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At Christmas, Germany Reflects on Compassion in a Dangerous World
Attack in Berlin left 12 people dead
People mourn at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Christmas market attack near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin on Dec. 24. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
By Anton Troianovski and Christopher Alessi
Dec. 25, 2016 9:07 a.m. ET
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BERLIN—Germany’s Christian tradition emphasizes Nächstenliebe: loving thy neighbor. But as the country celebrated a somber Christmas after the shock of last week’s terror attack in Berlin, some were reconsidering the limits of German compassion in a dangerous world.
Police say a Tunisian man who arrived amid a flood of migrants into Germany in 2015 drove a truck into a crowd at a Christmas market in the capital on Monday, leaving 12 people dead. The suspected assailant was killed by Italian police near Milan on Friday after an international manhunt.
Germany’s mainly ceremonial president, Joachim Gauck, said in a Christmas speech that migration policy must be debated, as well as “whether we need to do more in the future to provide for the security of citizens.” But he cautioned: “One must not reject and turn back the foreign to live and save the own.”
The Catholic archbishop of Berlin, Heiner Koch, also sounded a cautionary note. “Perhaps we focused too much on the radiant image of humanity, on the good,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday. “Now in the last year, or perhaps also in recent years, we have seen: No, there is also evil.”
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