Abstract
Mobs recently occurred in France in dozens of poor districts in reaction to the death of two young men. As most of the population of these districts is made up of immigrants or descendants of immigrants, the emphasis has been put by some of the most prominent members of the government such as Nicolas Sarkozy on issues relating to immigration. For instance, it was decided that every foreigner taking part in such uprisings would be expelled from France immediately.
These events raised the question of tolerance towards immigration in France, which has long been presented as a model of integration as opposed to Germany, who is usually accused of refusing the settlement of immigrants on its soil. To what extent is this affirmation to be questioned? How does each country react to the mass immigration with regards to their respective histories? In order to address these questions, it is necessary to understand how these two countries are considered as "models" even nowadays. This question is to be answered in the analysis of their histories. Nonetheless, these models found themselves challenged after 1945 when immigration took a new turn
