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years after the medicine was taken off the market its victims are demanding new legal proceedings they want to prove that they were denied fair compensation. the survivors are placing their faith in the hands of this man. tobias was found after documents that he hopes will shed new light on the continent scandal. once again it stands for one of the greatest pharmaceutical catastrophes. up until the one nine hundred sixty s. the sleeping pill was a mass market product the active ingredient sold worldwide for the manufacturing company grown into based near the drug proves to be a success story however more than ten thousand children are born with deformities cause. as by the pill it's estimated that over eighty thousand embryos die in the

womb in germany roughly two thousand eight hundred account again children are still alive today. back in the one nine hundred sixty s. class canal was a young pediatrician he began to notice an increased number of deformities in children whose mothers had all taken the same drug. is now eighty eighty years old . it all began with this data sheet from one nine hundred sixty one. pregnancy days or about malformations time records showing when country gun was taken. up and his colleagues video contents become suspicious. one day they call the manufacturer a good intel does after loads this is the emission in the day. and it's. this patient in view and in fact that starts the fail belong the norm in

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during pregnancy pregnant women never knew that the country can sleep in build was not suitable for them the same was true in great britain. two thousand a continent children were born here. of i was also want to recommence compensation proceedings. i think the germans find it difficult to face up to the history and the might and they have to do it now and they feel ashamed but at the same time being typically governments they feel powerless they don't know what to do. but sooner or later they're going to have to confront what happened. in june twenty sixth seen an event takes place in dusseldorf. the state government issued an invitation to study titled the role of the state of north rhine-westphalia encounter gun and the consequences is presented to the victims of counter gun. the study could be in commissions two years earlier by health minister barbara.

stephens. it's a ph d. thesis from the faculty of history at the university of much stuff. the author nicholas leonhard sram is already under pressure as the meeting begins. one of the reasons is that he used the term lifestyle drug to describe conjugal. dugit it is. a god like i love style that made a couple of good reasons that all the fish of victims this victim is what's a good about me to talk to good that's what's a little over this got a hit five big i bet the bubble at that holds a bit of that all for thought and justice is what i believe as an actor does. it all of us the evidence he does it's this big gift within us is this sort of mild twenty thirty i'm i'm i'm sure it will go about nine. for sure but you know i'm on an important part by the addition more of us of one goodness but we want to move on as does the author might go on for thirty or forty five period. the

author of the thesis was commissioned by the health minister to examine the role of the state governments during the criminal trial against the manufacture of the frogger opposite to flunk collected on this collective file this is an outrage mr urban for inviting us and can see the veterans progress my going to do five by four knobs it does learn today three to five not but it does not mr i thought we did this eighty five knots and. these are the two side kind he invites skipped does this year i know when solicited by office the stuff ons begin. so there is no evidence that the state behaved improperly during the criminal trial against a pharmaceutical company go in and tell. a key player in the country going trial is north rhine-westphalia as justice minister joseph nye back up the trial began in may nine hundred sixty eight zero leap brinkley's approaches then a sort of foundation's release dad i've been shot. do but so i don't want to give

you sad i said i'm going to present fun and i'll just get on at them he's really got it's a bit of in there for becoming justice minister berger acted as criminal defense lawyer for the main defendant. the archives contained files showing that he was a defense lawyer for herman fitz a former director of growing intel the company that manufactures come together to bias out and discovers a memorandum from the arkan prosecution service two days prior to becoming justice minister. still a boy wrote to the public prosecutors in his opinion all questions concerning his client have been answered and that there is nothing to stop the case being dismissed. dungeness the on field minus never. really even president down there was this one view and they had an outside how the speech of the odds according to records or appeared in person the next day to meet the prosecution and

to discuss dismissal of the case the judges in the county go on trial if a personal injury and involuntary manslaughter the defense demands of the case is dismissed a trial in which the parents of county gun children were only permitted to participate as spectators leading the prosecution now is justice minister. he is no longer allowed to interfere in the proceedings. however after two years in office writes a letter to a defense lawyer who is also involved. the letter is addressed to eric schmidt life. then the defense lawyer for one of the growing until defendants dear colleague the justice minister writes while leafing through in the evening i found something about the submission of evidence. was the minister of justice unlawfully interfering in a criminal trial and give. legal advice to

a defense lawyer. we show it to the author of the thesis and ask how he waits the letter in regard to the state's roll jury in the trial. this is that it is guns i don't want to fuck at us but it's been caught on cell phones that one not two days had to. go to one. until. until you could do is to. shift in contact. via imaging bots a decent side point i need them for one stab in getting i'm not dead. until they go to. the university of glasgow. history professor rae stocks conducts with such at the faculty of corporate history. professor stokes is

an acknowledged expert on twentieth century german business history. he read the doctoral thesis on the federal state government's role he also knows about the letter joining his time as justice minister this is. a game for water falling falling more on. his previous to see the. beatles a and your recent talk in the nixon book and. citing i know. in biden as a mission to preserve wished on an all. professional for been the intuition and by.

