All his nine hundred seventy five dozens of algerians a chase through the streets of our foot in communist east germany. During all this uproar there were regular calls of algerians out. September nine hundred eighty seven a teenager from mozambique is attacked and kicked to death and starts for it also in communist east germany. When so it was but when Something Like that happened people quickly tried to brush it under the carpet so they could say our friendships stronger than what happened. In june one thousand nine hundred eighty six a contract worker from mozambique is lidge by neo nazis on a train near ponce dam in communist east germany his family a lied to about his death. Im glad i now know how my son died and i hope the men who did it will finally be held accountable. A warm seemingly peaceful summers day in affluent and yet in the town center today the eleventh of august one nine hundred seventy five a monday something would unfold that had never happened in east germany before. Of them of utah off and things were very hectic down at the station because of the events taking place on the effluents Central Square we were armed and issued with our equipment and then sent out right away to restore order. Some skaters spend it because. On the off in august it was two offices against maybe fifty people in autumn fit all. Five hundred fifty it was hopeless from the start i. Often find i was. Afeard became the scene of unbelievable mayhem for several days groups of up to three hundred germans chased algerian contract workers through the city center beating them with planks and sticks that anger ultimately turned against the Police Officers to. The swat us house tomorrow and then it was the first time in my six Years Service with the police that i was scared for the fact that if im standing arms as well that when but i think of it was unpredictable the crowd were largely drunk the two came side bunked a computer. Is this much you get this crowd phenomena. You can write off much talk in the morning through. It was a program atmosphere or course to move your body as much of. That and marshalls was working as a Police Officer in africa city center at the time. He too was surprised by the outbreak of xenophobia rage but he knew why this anger was aimed at the algerians. They came to east germany to work and they needed accommodation. Because they needed somewhere to live a whole new block of flats for which to families from air force one already measured curtains was made available to the algerians i was going to be called. For by them but often ardent you dont misbehave all the families from air force were told from one day to the next that they would have to wait another year or two for a flat when the going on. Ok i wasnt talking about. The stands in process the case is unregistered nationalist tendencies among the populace the algerians are lazy and not so hardworking as the germans when the accusation and more why are these lazy black guys brought here even though they were innocent the algerian workers were now monitored and photographed by stars the spies five men from africa were investigated as troublemakers taken into custody and sentenced to prison but the algerians didnt escape unharmed either some were deported end of discussion east german leadership hoped that would make the conflicts go away. Starting in the early one nine hundred seventy s. Thousands of workers from non European Countries came to east Germany First from algeria then from cuba mozambique vietnam and angola according to the official message the citizens of east germany in the foreign contract workers were building the socialist state together there was Cultural Exchange and meetings on an equal footing with the newcomers became members of the socialist workers collective the two groups also spent their leisure time together at least according to the party line. Up the eighteen cubans have found friends here friends who will still be there for them when theyre no longer with them theyll do it through the experiences the cubans have shared with them a connectedness with the pioneers of socialism on the american continent. But outside the state ordained friendship meetings the dominant reaction to the new arrivals was rejection. As last march up the aadhaar and there was a defensive attitude in all areas of everyday life. They could take something away from us girls or to dance for example the hostility came from them being foreigners but also because the state imposed them on the people these workers were supposed to close gaps in industry the point of a war for he good looking in the industry they were rejected because they were the product of a state organized policy or going to put a pick up going into. Foreign contract workers lived in separate accommodation in a sealed off world they werent supposed to have any private contacts with the people of east germany as a result fake news spread very rapidly it was said that the foreigners were paid in western money and given preferential treatment that was an explosive mix of rumors in a state where everything was it short supply. Isnt the only verse beautiful they dont know how we lived they said we got deutsche marks west german money you know given just so lonely. The whole time i was there i wanted to have an open day. As i did you look at that never happened the ideology didnt permit it. The afternoon. And if the papers and television didnt educate the people then how were they to understand how we lived these all and no milo bill go. Its fish eve yet. It didnt stop with mere disgruntlement. Hundreds of racist attacks were committed in east germany. Historian harry viable has researched them there was then a phobic slogans and insults and Violent Attacks riots and even murders the majority of the perpetrators were young men victims largely foreign contract workers. Pretty good my research has revealed around seven hundred violent confrontations between germans and foreign nationals that started in the sixtys and continued until the collapse of east germany of these two hundred were pogroms or program like confrontations this racist climate in east germany was growing shots of. Every year in freiburg near howler one weekend in september was traditionally all about