18 December 2010

Anti-immigrant tract is German Christmas best-seller

An anti-immigrant polemic written by a former central banker is among the Christmas best-sellers in Germany and its author has become a millionaire, according to media reports on Saturday.

About 1.25 million copies of Thilo Sarrazin's "Germany Does Itself In" have been sold since its release in August, and sales show no sign of slowing, publisher DVA said.

"At the moment we are selling around 10,000 copies per day," said DVA spokesman Markus Desaga in Focus weekly. [Expatica Communications] Read more [via Islam in Europe]