Each of the videos below concerns a brawl among “New Germans”. Actually, the Turkish rappers in the second video aren’t all that new — they’re probably third-generation “Germans”.

The first video describes a brawl by “youths” at a German girls’ school. Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

The translator includes these explanatory notes:

The second video shows a YouFeud — that is, a rivalry between YouTube rappers in Berlin that turns into a violent confrontation in meatspace. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript #1:

0:00 Hello, Jessica. —Hello.

0:03 It’s nice to have you here. —I’m glad to be here.

0:06 OK, and there’s a special reason why you are here, right,

0:09 which is that you told me that back when this

0:12 refugee crisis began,

0:15 you were 16 years old,

0:18 That’s right? —Yes.

0:21 And back then, directly next to your school

0:24 a container town for refugees was built.

0:27 Yes, that’s correct.

0:30 And now… tell us how your school

0:33 school had become actively involved in this,

0:36 and how it all went down.

0:39 We had… we were put in front of facts,

0:42 our principal walked through all the rooms,

0:45 all of the classes,

0:48 and told everyone that there’s now this container town for refugees

0:51 next to us, and that we should please be there for them,

0:54 that we welcome them… so they feel comfortable here…

0:59 They were allowed to use our cafeteria, and eat whenever they wanted to,

1:02 come into our school whenever they wanted to,

1:05 and, yeah, that’s what that was like.

1:08 So this was a true “welcoming culture”.

1:11 Exactly, yes. And there were actually “welcome” signs everywhere,

1:14 we were told to do that,

1:17 write WELCOME on posters, exactly.

1:20 That is madness. —Precisely. Yes.

1:23 Yes, oh, well, and then…

1:26 you finally saw them for the first time,

1:29 when they came, you saw how all that was built up…

1:32 Uh, yeah, we didn’t really realize that, it was on the other side of the street,

1:35 but they came to us,

1:38 though I think it wasn’t all of them,

1:42 because if all of the refugees had come to us,

1:46 the school — then we couldn’t have entered the school anymore.

1:49 So, yeah, first some just came and looked around,

1:52 and then we welcomed them in the cafeteria with our signs,

1:55 and yeah, like that…

1:58 With those welcome posters? —Yes, exactly.

2:01 And were you told to do this by the teachers?

2:04 Yes, from the school principal, that was her idea…

2:07 Yeah. —Yes.

2:10 And when they came to the school, in what manner did they behave?

2:13 Actually totally normal,

2:16 until something happened…

2:19 So let me interrupt here, what do you mean by normal?

2:22 Uh, so normal, what I mean is,

2:25 basically — they were there,

2:28 everyone heard that they were there now,

2:31 they were talking with each other, but other than that they didn’t really

2:34 make themselves noticeable at first, at least not in the beginning,

2:37 everything was fine in the beginning, and everyone behaved themselves.

2:40 Yeah… —And how did you experience them?

2:43 Were they friendly, were they nice?

2:46 Yeah, I was lucky enough that I had a girlfriend

2:49 Who understood Arabic, and that’s why

2:52 I could converse better with them, and

2:55 actually a lot of them were nice, but what I actually

2:58 noticed was that there absolutely no women came along!

3:01 That really bothered me, that there really only were men

3:04 that came to our school. —Yes, well, that’s what we read everywhere,

3:07 that there were only men, for whatever reason…

3:10 Yes. —Yes. And then you told me that

3:13 something happened on the schoolyard…

3:16 Yes. —Or let me say, there were a lot of girls, right?

3:19 So how did they behave towards you?

3:22 No respect. I simply can’t say any more than that.

3:25 Simply no respect… we

3:28 experienced one instance with my girlfriend,

3:31 when we sat in the cafeteria,

3:34 we ate our lunch, and then these two refugee students walked past us,

3:37 and my girlfriend understood what they were talking about.

3:40 They said, “Why don’t women in Germany

3:43 have to get up when men sit down?”

