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- "Until the Gestapo came - The "Chinese Quarter" in St. Pauli" - If you look for the beginnings of Chinese life in Hamburg, you will initially find nothing more than a commemorative plaque in Schmuckstrasse in St. Pauli. In the middle of Hamburg's Kiez, between Talstrasse and Grosse Freiheit, there was already a "Chinese Quarter" in the 1920s. After the First World War, a few hundred Chinese, mostly former sailors, settled there, with small shops, laundries and restaurants in the basement. In Altona, the Chinese belonged to the international melting pot of the colorful harbor district. However, they were mostly perceived with a distance as strange or even threatening: rumors of "opium dens" and a seedy "underworld" circulated, police actions and racial discrimination were the order of the day, even if the exotic, foreign atmosphere of the "Chinese alley" made some St .-Pauli-Flaneur fascinated. During the Third Reich, the Chinese in Hamburg came under increasing scrutiny from the authorities and were persecuted, interned or expelled. On May 13, 1944, the Gestapo finally carried out a "Chinese action" in which 130 Chinese men were arrested, mistreated and imprisoned for months in the "Langer Morgen" work education camp in the port of Hamburg. That was the end of the "Chinese Quarter" in St. Pauli. The film goes in search of traces and speaks to many eyewitnesses who report very impressively on their experiences and memories of the Chinese community in St.Pauli during the war and post-war years.
- "Happy Birthday, Arrest Warrant!" - Tells the story of the newspaper "Radical" and its persecution: In 1984, Benny Härlin and Michael Klöckner, alleged publishers of "Radical", were sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Instead of going to jail, they entered the European Parliament on the Greens' list. In 1990, the Federal Court of Justice reversed the verdict. In 1987, several booksellers were sentenced to several months' imprisonment for selling "Radical" editions.
- "Secret People" - After the judgment of the constitutional court in 1993, the right of asylum for political refugees was all but abolished. Anyone who manages to escape persecution in their home country and seeks refuge in Germany has little chance of being recognized as an asylum seeker; the refugees can expect inhuman accommodation in camps and fast-track asylum procedures, which in most cases end in deportation - for many in torture and death. In order to survive, they only have a life in illegality left (the media assumes that there are 500,000 to 1,000,000 "illegals" in Germany).