to allied investigators it became a sort of nazi hunter's bible. did you enjoy hunting nazis? did it give you any satisfaction? >> lerner: it gave me a great deal of satisfaction. "enjoy" is perhaps not the right word, but it gave me great deal of satisfaction. >> wertheim: why specifically? >> lerner: because i remembered my parents. my father was 49-years-old and, and my mother was 48, and they left everything they had built up behind, and arrived in the united states penniless. >> wertheim: and you were able to confront the people that had caused this, this trauma. >> lerner: yes. >> wertheim: all s.s. members re to tomati itleled by heinrich himmler, the s.s. was responsible for security and intelligence collection in germany. the s.s. controlled the german police forces and concentration camps, and directed the so- called "final solution" to kill all european jews. max lerner recalls that in one respect at least, identifying most s.s. members was easy. >> lerner: you know how to tell an s.s. man? >> wertheim: how? >> lerner: they have a tattoo of their blood group under t

there were less than a 1000 germans in lithuania during the nazi occupation. and in 90 percent of those jews were shut, mere their homes and it was a very labor intensive operation. so how on earth could they murder 212000 jews? it's a if they didn't have help. such falsification of history and lithuania is nothing new. several monuments across the country pay tribute to another anti communist hero eunice, no rica that he was in fact a war criminal who was personally responsible for ordering the murder of thousands of lithuanian jews as corroborated by none other than his own granddaughter who investigated the official cover up by the vilnius government in her book, how i discovered my grandfather was a war criminal. while my grandfather's role in the holocaust has been painful enough to discover what has been equally painful was the discovery of the lithuanian government's denial of his role in the holocaust. this is the 10th stage of genocide denial that it ever happened. or we also heard from dully done on former permanent representative of israel to the un

the special ceremony commemorating the millions of jews and other minorities who were murdered by the nazis during the 2nd world. ah, i'm see me. some has gone to glad you could join us. we start with a diplomatic stalemate between russia and the west over ukraine. the kremlin says there was little optimism freezing tensions with the u. s. and nato, after both rejected russia's key security demands. the kremlin insisted on legal guarantees, barring ukraine from joining nato and the withdrawal of nato forces from eastern europe. russia has mass more than a 100000 troops on its border with ukraine, fueling fears of a potential invasion. for these soldiers, the threat of war is a familiar one. the ukraine, an army has been fighting, rush him back separatists in the countries east for more than 7 years now. but their story in the face of the late as escalation to the foster mother. but still you should not be panic hot. but if you do, while a wounded person is crying and swearing, it would be a fiasco if you panic to go. i. so we need to stay calm, play them all other thought was cut on his voi

and in particular, the glorification of certain nazi collaborators or agents in lithuania. so what we are doing now on behalf of the applicant who took the law suits in lithuania, is making a petition to the united nations human rights committee. and in deals with issues about their right to truth and about the protection against what we might called forms of defamation that are related to the denial of historical fact. they have tried very hard to change the narrative of world war 2 in the house was and i went to why only in eastern europe, that collaboration with the nazis include participation, a systematic mass market. you take a contract with when you get 220000 jews live there. under that, jackie patient, 212000 were murdered. there were less than a 1000 germans in lithuania during the that's the occupation. and in 90 percent of those jews was shot near their homes and it was a very labor intensive operation. so how on earth could they murder 212000 jews? it's a if they didn't have help. such falsification of history and lithuania is nothing new. several monuments acr

policy clear explains between 193319451 3rd of the jewish people were murdered by the nazi regime and its collaborators. for the 1st time ever these ladies speak of parliament is in germany. we will address the buddhist. in hebrew, it comes a few days after the un general assembly adopted and is wally german proposal condemning holocaust denial. but while times might be strengthening between israel and germany, this is not true for other countries, especially lithuania lawsuit, against the bonus government is being faulty. you n, it accuses the lithuanian government of falsifying the history of the holocaust. this is a case that relates to the distortion of history in lithuania and in particular the glorification of certain nazi collaborators or agents in lithuania. so what we are doing now on behalf of the applicant who took the law suits in lithuania, is making a petition to the united nations human rights committee. and in deals with issues about their right to truth and about the protection against what we might call forms of defamation that are related to the denial of historical

