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appalachiablue

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12. I first went to Germany in the 70s with

Tue May 12, 2020, 08:21 PM

May 2020

a Turkish friend (from Izmir) who was also a college student in the US.

In Munich that summer of the 1972 Olympics, we visited her German friends and at the Englischer Garten she and I enjoyed dancing the traditional style with Turkish gastarbeiters on break there. I learned quite a lot from the experience.

Other countries in Europe also used foreign workers from their 'colonies' as temporary laborers to rebuild after WWII- Caribbean people in England, and No. Africans in France. Not a such good deal for the workers, the age old story sorry to say.

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