The war in Syria is pretty much over now. Just saying.
good post -
but enquiring minds want to know will Merkel chuck Seehofer and form a minority gov’t with the TreeHuggers & the not-quite libertarians ?
will Seehofer see the light at the last minute today ?
'Why some Germans look at Syrian refugees and see themselves as DOOMED'.
There. Fixed it.
Shared Jew-hatred?
Thanks for posting, BF. The German diaspora at the conclusion of WW II is not well known at all. My paternal Great Grandparents had left Cologne in th e1890s and moved east to Danzig. They lived only a couple of miles from Westerplatte where the war started in 1939. Six years later, the Red Army marched into Danzig and threw all the Germans out. They were told to pack and leave by sundown. They were in their sixtiees when that happened and they left their factories and home behind. They lost everything but their lives. They walked back to Cologne and lived only a few years more in a shack in some friend’s backyard. My grandparents had left Germany in 1927 and didn’t experience it.
That was 3 generations ago. I don’t think very many remember it personally.
All of the Germans fleeing were the elderly and women and children. Almost all of the Syrians fleeing are military age men.
The BBC is trying to be the caliphate’s pet western west outlet when Eurostan falls.
But for starters: German refugees didn't flee to other countries. They fled (either because they were "bombed out" of their residences in the big cities or because the Soviets were invading) to other regions of Germany - where they were usually viewed with contempt, distrust, and at best pity by the local Germans. Also, they received minimal support from the State.
Read "The German War," by Nicholas Stargardt.
Regards,
Is it because like the Syrian ‘refugees’, they too have tried to take over the world and ruin Western civilization more than once?