plus 80 years ago today, high ranking nazis gathered to sign off on the mass, murder of europe's jews. we look back at the infamous bonds a conference and the blue print for the holocaust. ah, i'm brent golf is good to have you with us on this thursday. america's top diplomat is in berlin to clean up and clear up any misunderstanding about western unity regarding russian aggression against ukraine. today you were a secretary of state antony blake and met with german foreign minister on the lena bear bock and their british and french counterparts. the meeting known as the quad group, is meant to show a united front on the eve of a summit between blinking and russian. foreign minister sergey lever off make or break talks that could determine war or peace here in your the stakes are high. us secretary of state antony, blinking, landing in berlin to try and rally america's allies and prevent a war. unity is the main goal here, blinkin and his german, french, and british counterparts disgust the intense fears that russia may soon invade ukraine. they focus how to credibly deter moscow with

robert sutton, former chief historian of the national parks service and author of the book nazis on the potomac talks about fort hunt and its importance during the war. >> there were two russian-american soldiers at fort hunt. they were dressed in red army uniforms. they were conspicuous through the fort. so, if an interrogator thought someone was being ekg and not forthcoming with information that would call in one of these two fellows and say, you do not want to talk to us? how about if ivan takes you to the soviet union. maybe they would like to hear it you have to say. that worked incredibly well at fort hunt and in europe. >> nazis on the potomac tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you >> now, the united nations secretary general lays out his priorities for 2022 at the u.n. general assembly meeting in new york city. this is half an hour. n hour. sec.-gen. guterres: mr. president of the general assembly, excellencies, we begin another year in the grips of a global pandemic. covid-19 continues to upend lives, plans, and hopes. the only certainty is more uncertainty. and mea

the special ceremony, commemorating millions of jews and other minorities who were murdered by the nazis during the 2nd world war and a catastrophic oil spill off the coast of peru says, donating their hair to help with the clean up glass jana jackson, as you've never seen her after 15 years in the spotlight, the famously private singer, dave, use a new documentary, giving her fans a handed to look at for a long career and strained family ties. ah, ah, on level hi, thank you so much for joining us. we open this broadcast with the growing tension between russia and western nations were increasingly the russian forces build up on the ukrainian border race fears of an imminent invasion. the u. s. and nato have rejected moscow security demands, including a ban on future nato membership for ukraine. and says, this leaves little ground for optimism, but as dialogue is still possible. meanwhile, russian foreign ministry spokesman has described the thought of war with ukraine as quote, unacceptable. that's despite massing some 100000 troops. now the ukrainian border let's take you were to terry

the graphic novel called mouse depicts used as mice and nazis as cats. the school board objected to some violent images. a few curse words and one image where a character is drawn in the nude, the books author arch, giggle, men whose parents survived the holocaust called the decision demented and orwellian . and we have our reporter, i'm in s, if with us here in studio to tell us about the story. he also happens to be a tennessee native. i mean, thanks for bringing the story to us. i mean, it is hard to imagine a book about the holocaust that doesn't include violence. so what exactly was the school board objecting to you here? but an irony here to me is that this book was chosen and is chosen in schools around the country. i mean, it was taught in my school as well because it does not to pick the hard cause with gratuitous violence. so it's, it's chosen as a book that does it in a way that is approachable for 8th graders as people from 13 to 14 years of age. that's not a child. so it's not people have never seen violence before. a lot of the debate was f

fauci to the nazi's so-called angel of death. >> he doesn't represent science, he represents the nazi doctor who did experiments on jews during the second world war in the concentration camps. >> i'm congressman warren davidson from ohio. >> reporter: several days ago, congressman warren davidson responded to a tweet from d.c.'s mayor saying proof of vaccination would be required to enter some city buildings by tweeting an image of a nazi document with the comment this has been done before, #do not comply. and marjorie taylor greene said this about speaker nancy pelosi's request for proof of vaccination in order to go maskless in the house chambers. >> we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in nazi germany. >> reporter: health experts worry about the effect the nazi comparisons will have on the already plateauing number of american adults getting vaccinated. >> it's going to be a very heavy lift to increase the number

