The Gastarbeiter Program

question 13

Multiple Choice

The gastarbeiter program

• A) was a poverty reduction program that was implemented in East Germany while it was under communist rule.
• B) is Germany's naturalization program that allows immigrants t obtain German citizenship.
• C) is Germany's liberal political asylum policy.
• D) recruited temporary workers from Southern Europe on the understanding that they would return to their native countries if German unemployment increased.
• E) allowed persons of German descent living in Eastern Europe to return to Germany and claim automatic German citizenship.

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