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Every year, about 30.000 people seek for asylum in Germany.

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Although this decision is linked to tremendous dangers, the asylum seekers try to find a way to come to another country.

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Very often, this ruins them financially.

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The few that manage to come and don't die on their way to Germany, which seems to be the rescuing aim, have to face a discriminating asylum procedure.

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During this procedure, they are placed in homes for refugees in suburbs under degrading living conditions.

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Though there is such a refugee home in almost every town, there is a lot of predjudices and lack of knowledge with the citizens concerning refugees and their living conditions.

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This movie shall throw light on the real living conditions which the asylum seekers have to face both in the homes and in society.

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We interviewed the two asylum seekers Benedikt from Sierra Leone and Rachel from Kenia who escaped to Germany because of circumstances in these countries.

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In addition, we consulted the lawyer Markus Reinhardt for questions of law, and also interviewed citizens about their opinion in reference to refugees.

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"Why do people seek for asylum in Germany, and what do you think of that?"

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"Why? Good question..."

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"Well, to get to know another city."

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"To get to know other people."

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"And what do I think of that?"

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"Actually, personally, not so much."

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"There are many reasons why people have to flight, of course because of a civil war in their country, because they are really threatened."

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"Of course there are refugees who want to escape from desastrous circumstances of living"

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"There is a war in my country."

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"People are running away from the war, so I had to run away from the war, too."

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"So, that's why I'm in Germany."

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"I was having problems with the government, because I was a secretary."

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"But it wasn't my work, it was my mom's work, you know?"

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"So when my mom passed away I had to pick up the work, you know? It was with women groups."

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"That was my work, to bring people - to help the needy and to help those who can't help themselves."

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"My boss took somebody and then they looked for me, how I can come out of this shit, because my life was so risky in Kenia."

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"I was in the newspaper and the police was looking for me and then I had to run for asylum."

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"I think there are many problems caused by poverty in the countries of the so-called 3rd World."

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"So people look for prospects of a better life in richer countries like Germany."

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"I think everyone want to improve his or her life, it cannot be taken amiss."

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"It is about distribution, so I think it shall be understood why people also come to Germany."

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"What happened to you, when you arrived here?"

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"I found it very difficult, because when I landed in Frankfurt am Main, Int. Airport, the man who helped me left me there."

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"Everybody was - I was seeing many white people for the first time. There were very many."

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"There are white people in my place too, but I saw them in numbers, you know?"

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"Of these people nobody spoke English, it was difficult for me to find my way to taxi stand."

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"I was moving around in the airport, it is very big, it's like this city."

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"When I got to munich I saw some black people. I told them, this is my problem, what shall I do?"

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"Some people said: 'Go to this place, go to that place.' There were a lot of them in Munich you know and they confused me. They really confused me."

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"At a time, one black man said: 'Come, I'll take you where you are supposed to go.' He took me to Unterhausberg."

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"When we were reaching the airport, I came with a man, he's a Kenian, but he's married with a German woman."

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"So when we were arriving at the airport this man said to me, that he can't go with me in his house."

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"But when we were leaving Kenia he told me I'm going to stay with him so that I can come out of the trouble."

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"When we arrived here, he took me to a place called....mac...mac what? macdonalds?"

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"Then we ate and he left me there for two hours. He came back with a car and told me that I can't go to his house."

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"I asked him why, and he answered: 'Your passport is only for one day. You can't stay here if you don't have any paper. You have to go to seek for asylum.'"

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"I didn't know what is asylum, because I never heard about something about that."

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"Then he took me to the camp called Giessen and the people there sent me to Eisenh》tenstadt."

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"Did you say that you have a son?"

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"Is it strange?"

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"It's a far distance. Did your son have an influence on your decision to go to Germany?"

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"No. Yeah, because I ran for my life and the person who helped me couldn't take care of two people. I had to come alone and to leave my son."

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"Was it nevertheless hard for you to leave your son?"

