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By Jerome S. Legge Jr.

Scholarly, target, insightful, and analytical, Jews, Turks, and different Strangers stories the reasons of prejudice opposed to Jews, overseas staff, refugees, and emigrant Germans in modern Germany. utilizing survey fabric and quantitative analyses, Legge convincingly demanding situations the proposal that German xenophobia is rooted in fiscal motives. as a substitute, he sees a extra complicated beginning for German prejudice, really in a reunified Germany the place perceptions of the "other" occasionally fluctuate greatly among east and west, a made of a conventional racism rooted within the German earlier. via clarifying the rules of xenophobia in a brand new German country, Legge bargains a transparent and nerve-racking photo of a conflicted state and a prejudice that not just impacts Jews but in addition fuels a bigger, anti-foreign sentiment.

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With the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the western half of the former Nazi state became a full participating member. During the next four years, the United States pumped approximately $13 billion into the European economies. Results were impressive as the gross national products throughout Europe grew rapidly. The Marshall Plan was a watershed both for American foreign policy and European unity. For the United States, it marked a break from isolationism and indicated that the nation would take a more active role in the international community.

At first the rotational model applied to these new workers, but as the 1960s wore on and the demand for labor did not decline, employers became weary of training new cycles of workers each year. In 1971 the West German government began to allow those foreigners who had worked in the nation for five years to obtain special work permits that could be valid for up to another five years. This development encouraged more spouses and children to move to Germany and acquire what was to become a permanent residency.

The chief proponent of the new currency and free market economics in the new state was Ludwig Erhard, who studied economics at the University of Frankfurt. At that institution he came under the influence of Wilhelm Roepke, perhaps the foremost academic proponent of an economy operating with little government intervention. Under the terms of the currency reform, the Allies agreed to abolish the inflated Reichsmark, with a new currency based on the Deutschemark. Each citizen was given 40 Deutschemarks to start out and then was paid a second installment of 20 additional marks several months later.

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