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Kreuzberg’s Least Popular Person

Former Berlin finance minister and hugely successful author of a book about, among other things, how immigrants are dumbing down Germany and a burden on its social market economy, Thilo Sarrazin , came to Kreuzberg with a ZDF camera crew last Friday to "have a dialogue" with the local population. Shockingly , he wasn't greeted with open arms. He visited the Hasir restaurant on Adalbertstrasse, the Turkish market on Maybachufer and, finally, the Turkish Alevi Community Centre on Waldemarstrasse, meeting with loud disapproval at every stop. At the community centre he [...]