well it's the stories i get along with. what's verdict there's been all sorts out there and they go. along with and it has existed in the world and the members for fifty five 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 found archived documents that he hopes will shed new light on the consequent scandal. once again it stands for one of the greatest pharmaceutical catastrophes. up until the one nine hundred sixty s. the sleeping girl was a mass market product the active ingredient solidified sold worldwide for the

manufacturing company grown into a base near arkan the drug proves to be a success story however more than ten thousand children are born with deformities caused by the pill is estimated at 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. clowes can now 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 data or about malformations time records showing when country gun was taken. up and his colleague videoke implants become suspicious. one day they call the manufacturer go in and tell. does. this is it your mission to imitate

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good they want an end of war. today the company says that the witness must be mistaken man that no warnings were ever issued concerning use 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 consequent children were born here. british survivors also want to recommend compensation proceedings. i think the germans find it difficult to face up to the history in the mine 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 about it 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 a study titled the role of the state of north rhine-westphalia encounter gun and

the consequences is presented to the victims of contraband. the study could been commissioned two years earlier by health minister barbara stephens. gets a ph d. thesis from the faculty of history at the university of monster. 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. of god like i love style or it a couple of the reasons that it's all the fish of victories this big deal is what's a bit odd to me about that we did the top of the earth that's also a little over this got a hit five in the garbage government and also a bit of that all for thought and does this is what i believe as an actor does. it all of us there with you does it's this big gift of. this over miles over twenty thirty i'm. both of you for sure does feel good

you know i'm on an important of life down edition worth of the good news but we want to move on of the rope one for you know forty five good. the author of the thesis was commissioned by the health minister to examine the role of the state government during the criminal trial against the manufacturer of the frogger opposite of lung collected on this collective file as there's only two ways mr urban for inviting us and. the veterans goes my printer divided by four knobs it doesn't say three to five not but it does not mr i three deal with eighty five not and this is argued inside kind in via skipped this year i know one solicitor by first the stuff on speaking it. 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 than a third of foundations released abishai but you but so i don't want to give you sad i said i'm going to present fun and alice could dannatt them he's really got it's above in this for becoming justice minister berger acted as criminal defense lawyer for the main defendant. in the archives contained files showing that he was a defense lawyer for herman fats a former director of growing intel the company that manufactures come together to bias aren't discovers a memorandum from the arkan prosecution service two days prior to becoming justice minister. still a lawyer 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 in and. president

down the good here does this jack was a show on v and they had an outside how the speech of the odds according to records 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 to months of the cases dismissed a trial in which the parents of con to get 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 go writes a letter to a defense lawyer who is also involved. the letter was addressed to eric schmidt lush and then to the defense lawyer for one of the growing until defendants did calling 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 giving legal advice to a defense lawyer. we show it to the author of the thesis and ask how he of that he waives the letter in regard to the state's role jury in the trial. business and it is guns i don't want to fuck at us like anything but i kind of answered. and that truly had to set us and him can talk on tough on so too and of quintus team must be advised and take it. and take advice and take to his concept in contact. emmet involved so these inside point i need them for one stab in getting i'm not dead. not my best fallen man with. no.

and. the university of glasgow. history professor braced 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 let's get a road jury in his time as justice minister this is. a game who would have fun on mid-life no. no i broke his heart all amended his previous to see the deed to do to teach five. and i'm your recent talk in the nixon book and well just so i know your contacts fissioning biden. on and all this keep. pushing out for been the intuition and by.

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at a time time to sit down and talk. in london british victims of the active ingredient in come to gun have teamed up and formed a group called solidify trust. to bias aren't presenting 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 lies in old british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. which is to michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years philip him

either side 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 would the prime minister add this to his busy agenda today so that we might get a decent and fair assessment 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 that in mind the active ingredient in going together. the four hundred sixty six members of the little my trust and not just fighting for compensation. they want the. those responsible for their disabilities to be held to account nick deliberate 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 in 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 good intel and 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 in the amount that they should have got than would have the bad to be in that case if there's evidence being available that it got a proper settlement and that's what threw them out as they're 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 com to 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. norm. is that all. signs all those of you how kind of all are. doing for. the district half a century later in the summer of twenty fifteen a meeting between british that are to my victims and represent. the german government took place at germany's embassy in london and i think they heard the

concerns we have 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. because really i think to haul the first half i thought was very positive 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 come back to the commons to vote and then the notes following that seem to suggest that they slightly dried up like clapton 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 could be manufactured under license in the u.k. and it is now very clear that the german officials taking tided the point that the third trust in the u.k. has been making for many along the 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 of them i'd have been able to file compensation applications with the german government anyone who does file an application must renounce all claims against the manufacturer a good. many european victims say they have received little or no compensation at all. i am the federal ministry of family

affairs declined to be interviewed. nor would it comment on the meeting with british counter gun victims at the german embassy in london. it stated only that the counter gun trust fund grants financial support when claims are grounded. christi and or tell also applied for support. and a cloud from the rich don't have one as an instance of one as good. box spring bet . i was going to tarboro. madsen in english to become yeah and it's good bye to how it's one of one armored wish to get in on and off my macbook air as it could be a clear investment as the east does baskets bookish ones and if you shop a dollar for some of them you get this book with their own. that he is but about how can we spend a third of our lives in our beds our beds are important and for it to be turned 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. and. of course with onion clarke. 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 just its. supporters not played by grown until

but the federal government. one of many who was applications to the german county gun foundation were denied this lorraine mercer sometimes i think hell because. a few months back. when i moved in. it's getting mostly for. 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 court against 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. prove first of all you've applied to a little more trust to get some money and that they have said no and they've applied

to all the charities and you've tried to local government get 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 the little writers 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 envy . we believe the german government should be responsible for paying for this i'm not helpful is that we or have no female me get that money remains need to be met. 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 midas 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 too however the dismissal of a criminal. required strict conditions these according to the prosecution service

were not meant. to see a good. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard is not known the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end if that's all that's the end then i think that it just is out and.

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