and so he had an early warning system when it came to hitler and the nazis. it wasn't -- many other people on his benches. and also he had come up against that gnat if schism in his life -- fanaticism in his life several timeses in his life in sudan. in this sense it was a religious fanaticism, but he recognized the way in which it couldn't be appeased and had to be -- [inaudible] and so he also tended to, unlike the other prime ministers of the 1930s, men like mcdonald and chamberlain and baldwin, you know, he'd actually sort of come up close and personal to a fanaticism and recognized it in the nazis early on. so he had this sort of do -- again, they come from his life, and they helped him enormously at the time of, you know, doubt and struggle. >> i had a professor that i greatly admired when i was in law school who was given the holmes papers to finish the biography of great american jurist oliver wendell holmes. and he never completed the project because he developed such a distaste for holmes that he simply didn't enjoy his company anymore, and he aband

party is in danger. >> nazi votes were declining. >> the nazis are running out of money. >> campaign coffers were dwindling. and the party was in chaos. >> one of the real tragic ironies of history was that hitler was put into power right at the moment where his movement looked like it was going to fall apart. >> a right wing insider brought the fuhrer back to life. >> one man emerges with a dangerous idea. >> former chancellor franz von papen was trying to get back into power. >> convinced he can put hitler in his pocket. he set out to convince his friend, president hindenberg, to make hitler chancellor if hitler would make papen vice chancellor. seeing this as the best way to keep the left out of power. hindenberg, fatefully, agreed. and on january 30th, 1933, a hate-filled demagogue -- >> the third reich of adolf hitler is born. became germany's president. >> hitler did not seize power. it was given to him. >> everything was under control, papen said. >> famously, at this moment, papen said to a friend, we have hired him. he says, in six weeks, we will have pushed him so far into

the nazi concentration camp which killed tens of thousands of others. with ever fewer living survivors it feels increasingly urgent to pass it on. when she arrived, she was just 14. she had already spent years in a ghetto and hiding and as a slave larer. she was polish and jewish. everyone in her family was either dead or missing. apart from her cousin who was seven. the girls arrived together. >> they were so overcrowded they had no room for us. there were dead bodies all over the place. there were piles of bodies. piles of naked, twisted, decaying corpses. it was horrific site. >> when british forces libated her on the 15th of april, 19 45, they found tens of thousands of unburied bodies and 60,000 prisoners on the brink of death. where there moments that you did not think you would survive? >> absolutely. people are just dying at such a rate. it was obvious that if it did not come when it did, the whole camp would have died out. >> after the war, mother and her cousin were sent with other children to sweden. and then a letter arrived, from marla's br

this comes on the day germany marks a chilling anniversary. 80 years ago to deb senior nazi officials met to discuss the systematic murder of up to 11000000 jews in europe. the so called bonds, a conference on january 20th, 1942 held in this builder. you see behind me, near belin, a symbol of bureaucratically plant, mass murder is considered one of the key dates in the history of the holocaust. in january 1942, this idyllic lakeside villa in berlin was the scene for the infamous van, z conference reinhardt. hi durish, head of ry security, sent out the invitations. there was only one item on the agenda, the so called final solution of the jewish question in europe. hydro had been placed in charge of the task at the beginning of 1941. now it was a matter of implementation, the plan to transfer more than 11000000 jews to the occupied eastern territories and murdered them. and off i, sherman was in charge of logistics. the van z conference has become a symbol of bureaucratic re planned mass murder here going is that the issue here was how individual sectors of the administrative st partic

opponents have been wearing badges resembling the yellow stars that jewish people had to display under the nazi regime . denmark has announced it will lift most restrictions next week. the government says that although infections are surging, they're not overwhelming. the health system and an australian naval ship has delivered a to tonga without making contact with anyone on land. about 2 dozen sailors tested positive for cobit 19 raising fairs. they could spread the virus on the pacific island nation, which has never had an outbreak. curtis led forces say they have regained control of most of a prison and northern syria. days after it was taken over by inmates. dozens of people were killed when detained members of the so called islamic states seized the site. last week, the un has expressed deep concern about hundreds of children being held at the facility. the battle outside these kurdish lead forces firing on i as fighters ensued, hundreds of children were caught in the crossfire the united nations children's agency. so the situation is dire. he on concerned, i mean that the concern is behi

