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GERMANY. Turkish workers. 

Gilles Peress 

One million Turks "gast-arbeiter" (guest workers) live in West Germany, Without them the German industry could not work.The economical expansion is linked to their presence.Over the past 15 years these low paid workers enabled to German industry not only to block the salries, but also to make enough profit so that now it has enough money to export the factories to Turkey, where the wages and most social costs are even lower.Most of the workers are single men, the married ones have left their families in Turkey.A lot sleep in "vonheims" dormitories, or derelict houses,wooden barracks. up to 8 in one room. The are "the New Slaves of Europe", their salaries range between $200 to $400 a month.All workers have to pass through a dispatching center in an old bunker beneath the main station. 

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Munich, street clearner playing music after work. This man is... 

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Munich, an abandoned building of the German railroad transformed... 
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Munich, in the living quarters for immigrant workers withing... 
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GERMANY. 1973. Turkish immigrant workers near Munich, they have... 
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Some 20 miles outside of Munich, the barracks where live the... 
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Munich, on their free days on Sundays, the Turkish workers gather... 
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Munich , the BMW car factory asembly line. 
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A Turkish worker who is a street cleaner, on a Saturday afternoon... 
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1973. GERMANY. Munich. Dustbin men at 5 a.m. 
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Munich, an exhausted stree clearn have a rest in the Munich center... 
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Munich. Two Friends at the End of a Shift at the BMW Car Factory.,... 
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Fair a few miles outside of Munich. On Sunday afternnon, a Turkish... 
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Munich, the railway station on a Sunday morning. This is practically... 
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Munich, Turkish workers resting in a park on Sunday afternoon.... 
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Munich, the dispatching center.Turking workers waiting to take... 
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WEST GERMANY. Berlin. 1973. Turkish workers arriving by train... 
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GERMANY. Turkish workers Fed. Rep. 1973. In the Munich dispatching... 
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Munich. Germany. 1973. Munich, the main railway station. After... 
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Berlin, Turkish family living a in a basement. It is Sunday afternoon,... 
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Berlin, a Turkish family a sick mother and her son. 
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Berlin, Kreuzberg district. Because of the cold weather, Turkish... 
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Turkish workers trying to have their Passports renewed in the... 
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Turkish people having their photo taken to send back home, the... 
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Berlin, a 'beer hall' transformed during the Moslem Ramadan,... 
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Berlin, the Kreuzberg sector a densely Turkish populated area.... 
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Berlin in the subway station at 5 am... On his way to work, a... 
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