The nation is dramatically changing its reputation,but idealistic rhetoric can also mask self-interested motivesThere was a time, in living memory, and when refugees clamoured to board trains to earn out of Germany. nowadays they yearn to board trains going in. “We want to recede to Germany because we will earn our rights,we are welcome there, one refugee told the Guardians John Domokos, and as he walked alongside a group making the journey on foot through Hungary,en route to what they saw as the ultimate place of sanctuary: the promised Deutschland.
The Syrian refugees massed at Budapest station chanted the word “Germany” over and over. Others speak of the German chancellor as Mama Merkel. One refugee has named her baby Angela Merkel Ade.
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Source: theguardian.com