The title of this post brings together two books that have shaken the German modern history. The first one is an essay written by an anonymous Austrian painter, whose creative frustrations transformed into political leadership that ended with millions of deaths and such a scale of devastation that the World has never witnessed before. The second is an investigative work done by a German journalist who spent months disguised as a Turkish illegal immigrant at the beginning of the 80´s. In the "The Lowest of the Low", as it was translated originally, the author Günther Wallraff, was experiencing and exposing first-hand the difficulty of life in Germany's immigrant netherworlds. “Three million copies of the book were sold over the ensuing three years, prompting the nation to put a more human face on its Turkish community, and also confront the unacceptable conditions this workforce had been subjected to since its arrival in the 1950s,”, as DW well resumed. Few ...
Diario de un emigrante balcánico en la Península Ibérica