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For you. So a warm hello to all of you. I am so happy to see that there are so many of you. I am one of the owners of labyrinth books. I do want to start by thanking David Marwell to be able to switch for this event. And to go to live stream. We are presenting that tonight. And that partnership with the public library. We are all gripped by the frightening reality of the moment but theres many book second and deserve attention. And certainly this one of those antidotes. And i think we are sharing the next 45 minutes or one hour or so tonight. And briefly, before i introduce our speakers, then i will step aside and whatever it is that we do these days. I just want to say, that David Marwell, his book mengele. An masking angel. Its available here. Or you can get it at your bookstore. We are trying to find the weight through to the other side of this crisis. If you do want to buy out this book, it will be 10 percent off rated and will ship for free. If you order over the phone. We will co
This and more im joined by my guest to me bob its in moscow he is a political analyst and editor of you know just me internet project and in court we have Jeffrey Roberts he is americas professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want the house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to a demon here in moscow you know dma here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as were sitting down doing our chat right now is it facebook has banned a colorize. Version of the of the soviet banner over europe the very very iconic one of showing victory in europe and you know iv
The perception that germans out wide fair haired and blue eyed has never been true and will never be to its and. People always ask me where im from its not possible to be german and black. From the moment i get up and leave the house in the morning im confronted with racist views images in stereo types of people. As a child alice wanted to have white skin because i felt bed being black and not being able to blend in and i was kind of sticking out of the group and being you know different than the rest i didnt want to be different. I am traveling around germany to talk with other black people about our experiences with racism my 1st stop this ham thats where i was born and. I had absolutely wonderful parents and that helped me a lot in difficult situations. I mean i always had a lot of friends about what i do remember and kim agora that we played these funny games like whos afraid of the black man and tender little negroes thats called in german so and i remember that sometimes the ran
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