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isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending three hundred twenty million one flyer. it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game my great so will more chance for. peace this minute. in london british victims of the active ingredient in counter gun have teamed up and formed a group called solidify trust. to bias aren't present his findings from the german archives. letters files and minutes outlining the role politics played during the criminal trial against the manufacture of good intel these documents shed new light

on what happened fifty five years ago. it isn't just british that it might survivors who are convinced they find allies in all british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. which is the michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years the little miters have been campaigning for justice particularly from the german manufacturers . know that over one hundred fifty m.p.'s of signed an open letter to the german chancellor with the prime minister add this to his busy agenda today so that we might get a decent and fair settlement for all concerned. i have on behalf of a constituent as he raised this issue not only through the european parliament but also with german authorities and i'll certainly reflect what the old gentleman says . more than one hundred fifty british m.p.'s from all political parties have signed

a letter to the german chancellor. unlike germany britain does have a tradition of rebellion when dealing with the little mite of the active ingredient and going to go to. the four hundred sixty six members of the thalidomide trust and not just fighting for compensation. they want those responsible for their disabilities to be held to account nikto brick is one of them he thinks they have almost succeeded who had which ties and to whom and with his chart to explain. the connections to german politicians as well as representatives of the european parliament if they hadn't ended the trial as they did in the early seventy's then the evidence would have been available to the victims to use in their future actions against grim's on others and in particular the u.k. survivors action in the seventy's would have undoubtedly have been and it in a much more favorable fashion to to the claimants as it was they didn't have the

evidence they had to settle for a much bigger discount in the amount that they should have got than would have the bad to be in that case if there's evidence been available they would have got a proper settlement and that's what they threw them out as they are after now. the british lawyer thinks evidence of that confidential meeting is crucial it took place in july nine hundred sixty nine at the ministry of health and bone. senior management from country guns manufacturer were invited to discuss the settlement of the counter gun case according to a note from the ministry. the goal of the meeting is to reach a legal agreement with the company as to how country gun victims can be compensated . when the parents association of the deformed children hints of the plans and hand asks to see details of the meeting the ministers say is under no circumstances will the association receive any details as advice is explicit because art in document

the. or. no one. signs all over how kind of all are. doing for. the district of half a century later in the summer of twenty fifteen a meeting between british that it might victims and representatives of the german government took place at germany's embassy in london i think they heard the concerns we had they obviously refute the fact that they interfered in the criminal trial but they've never actually answered individually the documents that we put to them. the british m.p. simon hall was also present at the german embassy meeting and. it was really i think two hobs the first half i thought was very positive so clear the mood music coming out from officials on the on the german side of the table as it were it was very encouraging that they wanted to have a dialogue they wanted to see this brought to

a conclusion we had to leave as we had to go back to the commons to vote and then the notes following that seem to suggest that they slightly dried up like clapham and it was very much we're not going to get involved this is the only meeting we're going to have to discuss this effectively that's the end of the news i think if there was anything which came out of the meeting which we had at the embassy in july of last year is that there had been a long debate point as to whether the drug which had been taken by british mothers had been manufactured in germany or had been manufactured under license in the u.k. and this is now a very clear out that the german officials taking tided the point that the third trust in the u.k. has been making for many a long year that there was no. manufactured in the u.k. and that which was taken by british mothers or expectant mothers had been manufactured in germany. this is no that's just

a little mite victims receive decades too late since the one nine hundred seventy s. people affected both a little might have only been able to file compensation applications with the german government anyone who does file an application must renounce all claims against the manufacturer. many european victims say they have received little or no compensation at all. the federal ministry of family affairs declined to be interviewed. nor would it comment on the meeting with british consequent victims of the german embassy in london. it stated only that the country gun trust fund grants financial support when planes are grounded. christi and paul tell also applied for support. and a clarification how often as an instance of one as. i and box spring bet. i

was going to tarboro. madson in english to become known as good bye to charlotte's web of one armored wish to get in wouldn't of my macbook create clear and dozens of each does baskets bookish ones and if you shop at the office on of them you get this work don't. that he is but about how can we spend a third of our lives in our beds our beds are important and for alfred to be turned down on that basis is utterly ridiculous and so it's abundantly clear to me that applying to the call to go isn't going to be a solution for us at all and so therefore for us to be subjected to a ridiculous system bureaucratic system at this point in our lives it's not going to meet our needs all we need is money that we can use in the ways that we know that will suit us best. the formosa little manufacturer no longer considers claims

from the victims of the drug to be the responsibility. the tougher. side. want to. be in because with onion clark. and hang it isn't hard to get you double tough no fun to put up for when tiger seeded border. of i know him from life and until on the streets of. supporters not played by grown until but the federal government. one of many who was applications to the german counter gun foundation were denied this lorraine mercer sometimes i think. because. if you know back. when i move in. some of the late complications are only now becoming apparent merson need

supplementary oxygen just to be able to breeze there is a fund in germany connected to the continent a gift which allows the later might is to apply to it for financial assistance there's also a fund that's been set up by agreement to apply to that but you can apply to them saying you wanted some more money but you have to. prove first of all you've applied a little more trust get some money and said no and that you've applied to all the charities and you've pointed to local government gets assistance when you've been rejected by everybody you can then green atar they would like to contribute some money towards your. financial assistance but you're not really aware that because green atar hasn't made it public to thalidomide is outside of germany in fact the company established a private foundation. however does not want to talk about it nor do they want to discuss how application decisions are made they say they don't want to provoke and

. we played the german government should be responsible for paying for this i'm not healthy is that we or have no free money get that money remains need to be made. in great britain so robert nelson is a well known judge he's written to the german federal ministry of family affairs. the purpose of the letter was to bring home to the german government the problems that the flu the mother's face and the shortfall in finances that we felt they had in the amount they got and the amount that they would in fact need i wrote it to the relevant minister and there was no reply as. for decades parents never knew what was going on behind their backs during the criminal trial they were only allowed to be spectators.

the thalidomide manufacturers defense strategy was to convince the prosecution to agree to dismiss the case. they knew that they didn't just have the regional government justice minister on their side but the federal government however the dismissal of a criminal. strict conditions at least according to the prosecution service. are you confused by washington. you're not alone says one thing. there was also brinkmanship with north korea is it working. the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea. feel

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