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  It is of course correct to say that Germany has been forced t be over-tolerant. My point about war guilt also holds good - of course it is unfair that young generations have to pay for the sins of their grandfathers and great grandfathers. but was it not ever thus?
  
  The fear is that there will be a 'ketchup burst' when patience finally snaps and surge in support for the Far Right one day if endless waves of migration continue.
  
  Western Germany - roughly half the area of the 1937 borders - had to absorb 12 million people in the immediate aftermath of the war alone. A historian once made the point that repatriating these populations to areas which their forebears left 12 centuries earlier had as much justification as sending the English back to live in Denmark and Northern Germany.
  
  To use another analogy, it would be the equivalent of the entire population on Wales, Ireland (North and South) and Scotland moving to England within the space of a year or two.
  
  And that's justthe start.
  
  Add to that three million emigrants from the former DDR even prior to the Wall coming down, plus all those who have moved since, many millions of Turkish and other Gastarbeiter, Germany's share of non-EU asylum seekers, non-German immigration from Eastern Europe...
  
  Then they have assimilated millions of ethnic Germans from across Europe and even areas in Asia in the former USSR like Kazakhstan.
  
  I suspect they will simply soak up this next wave too, but people are certainly getting fed up, partly because in such an ecologically-minded country they are simply unhappy at the continuing pressure on the environment and quality of life.

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