Minorities_In_Germany

Minorities In Germany Minorities in Germany Germany has come a long way since the days of Hitler and Nazi rule. Once a country brutally wiping out masses of minorities through concentration camps, Germany has transformed into a magnet for immigration. This transformation can be explained through post-war reconciliation and liberal based immigration policies. Today, not only do Western and Northern Europeans immigrate into Germany, but Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, Africans, and Asians have joined in to make Germany a very multi-cultural mix. There have been six major migration waves since the end of World War II that can identify Germany today. The first wave began in 1945 and ended in 1959. It was made up of Ethnic German expellees and refugees in whom eight million resettled in Germany. The second wave occurred from 1950 to 1961 and consisted of large numbers of East Germans migrating to the West. The third, covering the mid-1950’s to 1973, brought large numbers germany, immigration, wave, workers, through, since, large, been, very, today, tensions, received, primarily, policies, numbers, minorities, migrates, germans, german, foreign, families, europeans, europe, ethnic, eastern, consisted, brought, yugoslavia, world, work, wiping, whom