Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of those remaining live crowded in urban slums. Nowhere is their plight more dismal than in West Berlin-a painful embarrassment for a city that proudly boasts of being the "window on the free West." After a tour of the foreign workers' quarters there, TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader cabled this report...
...many West Berliners, their Greek and Turkish Gastarbeiter are "simpletons," "primitives" and "Dreckschweine" (filthy pigs). Italian and Spanish foreign workers seem to rate somewhat better treatment, probably because their lifestyles more closely resemble those of northern Europeans. Isolated and lonely strangers, West Berlin's 115,000 Turks have created miserable ghettos for themselves in Kreuzberg, Wedding and Neukolhi, the poorest sections of the city...
...West Berlin officials have tried to limit the numbers of Gastarbeiter living in these squalid sections, but the Turks find it almost impossible to move. Explained a young Turkish woman in Neukolhi...
There are about 12,000 school-age Turkish youngsters in West Berlin...
...time with extraordinary victims of half a dozen wars," he remembers with the air of an old warden. "Estonians, for example, who had been imprisoned by the Germans, fought for the Germans, been imprisoned by the Russians, imprisoned again by the Americans." He met R.A.F. officers who had bombed Berlin in 1945 and returned for the airlift of 1948-49. The ironies altered his life. "It was," he says, "like reading the right book at the right time. I saw the right things at the right time...