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This 5 page paper discusses German population trends, particularly the waves of Turkish immigrants to the country since the mid-1950s. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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war and Germany into disaster. This paper discusses the effect of the war on the population of Germany, and population and migration issues since its end. Discussion The Second World
War wreaked havoc on Germany; of a population of 78 million at the time, 3.5 million military personnel were killed or wounded; 4.6 million military personnel were missing; and civilian
deaths were estimated at more than 2 million (OBrien). This is a total of 10.1 million-almost 13% of the population. In addition to the deaths and injuries, Allied bombing of
cities like Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden left millions more homeless (OBrien). The advent of the Cold War found the nation occupied by four major powers and split into East
and West Germany; while the West prospered, East Germany withered under Communism (Germany, 2006). But the partition further drained manpower. When rebuilding efforts began in the mid-1950s, Germany needed more
manpower than it had available. Because of the labor shortage, large German corporations began to recruit foreign workers in large numbers "in the 1950s and 1960s" (Zimmermann, 2001). They began
their recruiting campaigns in Italy, then moved into Yugoslavia and Turkey (Zimmermann, 2001). "The first recruitment agreement was signed with Ankara in 1961" (Zimmermann, 2001). The Turkish workers were recruited
"for the most arduous forms of shift work in the car, steel and mining industries" which made it impossible for them to participate in German language courses, a problem which
has just now come to a head (Zimmermann, 2001). The first work permits and the "right to residence were limited to two years," but German businessmen soon realized that this
was an inefficient practice, since it "made no sense, every two years, to send home trained workers only to have to train new ones" (Zimmermann, 2001). During the period
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