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German Tolerance for Wartime Refugees and the new 'Melting Pot'

German Tolerance for Wartime Refugees and the new 'Melting Pot'

In 2015, Berlin made room for thousands of Syrians, welcomed to Germany/EU by Chancellor Merkel. Today, those wartime refugees are de facto reporters and diplomats vis a vis the new Syrian regime....

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I first wrote this column about Germany’s need to grasp and teach tolerance in 2017. This was in the wake of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to accept 1 million refugees of the Syrian civil war —…

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