Germany's Merkel goverment is being repaid for it's open-borders policy. Two recent elections lost to anti-immigration parties, and Frau Merkel is now muttering that she wishes she had made different decisions on mass Muslim entry, which is strange, because she is making no attempt to change the situation while she still has the power to do so.

yep Malcolm must hate having to align with Pauline after Abbotts votes went her way. People are slow learners but many are waking up.

I suppose Merkel should have taken a leaf out of one of her predecessor's books and at least make the immigrants wear yellow cloth patches on their sleeves or round them up and put them into camps.

As I recall it didn't work out so well for everybody last time but I reckon Pauline is willing to give it a try - same reasons, same excuses, same final solution.

Rache,

Are you suggesting that Mrs. Merkel act like the Nazis did with the Jews? The Jewish victims of the National Socialists were born and bred Germans, whereas Adolf Hitler was not German until his citizenship was obtained. At least Merkel had the opportunity to repel foreigners, or restrict them, as many other democratic countries do. Mrs. Merkel is either weak, or she is a traitor to her fellow Germans, who do not like what she has done, and they will punish her. Thanks for giving your point of view.

//I suppose Merkel should have taken a leaf out of one of her predecessor's books and at least make the immigrants wear yellow cloth patches on their sleeves//

//The Jewish victims of the National Socialists were born and bred Germans//

Not all of them. They killed lots of foreign Jews as well

But the guys wearing brown, blue or red patches were more likely to be foreigners. Which colour would you prefer, ttbn?

ttbn,
I'm not suggesting anything except using the recent treatment of Jews as an example of what's happening today.

Jews have been persecuted throughout history as far back as ancient Greece for the following reasons -

They don't assimilate, they place their own religion above the laws of the land and show no national loyalty and their holy book is filled with hatred and disdain against non-believers. The Jesus aspect came much later.

They were also used as convenient scapegoats for whatever political gains could be made from them and the Nazis (and most other European countries) found them an easy target.

Many other countries were eager to surrender their Jews to the Nazis when the opportunity came up so It's not fair to only blame the Germans.

We even turned away Jews that were fleeing that treatment.

Sound familiar?

Your simplistic reactionary views are just an echo of what was done before and Germany now has a deliberate national policy of tolerance toward other groups and has no wish to repeat the horrors of the past.