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I need time for me.

I need more time for my children.

We have massage,

gymnastics, then we go to the pool

and we eat healthy.

It's very yummy.

I don't understand

why the government does this.

Because it's cheaper.

In the long run, it's cheaper.

Definitely.

To prevent worse sickness.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

So, it makes sense

to pay before.

And what about the kids also?

Yeah, well,

some kids get massage and--

- The kids get massage?

- Yeah, yep.

Yeah.

- We really like it.

- We are in paradise here.

If everybody takes

a little bit care of the neighbor,

life is more easy for everyone.

It's just common sense.

One of the reasons

that German workers

have all this free time

and other benefits

is because they have power.

Real power.

It's a law that companies

have to have a supervisory board

which consists

50% representatives

from the workers' side.

That's right.

Not a token worker on the board.

Half of these boards are workers.

And one of the good things about having

workers with power on the board

is that when the company

breaks the law...

End of the road.

Volkswagen, the world's

largest automaker,

was busted for cheating

its way around the law.

...the workers make sure

the company is prosecuted.

That's why companies

listen to the workers.

We ask our employees,

"What can we do better?"

Why? You're in charge.

You're management.

Just tell them what to do.

They observe what we are doing

and they make proposals,

what we can do better.

Do you ever adopt

any of the workers' proposals?

Yes, of course.

We do it regularly.

- Of course.

- Why? Just to keep them happy, or...?

No, no, they have good ideas.

- They have good ideas?

- They have good ideas.

- They know--

- You don't really mean that.

Of course.

It's true.

You're just saying that

'cause the camera's on.

No, no, no. They are so important

and so intelligent.

Believe me, it's--

it's the key to success.

We know that the more

you give people a say,

the more they help

the company to win.

The latest area that

German workers have advocated for

is how they're to be treated

during their free time

when they're not at work.

It is against the law in Germany

to contact an employee

while he or she is on vacation.

And now many companies in Germany

have adopted the rule

that the company cannot send an e-mail

to employees after work.

At Mercedes,

the company's computers

will block any boss who tries

to bother an employee at home.

Employees have

the right not to answer e-mails,

and bosses are not supposed

to intervene on the weekends

or in the vacation or after

normal working hours a day

into the private spheres

of employees.

Ah!

No, the Germans

don't want to interfere

with your private sphere.

But things weren't always

like this in Germany.

Here in Nuremberg,

they didn't just make pencils.

They made documentaries.

My duty is to make a future

without such things.

To make everything that

this is never possible again.

Or to do everything.

Every day in Germany,

in every school,

they teach the young

what their predecessors did.

We had the chance

to meet survivors

and they told us their stories.

And, yeah,

you can't forget it.

They don't whitewash it.

They don't pretend

it didn't happen.

They don't say,

"Hey, that was before my time.

What's this got to do with me?

I didn't kill anyone."

I just adopted

the German nationality,

and I think by my adopting

the German nationality,

I have to adopt the history

of Germans, too,

and also feel responsible

for the things a German did

because I'm German, too.

They treat it as their original sin,

a permanent mark

on their collective German soul,

one for which they must always

seek redemption

and make reparation

and never forget.

And they can't forget,

because outside of their homes

on the sidewalk

are little engravings

that remind them

of the name

of the Jewish family

that used to live in this house,

but was taken away and killed.

Local artists

have installed around town

the "Jews Forbidden" signs

from the 1930s...

...to remind today's generation

that to be German isn't just

about Beethoven and Bach...

but also about

genocide and evil.

What would our signs look like?

What would our classes teach

if we wanted to teach our young

the whole story

of what it means to be American?

What reparations

would we make?

Have we truly changed?

Until 2015, the United States

never had a museum of slavery.

Why do we hide from our sins?

The first step to recovery,

the first step to being a better person

or a better country

is to be able to just stand up

and honestly say who and what you are.

"I am an American.

I live in a great country

that was born in genocide

and built on the backs of slaves."

If there's one thing we should

steal from the Germans,

it's the idea that if you

acknowledge your dark side

and make amends for it,

you can free yourself

to be a better people

and to do well by others.

If they can do it,

surely we can.

My invasion across Europe

continued.

The next stop was Portugal,

the country that helped

to bring slavery to the Americas.

After a few hundred years,

they gave up the slave trade,

but they kept the slaves' drums.

Somehow, the Portuguese

had caught wind of my invasion.

But of course this was May Day,

a celebration of workers

held all over the world.

In some countries,

it's a day off work.

But not in the United States.

Portugal, like most countries,

had a war on drugs.

And, like most countries,

they were losing that war.

So they decided to try

something new.

It's my understanding

that you don't arrest people

for using drugs anymore.

No?

Heroin? Pot? Meth?

Pills? Nothing?

If I told you I had cocaine

on me right now,

you wouldn't do anything?

- No? Okay.

- No.

Officers, I have cocaine

in my pocket.

A whole bunch of it.

Sorry, ahem, allergies.

I found my way to the offices

of Portugal's...

well, I don't know

what they call this guy.

I guess he's some sort

of drug czar.

Nuno Capaz.

You know, you look like a drug user.

Yeah, people told me that before.

I know that.

It's-- well, it helps me relate to them,

so I'm okay with that.

- You don't care?

- I don't care. No, not really.

Right.

Are you a drug user?

Yes, I am.

Yes, I am.

What drugs do you use?

Well, mostly alcohol,

Internet, a lot of coffee,

some sugar,

sex, occasionally.

Well, a lot of things

that make me feel good.

How many people last year

went to prison for using drugs?

For using drugs?

Zero.

How many people went to prison

two years ago for using drugs?

- Zero.

- Five years ago?

In the last 15 years,

no one was arrested in Portugal

because they were caught

using drugs.

- No one?

- No.

It's not considered a crime,

so there's no legal possibility

of someone getting

a jail sentence out of it.

So, if I had 25 joints on me,

I would be considered a user.

Mm-hmm, yeah.

Yes.

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