having to understand that irrespective of the institutions we were present, we a human beings in the in cameroon, has now pledge to prepare a safe and appropriate home for the and gone. so by december 2023, the snake headed museum of phone van in a region neighboring the saw homeland is currently under consideration. the to use germany was unwilling to return cultural artifacts. the times have changed and a new process has been set in motion the

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