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"It was not hard for me to leave him. There was nothing I could do, because to stay and to die, or to go and to stay."

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"Surely go - or - Surely die."

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"Which instances does the asylum seeker have to face during the asylum procedure?"

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"At first it has to be stated that the asylum procedure is very difficult."

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"It is structured in a way in which refugees from other countries and know other systems of law have little chances to deal with it alone."

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"It starts with the arrival of the refugee in Germany and the asylum application."

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"This happens at the 'Federal Office for Migration and Refugees', which has a branch in every federal state in Germany."

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"At first, when you come, they take a photo of you and take your fingerprints."

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"After that they are just giving you papers that you have to sign. You don't know what you are signing, but you sign."

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"Then, the refugees are brought to so-called institutions of first reception where they have to stay over the next week to three months."

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"Shortly after the asylum application they are interviewed about the reasons of their flight."

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"This interview is the core in the asylum procedure, because the refugees have to point out their reasons for coming to Germany and getting asylum."

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"So the train was coming across Frankfurt (Oder), we were going to Eisenh》tenstadt and then we got there."

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"It was like a prison anyway, because of a fence with a security wire and cameras, everywhere."

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"I was now thinking: these people are going to lock me up here, am I going to prison?"

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"So I asked: 'Is this a prison?' They said: 'No, it's not a prison. It's just for your security.'"

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"Then we went in. After a few days we... Yeah, we went in and they gave me a room. We were many in this room, maybe 10 or 7 people."

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"And the room was just big like this, with beds in it."

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"So every day in the morning you go to the cafeteria and eat, in the afternoon you go there, in the evening you go there and eat."

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"Until the day they called me and said they are going to interview me."

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"So I went there for the interview, and they asked me: 'What happened to you?'"

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"I told them the whole story, and it is a story I don't like to repeat."

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"I told them the whole stories, what happened to me, how my dad was killed in my presence and how my house has been bombed in my presence."

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"It is like somebody said: 'Take a gun and shoot your father.'"

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"I said: 'How can I take a gun and shoot my father?'"

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"I was there when someone killed him in my front."

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"I told them the whole stories and they said: 'It's ok, stay and go back.' So I went back to my room and stayed there."

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"After the interview a person in charge of the 'Federal Office', investigates whether the reasons which the asylum seeker specified suffice to allow the right of asylum."

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"During that process the refugee is brought to a home for refugees, which are located in every administrative district or independent city."

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"After three months, they brought me here."

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"They said: 'This is like a kind of a transfer.' They had to transfer me from Eisenh》tenstadt to Frankfurt (Oder)."

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"I came to Frankfurt (Oder), to Seefichten. That's where we stayed. In Seefichten we were two in one room."

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"So there is no privacy at all?"

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"Yeah. Have you been in the rooms there? They are very small. Three rooms would fill the room we are in right now."

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"So there's no privacy. What privacy do you need? There is no privacy, we're just there."

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"What do you know about the living conditions of refugees?"

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"If you ask me, I would not like to be a refugee in Germany."

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"At least under such conditions. I have seen the conditions in the home for refugees."

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"And the whole rascality with budgets or non-financial payment, where you have to pay with stamps, I cannot understand that."

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"Me personally, I do not want to live that way."

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"Well, they always urge you not to bring a camera in the home, because they don't want that image to be published in the television or somewhere else."

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"It's like: When you don't want something to become public, that means that thing is not good."

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"If you have a very nice house, you will like to put it in the internet for other people. But when your house is too shabby, you wouldn't like anybody to see it."

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"This is exactly what is going on there. They don't like people to see where human beings live."

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"The life there is quiet. If you are not use to, it is not that good."

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"The whole day you have to sleep and you eat. Sometimes the food is not nice."

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"Every Friday they give us money, 10 euro and 88 cent."

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"But the life there is not good, because it's just eating and sleeping."

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"You don't have any place to go. We are supposed to have a gym where you can make sports."

