Guenther Wallraff Returns "from WAY DOWN UNDER to BLACK on WHITE
By Kevin Stoda, Germany
About two decades and a half ago, journalist Guenther Wallraff went undercover in his own Western German (BRD) society, i.e disguised as a Turkish guest worker: Levent (Ali) SigirlioÄŸlu. Ali looked for the many bottom-rung-societal-jobs in Germany which millions of foreigners had undertaken in the Post-WWII Western European miracle years to help empower the West German society to become one of the wealthiest lands in the world.
Wallraff as "Ali was in Germany working without official papers and visa; therefore, Ali represented an important part of the Turkish-German society and many other foreigners in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, i.e. who were not being welcomed into the German fold despite contributing to its great success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Wallraff
Disguised as Ali, Wallraff took on jobs as laborer in construction firms, on farms, janitorial service, and even as a day laborer in a nuclear power plant. [In the publication of his 2-year adventure as Turk in Germany, LOWEST OF THE LOW, Guenther Walraff later revealed that the Turkish workers at the power plant were not even provided the same amount of protective clothing at the nuclear power plant as were the German employees at the same plant.]
As well as showing how both difficult and easy it was in Germany to find work as a day laborer, Wallraff also demonstrated how difficult it was to find a place to live or rent in Germany, especially if one's skin color was different than the majority of Germans.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganz_unten
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