ISS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Berlin Wall, 1973 Oil Crisis, German Question
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Border changes (not as many after wwii than wwi) Mostly die to new polish borders (but from some other areas as well) France and soviet union thought germany should pay for the war. Many ethnic german refugees also migrated from e. europe. Germans given relatively easy access to citizenship w/o substantial burden of proof. People who were ethnic german they got citizenship very easily: germany. Formal agreements with italy, spain, greece, turkey, morocco, portugal, tunisia, and yugoslavia. Differs from postcolonial migration to uk and france. 1961: building of berlin wall by e. germany. Labor recruitment of guest workers increased in scale due to loss of immigrants from e. 1964: i millionth guest worker armando rodrigues from portugal; still viewed as positive. 1973: foreigners 12 % of population (of which turks largest group) Failed attempts to reduce numbers of foreigners already in germany (such as offering financial incentives to leave)