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"You just come here (center of town), otherwise you stay there."

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"You can stay there for ten years, if you don't come out."

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"Which problems do the asylum seekers have to face in daily life?"

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"The Germans, the Germans."

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"Yes the Germans, For example the Nazis who force them to face stupid sayings."

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"And it is hard for them in general."

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"And above all they are exploited, if somebody says: 'Clean the toilet for 2? per hour!', they would do that. No German here would do that."

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"You said that you get some money from this heim. Is that enough? What do you pay from this money?"

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"Nothing."

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"This little money is just your pocket money. If you like, you can pay whatever you want. But it is just your pocket money."

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"You can buy your food you cook, or you can do what you want."

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"On Saturdays and Sundays we have got these works."

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"You can work, you can really work there. You work for one hour. For the first day I was there."

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"They called me in the morning: 'Rachel, can you come for a work?'"

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"I answered: 'Work? Ok, I go.' When I was there, I had to go to church on Sunday and Saturday. That Saturday and Sunday I had to work."

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"I was in a room like this. It had a bathroom and toilets. It was a big room and I had to clean it."

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"You have to clean the fridge, you have to clean the cupboard, the cupboard is dirty - everything is dirty."

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"At the end of the day it was clean and I was working faster, because I was expecting money, because the wanted to pay me, so I thought I was earning like 10?."

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"When it was over, it was like  1? for that work I worked on Saturday.'"

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"On Sunday I also got the same work, but in another room, just to clean the fridge and other things."

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"Another 1?."

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"And then I thought: 'Oh, do I work like shit, just for 1??'"

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"Then I quitted that job. I never worked on Saturdays and Sundays again, never."

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"Because I feel for myself: It is not good for me.  If you do that in my country, they will see you are just like a slave."

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"I felt more like I am a slave. I said: 'I'll never, I'll never do that work again.'"

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"Why they come to Germany? Some of them because of German welfare, I think."

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"That is a good reason. You come to Germany, get Hartz IV and have a good life, not like in other countries."

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"Here is not much more to work, but the conditions and life are better."

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"There is a special law, which manages the benefits for the refugees."

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"It is called 'Law of Benefit for Refugees'."

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"It arranges that every refugee gets non-cash benefits of 180? per month."

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"Additionally, every refugee gets financial benefit of 40? per month."

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"Simplified, it is called pocket money, from which their lawyer or special dishes known from home have to be paid."

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"Is it true that you get coupons instead of cash?"

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"They give us coupons."

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"It's a white piece of paper as the one you are holding in your hands."

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"If you want to buy something, you can go to Real."

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"You have to present this coupon and the cashier asks for your ID card. \nYou give them the ID."

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"He checks what you buy and writes it down."

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"We have 158 euro with this coupon."

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"158 euro and I know, we need money, everybody needs cash in his hand, to use it for his needs."

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"We submitted the application and now I get 158 euro on my coupon and 20 euro pocket money, for one month."

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"So 178 euro, that's what they give and they started it this month. Yeah this month."

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"But some people get 340 euro, 330 euro, 319 euro, 300 euro."

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"They give some people 200 euro. They give some people 199 euro."

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"They just grade everybody, I don't know why."

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"They grade people like that and we are all asylum seekers. We're facing the same problem."

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"Are you allowed to move around freely?"

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"When I'm in Eisenh》tenstadt, when I'm here, I'm not allowed to go."

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"First of all, if you want to go for a visit or to Berlin or Frankfurt, you have to contact them where you are and the contact of the person you are going to visit."

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"The place he or she lives, the address, the number and the street name, when he or she was born."

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"You cannot go."

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"Then they have to give you the thing we call 'holiday' and then you can go."

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"For example when I would like to come to see Sarah and to stay with her the whole day and the whole night, I have to go and ask for the permission: "

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"Ok, I'm going to Eisenh》tenstadt in this place."