no one was sure who betrayed the amsterdam hiding place of anne frank and her family to the nazis. the authors of a new book say they -- the research points to a surprising suspect. >> her short life, one of millions ended in the holocaust. german born schoolgirl, anna frank. for more than two years, the teenager lived with her family in attic rooms hidden behind a bookcase in nazi occupied amsterdam. keeping a diary of their ordeal. until the family were discovered and sent to the concentration camp. now, a research team thinks they have cracked the puzzle of who betrayed them. >> we investigated more than 30 scenarios. i think we can say with certainty that the scenarios are rtually impossible. they handed over the stuff people in hiding. on that list was 263. >> he disclosed the hiding place to save his own family from deportation. the directors says it is a fascinating hypothesis that needs further investigation. >> what this new theory i bringing us is not just the information of august of 34 but the behavior of people, the choices they have made. >> the mystery of who betraye

more than 2 years, the teenager lived with her family in attic rooms, hidden behind a bookcase and nazi occupied, amsterdam. keeping a diary of their ordeal until the family were discovered and sent to the bergen belsen concentration camp. now a research team think they've cracked the puzzle of who betrayed them. that way investigated about 30 more than 30 scenarios. and i think we can say with quite a certainty that about 2928 of these scenarios are virtually impossible. the scenario said that the notary arnold from the birth are well known in amsterdam and it over lists of people in hiding and that's and on that list was yet earth to 63 princess off the, the home of the annex. the team believe found and back who himself was jewish, disclose the frank hiding place to save his own family from deportation and murder . the director of the anna frank house museum says it's a fascinating hypothesis, but needs further investigation. why thing, what, what this new theory is brain us is not just information about what has happened here in the 4th of august 9044, but very much also about ah, th

world marks holocaust remembrance day, we meet one survivor doing all she can to keep the memories of nazi atrocities along ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. the u. s. a. nato have formerly rejected moscow. sweeping security demands refusing, among other things to rule out future nato membership for ukraine. in its written reply to moscow's proposals, washington offers what it calls a serious diplomatic path out of the crisis. in recent weeks, russia has massed some 100000 troops nearest border with ukraine stirring fears of an attack. a military exercise on the ukrainian border. russia is flexing its muscles while washington has handed her a written response to moscow's demand. or response to russia reflects what i said in heave berlin and geneva. last week. we're open to dialogue. we prefer diplomacy and we're prepared to move forward. where there is the possibility of communication cooperation. if russia deescalate, is regression tort, ukraine stops the inflammatory rhetoric and approaches. discussions about the future security in europe. in a spirit of reciprocity, our

those eyes saw the brutality of nazi labour camps, where manfred was sent with his family. one day his younger brother herman was taken by ss guards, and manfred never saw him again. he did describe it as hell on earth, and it was very hard for me to imagine what it must have been like. it was very harrowing, but i feel that was really important to go there and to realise how dark it had been in order to realise what a bright light manfred is. so much is in the detail of each portrait. aric hirsch rests his hand on his left arm, the arm that bears his auschwitz number. and lily abert is painted with a gold pendant which she hid in the heel of a shoe while at auschwitz. she still wears it today. i thought we owed it to these remarkable people just to remember them in this way. there is something very special about the portrait and about the artist's eye in bringing out the real underlying character. all the portraits are now on display. rachel leavy. .. ..aric hirsch... ..helen. .. ..anita lasker—wallfisk... ..lily abert... ..ziggy shipper... ..and manfred goldburg. a prin

let's recall that the nazis dehumanized jewish people before segregating them, segregated them before imprisoning them, imprisoned them before enslaving them, and enslaved them before massacring them." so what kind of egregious act drove davidson to react this way? it was the mayor of washington, d.c. requiring adults to have proof of of a covid vaccination, a photo i.d., and wear a mask while indoors in public. davidson later apologized. and then there's colorado congresswoman lauren boebert. back in july she referred to door-to-door vaccine awareness advocates supported by the cdc as needle nazis. and of course don't forget georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, she went to the national holocaust museum in washington and apologized for using holocaust comparisons to criticize face mask mandates on the house floor. >> the holocaust is -- there's nothing comparable to it. it's -- it's -- it happened and, you know, over 6 million jewish people were murdered. and there are words that i have said and remarks that i have made that i know are offensive. and for that i wan