wine a wine queen was crowned and there was a procession with all kinds of other entertainments. But on the twenty fourth of september one thousand nine hundred Seventy Eight this Wine Festival had a bloody phenolic Police Officers set their dogs on cuban contract workers three cubans were seriously injured by dog bites and admitted to hospital. Cuban leader fidel castro was livid when he heard about it thats exactly how the plantation owners used to treat their slaves in cuba he said. Coolly or gothia early vasty cuban ambassador to east germany immediately set off. Freiburg. Yeah keep the live go until this one with a disappointment that fidel told me very clearly that this was absolutely unacceptable or at all and. That there was nothing wrong with normal Police Operations but that the use of dogs was too much. Fidel clearly instructed me to do everything i could to stop anything like that ever happening again but. With the ball or else cuba would immediately sever relations with east germany get a little better for all the important we have a lot of. These incidents strained relations between the socialist states patching them up again was difficult for the diplomats above all nothing was to leak to the outside months later the relationship was severely tested yet again. Support the twelfth of august nine hundred seventy nine cuban contract workers and dozens of east germans got into a fight outside the xylo town nightclub. There already been racist incidents and brutal attacks the day before three cuban contract workers were randomly beaten up an imbued by three massenburg locals in the town center in response some cubans decided to fight back. You sure towns for they go for they stormed up to the dance floor and spread out across the tables i cant remember if they also attacked guests they definitely smashed up everything that was on the tables the alice was not intentional on calling the. Host bush was in the nightclub with his girlfriend from mess about that evening he was a west german industrial worker employed as an assemblyman at the nearby chemical plant. On the phone before we met he told us hed incited an attack on the cubans by making racist statements about the black monkeys. But when the cameras started rolling he suddenly gave us a slightly different story. So i know. Suddenly this one guy a west german i think shouted attack i can still hear it today so we went out after them. On the phone you told us it was you who called for the attack i just called for them to be chased theres no statute of limitations for murder. His caution is justified because the chase ended fatally for two cuban contract workers. Try. To were pushed over the edge of the bridge into the zone that was the aim and nobody thought about it being summer or these are life you had there been any you can even if there was a much water in the river twenty thirty centimeters at most one seem a metre there wont be a thing at all they fell seven or eight meters into Shallow Water thats why they died. In one cuban man who was seriously injured trying to reach deeper water in the middle of the river lot amens all whod also been in the nightclub that evening tried to rescue him he was twenty at the time sensitive guy with artistic talent and a member of the mental brothers artist group and sometimes performed in the club but his rescue attempt failed. Obviously and thats no they have plenty of laws that you know i saw a wine bottle being thrown at him and it hit him smack on the head he went under i took my jacket off and gave it to someone i ran down and jumped in somewhere here would been i knew. It up and play with how i started to dive right away when i swam under water and tried to find him awful lot of us through to him then i thought i would find him. Over. But he didnt to cubans died three days later the corpse of delphin gretta was fished from azhar. The next day. Garcia products body was found as well. Kind of a hill to death of the who we werent able to determine a cause of death with any certainty thats because the body has lain for several days in the zala in the middle of some real target it was in an advanced state of decomposition it says of the one at the fight focus looking of using. Water romanovs he performed the autopsy on one of the two dead men both autopsy reports state nonnatural cause of death no further details. Its quite as authentic to its political as in i read in the Police Reports that there had been a confrontation between a group of germans and a group of cubans and that the cubans jumped into the sauna to escape and indeed is article three to. The police and the Public Prosecutors Office launched an investigation in mass aboard the stars the report stated that the criminal responsibility of five east german citizens is currently being checked on suspicion of involvement in the incident but suddenly everything ground to a halt the investigations were shut down on orders from the highest level of the east german government. Massive book of Party Leadership meaning hanukkah and also interior minister dickel were involved in covering up the murder of the two cubans in mezzeh berg from the outset role model. In their support. In east germany events were covered up and suppressed in cuba they were punished all the cubans who were allegedly involved in the confrontation outside the nightclub were sent to the natori a scum in our state prison they were given long sentences because the socialist friendship had to remain unblemished east german leadership acted from a position of strength towards allied developing countries such as cuba whenever there were confrontations between germans and contract workers the foreign nationals were sent home no attempt was made to establish guilt. The ambassador at the time Julio Garcia Olivet us remembers that the killing of the two cuban contract workers was under no circumstances to put any further strain on the already difficult relationship between east germany and cuba he wasnt told how his fellow countrymen really died. I mean if you dont have the brief i got from fidel and raul castro was the Economic Cooperation was the most important thing and immediately afterwards fidel even told me in writing that i was to prevent any discussion between