Horror 'terror attack' at a German Christmas market comes just days after 10,000-strong march chanting 'Allahu Akbar' - now many feel generosity towards refugees must end.

No European nation in recent years has taken in more refugees than Germany and a very large number of them – around a million – are Syrians who were fleeing the Assad regime. Up to a third now have jobs and, in many cases, citizenship. An estimated 500,000, however, are living on benefits.

The far-Right AfD party is now arguing that many – if not most – of them should now return home, since the Assad threat has now been expunged. 

'These Syrians were declared to be refugees because they were fleeing from Assad. There should now be no further question. Every Syrian asylum seeker, especially those celebrating the fall of Assad, should go home,' Beatrix von Storch, the party's deputy leader, tells me.