the resolution passed on the 80th anniversary of the so called bonds, a conference where nazi leader is coordinated their plans for concentration camps and the murder of newly 6000000 jews. and the 1st deliveries of aid supplies have arrived in tonga, days after the pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and soon ami. many areas were devastated. the islands were cut off from most communication for days afterwards. toxic ash from the volcano was covered much of the landscape and contaminated drinking water. austria's parliament has passed a new law making coven 19 vaccinations. mandatory for adults. it is the 1st european country to approve such a wide reaching measure so far only 72 per cent of austrians have been fully vaccinated against the corona virus. one of the lowest rates in western europe. 137 in favor to 33 against austria's vaccine mandate passed by a clear majority in a 1st for any european country legislators said it was a drastic but necessary step. probably compulsory vaccination isn't something we wanted. but unfortunately, it's become a necessity to clo

those eyes saw the brutality of nazi labour camps, where manfred was sent with his family. one day his younger brother herman was taken by ss guards, and manfred never saw him again. he did describe it as hell on earth, and it was very hard for me to imagine what it must have been like. it was very harrowing, but i feel that was really important to go there and to realise how dark it had been in order to realise what a bright light manfred is. so much is in the detail of each portrait. aric hirsch rests his hand on his left arm, the arm that bears his auschwitz number. and lily abert is painted with a gold pendant which she hid in the heel of a shoe while at auschwitz. she still wears it today. i thought we owed it to these remarkable people just to remember them in this way. there is something very special about the portrait and about the artist's eye in bringing out the real underlying character. all the portraits are now on display. rachel leavy. .. ..aric hirsch... ..helen. .. ..anita... ..lily abert... ..ziggy shipper... ..and manfred goldburg. a prince's commission so

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to mark world holocaust day — 70 years since the nazi concentration camp of auschwitz was liberated, seven portraits of survivors go on display at buckingham palace in london. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in singapore, and two in the morning in moscow, where russia has said there is room for further dialogue on the ukraine crisis — but warned that the us position as set out in a letter to the kremlin, does not meet their security demands. key to what russia will do next is vladimir putin. is he trying to stop the eastward expansion of nato or has he already made up his mind to invade? steve rosenberg reports from moscow. the world is still puzzling to piece together a picture of what vladimir putin is thinking. what he's planning... what are his intentions in ukraine and in europe? russian muscle flexing... ..is one piece of the geopoliticaljigsaw. military exercises and 100,000 russian troops near ukraine's border are fuelling fears of a russian invasion. so are moscow's demands. we just ask our partners in nato countries — get ou

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coming here, it was a dream, as a small african child, white culture is on nazi these everywhere. it's the norm is the standard. so when you know, as a 10 year old that you're going to europe, it's like the sugar candy, please put in a small town in southern germany. she was the only black girl around. she experienced the burden of being others of races. they don't teach her, mcclung ellison in terms of where the resources come from and how this did well come to europe in such an amount. it came from their colonies and is really insane to me to be in this world and go to school. so many years when a teacher, so possibly about the world you're going to be living in and leave. ready out this huge part of history and when she was 20000 bala decided to return to cameroon in search of her ribs. and it was really researching where i'm coming from. where were my in terms of legacy in to her history beside tony anderson and it was really sad also to see that my parents have little connection to even what was before then she wanted to establish a musical connection to jeff. no, boy, welcom

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even sinking so low, as suggesting that anne frank was in a better situation when she hid from the nazis in a cramped attic in the netherlands until she was discovered and killed. >> it's been the ambition of every totalitarian state from the beginning of mankind to control every aspect of behavior, of conduct, of thought, and to obliterate dissent. none of them have been able to do it. they didn't have the technological capacity. even in hitler germany, you could -- you could cross the alps into switzerland. you could hide in an attic like anne frank did. >> come on. come on. what are we doing? this isn't about -- people have the right to feel the way they feel. you have a right to have an opinion. you have a right to have an opinion. but it's not just about, like, opinion is different than doing things that help each other. that's different. than -- look -- do i want to, like, have to get a vaccine? like, do i -- no, i don't want to. but i do it because i'm a good citizen. right? do i really want to? no. i had this conversation with my sister. she is like i don't know if i want to put

