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Dark Munich: The prospect of winter with the energy crisis worries many people
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This morning I had a call from Syria from my brother-in-law.
He asked if we were okay, he was worried.
They heard news that Europe was short on energy, that Putin was turning off the gas taps, that there were demonstrations and that Germans had to freeze in winter.
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Samer Tannous, Gerd Hachmoller
Does a Syrian live in Rotenburg (Wümme)
A SPIEGEL book: New attempts to understand my German homeland
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 224
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I said: You don't have to worry about us, you have enough worries.
We are safe because we are in Germany.
I meant that very seriously.
That's what sets me apart from some other people in this country right now.
There is a certain sense of insecurity among the Germans.
Maybe the media is playing it up a bit, I don't know.
In any case, Germans are increasingly buying wood-burning stoves, firewood, power generators and electric fan heaters.
You could already see how the Germans hoarded toilet paper during the Corona period.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, the shelves with cooking oil were suddenly empty.
Not because these things were really scarce, but because the Germans were concerned that they
might
run out and therefore hoarded them.
Why does such a strong country, which has already survived so much, allow itself to be so unsettled?
Whence this fear?
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