FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Caught Between Lesbos, Chios and Brussels (Satis Shroff) In the winter of 1944-45 Twelve to fourteen million German refugees Were underway, From Eastern Europe. They fled to avoid the Red Army, Or were banished from former territories, Where the German Wehrmacht had carried out A war of destruction. Ten million German refugees went to the Federal  Republic, Four million to the German Democratic Republic. Not all were welcome, Although even private persons were obliged to help. Today many Germans help the refugees with open hearts, And lend a hand to those who've fled from war. How the European Union handles the issue, Is another matter. People suddenly become statistics. 'Deportation! Athens! Freedom! This is the cry of the illegal refugees In the hotspots of Lesbos and Chios. The Greeks in Athens and Frontex's plan Is to bring over refugees from Greece to Turkey. 72000 Syrians are to be settled in the EU: In Germany, Netherlands, France and Fi...

Commentary:  The Train to Sweden (Satis Shroff) Come Monday and Jean-Claude Junker wants to talk with the Ministers of Internal Affairs of 28 European states, and debate how to make them share the 120,000 refugees. A concept to distribute 40,000 people is already there.  German Chancellor Merkel’s government desires to distribute the refugees throughout Europe, to ease the pressure off Hungary, Greece and Italy where most of the asylum-seekers are located. Whether the people from Syria, Eritrea and Iraq, who have bigger chances of being accepted as asylum-seekers, also wish to be scattered as planned by Brussels is another question. The welcome-culture on the part of the German people and leaders was inspiring and worth emulating but the refugees had another country in mind, namely Sweden; and the road to Sweden was via Germany and Denmark. The train-route from Germany to Denmark was stopped. Even the autobahn E24 in Jütland was closed in both directions, beca...