Well.....NO. There's a little funny story here, which I'll tell in a brief way.
Back around 1984-1986.... there's something that we'll call the Central Operational Process (ZOV)....run by the East German (DDR) Stasi (secret-police).
Over a two-year period....the DDR arranged for about 150,000 asylum seekers (several 3rd world areas) to be brought into East Germany....as a political weapon.
Once on the ground....the 'crew' would be brought to Schönefeld by bus....going from the Friedrichstraße station without passport control....then walked over into West Berlin.
Oddly....150,000 were more than enough (instead of 2-million in the 2013 to 2017 era....to tie up the West German foreign nationals' offices...with temp-housing a major problem, and added social costs.
Yes....there were debates between the CDU-CSU and SPD.
Oddly, the creation of the Republican Party occurred....same look and feel as the AfD Party today.
How the Kohl/Schaüble coalition handled this? It went mostly in a failed way....talking to DDR, and offering negotiations and loans. I'll describe it....mostly negative results. Then the January 1987 election came up....where the SPD folks (trying to tell a positive spin over migrants).....went poorly.
Anyone around today remembering 1984-1986? No. You might find a few in their 70s/80s....who were living in Berlin in that era.....laughing over the details.
A tactic created by DDR? I've had this thought over the years....it was probably a Soviet KGB idea....simply to test and see how far/how stupid....politicians in Germany could get.
If the 1987 election had gone better for the SPD (end result....37-percent for them)? DDR would have continued the import....probably ramping up 150,000 per year.
What happened to the 150,000? Well...some folks point out a fair sum were shipped out of Berlin eventually.....to western Germany. However....some of the Lebanese folks stayed, and created suburbs for mostly their population, and in a funny way....got into gang-activity, drug-dealing and crime. Yeah....40 years later....part of the crime crap....goes back to this era.
Oh, and the Lebanese folks in western areas of Germany....developing also into gangs and drug-dealing? Yeah, but lets not engage in history stories.
Enough material for a 500-page book? Probably....but it's just dull history BS.
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