Ein Blick in die deutsche Geschichte

150 years of German migration history Jochen Oltmer, one of the most well-known experts on the topic of international migration in Germany, explains to us, together with Nikolaus Barbian, who did his doctorate under him, that many people have always immigrated to Germany, emigrated to Germany or migrated within Germany. During the German Empire, for example, many Poles migrated to the Ruhr area, while hundreds of thousands of Germans emigrated to the USA. The Nazis forced many people to emigrate; at the end of the war, Germany had to take in millions of displaced persons, but as early as the 1960s "guest workers" were brought to Germany, whose children often felt like Germans. And this is by no means the end of the history of migration. Christine Rösch has trenchantly and sensitively drawn how our world has changed over the last hundred and fifty years.