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Article: Wilkommen, sort of. ("ethnic Germans" coming from Eastern Europe and USSR to West Germany; includes related article on Stefan Heym)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 10, 1988
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It is a movement whose time has evidently come. For years governments in Bonn have urged the authorities in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to let their "ethnic Germans" come to West Germany to settle. Until recently few were allowed out. Now they are flooding in so fast that West Germany is scarcely able to cope.
In the first eight months of this year 108,000 of these Soviet and East European Germans have arrived (including 73,000 from Poland and 25,000 from the Soviet Union). This compares with 80,000 in the whole of last year and just 43,000 in 1986. The main reception camps-friedland in Lower Saxony, Unna-Massen in North Rhine-Westphalia and Nuremberg in ...
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