Tilman Mues, managing partner of German plant engineering firm Kremer Machine Systems and his employee and immigrant from Eritrea Merhawi Tesfay during a Reuters interview in Gescher near Muenster, Germany, August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
GESCHER, Germany (Reuters) - As Germany struggles to absorb more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa, the government is hoping to avoid the mistakes it made half a century ago when it brought in a generation of guest workers from Turkey.
In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish men were invited in to fill labour shortages. But Germany made no attempt to help them learn the language or upgrade their skills.
