Controversial Remarks - a Book by Thilo Sarrazin and its Consequences # 31.12.2010 # People & Politics

Seldom has a book in Germany been more inflammatory than the one written by Thilo Sarrazin, a former politician and former member of the board of Germany's Bundesbank. On 460 pages he described what he saw as the negative effects of the immigration of Muslims to Germany. While his provocative theses were greeted with approval by many people, politicians reacted with indignation. What has happened since the book was first published this past summer?