q&a, the former chief historian of the national park service and author of the book "nazis on the potomac" talks about fort hunt and the importance of play. >> there were two russian-american soldiers at fort hunt dressed in red army uniforms. they were conspicuous throughout the fort. so, if and interrogate a thought someone was being cagey and not forthcoming with information, they would call in one of these fellows and they would say you don't want to talk to us? how about if ivan takes you to the soviet union. maybe they would like to hear what you have to say. that worked incredibly well, both at fort hunt and in europe >> robert sutton and his book nazis on the potomac saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q and day -- q&a. you can listen to q&a and all our podcast on the new c-span now app. >> treasury secretary janet yellen, epa administrator michael regan and others at the annual winter meeting of the u.s. conference of mayors in washington, dc. they discussed president biden's approach to the covid-19 pandemic, the economy and infrastructure investments, among other is

in syria, as in nazi germany, there was, you know, a mania for, for record keeping. to some extent people were covering their backsides and so when decisions were made about rounding people up or arresting this group or that there were security meetings and, and there were signatures of everybody who attended those meetings. they were reporting up through the system. i say we've got 2 and a corpses rotting in our, in our hospital here. somebody's got to have clean out all these people that were killed in a in facility to 30 thought facing dead law cut, the un ambassador ramp had to find an alternative route with the security council blocked. we've had to turn to other parts of united nations initially to the human rights council in geneva, where it was possible to establish a commission of inquiry that began to be go to work and in 2011. and it's been going on for a for 10 years, but that's not enough. so in the u. s. and in 2012 and i started pushing the idea that we, we should support a n g o investigations that were there were truly robust. that would do it like s

host: the book is called "nazis on the potomac." robert sutton, a historian and author of the book, thank you so much for spending an hour with c-span. guest: you are welcome, and thank you for inviting me. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these companies and more including comcast. >> the prime minister is under fire for attending parties with his staff while the country was under lockdown because of the covid-19 endemic. during prime minister's question time, mr. johnson said he will not resign. languaging interpretation is able to watch on live tv. now comes to prime minister questions. i now call on wendy chamberlain. prime minister question one. >> i will be updating the

ah, as the world celebrates the new year with spectacular fireworks coming up this, our nazi we look at some of the positive predictions being made for 2022. with financial experts forecasting the global economy is set to grow, while inflation will start to fall. according to a major investment bank, and of course we review the year that's just gone to with a look at some of the think political spats that i'm forwarded, including a controversial defense steel, the store fronts at loggerheads with hello. are you watching out international this new year's day, just on 7 evening in moscow? now the entire world has entered 2022 after the pacific islands that make up the last time zone. got there too. and despite a lot of celebrations, being scaled back for a 2nd year because of cov it, many capitals were able to bring in the new year with spectacular firework display . ah ah. well here in the russian capital, vladimir hayton gave his new year's address to the nation, and he emphasized the pandemic has taught russians to cope with certain hardships together and wished every body good heal

because i've done so much research on far right groups. youtube thinks i'm a nazi and starts offering me these white supremacist channels and videos to look at. and that's the power that these groups have. now, they have a region, an ability to communicate with the masses that they never had before. the extremists organized themselves online. further rad blessing each other on social media. like the right wing extremist boogaloo boys. one night, one of its members used facebook live to broadcast to the world from his car, which was filled with weapons. police arrested him just in time. ah, the authorities themselves had become a target. a boogaloo boys member shot at a police building, killing one officer. they were all over facebook to organize violent attacks and police officers that left to long foresman officers dead. these events represent the radicalization of the united states. groups like the right wing radical proud boys overlap with donald trump supporters. before january 6th, i was looking at the social media of radical extreme s. and there's claims that cove, it's a hoax.

time, still fillets museums. joshua wants them dealt with in the same way as the art stolen by the nazis already modest that in sight germany gained from that part of its history need to be extended to include the dealings with colonial history and looted art of that era. and is simply wrong that his objects are there. a, i'm heading to hand to say some sculptures that have become the symbol of looted colonial art. many african artifacts arrived in the port of hamburg in the 19th century. among them were some benign bronzes. these are sculptures and carvings looted by the british in 1897 after a bloody war and benign city in present day nigeria is quite an incredible building. yeah. for sam opened the 1912. okay. and you have been aim bronzes here as well? yes, he had an interesting collection of about 170 pieces. doctor barbara plank and steiner is a world expert on the benign bronzes. oh wow. yeah, this is a conservation of this new took them 3 of ours our for inspection. so this is one of these are yes, blacks are very characteristic for the benin going, aren't they tell a lot about t