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Originally Posted by Osem
Neither sounds very complimentary to be honest.  |
"Guest Worker", able work in Germany for one or two years before returning home. Many did not though, and large numbers held out for payments to them, their spouses and each child that sent them home with a small fortune compared with wages where they originated.
But equally large numbers decided to stay, and their children born in Germany are now given citizenship if their parents had been good and paid taxes.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Gastarbeiters, not Gast Werker.
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Both terms are used, especially on the German-Dutch border areas.