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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 corporation was the most important thing and immediately afterwards fidel even told me in writing that i was to prevent any discuss...

East german government. massive book by party leadership meaning hanukkah milk and also interior minister dickel were involved in covering up the murder of the two cubans in mezza burg from the outset to 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 now tourists coming out as they prison they were given a long sentences because the soc...

You know and then they lowered him slowly. with. head first until he was chopped up a funk because i think the state of. 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 remarked look honestly matter while diogo left the train why it was in motion and was...

Didnt just affect cubans algerians and yugoslavs were also affected all you were right but the calls came in about fights all over the place it was like a world war. where i got to see you know im. 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 master book in august nine hundred seventy nine. nevertheless we did manage to find someone and have anna who was actually there marce...

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 had called for the attack i just ca...

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. bus one of us off the market and then it was the first time in my six year service with the police that i was scared what a sad person im stabbing arms twice as well when by a record i was unpredictable but the crowd were larg...

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 p.v.t. . it didnt stop with mir disgruntlement. hundreds of racist attacks were committed in east germany. historian harry viable has researched them there was any phobics slogans and insults agitation violent attacks riots and even murders the majority of the perpetrators were young men victims largely foreign contract workers. pretty good my...

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 tile nightclub. there already been racist incidents and brutal attacks the day before three cuban contract workers were randomly beaten up and imputed by three massenburg locals in the town center in response some cubans decided to fight back. he sure sounds funny go. they stormed up to the dance floor an...

Contract workers in east germany. julio gone siloed braga was the mozambican ambassador in east berlin for five years starting in one thousand nine hundred four he confirms to us that minimal 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. what we accepted that the east german authorities wanted to solve these pr...

Found the young mother to be strong. where it is. now they know how droll guffey i thought i had died in massa but they want retribution. i dont know anybody but boyle the only 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...