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World War I has passed, Germany is trying to economically recover from the war. They were also affected by the Treaty of Versailles which made Germany pay reparations to France and Great Britain and lose 13 percent of their land.
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The Majority Social Democratic Party had won the elections but now had to face the hostile Conservative Party and Revolutionaries who wanted the government to ally with the Bolshevik forces of the Soviet Union.
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The economy was falling apart rapidly from the defeat of the war and too much social spending. Germany then started making lots money without much to back it up and caused a super inflation which made their money almost useless.
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Günter was trying to leave Brunswick,Germany.
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Günter had held a job as a factory worker for 5 years but wanted to leave because he couldn't afford to live like he was anymore. the prices of everything was rising but his wage staying the same.
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Günter's salary couldn't keep up with the enormous price raise of everything from inflation.
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Günter was hoping to have a better life and start a family in a place where he could actually support them
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Günter trusted his friends, so when they told him about the fortune to be to be made in the US he decided to go there with them.
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There was no family connection the rest of Günter's family lived in Germany refusing to leave.
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Part of the reason Günter's friends chose the United States was because of the good things they heard about it
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Günter traveled with some of his friends that also quit their job at the factory to Bremen. From their they went to the Port of Bremen.
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The transition took some time, first he had to be in inspected once he got there then put into a big town where he spent a couple years living in a small house he rented and working with a railroad company next to the town.
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Günter worked as a section gang laborer on the railroad
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His job now was a litte different than working in a factory like he used to do
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Günter is a lot better than he was in Germany hes was able to buy his own house got married
