Denial can be a shared defense mechanism. The thought that Germany, of all nations, would be less than rigorous in their vigilance for bad guys embedded in the masses of DP”s milling about in refugee camps is particularly disturbing. Is this a national penance?

Germanys reaction to the rise in rapes has a schism at it’s core, speaking to a state of national shame that is almost suicidal in it’s loathing of self.