After Angela Merkel was shocked by the September 2017 election result which saw the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany win seats in the Federal Parliament for the first time, she agreed to a demand by her junior coalition partner to limit Muslim immigration to 200,000 a year although this is flexible according to circumstances which really means no limit at all.
For German Jews it means reliving the frightening past.
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Russell Grenning is a retired political adviser and journalist who
began his career at the ABC in 1968 and subsequently worked for the then
Brisbane afternoon daily, The Telegraph and later as a columnist for The Courier Mail and The Australian.