"A lesson in immigration
Guest worker experiments transformed Europe
By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff | April 19, 2006
BERLIN -- Germany needed workers. Turks needed work.
So starting in 1961, the country invited Turkish ''guest workers' to come do the dirty jobs that Germans didn't want.
Only 7,000 ''gastarbeiter,' as they were called, arrived that first year, a curiosity in a country where non-European faces were rare. Press flashbulbs popped. Politicians made speeches of welcome. Ordinary Germans watched, bemused."
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