They killed my grandmother and bombed our chippy.
That's what's pissed them off the most; they've spent their whole lives worshipping "papers" and Ausweises and so on and then all of a sudden all these foreigners are allowed to waltz in without so much as a note from their mothers!
As my father-in-law put it, we gassed six million people with more and better organisation than this!"
It *was* clever, in a way. They need more people in order to bring wages and prices down and there's enormous competition for refugees. Making them as welcome as possible made sense.
Most will eventually drift away but the ones that make it will benefit the nation, moving forward.