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To: unclewest who wrote (35028)3/17/2004 10:42:06 AM
From: Elsewhere  Respond to of 793917
 
Hundreds of thousands (perhaps JJ knows an accurate count) of foreign workers were allowed into W Germany to do menial work...

2.6 million workers immigrated to Germany from 1955 to 1973.
dhm.de

In 1973 the hiring of "Gastarbeiter" stopped (oil crisis).
d.heinlein.bei.t-online.de

Since then German unemployment has increased from 1% to 10% or five million, close to the Weimar level.
arbeitsalltag.de