the party in east germany and the party in cuba. It was a difficult task the ambassador was informed of fights and stabbings almost every weekend. But they were the result of the Culture Shock experienced by the young cubans and the young germans but they also occurred on saturday nights when everyone was out drinking and dancing. When these clashes didnt just affect cubans algerians and yugoslavs were also affected. But the calls came in about fights all over the place it was like a world war. Where i got to know i mean being. In socialist cuba the hostilities the contract workers were exposed to in east germany remain a taboo topic to this day. Thats particularly true of the fatal events in massacred in august nine hundred seventy nine. Nevertheless we did manage to find someone and have anna who was actually there Marcello Figaro or a friend of the two dead men he too got beaten up at the nightclub the atmosphere had already been very tense days before he remembers. Getting one of the cubans felt they were very much hated in those days there were a lot of confrontations and insults the cubans were called guppies like the fish its all its a symbol of persona of course we felt insulted by that and there were many insults about fidel and cuba. The family of the contract worker i would gothia parents who was killed in massive bergen one hundred seventy nine live in very modest conditions in santa clara a three hour drive from havana his mother still deeply feels the pain of his death even thirty eight years later. When. He was a good decent boy always cheerful he had a good heart. With the words because. Its the first time the family have heard about what the stasi files had to say about the death of their son and brother they are horrified and shocked they were left in the dark about the exact circumstances of his death all these years up until now they believed it had been an accident. Something to go. With oh my god oh they sent us a telegram that we were to see the dog didnt have ana i wanted to go because i wanted to know what had happened and whether he was to blame for a fight. I knew he wasnt and that it was wrong that he died a good decent boy. That was everything on. Rollos mother and his sisters regularly visit his grave in the cemetery in santa clara even after thirty eight years his lost still haunts them. Found the young mother to be strong. Where it is. Now they know how roll guffey up how that died in mass a book they want retribution. The old little one will be the man i want to tell the germans that my brother was sent on a trip to get his training. This terrible deed that led to his death has to be investigated by a lawyer and by the law. We as a family in cuba want justice. So. In the one nine hundred eighty s. The number of contract workers brought in to help the failing economy rose rapidly in one thousand nine hundred one there were twenty four thousand of the many german by nine hundred eighty nine that number had almost quadrupled the conflicts came to a head in light of the worsening supply situation foreign contract workers were suspected of hoarding goods and smuggling them back to their home countries. The writer land of shots and the form of mozambique and contract work i believe no massive era witnessed how the state all danes solidarity became nothing but an empty slogan shop so i was doing research for a book on mozambique and workers in a vehicle and rifle factory at the time. Because with the year. Before i what i asked the people of east germany the Party Secretary and many others the Party Secretary said our contract workers were our class brothers workers. With about five x. Away doubt that humans are glass and he said all that while the tape was running on us i doubt its because i but afterwards he told me i have a daughter here look at a shes beautiful. Shes nineteen but if she came home with a black guy i throw out a huge theres the i was them her ocean ice. Man was the guy and. The problem was that nobody knew anything about us i mean we werent asked who we were. Out there. That had. We were just seen as workers every worker is also a person but there was nothing human at this. Enter of the debate. Nish send me the point send me the point yeah. They never experienced hostility or racist incidents towards mozambicans they say just a general lack of interest in them where they came from how they lived what they were excited about hardly anyone in east germany wanted to know thats why real friendships were rare. Happy of any kenya lamp would im looking for i met somewhere real friendships developed not just between girls and your boys there were some who initially jumpers for you for christmas comes in mittens when i met people who came to the accommodation and who cooked and celebrated birthdays and i did feel that something developed. How can i find something and i believe those were isolated cases. Thats why would you consider brave steps by both sides it wasnt one sided so while. It was common as ill be more than even the mozambican government negotiated an agreement that ignored the social aspects. D. D. Had this also one hundred to the guy the sociology of the ships that applied to. Be our turn to hear this a limo found out what happened when friendship turned into love they live in saxony they met in the eightys he was a mozambican contract worker while she was completing her training at a church. For me stops at a gun store atlas there was obvious racism and sexism too in east germany that something that wasnt really talked or written about i experienced it personally hardly Anyone Around me believed me comic clumped water. Thats why beatus early most started recording her experiences in a diary the result is a private chronicle of everyday racism in east germany. Hearten a sunday in some one thousand nine hundred eighty eight we sat on the grass away from where the steam is docked where a lot of people were already queuing up when saleem who went to bring the lemonade glasses back to the stand three men aged around thirty who were in the crowd looked over to me theyd already attracted attention by talking now glee they called me and knickers who are they said what arent germans good enough for you anymore your writing would you do it in his mail. Or