3:46 Really. —And the other refugee student said, “I don’t know, either,

3:49 what’s going on here in Germany.”

3:52 That’s what they said, these two refugees,

3:55 and it was just entirely too bad that my girlfriend had understood them,

3:58 and she went to… —Your friend was from Syria as well, right?

4:01 Exactly, yes. And so my friend,

4:04 she understood them, and so she

4:07 told a refugee friend because we were so shocked, we couldn’t believe

4:10 that was true, that they could say such a thing, that they thought like that,

4:13 I mean they were in Germany, they should’ve adapted,

4:16 because we wanted to coexist here at the school.

4:19 And uh, exactly, so then this friend of ours

4:22 he went over to them and he said,

4:25 “Excuse me, what was that about? Here in Germany,

4:28 that’s how we do things, and here girls can stay seated if they want to.”

4:31 And that’s when troubles started. That’s when s*** hit the fan.

4:34 And they started to throw trays around, and they started screaming,

4:37 “What do you want from us, what do you want from us!”

4:40 And they were just so agitated, it’s hard to put into words,

4:43 and then they went off on each other,

4:46 and then they attacked our friend,

4:49 until the teachers… they didn’t even know what to do anymore!

4:52 They had… they really were, they were afraid.

4:55 I saw fear in their eyes.

4:58 They didn’t know what they were supposed to do. But that wasn’t all.

5:01 It only started in the cafeteria, but then

5:04 suddenly all refugees, uh, because we have many classes at the school

5:07 that were letting these refugees

5:10 sit in, and be taught German, etc.,

5:13 and there were international preparation classes,

5:16 and all those refugees then banded together with the other refugees

5:19 and they all stood outside.

5:22 The entire schoolyard was suddenly packed with people,

5:25 and then of course our people came into the mix,

5:28 and then they [refugees] started to hit people,

5:31 and we did whatever we could, we didn’t even want to hit back,

5:34 and we shouldn’t forget what this event started with:

5:37 it was all about a seat in the cafeteria!

5:40 And… exactly, and then… —And then they immediately went and got reinforcements right?

5:43 Yes exactly! Within two minutes, like, I’m gonna get my brother, my dad,

5:46 my whatever, but

5:49 that wasn’t the end of it yet!

5:52 When my girlfriend and I then had class,

5:55 class went a little longer that day, until 5:30pm,

5:58 and so after class we walked outside with our friend, and

6:01 then suddenly there stood 20, 30 men,

6:04 men, not boys, full grown men,

6:07 with full beards.

6:10 Where did these men come from? I thought they were juvenile refugees.

6:13 Yes exactly! That is true, but those were the fathers of the juveniles,

6:16 they were the fathers of these guys,

6:19 but not just the fathers, there were more,

6:22 there were brothers, everybody!

6:25 So one really was afraid. I was really afraid for my friends.

6:28 And where they all came from was of course not known.

6:31 Well they came, they were with the people

6:34 that started the fight with us in the cafeteria,

6:37 that’s where they came from,

6:40 they [the guys in the cafeteria] called them all in.

6:43 You’re saying they were acquaintances and relatives

6:46 of people who already were living here in Germany? —Yes exactly. —That is interesting. —Yes…

6:49 And how did this all end? —Yeah, so that one guy at the center of it all,

6:52 of this incident, one month later

6:55 he was kicked out of school,

6:58 for the reason that he also

7:01 started another fight,

7:04 and he couldn’t behave himself, [unintelligible]

7:07 it was the exactly same thing, but I don’t know any more details,

7:10 I just know he was kicked out of school. All I know is

7:13 if we were to behave like this we would’ve been kicked out of school

7:16 a long time ago, that is just really unfair.

7:19 OK, Jessica, this was really interesting, and I hope

7:22 that we can hear from you again, so that

7:25 you can tell us more of stories of your experiences.

7:28 Yes. —We need to hear this stuff,

7:31 and like I said, many thanks to you and until next time.