Den Problemen, vor die die Auszehrung des Arbeitsmarktes die heimische Industrie stellte, versuchte das Obristenregime in Athen, das sich 1967 an die Macht geputscht hatte, mit einer rigiden Abwanderkontrolle beizukommen.
Zeitweise bekamen nur noch Frauen und Landarbeiter Ausreisegenehmigungen.
An Rückkehrern waren die bis 1974 regierenden Militärmachthaber dagegen weniger interessiert.
www.goethe.deThe Greek military junta, which putsched its way to power in 1967, attempted to deal with problems that the depletion of the labour market presented domestic industry by means of rigid control of emigration.
There were times when only women and agricultural workers received exit permits.
The junta, however, which ruled until 1974, had little interest in homecomers – not only because Germany had developed into a centre for political exiles and regime opponents, but also because the regime urgently depended on the flow of foreign exchange that Greek families abroad steadily sent home.
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