Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen ['Germany does away with itself: How we are gambling with our country']

Perhaps the event on the German book market in 2010 was the publication of Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen, a book which went into several printings in that year alone. Its author, Dr Thilo Sarrazin (b. 1945), is a serious critic of unchecked immigration, a German politician (Social Democratic Party, SPD), who was until September 2010 a member of the Executive Board of the German Federal Bank (Bundesbank). The first edition of his book sold out within a few days.