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"But they want me to be back. Because they allow us to go out, but not more than 24 hours."

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"If you want to go to your girl or boyfriend, or if you have someone to visit for one month, you can go Tuesday to the foreigners registration office."

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"You tell them that you want to go to Hamburg or wherever."

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"Then they give you a form you have to fill out."

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"You write the address you are going to and the reasons why you are going there."

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"After that you have to wait for one week and then they will give you the permission."

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"But it is difficult for them to give you a permission for one month."

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"They can give you two weeks, but it depends on the person you ask for."

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"If this person has a good day, he can just give you one month."

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"I think that nobody in Germany is able to understand why people shoulder the procedure and try to change their life entirely."

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"I think there is no acceptance here, because many people do not look beyond one's own nose and cannot empathise in the situation other people have to face."

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"That means there is no acceptance, and that is actually a pity."

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"One day when I was in a club, one guy came to me."

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"He was talking to me in a very nice tone and I thought: 'Maybe he is going to be my friend.'"

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"He asked me: 'Do you have a girlfriend?'"

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"I said: 'Yes, I do.'"

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"He: 'Look, let me tell you something. If I see you with a white German woman, I will cut your head.'"

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"I look at him, and asked: 'What did you say?' He: 'Yes. If I see you with a German woman I will cut your head.'"

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"I said: 'OK, I have to call my girlfriend to pick me up. Come out with me, come and see how my girlfriend will pick me up and let me see, what you will do.'"

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"My girl came pick me up and we got home."

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"Next time, when we were in that club again and drank something, the guy came with a group."

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"He just took a bottle of beer and threw it on us, inside the club."

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"We thought that nothing can happen. So, this guy was on probation. I called the police and this is another case."

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"If I call the police now and tell them that I have a problem, they will speak SuperGerman you don't understand."

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"They waste your time, but they are supposed to come immediately."

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"But they waste your time, and if something bad happens, the person will die there, before they even come."

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"When I'm outside I always feel that the place I am Is not a good place for me."

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"It's a place where nobody can even say hello to you."

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"I don't like it that much, because I don't know how the people are."

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"You can't just go for a walk."

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"Sometimes you are strolling and then you meet the police."

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"They have to ask you a lot of questions."

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"May be you are leaving the supermarket and they are coming and are taking you into a corner asking for your ID card."

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"It's not nice, it's not good."

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"Does it mean people are unfriendly to you in general?"

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"Yes. I can say that the people I have been meeting in this church are the ones who are friendly."

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"But the rest: if nobody can say hello to you."

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"E.g. if I just say hello to you and then you don't reply me,

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or may be we would be meeting and then you would be staring at me all the time, as if you would see a snake and you are scared."

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"Yes, that's the way they behave."

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"There are even some people that are running away if they see us."

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"If it's O.K. for you, I would like to ask you about the situation when you were attacked  by the Nazis."

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"Yes. We came here and tried to mix with the people, because Germans are human beings like myself."

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"We tried to mix with the people to make some good friends."

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"So, in case you are tired of the heim you can just go and visit your friend."

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"Africans who have been living in Frankfurt (Oder) before us told us: 'Don't go to the nightclub here, they will kill you'."

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"When we get to the place my friend bought two glasses of beer and we were drinking. We left the beer for the music to dance."

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"When I came back for my beer I had seen that a half smoke cigarette was inside."

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"I told my friend: 'Come and see what's inside my beer. That bad boys must be here'."

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"When we were looking around we were noticing some of them. I told that guy: 'Let's leave that place."

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"We are just two and they are more than 20. So, what we do is just to go out."

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"Nothing was happening until we came out."

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"The guys that dropped the cigarette in my beer were still coming after us."

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"At this time, I had been nine months in Germany."

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"I couldn't speak German. Guten Morgen, Guten Tag, Guten Abend were the only things I knew."

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"They were on the other side of the street and we were at the bus stop."

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"They were giving us bad names like 'shit niggers' and we replied: 'shit whites'."

