http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060610-104928-1292r.htm
Norman Levine
"Contemporary Berlin is a case study in the strategies of social peace. Earlier in the year, Paris was rocked by violent urban disorder, but for the past 25 years both the Federal Government of Germany and the city government of Berlin have initiated programs that make the metropolis a model in the engineering of social integration. Berlin has 3.3 million people, it has an immigrant population of 500,000, and the largest immigrant group is Islamic Turks. Until 1989, the city was divided by a wall built by Communist East Germany to prevent contact between East and West. After the November 1989 collapse of the wall, the federal and municipal governments acted creatively to prevent construction of an "Ethnic Wall," and Berlin is today an example of the tactics of ethnosocial assimilation. "
