The mood started to shift in late 2015; and when hundreds of women were assaulted on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, it turned ugly. By then, my wife and I had left Germany for a long trip abroad. Friends told us we’d find the country much changed on our return. And so we did. Germany, a nation with a political culture based on compromise, suddenly felt as divided as Donald Trump’s America. People with different views didn’t listen to one another any more, they just hated one another’s guts.
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