action historian lars amanda has documented the brutality used by the police and the gestapo during the operation. because i'm getting the total $129.00 men were arrested and beaten as they were taken to this police station from here they were transferred to the gestapo prison that foods booth where they were held for months. and 17 chinese prisoners died his father survived but he never received compensation after the war the german restitution office classified the chinese action as a routine police operation lars amanda calls that a mistake. by being documentation shows very clearly that gestapo offices saw themselves as some kind of racial warriors who were eager to extend the nazi's policies of racial purity to hamburg's resident chinese population.