What they want is to be allowed to look for work, to organize their lives like any other person of sound body and mind. But the inhabitants of this territory — which has only been called Germany for around 150 years — are defending their borders with articles of law, they assail these newcomers with their secret weapon called time, poking out their eyes with days and weeks, crushing them with months — and if that weren’t enough to subdue them, they might go so far as to issue them three cooking pots in assorted sizes, a set of bedding, and a document labeled Fiktionsbescheinigung. Tribal wars,
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