global response has been slow with many countries and organizations reluctant to deal directly with the taliban government. and you're up to date, but just stick around up next. they're told they can't be german because of the color of their skin. but they have roots that germany's that go back more than a century black and german. the effort towards the story is coming up next on doc film. thanks for joining us. the prejudices of stereotypes to shape, to west the south africa. adults to make a nice, we've come to these, created together, they exclude the contradictory nature of these euro centric attitude. and how these beliefs can be changed. stop filming offices in stock, october 21st. unplugged w at the

v as in george started as 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 quite or 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 people will of course, ask me where i come from. and i say from comp, us or to and your mother. i'll say also from comp us not answer your question or do you still need that little piece of the puzzle that explains why look, the way i do is in a cab, please. oh,

see you 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 us it the 6, the 5th the 5th can now speak. amend. this is exactly the right moment to look at 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 brain on demarco's family is in its 5th generation in germany, the, these lovely odd sometimes the best fights with you see here a typical own gym and household. i start with the wood paneling and fabric wallpaper stuff to peter. as best you can't get a bit of snap, shorter jim in much than that time in 18. 96, her great grandfather, monday and a deep became the 1st african to acquire german citizenship and humble. suspending . amazing kaiser that was fried on moto cars. off he was known to be very loyal to

the improvement and very gentleman, george hop, atlanta. my family for me has a long history. i no longer see on its back as it would pick. so it says on as the dc live, 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. 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. of course, on come con. or when 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, sue, and 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 top, let's take the family to the soon. like we know today north front instead of looking at animals. so here we get to see exhausted. people as a king of each month are going to accept these people when representing the own culture. oh communities. protocol copeland dog started talking zone on um, it was a stage to mexico and then had nothing to do with who they actually was 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 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 blowing out colonial authorities wanted to portray africans as less civilized, as primitive stimulus he up? those came up, 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 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 an $1891.00 monday and got to travel to humbug from the wall a camera room. he came from a wealthy family and could already speak german. he then completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. the answer to essentially he was expected to demonstrate his shoemaking skills in the big shop windows port with feelings on the other side. and that made him feel like he too was on display. the name is which made him feel very uncomfortable. the poor

trouble met them. so in the end, he changed his profession and became a merchant assembly under the x files. while traveling on business deacons met a woman called a 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 dogs, highly respected uh real german families. 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, a good, toyota's work appeared. she was the 1st to research the stories of afro germans, including that of mundane a deep sea stone. because i was astonished to discover that he was granted citizenship. i'm to come up when you

know, because it was so early that there weren't get objections from the colonial administration of the clinton. y'all had provide them house. but most of the people who applied later wherever rejected in voided a sense of, 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

but from the very start, there was resistance in 1919, germany's 1st black and trained driver my team, the bobo and other people of african descent, listed their demands, and a historic petition. the air boss on tire davis pulse of the anti colonial resistance, which had always been the how does was it's 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 anxiety 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 depot, 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 and us. you're awfully kind of want to jo africans to have the opportunity to attend university or college what a hoax room. they wanted the board probably for personal reasons to the recognition intelligence, immunization on averages between black men and white women on attempts, boredom like a teen vaughn. when do you vote, i also want to determine and to representative of the problem and type marketing to both to be precise to martin, to move as the 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 like,

like when did i think it's fantastic historical. got his tool with as much as good. now it's such a good feeling to know that my great grandfather was also taught as a 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 to, i always call it the grass skirt era. in short, black man have to walk around wearing a grass skirt. not a suit mixed with them on board number line and 192510 door. vanya, 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 sous. 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 in 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 nice 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 ideology. the young and say a door vanya 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. bushels poosey t for the was only ever decoration decor. i'd say 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 in africa was one of many films to degrade black people and use overtly racist dialogue.

so those are not even a total of the events in this clip. and 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 grandfather of abena. i know michael lana from you and my family and a large number of freaking people here only survived the nazi era with this because they would need it for these german colonial fields. 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 these business went bankrupt. interracial couples faced persecution. around 400 children fathered

by black french occupying troops, workforce somebody sterilized many black people with forced to go into hiding. at least 2000 were killed in concentration camps the fro, german community was being eradicated by the nazis. one doesn't view is book place . does this kind of feeling 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 game. and so 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 american 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 caused this problem. again, dost vida i might, i know, opening doorstep right right on 96 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 by 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 since before. leslie from that and then he acute the sound that we can see if it's the end of the gallons and this is an illusion. dispensing yeah. on the obviously mostly think it's on my other ones. it's like, you know, i'm just looking at the, the yeah 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 more fight 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 and being close to the 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, it was felt absolute hell, destruction says fall moments and even women. and when i go into a strong room and it may be misbehave a little, what they'd say come on black kid,