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"So some of this guys said: 'Let's teach this guys that we are Germans!'"

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"Five were standing there and when Sharif was shouting another three were joining them."

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"Before I could turn myself to see the people who are coming all of them bounced on me."

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"They really wanted to kill me, because they concentrated on my head."

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"They were just hitting my head, on other places of my body I didn't have wounds."

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"Just here and they broke my nose. I was suffering so much in the hospital and the pains are still there, e.g. before I fall asleep."

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"It was brought to court. It was a kind of: I don't know, some good jugdes came later."

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"At first they wanted to construct it as if two people had been drunk and started a fight."

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"In the end of the day they brought only two people. They said that it were only two people, because nobody had seen the other six."

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"One was imprisoned and is still there. The other one was married, had a job, a son and his wife was pregnant again."

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"They said it wouldn't be good for him to go to jail, if his wife was pregnant and the child missed the father."

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"They let him go and he's at large. Sometimes I I see him."

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"What are, to your mind, the reasons for hostility to foreigners of the population?"

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"Yes I think there are certain forms of state racism."

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"The contemporary politics and gouvernment leads to exclusion of people and to the perspective that these people are here without a reason."

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"Politicians focus on that, and the media conveys it, but I think that this is a wrong assumption."

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"It has nothing to do with the fact that there are good and bad people everywhere."

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"But it has to be seperated from the question whether these people have a claim to be here or not."

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"If a black man stays around the street: Every day the police will come and ask: 'What are you doing here?'"

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"Every police officer will keep an eye on that black man, but we don't throw a bomb."

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"They watch you, when you are coming to the rail station. 'Perhaps he has to do a drug-business', that might be what they think.

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"But they forget that a black like myself man can't go anywhere to get some drugs, because I don't have a passport."

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"I can not fly and import drugs."

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"But If I'm moving on the street and the police is coming across, they will think: 'He has drugs.' That's what is in everybodies mind."

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"The truth is: he doesn't have any drugs. This is the case."

239
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"The problem here is, that the discrimination is  in the mind. People discriminate you right from their thoughts. You can't change it."

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"What I'm saying is that they see you as a criminal, because you have a different colour, which you are not."

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"They look at you: 'Ah, he's a criminal', but you aren't one."

242
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"They have theses thoughts because of your colour. But everywhere you can find criminals."

243
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"There are criminals in Germany, so some Germans are criminal."

244
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"Some British are criminal. Some Americans are criminal. Criminals are everywhere."

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"Some Africans are criminal."

246
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"But you can't generalize everything: 'Everybody is a criminal or every black man is a criminal.'"

247
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"It's not true."

248
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"I am 33 years old now, a real man no longer a boy."

249
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"I say: At this point you have to seriously think about your life. What are I am going to do?"

250
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"You have to work, to have to save money, you should have a wife and get children."

251
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"That is the state I am in to right now, thinking about to marry, take care for my family and take responsibility."

252
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"But how can you get married in a situation like this?"

253
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"You cannot feed your child with the coupon. There is nothing I can do. Nothing."

254
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"So me, I wish I were you guys."

255
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"I could just concentrate on my studies, and really, I would study, until I become a professor."

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"Yes. Sure."

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Still, Rachel and Ben have to deal with the conditions named in this film.

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As so many other migrants in Germany in Europe.

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Every day is an ongoing fight for their own dignity.

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We, that we don't want to close their eyes on this, have to support this struggle with all our power.

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All of us, that care about how people have to live here, have the liability to stand up for the bettering of living conditions of migrants.

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We all can and have to stick up against every form of discrimination together.

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As philanthropists we have to do the necessary,

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to stop deportations of our fellow people into poverty, torture and death.

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We hope to be able to contribute thereto and want to thank all interviewees,

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especially to Rachel and Benedikt, who took the heart to speak about their situation.

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Thanks to all of you, who helped us realize this film.