Germany’s welcome couldn’t have been warmer for the thousands of exhausted migrants and refugees who entered the country from Hungary, via Austria, on Saturday.<br /><br /> Clapped and cheered as they got off trains in Munich, new arrivals queued at registration tents to be screened, fed and clothed. <br /><br /> Some carried pictures of Chancellor Angela Merkel.<br /><br /> By throwing open Germany’s borders, she has made the refugees’ dream possible – the dream of living safely away from the bloodshed of a civil war and of making a fresh start.<br /><br /> Germany’s chancellor is brave, decisive and right http://t.co/p7NQo0GTFt pic.twitter.com/5SrmlnhNXY— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 5, 2015<br /><br /> “My shop is bombed. My house bombed. I decided to go from Syria. I hope to find here a better life to me and to my family,” said 37-year-old shopkeeper Homam Shehade.<br /><br /> German children offered gifts to new arrivals their own age and German adults spoke about welcoming the refugees – seeing it almost as a duty.<br /><br /> “I come fr