how do i go back to africa? definitely going to was that was how it was day in day out. actually. so just in 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, 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 one of them, the brown bumper say, could have written the bomber and he also, i'm not that brown bomber. there always had to be something of awesome. you're welcome to me. in 1990 comes to the was wrongly accused of rounding 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 compass had a population of probably $40000.00 at the time the time 0. i don't remember seeing a black person before it was can you tell me and trots mentioned disease. as i say, i didn't even know there was such a thing. so it got to the end of the boat 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 but 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 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. no, no, i'm in the finish months of what was that i 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 imprisoned 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 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 some machinist for because i know they weren't supposed to assimilate or into not to go into 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. vailable protested destiny from the this was of the selected. 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. busy 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 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 form for me on this one or 2. and it was a big chunk sydney shock, disease, and very awkward for her 2 of us wiser 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 bay. now demarco 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 harvey, i'm the lloyd. it was like kind of tiffany, a really good uh we role there without shyness needs oh, experiences of design as sadness, carson. and so i was, it was great. i am 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 the sense of community carried us as much. i've talked to inside the guitar. yeah. i love that comes to us and i'm, it was like we've been existing in a room with no air conch status. and i felt when we met audrey lord, the african american poet, and she was simply interested in our lives. it would have been suggested that we

introduced 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 uh, cause of god and that 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 of 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 an organ. toyota 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 says,

it wasn't 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 in the pony to shaw the business off because the boston, let me borrow. 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. and 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 a better life. 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 tonio died 2 weeks later at the age of 28. for you was instrumental as i do the looking back very well. i just feel really heavy now causes bear with me is being a colleague and brother who lived with us died more sane or just because he was black, our book and in there was 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 in 1987 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. 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 the moment about vocation for me. it was, it was

a really bad time for us to whom is august. and the kid was like, war by 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 devolve, see i see a gross good. it was around this in certain time that comes on and was born in the east german city of you know today he researches radicalization and is a social worker. the teen grew up with the feeling that something bad because it happened 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. is this putting certain feelings? as a young boy, he had no idea of the neo nazi and nephew 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 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 but the ability to stop this good while you got when the officer refused to come and remove them. so i could be able to, i tried to explain again why i thought that was necessary, that they were racially abusive or might racially abuse other people that day and do some talk with the pleasant kind of this to swing across for those, those 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 helped us get food, you like and your 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. the i actually have had annual meetings for the last several decades. calling about 1st attended one in 2019 the original finish classes that i can succeed was on the meal just going there and seeing so many black people when they got married, seeing a completely different atmosphere, it was just incredible and unbelievably enriching polish on. as 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 batteries on which is called tide. immerse yourself in another world.

and you know, i'm looking at it and talk about the human rights to a life free of racism. that's a key political issue that's motivated the community. who absolutely. i remember my childhood as being all of lives. i never experienced the time and refugee housing is anything bad nor did i'm select that image. people like to create, but i just that for me who was born there, it was completely normal house and i was at home. there were lots of kids at the moment, it was only over time that i realized it wasn't a normal upbringing. police, no malice, all foxes 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 and i'm going to come from an early age reminded of the fact that you don't look

like everyone around you themselves on tassels. adults especially makes you feel that, like they're interesting to know where you're at from a distance to a stomach, stood with some boys who might be 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 nation. today as a politician, initialize the coast time state parliament, she tackles structural racism and public institutions and society. that's me and tell us about your 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 that and tell me their coincidences,

coincidences that have been piling up for 26 years, which tap is who calls out. i'll try to do it. it's so awesome. miss julie, you're always talking about racism, but you yourself have made it to deputy speaker that we 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 cause of the slightest bit of this class and it's, it's a tool that 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 until they encourages minorities to become politically active. escape from 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, my young 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 where 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. in the 3rd and 4th generations of an afro german family. albina, 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 roots. 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? it's $10.00 shift is what i like the black engine and the descendants of london, the deed showed that this was never a contradiction in terms of being under michael. his daughter currently in london, is now the 5th generation of the deep family. it's their history and it's german history. the is habit of who does have the feeling that we'll be seeing more progress going forward. then we did in the past. the city off of the 4 click on it is slow, but this way not calling to let this range kind of woman, and that's in the better way here to be a 1000. and there's no changing that. that was kind of income. the

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