That's a good point - and in fact didn't Godwin include a caveat that in a discussion where it was relevant you can't do it?
Bugger.
Anyway - this is an interesting area. I'm not sure if it shows that Germans have grown up enough to see past the 30's, or have slipped back into an old paradigm.
Overall, the issue of how we come to terms with the poor of the world wanting to come to the rich nations is going to shape 21st century politics in the same way that the issue of rich people going to poor countries shaped the 19th and rich people wanting the land of their neighbours shaped the 20th.
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