freakin' van Goghs in a coal mine?

That's disrespectful.

And Rose would be like, "I'm gonna memorize this.

I'm memorinizing all of it."

(bold dramatic music)

Hi!

Hello.

(giggles)

I'm Tiffany Haddish,

and today, we're gonna talk about Rose Valland.

(Tiffany slurping)

She ready.

(soft accordion music) So, it's France.

October 1940

Rose Valland's Assistant Curator

at the Jeu de Paume Museum.

So she's like, "You know what I know? Art!"

Then, all of a sudden, there are boom!

Nazis everywhere!

They took over the museum like, "This our spot!

This where we gonna be at! Ah!"

(chuckling) Right?

She like, "Oh shoot, it's Germans everywhere."

And what they doing is robbing the French Jews.

And now they storing all this stolen art up in there.

And you know why? You know why?

Do you know why?

Let me tell you why.

Because Hitler was, like, a proclaimed artist,

and he tried to get into this school.

He was denied because he couldn't stay in the lines.

- [Derek] Uh-uh.

- He told his boys, "Y'all go out there,

and y'all get all the artwork.

Now, if it's German art, it's good.

But if it ain't German art, burn that shit up!"

'Cause Hitler was mad

'cause he didn't get to get into the university.

'Cause you mad you didn't get to get into school,

my (beep) wet, don't worry about it.

(laughing)

But, Rose is like the dopest spy.

They up there talking (imitates speaking German).

They didn't know she spoke German.

She like this.

Taking notes, taking notes, taking notes. Okay?

So, different people that worked

under Hitler would show up to the museum often.

Like his main man, his name was Hermann Goring, right?

Now, Hermie, you know, he's so ratchet.

He like, "Give me! That's the best!

Run me that. Run me that right there.

Ooh, that's nice!

Hey, hey, give me something to drink.

Bring me some champagne up in here

while I'm in here picking the best art."

And Rose would be like,

"I don't know why these (beep) are here. He's so lazy.

Why you even want to tell me where you stole it from?

Do you know who I am?

I'm gonna tell everybody."

She'd go get the wine, and Hermann be like,

(drink slurping) "Ah, magnifique! This is,"

oh no, wait, no, he was German, he'd be like,

(imitates speaking German) (ice rattles)

"That was delicious!"

(Derek laughing)

Wait, hold up, I'm toasted.

I'm sorry.

- How you feel?

- I feel fantastic.

(Derek chuckling)

Anyways.

They would load these pieces of art up on the train.

The Nazis was putting a lot of stuff

down in these deep, dark caves.

You're hiding stuff in caves?

You're hiding

freaking van Goghs in a coal mine?

That's disrespectful.

And Rose would be like, "I'm gonna memorize this.

I'm memorinizing all of it!"

Sounding ghetto was hell.

(both laughing)

Did you know I was Jewish?

- I didn't until tonight.

- 'Cause my father is Jewish,

but my mom was a Jehovah Witness, so I'm a Jujo.

(both laughing)

So,

it's December 1944.

James Rorimer shows up trying to holler at Rose.

"Rose, I know you know everything.

I need you to give me all the information that you have.

Where are all the treasures?"

She's like, "I don't know you like that.

Who is you?"

He's like, "I'm James Rorimer.

I'm with The Monuments Men."

Now, these was a collection of men and womens

who went out to save the existence of their culture.

Rose, she was dope.

She was like, "Boom! I got these addresses right here.

Check this out."

They would stop trains.

They would go to salt mines.

They was knocking, knocking people out.

Some people died, some people lived, but the art was saved.

She saved, like, over 60,000 pieces of culture.

She's a heroine! (soft patriotic music)

And then, finally, Rose is like,

"Go to Hermann Goring's house."

Sent them over there. Boom!

$200 million worth of treasures!

Culture!

Art!

She hooked that up.

And Hermann Goring was pissed as hell at her.

Like, "I can't believe she snitched on me.

And when she was bringing me

all these glasses of champagne."

And then Rose does the Nae Nae.

Hey! (laughing) (deep hip hop music)

But he couldn't do nothing about it

'cause now he a prisoner of war.

And Hitler killed himself.

They say.

I think he hanging out with Tupac.

(hip hop music deepens) (both laughing)

- Hello.

Today, we're gonna talk about Waties Waring.

Waties Waring was an eighth-generation Charleston guy.

He was a judge.