the sitar seventeenth of august one thousand nine nine hundred. Salim lone lucy end i asked sitting on the terrace of the book times pub drinking beer and coffee having a family with a teenage daughter and leave the table next to us in passing the man says i when were in power your logan shot and yet it wasnt. This constant hate had an effect beyond to salema became thin skinned and was constantly on guard there was no end to this fear in sight whenever she was out with her family the hostile comments were an almost daily occurrence. The thirtieth of june one thousand nine hundred six neo nazis boarded the train between berlin and decibel the problems with right where you stream ists started increasing in east germany in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. There were thousands of them well organized they targeted foreign nationals on the train the neo nazis encountered the twenty three year old mozambican manuel diogo he was on his way home to caustic where he worked in a sawmill. Hed been visiting his friend ebro email alberto in berlin. Homs the material in my new you. Then they beat up my friend antonio man while diogo. They beat him up. If you think they tied up his feet. Im. Telling you now and then they lowered him slowly. With. Head first. Until he was chopped up on me so i took the home. The body was found that same night the transport Police Report said a male torso was found near borna station the head and legs were cut off by the train wheels the man has dark skin since the dead person is a foreigner the stars he got involved in the investigation a few days later and they remarks look honestly manner while diogo left the train while it was in motion and was run over. There is no evidence of a crime having been committed either a mo alberto lived in a hostel for foreign contract workers in berlin at the time he found out about the circumstances of his friends death from the mozambique an ambassador the east German Authorities had the cause of death the coffin with the body parts was sent to mozambique for burial. Not family they were very firm dont open the coffin. Because he died in an accident at work. We didnt get anywhere researching the death of manual diogo in germany. The files of the transport police in the stands they say nothing about the exact circumstances of his death. Thats why weve traveled to the mozambican capital my puto to find out what really happened were looking for answers to open questions did manimal diogo died because of an accident as the stars he claimed or was he killed in mozambique the communists are still in the Government Coalition thats why theres no public debate about xenophobia attacks on contract workers in east germany. Julio gonzalo a blogger was the mozambican ambassador any spell in for five years starting in one thousand nine hundred four he confirms to us that manimal diogo was murdered. Or short of putting the governments of. The relevant government officials in east germany informed us about the matter and apologized that Something Like this had happened they said it wasnt normal for you know who. Knows but we accepted that the east German Authorities wanted to solve these problems themselves. As it was animals with a sort of a signal. The ambassador was told that the perpetrators had been near nazis. That wasnt news to him back then. The. Norm is that its a b. S. That was normal these were very small groups on educated skinheads may be seen ads. Near nazis had brutally killed a mozambican citizen they were put on trial but the punishment ridiculously lenient than normal lambro i think some were sentenced to between two and five years but not all of them have been some the some have gone you say. Were heading to manuel deal goes home his family lives in the province of monica on the border with zimbabwe his sisters and his mother tell us why a minimal diogo went to east germany in the early eighties he wanted to get a good education which was to be the foundation of a better life he wanted to lift his family out of poverty. Remember. Him without you know more. Like i want to go around. He went to east germany for his education he came back once then he went back again to work and make money and after that we never heard anything from him again until his death. When ill deal goes family were also left in the dark about the cause of death we show the mother a photo of her son taken in east germany in one thousand nine hundred two we tell her that he was killed four years later by a group of neo nazis. And he repeated well when where and when he knew the threat that came from these people he told us about them but he was a grown man and we respected his decision to live and work there. Work and were new again. Man oh well deal goes grave in the cemetery is overgrown now he was buried here in one thousand nine hundred six its a painful return for his mother and sisters they too are hoping for delayed justice. Yeah i. Think it was surprised that my son fell victim to these criminals they were always told he died in an accident. Of one of. The im glad to know the truth and hope that the criminals will be held responsible for what. Many mozambican children were to receive the opportunity of a lifetime here at the school of friendship in stars for a showcase project for proletarian internationalism nine hundred of these children completed their education and Vocational Training here the east german Education Minister margaret hanukah visited with her mozambican counterpart. In one thousand nine hundred four but not everyone in stanford was happy about the outsiders the local sensed preferential treatment rumors about payments in west german money insults such as negro stink were bandied around. As an artist you knew and. Visiting a nightclub just once was enough for you to get stared at by the teenagers your presence alone was enough the hours. Are few d. Under you we disturb the peace even though we havent done anything. Well you know me. As soon as you talk to any one girl or boy there was a fatal incident outside a nightclub in stars foot the apprentice carlos concept was beaten up and pushed over the edge of a bridge by six east germans. The police later determined that he was pushed off the border bridge during a violent