i too read through AH post and wondered what on earth possibly his and my forebears fought and died for, the logic to this is mad, that a German doesn't own his plot of land, to be part of the country he was born into. that he inhabits it just for a short time, that anyone at all, no matter who, has a right to settle, bring their culture, ideology along with them, and settle or just simply as many have done here and i suspect in Germany, created their own little community, not being part of the wider communities, country with all it has to offer. I am English, British, my family gave up many of its sons so that we could have a freer life, a democracy, a country to be proud of, its nothing to doing with being patriotic, but i honestly don't see why we shouldn't be. I am proud that my relatives fought for something they believed in, that they didn't want to see us under the jackboot, or squashed by a totalitarian system, which wouldn't allow one any form of personal freedoms, that we by and large enjoy. Had we taken the attitude that AH has taken then what would we all be, nothing but disconnected souls, with no one to share a common bond with, nothing to suggest that we had a common language, which for the time being we do, what a depressing post AH, a truly depressing idea.