This was this guy's life.

"I'm in Charleston. I love it.

I make money. I have my beautiful wife.

We're rich people. Look at all our rich friends."

But he lived in this place

where segregation was the way that it was.

"I mean, we're fine with each other,

but black people go over there.

Right? That makes sense."

He and his wife started playing bridge

with this couple, the Hoffmans.

Elizabeth Hoffman, she was from Detroit.

She was incredibly smart,

and she was the life of the party.

He's never known a woman like this before

in his entire life,

and he's like, "What are you about?"

There's this thing that starts happening

where they're just flirting between bridge hands.

Like, "Elizabeth, it's your hand. You know what I mean?"

"Oh, Waties, you're so funny."

He realized he was in love with Elizabeth,

and he confronted his wife, Annie,

and he was like, "Hey, remember Elizabeth?

I'm sleeping with Elizabeth."

(belches)

Sorry, I'm getting, like, drunk now.

So, he married Elizabeth,

and they were ostracized from Charleston society.

"You're not Charleston anymore.

You're a Yankee.

You're an (beep). No one likes you."

And all they have left is each other.

And so Elizabeth starts going to Waties' court cases.

She starts going, "Oh (beep).

Maybe all these cases where the white people won,

some of the black people got screwed over, you know?"

And Waties was like, "Yeah,

but that's the way it always has been."

And she was like, "Yeah,

but black people are people, though.

And he was like, "Yeah, black people are people,

but, like, in like a different way."

And she said, "That's gross.

We're going to get dinner with some black people."

And he said,

"White people don't get dinner with black people.

And she was like, "No, but we do.

We're those kind of white people."

And he was like, "All right.

I love you, but I'm telling you right now,

it's really not normal

for white people to get dinner with black people."

I feel like (beep). (Derek chuckles)

- [Derek] Yeah, I know. - I feel like

want to throw up.

- [Derek] If you want to go throw up, you can.

We're very open-minded here.

Do you want to just get some fresh air,

take a little walk?

- Yeah, sure.

- [Derek] Okay, just a little bit,

and then we'll walk back up.

- [Dave] Sure. - [Derek] That sound good?

- [Dave] So she made her husband get dinner

with a black couple,

and it was awkward as hell.

Just like, "Hey, what'd you do today?"

And they're like, "I don't know.

Several people threatened my life."

And they were like, "Oh, that's interesting."

But then Elizabeth made Waties keep doing it.

After the second time and the third time,

it became more regular.

And it was like, "Oh, right.

We're all people, you know?"

He started to understand

that black people were incredibly subjugated.

"Maybe we need to do something

about this segregation thing, you know?"

- [Derek] This is a really good area.

- [Dave] I moved here because the last place I lived,

my friend got stabbed

while he was getting a hand job.

- [Derek] No!

- [Dave] Yeah, that happened.

- Did he (beep)?

- (sighs) I don't know. I didn't ask.

First thing he did was he integrated his courtroom.

And he was like, "No, no, no. Everybody sits together.

Black person there, white person there.

Then black person there. Then white person there.

Be friends. Quit being an (beep).

Just be friends."

Then he ruled that black teachers have to be paid

the same as white teachers.

Which is, uh, crazy.

The next really big one,

he ruled black people are now allowed to vote in primaries.

And that just, like, set Charleston on fire.

Someone threw a brick through their window one night.

The KKK burned a cross on their lawn.

It got so bad, there was a petition

that 21,000 people signed that said,

"Hey, Warings,

here's $10,000.

Take this and move anywhere."

They're like, "No, we still have work to do here. You know?"

"(beep) you!"

And then, Briggs vs. Elliott happened.

And Thurgood Marshall trying to prove

black kids are not getting the same education as white kids.

And there were three judges.

One of them was Waties Waring.

The other two were like, "Yeah, segregation is great.

Everything about this is amazing,

so who cares if they're equal?"

So they lost, and schools were not integrated in the South.

Waties is like, "Well, I'm not going down without a fight."

And he writes this 20-page dissent.

Basically, what he said was,

"Everyone in Charleston is an (beep).

You cannot be okay with the fact

that black people are separate from white people.

This is a nice town. I grew up here my entire life.

Why do we punish half our citizens?

Stop punishing them! Just be nice.

#BeNice.

You know?"

And that was it. And they moved to New York.

Man, can I just tell you guys

how happy I am to not be as throw-uppy