Today “Hosanna,” tomorrow “Crucify him!” These words from the Bible also apply in politics, as Chancellor Angela Merkel, the daughter of a Lutheran pastor, has had to learn. As this exploration of how Germany is coping with a million refugees based on “real facts” and not on “alternative facts” shows, neither “hosanna” nor “crucify” could be justified.
On September 4, 2015, after consultations with Austria’s Chancellor Werner Faymann, Merkel gave the signal to leave open German borders for Syrian and other asylum seekers who were massing on the way from Austria to German border points. She was responding to the breakdown of the Schengen Area rules under which border countries of the European Union such as Greece and Italy had to control the Schengen Area borders.
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