Refugee Camps in Germany

Hat tip Gates of Vienna


Gates of Vienna has an interesting article on a refugee camp in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin.

http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/07/give-us-lots-of-refugee-camps/#more-29899

In addition, I picked up this bit of news while reading the Erlanger Nachrichten (linked on this site). Erlangen is looking for additional space to house the increasing number of refugees coming daily into the city. (Fluechtlinge).

http://www.nordbayern.de/region/erlangen/erlanger-bettenhaus-als-unterkunft-fur-fluchtlinge-1.3055629

 Es werden weitere Flüchtlinge nach Erlangen kommen, die Stadt wird die Flüchtlinge aufnehmen, und die Bürger müssen keine Angst vor ihnen haben. „Die Flüchtlinge sind keine Alien, sie sind Menschen wie wir auch“, betonte Bürgermeisterin Elisabeth Preuß.

"There will be more refugees coming to Erlangen. The city will take the refugees, and the citizens must not have fear of them. The refugees are not aliens. They are people like us, stated Buergermeisterin Elisabeth Preuss."

Historically, Erlangen takes pride as the "City of the Open Door". In the 1680s, it took in many French Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution. They fundamentally rebuilt the newer part of the city and built their own church, which stands today on the Hauptstrasse, the Huguenot Church.

At the end of World War II, Erlangen (which was not destroyed by bombing) took in many ethnic German refugees from places like the Sudentenland.

More recently, the city has accepted  Russian Jews, who are mostly elderly. They have formed a small Jewish community in the city.

I note that the article (in German) makes no mention of where these latest refugees are coming from.