Migrants arrive at the Austrian train station of Nickelsdorf to board trains to Germany in September 2015. Photo: ReutersThe best of Germany and its humanitarian treatment of refugees is on display alongside the worst of Germany and its bouts of ugly anti-foreigner racism in a riveting new film about the crisis that premieres on Thursday. The tensions in the film mirror a nationwide soul-searching that Germans have gone through since Chancellor Angela Merkel threw open the gates in September 2015 to refugees fleeing war and turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. At first, Germans cheered the arrival of refugees as they flooded into the country. "All of a sudden, people were debating only one subject around the dinner table," Verhoeven told the A.Z.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 02, 2016 04:49 UTC