claim: The Vandals were first heard of in southern Germany.
evidence: Vladimir Karpovich Bozhko -LRB- Владимир Карпович Божко born 16 May 1949 -RRB- is a Kazakhstani lawyer who is the current Minister of Emergency Situations in Kazakhstan .. Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan. While he was a lieutenant general , he also graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute with a PhD in law .. After graduating he worked at the Almaty electrotechnical plant .. Almaty. Almaty. From 1976 Bozhko served in the national security bodies , where he ascended from a detective to the first vice head of the National Security Committee .. Before being appointed Emergency Minister in November 2007 he served as Vice Chairperson of the National Security Committee .