A documentary about the guest workers Germany received in the 1950s is now being used to support the intake of tens of millions of migrants, Magyar Hírlap publicist Péter G. Fehér writes .
The film shows the millionth guest worker being solemnly received at Munich train station, flooded with bouquets and valuable gifts. It was aired just the other day by one of Germany’s most popular science TV channels. The German enthusiasm was understandable back then, since after World War II, the American aid they received would have been in vain had they not had enough labor to take full advantage of it to boost their economy.
The film was made in the ’50s and ’60s, but the message today is for the 21st century.
The narrator provides a dozen statistics from half a century ago to shove the usefulness of foreign labor down the throat of the unsuspecting viewer. Meanwhile, the already half-asleep couch potato would have increasing doubts about the “documentary” nature of the video and harbor suspicions that this is really a politically and ideologically motivated propaganda film promoting the migrant-friendly practice of the current EU mainstream.
The whole thing seems to be the background music for the European Commission’s decision to receive 34 million immigrants, offering them housing, social security, financial support, citizenship and the right to vote, rather than a factual account of the current migratory crisis in Europe. For the sake of authenticity, the video also features a British professor, dug up from the depths of international scientific life, who once again drowns the increasingly lethargic TV viewer — who is nonetheless overwhelmed by the feeling of déjà vu — with numbers from half a century ago.
Thirty or forty years ago, television reports heralded the roaring socialist economy, while the sound they were actually hearing was that of the impending collapse of a large-scale attempt at social transformation. One had already learned that the TV screen was merely a place for political advertising, as it still seems to be now.
The present work also deviates from reality because it attempts to derive perceived, imagined and fictitious positive effects of current migration from the German immigration policy of five decades ago. The authors were apparently left cold by Europol statistics, which show that between 2014 and 2019, 459 people were killed in 3,911 attacks executed by terrorists with various migrant backgrounds. All this, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg, because back then, we weren’t even talking about changing the ethnic composition of the European population, the emergence of parallel societies, different cultural backgrounds, religions, family perceptions and who knows how many differences.
The foreigners who arrived in Germany 50 years ago were not called migrants but guest workers who had taken up jobs away from their home country under an inter-state contract. The term guest worker is now outdated in the political language. The name implies that foreign workers will only stay abroad temporarily. For some time now, the EU has only been talking about settlers.
The other difference with the current situation is that in the past, those workers came to their new homes with employment contracts. Migrants, on the other hand, have no idea how to get a job, with less than 2 percent of them taking up any work at all. We find ourselves in a situation in which an illiterate migrant who has no papers can claim to be a brain surgeon. And what’s the worst that can happen to him? He will receive vocational training.
