Migration Yesterday and Today: German Emigrants 200 Years Ago

Seven million Germans emigrated mainly in the 19th and 20th Jabr hundred, to the USA, South America and Australia, where there were partly open borders and a welcome culture. The crossing was arduous and dangerous and not everyone reached the goal alive. Poverty, unemployment, hunger, longing for a better life drove the people to the aliens Even if they were not war refugees, the circumstances of life were marked by wars at that time. Today they…