“Emigrating means turning your life upside down”

In the January 2022 issue of “Spiegel GESCHICHTE,” historian and director of the German Emigration Center Dr. Simone Blaschka and Associate Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer, a migration researcher, discuss the history of German and European emigration overseas. What goals and hopes did German emigrants have when leaving their homeland? And how did they integrate into a new, foreign country?

These questions are answered in the article of the January issue of Spiegel Geschichte. Here is the article!