confrontation whereupon the victim died. This shocking incident was only addressed very briefly at the school of friendship after that silence but suddenly there was a new development. That demand for served at this point in tips he kept includes issued after they tried sweeping everything under the carpet we suddenly heard that there was a perpetrator and he was to be put on trial six you were six of us were chosen and i was one of them. Up with this we had to write a report during this trial about how we experienced it which we did so that we could inform the others and. Inform you. This sudden openness was no coincidence a visitor from the west had observed the incident and stars for it and reported it to the build newspaper two weeks later the paper ran the story under the front page headline six teenagers drowned far into the stars he noted the article with alarm east germany felt it necessary to take the case to trial but only against one of the men involved. You know as in the neo nazis in stars fought had attracted attention time and again before collars was killed they were around already a group of them they were all put on trial and they definitely werent sentenced me for going to church in trouble for. That for sure that meant the state encourage this vigilantism just because it said would take one of you but the rest of you will get off the. Restaurant called ornish after doing. At the trial just one of the perpetrators a roofer from stafford with a criminal record was sentenced to five years in prison for assault resulting in death this was on the eleventh of january nine hundred eighty eight two years later the remaining sentence was turned into a suspended sentence on probation. Done jiah alberto still wants to know why the other men involved were never held responsible. Yes it would be better to clear the whole thing up was it really him how many we know there were others what were their motives what they collars do that got him killed the only thing. It was. The circumstances of the deaths of the two cuban contract workers delfin grant and droll garciaparra it who died in massive bergen one nine hundred seventy nine a still unsolved. In one thousand eight hundred three the nightclub burned down. Former guests still look back fondly on the good times they had there they meet up regularly to talk about their salad days and the parties they went to. But when we asked them whether any of them know about the events of august one nine hundred seventy nine they shut down nobody knows anything were told interviews are refused. Thats why we question former nightclub visitors with a hidden camera and hey presto the event is right back on the table. Everyone was talking about it what did people say that they had been chased through town with bicycle chains one of them even fell into the xylo didnt it. That was totally normal just like germans got into fights among themselves after a misunderstanding because alcohol was involved girls were involved jealousy was involved but it was a different ball game when it came to the cubans because it was more brutal it was chaos some guys fell in the river people were badly injured that night. Two died i cant remember any more even though i was there. The legal processing of this case is only just starting tahlia now from munich he is representing the family of the murdered cuban contract worker raul garcia parent. Shes shown that there is clear evidence of a crime thats not yet been solved. And state. This is bishan here is that america took place there has never been an investigation into this incident where we could say that all avenues have been explored its an open case. There are things that suggest it could still be solved. And i have to investigate those leads. On bin was it not enough for. The Public Prosecutors Office in heller is responsible for the case. Witnesses werent questions today only the old police and stars the files were examined but even they contain clear statements by a woman who was involved. She admits she threw an empty wine bottle at a cuban swimming in the river out of revenge. It hit him on the head and he went under even so the Public Prosecutors Office sees no reason to investigate. The case was closed by the east German Authorities at the time we looked at it again today and weve concluded that we dont have any evidence that there was a murder as a result i have no cause to bring in people for questioning if i did id have to question everyone and thats a nonstarter id have to go to cuba and try to find out which of the twenty cubans were questioned and which ones are jews be questioned again that would be never ending up like the whole of hades in the arm of the as for the with. The familys lawyer cannot believe this decision. Isnt even doesnt defend know there are indications that there was a motive for murder. And was never cleared out the witnesses made incriminating statements and then not being questioned again on the ballot yeah im still going and the reasons why the case was shelved back then are in comprehensible it should be investigated now were trying to find out whether we can prove that someone there intentionally killed another person and what for thats not what i thought at least. Nobody has ever answered for the killing of raul garciaparra its in the summer of one nine hundred seventy nine thirty eight years later his family hoping for a belated justice so are the families and friends of delphin gretta manuel diogo and carlos khan say south but will this justice ever come the racist crimes that took place in communist east germany a still a closed book. For keeping young fresh. In the past can eat. Reserves. Until a young Computer Scientist brilliant idea to treat a solar powered cooling system. A small idea with a big big. Go ahead. In thirty minutes to. The lead. To the. Lead. Thank you. Thanks. Glenn. This is g. W. News live from berlin a showdown over migration procedure and government into crisis mode interior minister abbas a offer says his e. S. U. Party will meet again with chancellor merkel c. D. U. Later today and all last ditch attempt for the conservative alliance to mend fences they hope perhaps threatened to resign over that was my question. The chances christian democrats say they