Germany has had a difficult history with ethnic minorities. The Nazi regime’s persecution of six million Jews and a quarter of a million Gypsies during the Holocaust has left the country with a problematic legacy. In the 1950s, the first immigrant workers came from Italy, followed by Spaniards, Greeks, Turks and Yugoslavs. In the GDR, contract workers from other so-called socialist countries like Mozambique and Vietnam began coming in the 1960s, but most did not stay. In 2000, a new law facilitated naturalization for foreigners in Germany. Today, Turks represent the largest ethnic minority in Germany. In addition, there are 60,000 Sorbs, Slavic people who first settled in the abandoned region east of the Elbe and Saale Rivers in AD 600, about 50,000 Sinti and Roma people who live in small towns nationwide, 50,000 Danes in the Schleswig region of Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the 12,000 German Friesians, a North Sea coastal people who settled in North Friesia in the AD 7th century, and in the Saterland region between 1100 and 1400.
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