As even a cursory look through the press these days confirms that the attitude toward the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe has undergone a dramatic change within the last couple of months. As recently as last summer, the German chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany would welcome refugees more or less unconditionally. Crowds cheered arriving buses and trains with arriving refugees. Obviously, these people fancied themselves as being like the people who attempted to save Jews during the Holocaust. Politicians and nations who did not show much enthusiasm (mainly in Eastern Europe) were widely reviled as xenophobic, cruel and behind